Skip to main content

Day Two Hundred Seventy Eight (Year Four)

Tonight was another one of those nights that I could've played, and studied, and learned all night long.  Every time that happens, I'm always left wishing it was a Friday or Saturday night and I had the option to do that if I felt I needed to.

I broke out the electric tonight, and worked on some theory while I did so.  I started in on the new book I picked up over the weekend at Uncle Ike's.  What I'm liking about it so far is the same thing I enjoyed about the PDF I found in January on Fretboard Theory.  It sets things up with very general information, and builds from there to more complex topics.  I feel like I keep saying it over and over again, but each new resource I've brought in since the beginning of the year has added one more building block on the path to a better overall understanding.  All I need to do now is keep at it long enough (and make sure I study for long enough periods of time) that it really locks in.

Not sure I spent quite enough time in the studio tonight, but I'm in desperate need of more sleep tonight than I got last night, so I'm going to call it a night and hope that tomorrow night offers a bit more of a chance for extended studio time.  All told, it was a good, if slow, start to what promises to be a rather long week.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day Three

Short one today. I've got a bunch of the DVDs that Guitar World has put out. Waded through those to see what I had, worked off of the lead guitar one. Just basic scales , but still a light place to begin. It was nice to just start loosening up my fingers again. Off from work tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get a lot of playing done. Said I'd mention the other project I'm hoping to finish this year. Back when I was living in WI, I started a hard rock band with a friend of mine. She was heavily influenced by Evanescence, and so, with her as vocalist, we started writing songs. We had written and demoed almost a full album's worth of music by the time I moved to IA, and had even purchased a P.A. in preparation for eventual gigs. We never did find a permanent drummer or bassist, so our demos sound very rough (and not nearly loud enough). I'd like to finish those songs, and make an EP of the 4 or 5 strongest, just as a way to put a cap on that project. More tom...
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Three Hundred Fifty Seven (Year Seven)

Today was okay.  It ended up being quieter than I wanted it to be, but I got in a few things. 1.  I got the music from the car hauled in and sorted out in advance of my road trip to Dubuque for a little longer than a day.  I'm taking the Radiohead reissue with me for that, since I haven't gotten a chance to sit down with it yet. 2.  I'm also taking an empty notebook along with me, in the hopes that I might start to get some lyric ideas down on paper while I'm gone.  I watched some cool videos early this morning about the idea of writing all of the music before writing lyrics, and the way things are going that is looking like what's going on with me. 3.  I wish there had been more playing today, but I'm still feeling good about where things are sitting.  This next week needs to include a lot of writing.
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Two Hundred Sixty Six (Year Six)

One of the biggest advantages of not getting all that much done this week is that it clues me in to what I need/want to take on vacation with me.  It's basically everything that went along with me when we left to go and dog sit on Monday night.  Granted, there are a few extra things I need to pack (the notebooks with the first two recording projects in them, for example), but that shouldn't be too hard to fit in. Most of the day tomorrow is full already, but there might be a bit of time in the evening (like there was today) to get into the studio.  Then, possibly a few hours on Sunday morning before we hit the road around noon. My shoulders have started to loosen up a bit from all of the insanity the last few weeks.  I'm ready to finally have an extended chance to focus on music next week.
Post a Comment
Read more