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Day Three Hundred Two

Was talking with R. today about the musical things going on in my life, and about the blog in general. She asked about the genesis of the blogging, and I laid it out for her: it was a motivational tool designed to catalog my musical experiences and keep me honest in my efforts to play every day, and improve. Somewhere along the line, I admitted, I've gotten more caught up in the music writing side of things than in the actual improvement of skills side of things. This needs to change slightly. YES, the hard rock stuff (and the solo stuff) is important. YES, it's going to get a lot of attention as the progress on the record continues. But I can't let the fact that this opportunity is in front of me completely destract me from the fact that I need to improve as a musician if I'm going to achieve my ultimate goal.

I need to re-dedicate myself to the advancement of my skills, to playing as a means for learning AS WELL AS playing for the sheer joy of it. I'm not sure how often B. and I are going to be working on the record, but in the times in between, my time needs to be divided between working on the music, and working on my playing, so that the music can be better.

I'm also thinking it would be nice to take some lessons again. I really believe that the right teacher at this point would get things to fall together quicker, and get me closer to feeling comfortable teaching faster. I should try and find a bit of time to play around with that this week.

Second Skype session with B. is tomorrow night. Hoping we can, at the very least, get this file sharing situation squared away.

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