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Day One Hundred Twenty Five (Year Three)

So, I imported the new Green Day, as well as the new Soundgarden into itunes today and synced the ipod.  Then I took the new Green Day record with me in the car for the trip to and from work.  I like it.  It feels a bit like the record they made as The Foxboro Hot Tubs a few years back... garage rock-y, and filled with joy and reckless abandon.  This trilogy idea Billie Joe and company hatched might just be one of the best ideas of the year.

Found a link to a cool website today.  http://www.music-for-music-teachers.com

It's got songs and resources for those of us that are trying to make in-roads by teaching others to love music.

And speaking of teaching, my lesson went really well tonight!  My second student wanted to start learning some Christmas music.  We started with "Jingle Bells."  She made it all the way through by the end of the lesson, and though she's got some work to do, she did really well for sight-reading the song for the first time.

Didn't do much personal playing today, but hopefully tomorrow night and Wednesday will afford me those opportunities.

Also, I got a bit of music from my brother that I'll be able to use for my lessons in the next couple of weeks, so that was great.

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