Tested some different ideas with the spoon today. It had been too long star I had last used it! I went from playing 10 minutes of spoon per session to parking it in a hotel over the last few weeks! This has been some good insight into what I need to stay on top of something. Without an etude or a song to maintain a particular skill, I end up skipping it in practice. Also going for more lap steel today! Starting to feel better again. I am playing the Esquire 9 String and 1953 Fender Dual Pro 8 Lap Steel into the 4G℞E Amp powered by 9V AC adapter into the Ampeg 810. Left channel audio is coming from the 810 close-mic'd with the Marantz PMD 222 and the right channel audio is the output of the 4G℞E Amp into a JDI direct box into a hardware limiter into the camera. I have split the daily session into two videos: a warm up where I play What Are We Doing What Could Be Done and Thank You, Guitar and the explore section where I am working on pieces in-progress as well as just doing some free playing to see if the muse is speaking. I think this will help me maintain a certain level of consistency at a lower stress level. We'll see! Thank you for accompanying me on my daily practice for 02/11/2024. Sending many positive vibes, -cyrus pireh [email protected] https://4gre.org/cyrus #thankyouguitar #4GRE 00:00 Esquire 9 String 01:48 spoon 07:50 metal fingers 08:09 1953 Fender Dual Pro 8 Lap Steel 13:06 triads 16:55 here we go 25:15 Back to the Esquire 9 String 33:15 Truth