2020

Sold my Martin guitar. Hardly played it. Bought a soprano saxophone which is supposed to arrive on Thursday. Why not? I used to have one, and I miss it. It’ll be a cool hobby.

Piano to mostly go on hold.

Some Goals for the new year:

1) Continue trio

2) Figure out spirituality

3) Lose weight

4) Write songs and don’t worry about the quality of them

5) Take better physical care of self

Happy 2020 to all reading this!

Goals, 2016

Thinking of some goals for 2016:

1) At least some piano practice daily

2) Work on the Swing Guitar book when I get a chance

3) Write and record a CD of original acoustic guitar songs

4) Keep losing weight 

Sudnow Method

On my travels yesterday I had a chance to listen again to my Sudnow Method CDs. And yes, I'm returning to his method. Some things I'll have to address, sooner or later, though: 1)Impatience. Impatience in trying to get a song learned quickly and recorded quickly so I can move on quickly. This impatience has resulted in songs played with pauses and hesitations that were ugly. SOLUTIONS: Dont let anyone hear any recordings for at least a year. Take your time. Do not move on to another song until the present song is practically perfect. And by practically perfect, I mean going at a pace that would be practically perfect too. Take your time with memorization. If it means putting off new songs, than put off new songs till later. No Rush.Do not worry about 'where will this lead me after 15 songs.'Just do it and we'll see later where it leads.