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Pete I agree with you as I haven’t seen any daily/weekly lesson involving public domain songs. I think we study a wide variety of popular music from artist’s that I, mostly, have admired. I give Tony credit for evolving the song selections from the sites beginning roots where there may have been more of a bluegrass or country feel to the songs. I actually would be fine with some more of that. I would even tackle a simple classical piece just to change things up.
Another thing to mention is if you play a 1, 4, 5 and relative minor progression you are not required to use the same version of those chords. I use minors, sus, dominant and diminished chord tones all the time just to give progressions some more texture and tones in place of major chord tones all the time. I take our daily lessons and change them every day as anyone who follows my comments knows. We just played the Jimi Chord on Friday. hard to find a better chord progression than that, even if it is a minor dominant 7th with an added flat 11th tone. That definitely isn’t boring. If all I had were potatoes to eat I would be bored but if those potatoes are au grat’n then we are flying high.