Day Forty Nine (Year Four)

So, one of the things I was hoping for with last night's exercise of purging the old hard rock stuff was that it would clear the way for me to take an objective look at what I have recorded that might fit in well with the long-discussed, but as yet unfinished power pop record I have up my sleeve.  It worked.  I sat down tonight and went through the various pieces of songs I've recorded for potential inclusion over the years, and with those, plus the 3 songs from Round 1 of the #STARTexp, and a couple of ideas I put in the "maybe" list, I wound up with 13 potential ideas for the project.  That's a pretty solid stable of ideas to start off with, I think.

The other thing I wanted to get to today was a look through the magazine files full of resources I've set aside for the lesson binder project.   Here's some of the things I want to start with:

- The Blues Guitar Lesson Goldmine book
- Vai's 30 hour workout
- Troy Nelson's Guitar Aerobics book
- Transcriptions for "Red House," "I'm Tore Down," & "Yellow Ledbetter"

I had another two people come up to me tonight at the potluck we went to and tell me that they would be interested in learning guitar.  That's at least 4 people since we got here.  What that tells me is that the teaching part of my life is going to start up again a lot sooner than I might have otherwise been hoping for, which means that I need to spend some serious hours in the studio in short order.  Fine by me.