There is some wisdom there. Really.
Step one, which in the OPs case is covered, is to learn the tune and know its chords.
But after that, its even kind of wierd to ask for a specific prescription as to how to do something that breaks from specific prescription.
I find that one great motivator for me is to try and extend the drama that is part of the tune itself. So if it is a rising serious of notes back to the tonic, I will perhaps wonder a bit and create some anxiety that I will ever "get there", or if it is a repetitive section, I might alter each phrase as if the back and forth "call and response" were imperfect.
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