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Day Eighty Three (Year Four)

Today was another good day.  Spent time in the studio with both the guitar and the ukulele, and stopped off at Moondog Music for the first time in a long time.  Couldn't pass that up on a pretty heavy new release Tuesday, but more on that later.

Didn't make it into the studio until about ten tonight, but I made some good (and fun) progress when I got there.  I pulled out the book of Dylan songs for the uke, and started thumbing through, looking for a fun and easy way to dive in.  After trying a few things, I finally settled on "You Ain't Going Nowhere."  It's a 3 chord song (G-Am-C) with a steady rhythm, and I've got a few different versions of it (Dylan's, Counting Crows, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), which gives me a few options for tempo and style.

Actually, I think learning ukulele is going to help my guitar playing.  Starting with a new instrument will take me back to all of the fun 50's and 60's music I grew up with, stuff that only has 3 or 4 chords, and get me to learn the progressions... which I can then translate to guitar.

And speaking of guitar, tonight I:

1) worked my way through the second lick of week 3 from Guitar Aerobics
2) jammed out to the Dylan I learned on ukulele first
3) took a quick glance through the Jim Croce book I picked up yesterday.

As for what I picked up from Moondog, the list looks like this:

Lightning Bolt - Pearl Jam
Negativity - Deer Tick
Unplugged (Deluxe re-issue) - Eric Clapton

I also ordered Lucy Wainwright Roche's new record, There's A Last Time For Everything, which should be in on Friday.  When they call me for that, I'll head over to pick it up and use that as an excuse to snag the two records I left without today: The new Paul McCartney disc, and the new record by The Head & The Heart. 
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