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@jorgemac, interesting you mentioned this. That’s kind of what my boredom does. It makes me try different things. Chord voicings, different strumming patterns, capo in different positions. I noodle a lot and try different Travis picking patterns with different chord progressions. I should probably start writing some of them down since I’ll work on some real cool sounding progressions, and the next day completely forget what I was playing. Similar to TAC, I’ll come back many times and play old songs I hadn’t played for a while and see how things have progressed. I think sometimes stuff just needs to “simmer” for a while in order to develop. I can kind of tell when a song still needs to simmer for a while, and when a song is ready for the heat to be turned up and rock. I always have numbers songs in the hopper. Last week for example I worked on some of the following songs.

New songs
Bad Luck – Zach Top
Broken Wing Bird – Kashus Culpepper

Old Songs
A Day in the Life – Beatles
Across the Great Divide – Nancy Griffith
That’s the way the world goes round – John Prine
Rocky Raccoon – Beatles
In Spite of Ourselves – John Prine

Seems like I’m always working on Dust in the Wind, Landsline