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Day One Hundred Seventy Two (Year Four)

Made some really good music progress today!  Oddly enough, it wasn't acoustic-related. 

I know I had said last night that I needed to get back into the acoustic stuff today for at least an hour, so I didn't lose the thread on that, but after finding some of the theory stuff I did today, and working through that on the electric, I feel less badly about not getting anything acoustic-related done today.  That said, I need to get back in touch with the acoustic tomorrow night during my studio time.

Every so often, I Google phrases associated with guitar, just to see if any cool resources pop up in the search.  I did that today with the phrase "fretboard theory," and found a really cool PDF by that name that will definitely add something to my recent theory studies.

Heading into today, I'm almost two weeks into the new year, and I was looking for something as a little bit of a pick-me-up, even though I feel like the year is off to a pretty good start.  I'm pretty sure that I found my boost in this PDF.  I went through the first twenty or so pages of it in an "overview" sort of manner, and there's enough here to keep me going for a bit, and to help nail down a lot of the things I've found myself struggling with over the last few years. 

I said last night that I think 2014 will be the year it all falls into place for me, and after today, I'm more certain of that than ever.
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