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Day Three Hundred Eight (Year Four)

Tonight was fun.

I got about an hour in the studio tonight, and got a few different things accomplished.

1) I spent about half of my time on theory related things, going through some things, and adding a few bits of knowledge to my growing understanding of how everything ties together.  Every night it seems like at least one more thing drops into place.  What I really need right now is the one thing that has consistently evaded me the last week and a half or so: a chunk of time longer than an hour to get in there and work.  Hopefully that opportunity will present itself sometime between tomorrow and the end of the weekend.

2) I spent the second half of my time in the studio working on figuring out some songs by Counting Crows and The Decemberists.  One of the things I need to find is the tab book for The King Is Dead.  I love that record, and it would be really cool to learn all of it.  I didn't get anything added to the notebook of songs tonight, but I made some progress toward having them figured out enough to add them to the collection.  So maybe I'll finish that up tomorrow.

3) I got a few things uploaded into iTunes (and synced onto to iPod).  The new discs from Old 97's, Phillip Phillips, and the new Sturgill Simpson disc, which came in today after I special ordered it over the weekend.  I've listened to about half of it so far, and it's an incredible listen.  There are a few people that I'll likely end up sharing this one with/recommending it to.

All told, a really fun day today.
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