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Day One Hundred Eleven (Year Four)

Today was a good day for catching up on some things that had gotten set aside for a couple of days.

1) The Classic Rock Song for November this year, AC/DC's "Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution," got picked up again today, after a few days off.  The intro just keeps getting smoother, and I'm feeling pretty good about the verses right now.  Seems like this one is going to come down to the same thing these month-long excursions always seem to: my old nemesis, the solo.  This one doesn't look all that tough, though, so I'm pretty sure that, with almost three weeks left in November, I ought to be good.

2) I've been slacking a little bit on my Guitar Aerobics stuff.  Not fleshing the licks out as well as I ought to be.  Got back to that tonight with a vengeance and played a bit of catch up.  The licks are getting there, but they aren't quite at the level I'd like them to be.  A bit of backtracking and catch up for the rest of the week should get me where I need to be, though.

3) Did some more work on the 100 Riffs tonight.  Went through "Words Of Love," and the first half of "Johnny B. Goode" with a fine toothed comb tonight.  I want to make sure that I get everything down right, so that, if I ever do decide I want to learn to play it all the way through, the process will be easier.

All told, I thought tonight was productive.  Tomorrow I need to:

1) Get through the last few tracks of the new Counting Crows record.
2) Hit some more of 100 riffs.
3) Go back to "Twist & Shout."
4) Keep working on the AC/DC.
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