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Day Three Hundred Thirty (Year Four)

Tonight felt productive in the studio.

I started where my brother and I had left off in our discussions on Tuesday night, taking the time and starting to go through the lesson on classical harmony from this year's February issue of Guitar Techniques.  It's always good to talk about theory with my brother, and listening to him explain something helps me out, but what really drives it home for me is coming back in the next day or so, and tracking through the material on my own.

After that, I played through some of the scale patterns that I've been going over of late.  Not only are the patterns getting easier, but I'm getting faster at picking a random spot on the neck and knowing which key I'm in.  I know I need to be smarter about my approach to studying, and the order I work on things, but I also know that I'm getting more comfortable with things that have always just barely eluded me.

After that, I gathered up a few of the GT CDs that come with the magazine, with the intention of importing the 20 minutes of jam tracks they advertise as coming with each CD into iTunes, so I could sync them with my iPod.  For whatever reason, the tracks don't show up when I pop the disc into my CD drive.  Not sure why that is.  Getting those jam tracks all in one place would be really cool for my plans this summer.  I'll have another go tomorrow and see what I come up with then.

I'm already starting to develop a pretty distinct plan for tomorrow's practicing.  Should be a good start to the weekend, I hope.
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