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Day Fifty Six (Year Four)

Yesterday was a great starting point.  In its own way, it almost felt like a new beginning.  Today's vow was to spend more time in the studio than I did yesterday.  All told, a fairly simple goal to accomplish, especially having only clocked about a half an hour of actual practice time yesterday.

Today, it wound up being about three times that.  I'd say that an hour and fifteen minutes of that hour and a half were spent with nothing but the 12 bar blues progression.  I ran it over and over, until the 7th chords that were rusty last night had about 95% of the rust knocked off of them.  Every so often, the slide backwards from the V to the IV still catches me, but I think that has more to do with wrist placement than anything else.

I just really wanted to feel like I had the progression down cold before I started messing around with the licks and turnarounds.  This way it will be easier for me to work on the other thing I made mention of last night: switching back and forth between lead and rhythm.  At some point in the next day or two, I either want to go in and lay down an extended jam of the 12 Bar progression, or find a backing track online, so that I can get some work in with the turnarounds and other blues licks.  With any luck, I'll have enough time to lay down tracks for all of the keys.

Today was a great day.  More tomorrow, and better.

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