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Day One Hundred Eleven (Year Two)

I had a series of revelations today.  They were all good revelations, too, so I count that as a good thing.  The list, if you can quantify it as such, went like this:

1) I should be able to both work on "Classical Gas" and pull off the EP in the same month.

2) If I'm going to be serious about the original goal (Berklee), I ought to start my plan for improvement with their acceptance requirements.  That said, I printed off a fresh copy of their application.  I intend to compare it to the one I've carried with me for a decade now, just to see if things have changed at all in 10 years, and then start devising my plan of attack/practice from there.

3) I got an email from my brother today while I was at work that related to yesterday's post.  At the risk of being completely nerdy, here's what he wrote:


I just read your blog from last night and wished to insert my opinion and say that I think the cover EP sounds like a great idea for a November project. Plus I just had a random inspiration, so I'll be visiting you over winter break (whether mum or pop comes with me or not) so my idea was that we could look at Classical Gas together. I already know it but not the legit version that you have so we could work through it together and collaborate and it would be sweet! Plus I could bring my classical guitar and you could give it a shot on that because I think you'd like it.
Just a thought.

He's definitely got a point.  I could just focus in on the EP for the rest of the month, and then really key in on "Classical Gas" whenever it is he appears.

4) We got more of the awesome mini-speakers for ipods in at work today.  I missed out on them the first time around, and wasn't about to do so again.  I bought two of them.  You can daisy-chain them together for a bigger sound.  Anything more than two, however, would totally kill the portability factor.

5) New issue of Guitar World today that has, as its cover story, an article on The Beatles in the recording studio.  Album by Album.  It outlines some of the innovations and the studio tricks that they used to get the sounds they got.  Can't wait to read this article.  I only got to page through it at work for a few seconds before I left.

That's really all for today.  The "Top 5" (been a long time since one of those) part of me feels like I need a 6th thing as a bonus, but I really can't think of anything.  Today was a really good day for music.

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