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Have a goal, every time you sit down.  "Today, I'm going to practice G to C in the open position until I can do it cleanly."  "Today, I'm going to practice major scales until my hands cramp."

If you do that, you'll always have something to do, and you can measure your progress.

Va Tech has a losing record in bowl games, too.   The only team of note they've beaten was Texas.   Alabama was off the year they lost, only going 7-4.   They managed to win against noted football juggernauts North Carolina State and Indiana.  Woo.

I'm a Pac-10 guy.  That's the league that usually has three or four  ranked teams in it, and half the teams have held a national championship at one time or another.  I know the ACC had to add Florida State to it's ranks to get a championship caliber team, but other than that, any teams have a national championship claim?

No?

I'm taking a history class, focusing on American mythology.  The vehicle for the class is baseball, an aspect of America that produces all kinds of legends and myths.  Anyway, the textbooks are Ken Burns: An Illustrated History, and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural."   Both are fantastic books that I would (and have) read before.

So I'm going to get an A. 

British Monarchs have been perpetually broke since William poked Harold in the eye at Hastings.  This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Oh, and just for the record, this was one of the reasons us Yanks did away with Royalty outright.  We had this to say about King George III.

"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."

Battery in backwards?

Mine used to be a big Hanna Montana fan.  Now "she's all skanky."   I laugh and laugh. I really do.

Scales.  And more scales.   And even more scales.  The key to playing bass is the ability to be told a key (or figure it out if the guitar player doesn't know) and the create a line in a relatively short time frame.  As in "minutes."

Playing bass well is harder than playing guitar, as a grounding in theory is almost a necessity.

Might want to remind him that in England, "room temperature" is about 55 degrees. 

Anyway, I would like to second your comments.  With all the good small batch brews available in America today, drinking a fizzy watery American pilsner is no longer something you need to do.  There is real beer here.

I always like to say there are a lot of dumb people asking questions. 

Not that this is an instance of that, of course.   

Next time he drops those on you, say the following.

"Why don't you just teach me major scale patterns for now?"

The trick being, if you know the major scale, you know every single one of those modes, too.

Here is a primer I put together on scales.

http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8133

And remember, don't worry about modes.  If you know one major scale pattern, you can play all 84 modal scales, even if you don't know what they're called.

Galway is a college town, and is more fun than anyone can have with their clothes on.   There is a good, cheap hotel right at the foot of Quay Street that will put you right in the heart of everything.  You can't go three feet without a pub, good music, and an army of drunk Irishmen singing at the top of their lungs.