Saturday

• Diet did not go very well yesterday, but back on track today. Burned 766 calories on the exercise bike for an hour.

• Rehearsed with the band with which I will play a dinner/dance next week.

• Played with the Church band at Mass tonight. Went well.

• Recorded a background track for a song I'd like to try to improvise on: The Beatles' "I'll Follow the Sun."

• Tried to improvise on it using Silver's patterns, but I need to work on it. I'm used to starting and ending the patterns from the first note to the last note, but I need to know them inside and out in order to sound better.