This is drawing for someone that won/purchased it at a benefit. I’ve been busy with other drawings and stuff and now I’m finally getting down to drawing it. I did do a preliminary sketch of it 3 or 4 months ago, but hadn’t the time to get to it. Now it’s on its way towards completion. ■ Had a great time at Murphy’s for their Lilac Parade party. Saw folks I hadn’t seen in months. Great food, too. ■ I’m still working on the ol’ dobro. Trying to get lots of practice in and it’s showing. My playing is getting better bit, by bit. I want to learn to play “Danny Boy”, so I bought some tab (that’s a type of musical notation for guitar (stringed instruments) in open G. Open G is one of the alternate tunings used by guitar players. There are dozens of different open, or alternate tunings. Open G is simply tuning the guitar to a G chord (when all the strings are strummed.) “Danny Boy” came in open G – but I discovered that it was a different open G tuning – there are several. My square neck dobro is tuned GBDGBD, while the tab was in DGBDGB. While they both basically sound the same, the tablature for each would be different. I couldn’t get the song to sound like itself when I followed the tab. I thought I just wasn’t playing it with the correct timing. Not so. Now that I’ve figured out what was wrong I’m going to have to figure it out by ear. Not a big deal, but it’s going to take me more time to get it down. ■ My right knee is still hurting and I wear a brace on it every day. If a bad knee weren’t enough, I threw out my back Monday morning reaching for shoes to put on. The back will take a few days to heal. Usually about a week before it’s back to 95% normal. ■
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