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Day Three Hundred Forty Four (Year Two)

Made it through March in the blog review this morning.  Getting closer to being caught up.  The one thing that struck me as odd, at least initially, was that March was the first month that I've gone through where I didn't find anything to add to the notebook.  Upon further review, however, it sort of makes sense.  I was doing more songwriting in March than anything else.  And tinkering with bits and pieces of various chord progressions isn't necessarily conducive to learning anything technically constructive.  Had I been blocking out the chords and identifying intervals, I'd have added a TON of stuff, but that wasn't happening at that point.  Hopefully April and May and the like will more than make up for the lack of additions to the practice binder in March.

I've decided on road music for my trip to Cherokee.

1) Fiona Apple's new record
2) The new Wandering Sons disc
3) The Big Star record(s) I saved from return a month ago, and have yet to actually open.

So there's that.  And in all likelihood there will be a 4th thing that catches my eye as I'm headed out the door.  I've already got the new Grace Potter in the car, so that can be a fall back option as well.

Bringing the acoustic with me.  Not sure I'll get much, if any, time to play, but hey, there's always a chance!

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