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Day One Hundred Twenty Seven (Year Three)

Tonight was AWESOME!

I got home around 6, torn between dropping King Animal on the stereo with the good set of headphones and cranking that up, or dropping the DVD for Zeppelin's Celebration Day into the BluRay player and watching that.

I decided on the Zeppelin.

It was an amazing decision.  The whole show clocks in at just a tad over 2 hours in length, and the version of "Stairway" near the last third of the gig really helped my confidence with that.  I'll be the first to admit that I haven't spent as much time with it as I had hoped I would at the beginning of the month, but much like last time, I'm trying to make up for lost time here at the end.  The parts that it helped with the most were the third run of notes (that spot has always tripped me up, it's something about the timing, I think), and then the triplets near the end.  I've pretty well got the hang of the really high run of notes right near the end of the solo after playing tonight, too, so I'm less worried about that part.

I'm optimistic that, with a decent session tomorrow night, I can work out the remaining kinks in the solo and then spend the night of the 30th (hopefully) bringing it up to speed.  And, hey, if it takes me through the first couple of days in December to get it down, that works for me, too.

All told, it was an awesome, much needed evening filled with musical goodness.

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