Perhaps you could create a setlist. Or, in this case, a 3 song mini set. If you like, you can choose appropriate skill level songs from GT's available song list. A number of working musicians I know follow a compressed version similar to below.
- Your goal is to play through the set without a pause.. Advance as your skill set allows. Modify this list as you feel appropriate.
- 1st practice - Determine the key for each of the 3 songs
- Next 2 or 3 practices - Learn the chord progression for each song. Go as slow as necessary to get the chords right. If you run into a chord that gives you a lot of difficulty, try making a partial chord or use a triad.
- Next 2 or 3 practices - Use a metronome to ensure you can progress through each song's chord changes with smooth timing. Note - you don't have to be up to full tempo while learning your set.
- Next couple of practices - Play the entire set using the chords at a metronome setting that works for the entire set.
- Next couple of practices - Add fills and lead as appropriate. Anything from single note measures to complex stuff depending on your skill level.
- Through all practices sing - either out loud or in your head - the appropriate lyrics.
- When ready. Play the set as if you're on stage. Don't be hard on yourself if you don't nail it. The main thing is to finish the set - warts, mistakes, and all! Try to develop the courage to finish a song even if you flub it up.
- Now go back and work on where you may not have hit the mark - timing, chord change messes, missed lead notes, whatever.
- Be patient with yourself.
If it's in your wheelhouse, William MG's suggestion about writing your own song is excellent. Even if you don't think you can write, I'm betting that almost everyone has the kernel of a song in their head. If you head that little melody or lyric, go ahead an feel it out.
Most of all - enjoy.
Rumble
