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Day One Hundred Seventy Nine

It just dawned on me that I'm three weeks away from 200 days. Wow. My immediate reaction to that realization is that I haven't come nearly as far as I'd like. For those of you that have been following for a while, that will ring as a popular theme.

So, I sat with the hard rock stuff for a while tonight. I stopped short of the "breaking down" I spoke of yesterday, but I'm pretty positive that some form of it is coming soon. I did, however, find a riff that I like. I know, I know, more ideas for the pile. It's a variation on a riff I've had knocking around for quite some time, and what I'm struggling with is the timing of it. Know what else I figured out? This whole hard rock thing doesn't work nearly as well without B. I'll soldier on regardless, but it always worked better when we could bounce things off of each other, take an idea and build on it. What I really need to do is just hide myself away somewhere and blast away at these songs, these ideas until they're right in my head. Too many distractions lately. A long weekend up north would do the trick, but it's not likely to happen. I feel like I'm making a little progress, at least. I just want things to happen faster than they do. Know what else would help? A chance to sort out some of these ideas with a drummer.

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