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Day Two Hundred Fifty Five (Year Two)

First things first, SL sent me a link today to a free advance streaming of the new Counting Crows record through AlternativeAddiction.com.  The record drops on April 10th.  (Only 6 more days!!!)  Normally I don't listen to those sorts of things in advance, because it kills some of the suspense/excitement of buying a new album, but I was in a Crows sort of mood today, so I gave the first few tracks a listen.  I'll refrain from commenting on the record until I've listened to the whole thing, but suffice it to say that Adam's voice is one that has been missing from the pop landscape for far too long, and it's good to have it back.

The other thing I did tonight was drag out the two definitive versions of the "Red House" tab that I have.  One was from the same issue of Guitar World that has the Vai 30 Hour Workout.  The other is in a book written by one of the guys closely associated with Guitar World, who has played on some of the Experience Hendrix tours in the last few years, Andy Aledort.  The book I have is part of Hal Leonard's "Signature Licks" series.  It's Volume 1 of the Hendrix ones.  Of which I believe there are 2.

The coolest part about the Aledort book?  It comes with a CD that has performances, some at full speed, some at half speed, of the songs in the book.  "Red House" is one of the ones that has the half speed performances.  I think this means that, between the CD and my guitar trainer, I might be able to slow it all the way down to 1/4 time without changing the pitch, or something close to it at least.

Either before bed tonight, or tomorrow after work, I'm going to do a bit of re-tooling when it comes to the studio area.  Try to make things a bit easier to use.

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