the pentatonic pattern i’m repeating in my left hand i’ve been doing in g and f and both are only white notes. it’s uncertain how my hands will learn to know the sequence when they can’t count on a black note for orientation. but it’s coming along from doing it each, it’s getting quicker. i have no idea where i’ll use these things but i love developing the left hand capacity. daniel who sells books at the intersection of brunswick and bloor, stopped me tonight to make sure i wasn’t vaccinated. we go back a long way, when lick’n chicken was the only thing open until 3am each night or about 60 lbs ago. i told him i am vaccinated at which he offered me some cedar to chew on, he said he’s been working on a remedy. i refused the cedar though i’m a fan of the smell. i’m going to take my chances without it i told him. there’s just one more song to complete for robert priest’s record. spent a couple sessions with l. stu young mixing. i’m so proud of jobs i’ve done that involve him in the end mixing, finessing, insuring. he’s a game changing collaborator. there is so much satisfaction when a recording project gets to this moment. i was unsurprised when upon seeing stu work, prince scooped him up to work on his records, back when prince temporarily was a torontonian slumming on the bridal path. the thing about playing the pentatonic sequences each day, on only white notes, is that one has to trust there is a way the physicality will remember on its own terms, you have to turn off the part of mind that wants something to blame and then to fix. you have to intentionally not care about worrying about something that the worrying for, is in the first place, invented.