Walkin’ Blues

Trying to get back on to the trail

My initial intention was for this blog to be a bit more pedestrian, more like a journal of what I've been doing day to day or as often as I am doing stuff musically. I got away from it because, as I've posted previously, I've been distracted with web work. Now that is (mostly) over, I'm hoping to Get Back into the swing of things, and keep a record of it here.

I was reminded of this concept for the blog by this video. I don't think I'm going to go quite that far with it, but I can't say that for sure. It is a good idea and so hopefully this blog will be interesting and good for me as well.

So, to catch up, Monday the 25th I spent a part of the morning with a little practicing and reviewing the song I'm co-writing with my sister. I looked at some ideas I've had for the transition from the chorus to the bridge. One of those ideas seems to have potential, I just need to flesh it out and see how it goes. (Why am I using visual metaphors such as "looked at" and "see how it goes" when I'm talking about music?)

I spent the afternoon at Musicwise trying to fix up my VK-7 for sale. It sucks, one day Lori and I dropped by and we noticed some of the keys were sticking. Turns out, the glue that holds the weights has begun to ooze and gum up the keys. So, Darren and I took it apart to clean it up and we got the keys freed up. But, when we got it back together, it would not turn on. After taking it apart and checking out several potential issues, we came up with very little. It will start up, but tapping it in the right spot will cause it to reboot. Nothing appears loose nor shorted. I wish I had been able to sell it when I first decided to, as it was fine in all regards then. Now, I will probably have to sell it for less than I had hoped due to these minor but persistent issues.

Posted 2008 08 26 at 6:45 AM

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