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Day Eighty (Year Five)

I knew heading into the day last night's post didn't have all that much bite to it, and so I really tried to make up for that, at least somewhat.

I got into the studio for two sessions today.  The first one, early this morning, wound up being more focused on sprucing up the music for one of the songs that will make the EP I'm still hoping to get finished by the end of the year.  I had been frustrated with the sound of the song for a while, even though I liked the basic idea of it.  A bit of thought, and a few minutes with a capo changed everything, though, as the issue turned out to have more to do with the key I was playing it in than anything else.  What I really need to do next in order for finishing that to be realistic by the end of the year is make sure that I've got recordings that are passable, and then just drive around with the music in my car for a while, and see what lyric ideas start to pop up.

Tonight's session was more focused on the scales & soloing side of things.  It was an admittedly shorter session than I thought I might get tonight, but it did focus not only on the information out of the columns I've been working from, but also a bit of the Vai 30 hour workout.  I haven't had the kind of time available to be able to dive headlong into that yet (or perhaps haven't made the best use of the time I've had), but I am definitely looking at Wednesday (my day off this week) as a chance to do just that.  Should be a good week.

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