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Day Two Hundred Seventy Nine (Year Four)

Another night that didn't have enough studio time in it.

When I did get in there tonight, it was for a bit more theory study, but tonight was another night where I could have easily stayed up all night working on stuff.

The flaw in my logic lately has been that, whenever I've got a decent chunk of time, I've spent it figuring out songs.  Not that this is entirely bad, it's just that I still don't feel like everything I hear in my head flows out through my fingers the way I'd like it to. 

My goal for the rest of this week (if not beyond) is simple: every time I have a decent chunk of time, I need to use it working to fill in the holes in my playing.  I need to get back to approaching it (at least somewhat) like homework: not sucking all the fun out of it, but just knowing that it's something that needs to be done that will help out big time in the long run.

I always come out of a bout of learning feeling good.  There's no question on that, I just know that if everything is going to fall together the way I see it falling together, those sessions need to be a bit longer so that the links are cemented, that's all. 

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