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Day Ninety (Year Four)

What a day!  Training started for the new job.  I expected to be exhausted when I got home, and I was... at least a little bit.  Then, late tonight (10:30ish), I realized I was wide awake and brimming with energy, so I did the sensible thing:  I headed into the studio.

I haven't entirely sorted out practice routine stuff yet.  In a perfect world, I'd like to have a few of them set up, so that I can change it up a bit with different materials or different lengths of time.  In reality, it felt too late in the day to start in on a project of that sort, energy or no energy.  So, instead, I used the music for relaxation while also dragging out "Yellow Ledbetter," which I hadn't done in quite a while.

One of the cool things about going back to something after a bit of time away from it is that you tend to focus in on some of the smaller details of the song.  Tonight, it was the fills and note choices within the chords that were highlighted for me.  The solo is coming easier, as well.  I was a little worried about that after my time away, but it seems to be in need of improved study in only a couple of places, so that felt good today, too.

Oh yeah, and I got the Guitar Aerobics lick of the day squared away, as well.
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