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Day One Hundred Fifty Eight (Year Four)

Today was a good day.  I got to spend time with a guitar in my hands, and I started the If You Like The Beatles... book that I got as a Christmas present.

I spent a little bit of my practice time today working on a little bit of "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck.  My brother was playing a little bit of it in A minor while he was here, and he showed me a bit of what he was doing.  It's cool, but it's not in the original key.  What I really want to learn is the saxophone line, my thought being that, if I can learn the lead part, then the two of us can jam out on it when he comes back down for his visit in January.  I found a tab of it that seems thorough, and is in the original key, and then I found a lesson online that covers Chet Atkins' version of it from 1973.  I think I'm going to play around with both of them in the next few weeks, and see what happens.

This book on the Beatles is fun so far, chronicling their rise in a few different ways.  First, it discusses the individual styles and elements that they incorporated in their early years that helped accentuate their rise to fame and success.  And secondly, it ties those elements in with the artists and writers that made John, Paul, George, and Ringo stop and take notice.  It's a really cool history lesson on the rise of the group, while also being a brief history of the early era of rock & roll.

Yeah, today was good.  Only a day and a half-ish before an early afternoon off and then a day off and a new year of musical fun.

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