Originally Posted by Guitarhacker
That's some cool easy listening music.
Using new chord progressions and experimenting is the way you grow as a composer and writer.
The tracks are appropriate and sound really good. I like that smokey guitar.

Thanks for responding, Guitarhacker. BiaB has enabled an evolution in composing for me as in past decades I only wrote songs which I could sing in my limited vocal range, while now I experiment with chords I'd never have previously used. Each new instrumental has begun with an experiment, then once I've get the first 4-8 chords I just try oodles of variations for what follows. This time around I began with just 3 chords, the 1st 4 bars starting and ended with Cmaj7, then ditto bars 5-8, but after that I just got stuck. So although I didn't expect the next experiment to work I decided to make a note of all of my favourite chord changes I'd used in previous instrumentals and I ended up with 6 x 8 bar sets. As they were in various keys I transposed all to C, then experimented in sequentially placing them, with returns to the opening 8 bars, but I ended up with an 8 bar sequence left over. Not wanting to not use them I put them in as bars 57-72 and they just worked perfectly in the flow. In total I used 15 different chords, which is definitely a record for me, but the flow is so smooth and seemingly simple it would take a musical genius to spot that many outright.

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.