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Day One Hundred Eighty Seven (Year Four)

Today was a really good day musically.  It was the day I was hoping for when I got up this morning.

I really wanted to get into the studio today and get some acoustic stuff done, and that's exactly what happened.  I got in there and went straight for the acoustic lessons that I haven't had as much time for lately as I would have hoped.  I started with the lesson on basic finger-picking, and it went a lot better than I had expected, considering the time off.  Like anything, I suppose, a bit of time off and a fresh run at it can produce positive results, and my fingers were more fluid tonight, better at picking up the angles and the distances.

I moved on from there to the lesson on block chords, which went okay considering it was my first time through it.  Tomorrow will be a better day for that one, I suspect.  The second day on these lessons is almost always easier and more productive for me than the first.

From there, I put down the guitar for a bit to do some listening.  That drove me back to the acoustic, as I hit upon "Uphill Mountain" by Jackie Greene, a song from his 2008 record, Giving Up The Ghost.  I love that song.  It's going to end up in my set lists later on this year.  It's capoed at the 5th fret.

So, yeah. No electric stuff today, but that was okay with me, because I got a lot out of the acoustic playing I did.  Today was definitely a good start to the week for me, and it gives me a lot to work towards by the weekend.  

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