For me, writing is both the easiest thing and the hardest thing. When I have ideas and I know exactly what to write, it'll come out in maybe 10 minutes tops. If not, that blinking thing at the top of the page will stay there for the same amount of time. The hardest part is actually gathering all my thoughts and letting them out cohesively.
Almost everything I've done since the last do over has been college related. I finished my PiG paper, which allows me to graduate, and I've auditioned for Hofstra and just auditioned for Adelphi today, both on classical guitar. Now that auditions are almost over, I want to start focusing on jazz again. I bought a jazz chord book from Berklee, so I want to learn all the altered dominant voicings and inversions in there, then crack open my Real Book and just go through and play every song in there. This may or may not qualify as doing something "amazing," as most professional jazz musicians know pretty much all the songs in any given Real Book. This is just something for me to think about doing.
Again I'm sitting here with that thing just blinking at me from the screen, trying to think of what to write next. I have very little to do this upcoming semester, so my idea presented before should keep me busy for a while. Also, I know I've been neglecting this blog a lot, and I'm going to try to blog at least once or twice a week.
I'm going to end this post with a video of my jazz inspiration Joe Pass. There was a 6 part post on youtube of one of his instructional DVD's that taught me everything about jazz when I was starting it at the end of last year, and unfortunately the only part of it left is the intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqiDcvRW2Y
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