most of the composition work i've been doing the last year has been for a particular project, and that's i think finally done. i've been doing some other compositions for guitar, and i'll keep with that, but i've just sorta got this one piece that's been clanking around my head for a while that i've been having trouble figuring out. i've got some musical ideas and phrases that'll work well, but nothing to glue them together. the piece is in a different tuning than the guitar's standard tuning, and that's opened things up, but i'm still having trouble with this. but i'm keeping up with it because it's interesting. i think when it's done it could be really good. so i sit in the basement in the thin morning light on the old teal sofa, idly pick at the guitar, try to get a bit further. sometimes i do. mostly i don't. that's okay. progress isn't always linear, and an hour spent holding a guitar is never a wasted hour.
need to keep up with fiddle too. got my irish music i use for warmup, my "real" (classical) stuff for my lessons in the fall. the last year i spent a lot of time focusing on mechanics and fundamentals, fixing some long-term bowing problems. i sound a lot better, a lot more consistent, but i'm getting to the point where i'm itching to start actually, you know, playing again.
so it goes. a couple months, mostly wide-open, and the hatchings of a plan. let's see how closely i follow it, and where i end up.