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Day Seventy One (Year Four)

I had high hopes at the start of the day about a mammoth practice session.  Said session never really materialized, but even so, I was able to sneak into the studio for a bit tonight.  While I was there, I hit most of the things I've worked on all week: the next lick in the series for this week (#4!) from the Guitar Aerobics book, and a couple of things out of the Blues Goldmine book.

Something else dawned on me tonight, too.  As much as the repetition of regular playing has helped me out lately, the biggest thing that has changed lately is my confidence.  My belief that I'll reach the goals I set for myself all those years ago is at an all time high right now.  Like I said the other night, I'm not there yet, but I finally feel like I'm actually making sustainable progress.

Tomorrow needs to be about a couple of things:

1) Getting ready to start teaching again on Saturday morning.  I've spent the whole week thinking about where to begin, now I just need to get things set up and actually blocked out.

2) That mammoth practice session.  I don't work tomorrow, and the Mrs. does.  This will give me the house free, and the chance to make noise if I want to make noise.  She actually went so far tonight as to tell me that she'd yell at me if I didn't spend some quality time practicing while she's at work.

Oh, and I had a really cool little blues riff come tumbling out of my guitar tonight while I was playing.  Might just need to record that tomorrow, for safe keeping.
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