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Day Seventy Two (Year Four)

Well, I knew it would happen at some point this week, and today was the day.  The Guitar Aerobics lick of the day didn't so much have me stumped, as it was just harder for me this time around.  Which is good, don't get me wrong.  I mean, if they were all easy, there wouldn't be much of a challenge to it, now would there?  So, I fought with it for a while, got the first half of it down pretty well, and then stepped away from it for a bit.  In that time, I looked at the licks for Saturday and Sunday, played through those, found them to be easier than today's lick, and figured that I'll certainly be able to master the second half of today's lick by the end of the weekend.  I'm really enjoying this program so far.  I know I'm only a week in, and there's a long way to go, but it's been good.

The other thing I did today was prep for lessons tomorrow morning.  I'm teaching at 9:30, and while I've taught the introductory lesson enough times in the last year to know what it needs to contain (what the student wants to learn, a few basic chords, enough hands on teaching to get them forming a couple of the chords and playing), I'm still a little bit nervous.

While I picked up the guitar some today, I didn't get my mammoth practice session in.  Kept being pulled away by the phone.  I'd have turned it off, but that's not always wise when you're hoping to hear back on a job.  Hopefully tomorrow, after teaching, I'll be able to hang out in the studio some and just play.
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