So, over the years I've signed up for all sorts of emailed guitar lesson-type things, where some hotshot or some blowhard tries to convince you that you can "shortcut" the hard work and make blazing progress in 8 days or some such B.S. It always makes me laugh. I get that I'm not where I thought I'd be when I started blogging about my musical explorations a few years ago, and I also get that most of the reason I'm not is because I haven't put in enough consistent work to get where I want to be. Still, any time they offer me something for free, I take it, if only because I'm curious where they start to hook you in. Tonight, as it turns out, they are starting in the same place I have started with my students: learning the notes on the neck. I know, big surprise there, right?
I puttered around late tonight with the acoustic, searching for a song idea to get me back on track with writing. I stumbled across a few things, but nothing that really set the world on fire, so to speak. I know I can't expect miracles when I'm not (as of yet) putting in 8 hour days working solely on music, but I'm human, in that I want progress to be faster, even on things like this, where I'm not always 100% in control of what happens.
Didn't get a chance to finish off that Green Day article today, either.
My only defense for the lack to quality music time today is that SL and I spent most of the afternoon/evening catching a mouse that had gotten inside, and then trying to ensure that no more of his friends were going to get in. Lost time away from music.
Better tomorrow.
I puttered around late tonight with the acoustic, searching for a song idea to get me back on track with writing. I stumbled across a few things, but nothing that really set the world on fire, so to speak. I know I can't expect miracles when I'm not (as of yet) putting in 8 hour days working solely on music, but I'm human, in that I want progress to be faster, even on things like this, where I'm not always 100% in control of what happens.
Didn't get a chance to finish off that Green Day article today, either.
My only defense for the lack to quality music time today is that SL and I spent most of the afternoon/evening catching a mouse that had gotten inside, and then trying to ensure that no more of his friends were going to get in. Lost time away from music.
Better tomorrow.
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