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Day One Hundred Eighty Two (Year Four)

Tonight was a good night.  I got some of my Half-Price Books finds imported into iTunes (the Guster and Ben Lee records, specifically), and found a burn in my collection of Guster's 1999 disc, Lost & Gone Forever, so that got uploaded too.

When I hit the studio, I did so with the intention of resuming work on the Acoustic Goldmine book, lessons on finger-picking be damned.  Instead, I picked up the acoustic and started strumming chords as a way to get my hands warmed up, only to have a cool chord progression come tumbling out.  Once that happened, I grabbed the notebook with all of my song ideas in it from off of the work table, opened up to a clean page, and jotted down what I had.  The more I played, the more cool ideas poured out.  All told tonight, I think I wound up with four or five cool sounding progressions.  They may be germs of ideas right now, but there's a bit of magic in them, I think.

Once I had a few of them sorted out, I fired up the recording gear, just so that I could play along against a hurriedly constructed drum loop.  Knowing that one of the things on my list for the year was to finish an EP (at the very least), this unexpected burst of songwriting tonight feels like it could well be the start of that project.

I'll get back to the Goldmine book tomorrow, for tonight I'm going to be happy with the new song thoughts.  Knowing me, I'll probably take another stab at those tomorrow, as well.
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