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Day Two Hundred Twenty Three (Year Four)

After taking a look back at my goals for the year yesterday, I wanted to not only enjoy getting back in the studio again, but also look to make some gains in what was really my first day where I felt like I had a substantial amount of time since the end of last month.  I feel like I was able to accomplish that today.  I,

1) Dove back into the Acoustic Goldmine book a little bit.  I stepped back a lesson or two in the stuff I had been working through, to the lesson on block chords, just because I wanted an excuse to stretch out my fingers a little bit, and get them reacquainted with some of the key concepts in this run of lessons on finger-picking.

2) Listened back to a couple of the demos for the songs I wrote last month, and was pleasantly surprised to still be happy with what I got done.  It's always a true test for me to step away for a little bit, and then go back to something and see if my opinions change.  Definitely looking forward to working on getting those songs cleaned up and sounding the way I want them to.

3) Lastly tonight, I wanted to at least touch on one of the things in my list that I hadn't even looked at yet.  The building of a set list made the most sense in that regard, so I grabbed a notebook and my iPod, and started jotting down songs that seemed like they would be fun to learn, but that would also make some sense in an acoustic setting.  I found almost a page full of songs in a short period of time, so that's cool, and it also means that I can say I've started in on another one of my goals for the year.

Tomorrow, I really want to do a little bit of electric stuff.  Find my way back into learning those 100 Riffs, that sort of thing.
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