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Day Three Hundred Forty

Well, I didn't get around to the recording today. On the plus side, however, I DID teach a guitar lesson. A co-worker's grandson had expressed an interest in guitar, and said co-worker came to me because they knew I played. He might be a bit young to take lessons, but I'll definitely give the teaching thing a shot again, because the prospect of introducing in someone a love of music while further cementing my own knowledge is too tempting to pass up. Besides, I found some really cool resources online for teaching guitar to kids. At the very least there's another lesson set up for next week, so we shall see where this goes.

I found some other cool stuff online today too, including a very involved guitar chord/scale generator. It looks like it'll be a nice way to re-familiarize myself with the naming process for all of the odd chords that we've been using in the songwriting process for the band. It's already helping me out with intervallic relationships and chord structure.


Never did get in touch with B. tonight, but considering I open tomorrow and have Thursday off, I expect that will happen on one of those two days. Still expecting that Thursday will be the day I lock out the world, at least for the lion's share of the day.

Also, having discovered the chord generator, I was able to re-examine (and subsequently re-name) some of the progressions we've been working on. And as a side note, the progression I've been working with the last few days strikes me today more as a verse than a chorus.

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