Grueling!

• A grueling day practicing piano. Difficult to get AS TIME GOES BY in my hands, but I think I finally got it (even though it needs work).

• Blues piano CDs have shipped. Now I'm wondering with all of this song play that I'm focusing on if I should focus more on Ari Kast's book "Stride Piano Tricks" more than the Richards book. The Sudnow Method is still my dominant focus, but we'll see as I go what I'll be using as a secondary learning focus.

• Just thinking out loud/brainstorming: it'd be cool to slowly add one stride trick (from the Kast book) at a time to my arsenal just as I slowly tend to add a little of Sudnow's open voicing ideas to my songs.