Thanks! Doing some of both now. I just came across that second video. So I've tuned to open G and writing something in that. It's sort of a creative exercise in coming up with a song structure and overall mood and using the right fingers for the corresponding strings. Maybe if I can do things like this it will just prepare me for greater things to come..
“Often, what seems like an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.” Robert Brault, American Operatic Tenor
