Journals, diaries, notebooks, workbooks, or whatever you call them, documenting your progress and thoughts makes good practice sense along the musical journey. I keep a music journal wherein I document my trials, tribulations, and successes in my music practice. I record such things as what works and what doesn’t; feedback form my music sensei; and my growth as an aspiring musician. In addition to a music journal, I maintain a music workbook, wherein I may sketch a phrase of notes to experiment with during an upcoming practice session, capture a mood or feeling by laying down a few stanzas of poetry that might carry potential as lyrics to a song I have germinating in my head, or ideas for further exploration. As the name…