Up 9. Revision 10-1. Realized that a couple of grafs could go; some material on the connotations of a chord “progression” might go back into the intro. Probably one more day on this small section. Watched a couple more jazz piano video lessons — this is the course’s “blues week.” The approach is straightforward, but it’s nice to see it all put very clearly. (One nicety they insist on is that, when 12-bar changes go to the IV and V, you don’t also switch to the corresponding blues scale. I know of exceptions - “Tipinia,” and anywhere the IV of IV appears in the 2nd phrase (bar 6 usually, as in “Blue Monk.”) But maybe that isn’t always retained in solos. Played a little in C — what I should probably do this week is get “the” blues scale under my fingers in less path-of-least resistance keys.

Tried to do a few practical things, but wi-fi was hanging up badly (which it wasn’t when I was just wasting time). Realized that, despite cancelling my CT scan, I still had a store pick-up scheduled. So I masked up and did that, 4-4:30. Attended M. Matos’s Zoom talk on his ‘80s book. We couldn’t be more different writers, but he knows his stuff and does his work. Inspirational quotes: “You write a book to learn”; “The book is inside the draft.”

Evan had to cancel our call. Read last 10 p. of Logical Syntax of Language assignment. Played a bit more piano, blues in Db (ok, not really natural), tried Davis’s “Solar,” “Skylark.” Need to get 2 radio shows to KSPC by Sat., so spent an hr. on that. Found that I had to download a new version of Audacity for this OS, so it was good that I did this now. Took a break to go outside. Put enough music in my playlist to make 1hr 40min (the rest will be back announcing and pre-recorded PSAs/IDs), couple of related tasks. Printed a log. Crossword. Piles a lot crap on my desk into inbox to process tomorrow. Lights out 11 pm.