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Day Three Hundred Fourteen (Year Four)

Today was productive.  I spent part of my time in between calls at work today thinking over last night's time in the studio (and subsequent blog post), and jotting down a few notes about everything that I had laid out on the studio floor.  Inevitably, this ends up taking the form of a list breaking down how I want to organize things for effective learning & practice going forward.

This is one of those things that seems to happen at least once a year, usually around this time, but it never seems to end up completed to my liking (which is probably why it keeps coming up).  This year, I'm determined to get things set up the way they should've been a long time ago.  Part of "put up or shut up" is acknowledging the mistakes I've made in the past, and working hard, so that they don't keep happening.

Along those same lines, one of my other big hang-ups is starting a new notebook every time I try to reshuffle my thoughts on this.  The end result of which is, of course, that there are various chunks of thoughts and ideas concerning my practice binder/studying/learning spread out all over the place from the last four years.  This isn't helping anyone (least of all me).  So, in the spirit of fixing mistakes/errors in judgement, tonight I went on a hunt for at least a few of those notebooks.  I found the ones from the last couple of years, and I'm finally in the process of getting all of that information put into one place, so that, at any given time, I have easy access to all of my thoughts, plans, and hopes for my various musical adventures.

Ultimately, last night, tonight, and at least tomorrow night are all about building the foundation for everything.  Or, perhaps more aptly put, they are about putting together all of the edge pieces for the musical puzzle I'm assembling.  Over the years (and this year especially), I've put together various sections of the puzzle, and have even attached some of those bits to the border of it.  It's time to finish dealing with the edge pieces, so that I can work to create a complete picture.
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