2011
– Last 100 Days
Prodigal
Altar Boy Countdown
T-11
Days to Go
20
December 2011
Goal:
1 hour per day working on the film
Details:
Watched
Karen Everett’s Story Doctor Kit Module #1 – Narration and Exposition
Clarifying
the Characters
Structuring
Characters
Checkerboarding: The Power of Four
Narration or Title Cards
Use Music To Convey Topic
Usurp Expectations
Live Action Footage that Teases Theme
Total time: 1 hour
Goal:
30 minutes per day music practice
Details:
Warm
up on the MojoCaster
Inversion
Excursion work – C Major Inversions 1st, 2nd and 3rd
strings
Pat
Metheny Etudes, exercise #1 bars 1-4 30X
Grace City Christmas Service Practice
Mary, Did You Know/
Emmanuel
We Three Kings
The First Noel
You Are The Living Word
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)
Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Goal:
15 minutes exercise per day
Active
rest
Goal:
15 minutes per day working on the score for the movie
“Dies
Irae” – 30X run-throughs of the whole piece
“Dies
Irae” – focus work on solo, dyads and octave climbs
“Granby Street” on the MojoCaster (focus: vocals,
ending, and performance)
Gospel
Skillz R&B chord work
E
– B/D# - C#m7 – A chord work
Total Time: 20 minutes
Notes: Eleven days and counting.
More Lessons
Learned
Tasks expand to fill all available time
A
permutation of Murphy’s Law, I learned this during the one hundred day
countdown. I felt rushed during the week
to pack everything in, such as music, work on the film and knocking out the
blog. I always had big plans for the weekend
and days off, estimating the extra time would translate in getting more things
done. That rarely happened over the one
hundred days. Even after waking up
early, the other tasks of the weekend ate into the day and soon it was Sunday
night and I’m wondering where the weekend went.
The key is to not beat yourself up about it. The daily goals were laid out as minimums,
with the mindset that it was better to put in some time each day rather than
trying to find the time to knock out big chunks. Over the long run, I think I will have
accomplished more over these one hundred days than the first six months of
2011. I will tally it up at the
beginning of the year.
Starting
tomorrow, it’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN: “My Top Ten Favorite Things of the Last One
Hundred Days of 2011” Stay tuned folks,
I’m somewhat curious about it myself.
