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Day One Hundred Four (Year Three)

Taught after work.  The lesson went really, really well.  My student is really picking things up quickly.  She's working on melodies for simple songs right now, but I planted the idea of chords going along with those melodies today.  Within the melody discussion, we're also working on getting her through all of the notes in the first three frets.  After focusing in a lot on specific songs the last few weeks, today's lesson was more on notes and chords, which will be okay.  The way I see it, if we can get her comfortable with all of the notes in the first three frets, most of the major chords, and almost all of the important early minor chords will be covered.

Finally held firm to my vow from last week and put the new Wallflowers disc back into rotation in the car.  Got through the first couple of songs driving home from work/teaching tonight.  Still really digging it.

Didn't make much progress today with either the organizing of the music stuff or "Stairway."  Both of those things are extremely frustrating. 

Did, however, get a bit more reading done from the pile of guitar mags that I started going through last night.  I teach again tomorrow, but it needs to be a better music day for me.

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