Something New?

[fretdancer]

My experiences in motivation are very similar to yours, I find that once I learn something, I get bored with it and am always looking for something new to maintain my interest. I find that going back to try a song that previously I found to demanding is a good test of how well your learing. I remember trying stairway to heaven a few times and always finding it too hard. This was very frustrating as its supposed to be an easy beginner song !! - ha ha ....anyway I recently tried it again and persevered for a couple of days and now I can play it easily - in fact amazingly even though at first I could not play up to speed, now I can play it, only 2 weeks later I know I could "embelish" it a little by fitting more notes in....its amazing how easy it becomes when you do learn it.
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As for alternate tunings, I recently tried open G tuning which means that barring any fret gives a chord - playing "dock of the bay" suddenly became reall easy and sounds great with a slide - have not experimented much with it but I intend to.

Pete