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The canoe is up to 11 strips on each side.  Steve wasn't available to help today but I still got six strips on.

( You know you want to read the canoe details! )

Album.

I have been practicing faithfully and am thinking about scaling up from an hour a day to an hour and a half.  I usually end up doing concentrated practice on one or two songs and need the extra time to run through the others so I don't lose the progress I've made on them.

I had another idea for a song yesterday but am having trouble making it come out as cute and funny as it is when it is swanning vaguely around in my head.  I feel like I shouldn't count songwriting as part of practice time but I am running out of hours in the day.  Also--need to do more melodic entry in PrintMusic.

General--if you pay attention to timestamps you will note it is ridiculously early in the day.  To the point where I'm not sure it can be considered "day."  Kip and I woke up at 5 am.  Allergy season.  Sigh.

The early bird transcribes music

One advantage to getting up early--I got Oak and Ash entered in PrintMusic, and Maydaye I think finally fixed.  The tune is simple enough but the instrumental part was intended to expand on it and simultaneously suggest a jig at the dance the song mentions.  Lots of paper went into the recycle because it seems like there are always little errors I only see when the music is on paper and for some reason I can only catch one per iteration.

Now I just have to practice, take my walk, and appear on time for my dentist appointment, and hopefully put a couple of strips (well, hopefully even more, but a couple to stay on schedule) on the canoe before the end of the day.

Boats Have Bones mp3 now available

Boats Have Bones now has an mp3 available here at the original post.