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Day One Hundred Twenty Seven (Year Two)

So, a co-worker told me about a song that her son had written and submitted to a songwriting contest.  She was excited about it, and wanted me to check it out.  It took her a while to get me the info, but yesterday, she handed me a sheet of paper and told me to check out that song.  Tonight I did.  Turns out that it's a contest sponsored by Guitar Center, and the grand prize is a 3 song demo to be recorded with John Shanks, $10,000 in cash, and free gear from a bunch of companies.  It looks really cool.  I wish I had known about it back in October, or whenever it was that the contest started.  I'd have written something and submitted it.  There were also some cool, short, videos by Mr. Shanks on the process of writing and recording.  Then again, I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.

Still hoping to get a lot (EP & Song) done on my two day break from work.  One of the things that I struggle with, both when it comes to the music side of things and the life side of things is finding time to make sufficient progress on everything I want to do every day.  Whether it's running scales and writing songs or keeping the kitchen clean and trying to figure out the next step career-wise, sometimes it's hard to keep it all feeling like it's moving forward.  I need to make a more concerned effort to do that in all areas of my life.  Keep the learning, the experiences, the progress, moving in an upward trajectory.  Better organization and more careful budgeting of time are probably the keys for success here, be it musical or otherwise, so, having a couple days off in a row, I'm going to try and be better about that.

There was a cool article in the latest Guitar Techniques this month about practicing efficiently and effectively.  That, and life conversations with SL of late likely have me thinking about forward progress.  Wish me luck. 

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