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Day Seventy Four (Year Four)

Another late night in the studio.  I love those.  I only wish I'd time them a little bit better, so they could last a little bit longer without me feeling guilty about it.

Looked back today on the goals I had set for myself all the way back at the beginning of September.  There were four of them, and they were as follows:

1) On days I work, I want to practice at least an hour.  Double that for off days.

2)  I want to keep a detailed record of what I practice each day, including what went well as well as what needs improvement.

3) I want to find an open mic night to attend regularly.

4)  I want to finish an EP or a full length record for each year we're there. Maybe try the RPM Challenge in at least one of the three years.


Well, a month in, I'm doing okay, but not as well as I could be.  I'm getting into the studio at least an hour a day.  Haven't stuck to the whole "2 hours on off days" thing, though, and I could really stand to do that.  I've done a much better job of keeping a detailed record of what I've been practicing and what areas of my playing need improvement. 


While I haven't found an open mic night yet, I did find a few places that host them.  I need to start going to a few places for live music.  The other side of that goal is that I need to start putting together some sort of set list and work on readying those songs for performance.  I think that Audioslave's "Doesn't Remind Me" will end up on that list.  My brother and I used to love jamming out to that song, and I stumbled across the chords tonight putting some magazines away in the studio.  So I rocked out on that for a while.


Blasted my way through the 7th and final lick of the first week of Guitar Aerobics, too.  The only one that I didn't get down perfectly this week was Friday's, but it was a whole lot better by the end of the weekend than it was on Friday night.  I think without friends in town this weekend, I'd definitely have nailed that one down, too.


Oh, and as for the 4th goal on that list, I haven't done all that much writing in the first month we've been here.  Truthfully, I was more worried about setting the space up first.  Got to get back to the songwriting in October.
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