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Day Two Hundred Sixty Two

I started working through the lead guitar DVD tonight. I know I had played around with it some time ago, and it was nice ot get back to it. The first half an hour made my fingers loosen up more than they have been in a while. I did notice that, once I got a bit further into the exercises that are showed on the DVD, my fingers weren't fast enough. To me, that means I need to take the exercises at my own speed, and gradually increase it until I can match the DVD.

I listened to almost all of the Florence + The Machine today while running my errands. It's good. A bit odd in places, and definitely something I want to spend some time with on the home stereo with the headphones, as opposed to listening in the car when I'm not totally focused on the record. One of the managers at work said that Florence was like "Taking Tori Amos and magnifying the weirdness by 10." I'm not sure I agree, but there were definitely some interesting moments. That album, at least on first listen, feels like it jumps around a LOT, stylistically.

Anyway, tomorrow's goal: start having a guitar in my hands as much as possible when I'm not working.

And maybe get some of the newer stuff (Dawes, Delta Spirit, some of the stuff from vacation) imported into the itunes. I don't go in til 2, so it's possible.

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