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Day Eighty Four (Year Three)

I know I've talked about it a lot in this space, but I'm going to bring it up again because I can.  For 8 years now, I've held on to an issue of Guitar World that had Steve Vai's 30 Hour Workout in it.  It's also got a transcription of "Red House," as if I needed another excuse to keep it around.

I keep threatening to just take the plunge and try the whole 30 hours.  Seriously, go back and look.  I've probably done it at least once a year while I've been blogging.  The thing that has, at least in part, held me back, honestly, is a bit silly.  I keep wanting a copy of the workout outside of the magazine.  I mean, sure, I could take the pages out of it, have them laminated, etc., but that has seemed like an awful lot of work.  I know what you're saying: it may well be an awful lot of work, but it's nothing compared to the amount of work actually sitting down and doing the 30 Hour Workout will be.  And you're right.  But still.

Over the years, I have searched and searched for the workout in PDF format, and I had always struck out... until just the other day!  That's right, after many years of searching, I finally have a way to print it out and have it with me, without worrying about the condition the magazine will be in if I page back and forth too much or anything like that.

It's happening slowly, but one by one, I'm removing the excuses that I've built up as to why I'm not a better overall player than I am.  This, at least in my head, was a big one.  Now that it's out of the way, I can keep focusing on improving, so that I can finally hit that long term goal of applying to Berklee.

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