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Day One Hundred Ninety Two (Year Two)

I started listening to the Cornell and the Ani today.  Didn't get all the way through either one yet, but started in on both.  Cornell's acoustic version of "Fell On Black Days" is amazing.  I wondered how he'd pull off such a hard rocking, electric based song solo on acoustic, and he served to remind me just how heavy an instrument the acoustic guitar is.  This album is going to be a lot of fun, and I really feel like it's going to be informative, from a solo-acoustic performance point of view.

As for the Ani, I've really only had a chance to listen to the first track.  It doesn't start out in typical acoustic fashion.  It opens with electric guitar, before finding its way to a typical Ani story song.  That provides an interesting open for someone like me, who has become a fan of her consistency and her anger and her hope for a better world.

Did some more reading in Guitar Zero today too.  That book is really spectacular.

Also, picked up the guitar for at least a little bit, and kept working with the natural minor scale.  It's coming along well, and it's been a lot of fun trying to re-incorporate the knowledge that I hadn't used enough in the last few years.  It's coming.  I can feel it.

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