An Ode to Chord Progressions

I've played guitar for over 20 years. I've chased speed, tried every pick imaginable, grown my nails, explored delta blues, bottleneck slides, flamenco, open tunings, thumb slapping, and now, I'm Travis picking a lot. That said, chord progressions have always been my true love and the most difficult to master. I remember being stuck looping through four chord progressions for years. With practice and patience, I started to learn which paths are open and traversable, and which lead to a dead end.

I may have been overindulgent for this song. It starts with a six-fret finger stretch that could have been a simple C chord, but the subtle difference in sound and melodic run made it worthwhile. The intro has around fourteen chords plus a nice alternating bass line. It's subtle complexity. Less flash, more purpose. Discovering inversions, slipping in chords that technically shouldn't fit but somehow feel right. This one feels right to me.