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My journey is a little different. I’ll be 80 a a few months and I have picked for a long time and learned more in the few months than is the past few years. I might not have picked well but do a have a list of songs I can play whenever I want. Because my level of playing is improving and changing so rapidly i am always learning new ways to pick my “standards” and do not approach any of them the same way I would have picked them a few years back. All of this has pretty much changed in the last few months as I have gained knowledge and confidence in my guitar talents.
Now i try to develop rhythm patterns that i find interesting and become proficient with a couple of new patterns a month and work on those every day and incorporate some of the TAC lessons we work on every day.
Along the way to picking these patterns I usually try to write some lyrics to fit into these patterns. Just like the developing chord patterns and strumming or finger picking these patterns. The lyrics are evolving constantly. Mostly I enjoy telling stories.
Some day if the guitar lords are willing, I’ll have a batch of my own creations to lean back on and call my own. It is a very slow and highly fun and entertaining and developing process with many more failures than successes. Buy i sure love it.