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Day One Hundred Ninety Five (Year Five)

So, most of the way through the day I wasn't all that sure I'd have a lot to write about tonight.  Things had been mostly sluggish for me music-wise, my grand scheme of getting a lot accomplished thwarted somewhat by other things and somewhat by my own inactivity.  That being said...

When I finally got into the studio for an extended period of time tonight, I made the conscious choice to avoid the whole "100 Riffs" project for tonight and instead headed straight for the acoustic and the pile of notebooks that contains all of the song ideas that I've been kicking around the last couple of years.

I opened up everything, and spread it all out in front of me, and at least a little bit to my surprise, two different ideas jumped out at me.  One is the progression that I keep thinking I've finally figured out the last week or two, and the other was something I jotted down more than a year ago and then (at least somewhat) forgot about.  They were just close enough in nature that I thought they might work together somehow, but I never thought that they would fit over each other as well as they did.  So now it's official, now at least two thirds of that song is done.  I've got an intro and either a verse or a chorus.

There was also another idea from the notebooks that I looked at for a few minutes at the end of my session, and I was able to turn that into something that requires a longer look between tomorrow and the end of the weekend.  With any luck, that will turn out to be good enough to add to the EP as well.

So, while I didn't get done what I was expecting to get done today, what I did get to was so much better.

Got the iPod updated, too, so that was cool.  Great day today.
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