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Day Eighty Eight (Year Five)

Today was better than yesterday, which was a good thing.

I didn't necessarily get into the studio all that much earlier today, but I was able to spend a bit more time playing, which was awesome.  I'm still working on the very early stages of using both the 10 and (eventually) 30 hour workouts by Steve Vai as a supplement to the rest of my playing.  I started with his scale exercises, because it made for a smooth transition point from some of the other things I've been working on. 

I did better tonight with the exercises he lays out than I did last night, which I will take as a win.  I'll continue to work through them on my own time, and at my own pace.  One of the things that drives me nuts (and has me jealous, yet again, of the fact that most of my brother's homework is practicing) is this: there are a lot of days where I feel like I just start to get warmed up, just get to the point where I'm really ready to dive in and make some serious progress, only to have to put down the guitar and get something else done.  I know I need to be better about structuring my available time, and I definitely need to be smarter about the ways in which I use my days off.  That really needs to start, in earnest, with tomorrow night and Wednesday this week.

Bottom line right now is this: I'm feeling really good about things in small chunks.  If I could block off enough time to start connecting those smaller chunks of time, I think I'd really be on to something big.
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