Well, on first listen I was underwhelmed by Motion City Soundtrack's My Dinosaur Life. And yet, while it wasn't the giant explosion of musical awesomeness that it had been billed as, I did find one diamond in and amongst all of the other rough. It came in the form of "Stand Too Close," the seventh track on the album. That, my friends, is a song that I can see generating a lot of plays in my itunes.
Another thing that dawned on me today. At some point, I'd really like to own a ukelele. They've had these unbelievably cheap uke packs at work for the last couple of Christmases or so, but the instruments appear to be so poorly made that it wouldn't even be worth it. That said, I found a cool website online today that gave a few hints on how to simulate a uke on an acoustic guitar. Apparently, if you put a capo at the 5th fret, and then play ukelele chord shapes on the 4 highest strings, you can get close. Especially if you've got a nylon string guitar.
Tomorrow's a day off. My big goal for the day, music-wise, is to spend some time focused on my teaching stuff.
Aside from that, there's a few things that need to be imported into itunes, and there's some listening I'd like to get to tomorrow. Other than that, nothing else really springs to mind. I'm sure there will be some playing in there, too, though. Maybe some "Red House." Progress on that has slowed to a crawl. I'm thinking I might need to make that one of my special month-long projects coming up soon here.
Another thing that dawned on me today. At some point, I'd really like to own a ukelele. They've had these unbelievably cheap uke packs at work for the last couple of Christmases or so, but the instruments appear to be so poorly made that it wouldn't even be worth it. That said, I found a cool website online today that gave a few hints on how to simulate a uke on an acoustic guitar. Apparently, if you put a capo at the 5th fret, and then play ukelele chord shapes on the 4 highest strings, you can get close. Especially if you've got a nylon string guitar.
Tomorrow's a day off. My big goal for the day, music-wise, is to spend some time focused on my teaching stuff.
Aside from that, there's a few things that need to be imported into itunes, and there's some listening I'd like to get to tomorrow. Other than that, nothing else really springs to mind. I'm sure there will be some playing in there, too, though. Maybe some "Red House." Progress on that has slowed to a crawl. I'm thinking I might need to make that one of my special month-long projects coming up soon here.
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