Skip to main content

Day Two Hundred Seventy (Year Four)

Today wound up being all right, by the time I got to the end of it.

I got the new music from yesterday imported into the iTunes, but haven't taken the time yet to sit down and listen to any of it.  That may well be something for tomorrow night.

Then, late tonight, when I finally made it into the studio, all I wanted to do was sit with the acoustic and try to wind down at the end of the weekend.  That was exactly what happened, and during that time I went through an old list of songs I wanted to learn that had made it to my iPod a while back, just trying to play along with things as they came up in the list.  All told, I feel like I did pretty well at that, and it even forced me to go to my collection of tab books at one point, to try and get the exact fingerings for some Damien Rice.

The best part of the whole night for me was the realization that, a lot of these things that were tougher to grasp however many years ago have gotten a whole lot easier to digest.  It was very much one of those moments when I could see the progress that I've been able to make recently highlighted more clearly.


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day Two Hundred Six (Year Four)

Today was the first official day of the second half of my "album-in-a-month" challenge. As for today's goals, I wanted to see what I could get done in regards to track order, and get at least a little bit of a start on the lyric writing process. I spent more time working on the track order question than I did on the lyrics today, but as a result of that, I ended up with something that I think will work in terms of order. I did sit with the notebook for a few minutes at the very end of the day, and got a solid starting line of lyric and some other ideas that I hope will be jumping off points for lyrics. What I'm thinking I might do, however, is switch my focus from the lyric writing part of the process directly to the recording part of the process.  That way, if I can get the music recorded and burned onto a CD, I can take the music with me in the car, and listen and try to see what images and thoughts the music brings up.  It's a tactic that has worked for...
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Two Hundred Ninety Two (Year Five)

Today was the last seminary village cookout of the year. While we were all sitting around the picnic tables eating dinner, I got a chance to talk with a few of the Mrs.'s classmates about guitar related stuff. As it turns out, more than one of them wants to be more proficient on guitar. I'm not saying that this will lead to more teaching opportunities, but I told one of them that I would throw a folder together for them. Essentially, anytime I get a chance to talk shop is a great chance for me to reinforce some of the things I have been focusing on. If nothing else, it gets me thinking ahead to tomorrow's day off and a chance to get into the studio for a decent amount of time.
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Eighty Two (Year Four)

Today was the day.  Not only did I celebrate a year of being married, I also got to go and get my ukulele!  I wound up getting one of those "all in one" packs that came with a gig bag and a DVD.                                              The picture is generic, I know, but it gets the point across.  While I was there, I picked up a book of Bob Dylan songs for the uke, as well as a Jim Croce songbook for guitar.  We also got the Mrs. a set of claves.                                                 ...
Post a Comment
Read more