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Day Ninety Six (Year Four)


So, I'm doing some studying at work today before taking a test about the first third of my training, and I come across a quote that the management team uses.  It goes like this: "plan your work, and work your plan."  Seemed fitting, especially given last night's post.

Tonight, then, I sat down in the studio and got down to the work of planning.  I'm really happy with what I see as the first layer of learning.  It's got a musical progress form from Berklee, a fretboard diagram, scale degrees, the circle of fifths, the location of all the A's, B's, C's, etc.  I've also got a lesson that lays out a way to locate and identify notes based on an octave system.

I've also got a detailed list of everything I've pulled, resource-wise, for the binder.  Next on my list is figuring out what of that belongs in the next layer of things.  Most of it, I think, will be book-related.  The Vai workout, the Blues & Rock Goldmine books, perhaps the Richard Lloyd DVDs and booklets.

Other stuff tonight included the first lick of week five in Guitar Aerobics, and a little bit of blues soloing work.

I may not have felt like I got as much done as I wanted to, but I definitely feel like I made progress over the last few days, so I'll take it as a step in the right direction, and look forward to tomorrow.
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