Monday, November 25, 2024

22 thoughts on “The BIG Problem With “Old School” Guitar Practice

  • Just play whatever you want as long as you enjoy it. You get better through playing your guitar. You can only get ideas from people like this. They'll never unlock your guitar life the only way to do that is through playing your guitar so keep playing.

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  • While I agree with the need for efficient training, becoming a real master in any profession requires a bit of trial an error as a way to develop good intuition on things. Being able to find your way is essential to becoming a professional

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  • The thing for me is, why would I limit myself to one hour per day, when I want to play more, I’m actively trying to practice as much as I can, wanting to play my instrument. I don’t want to be someone who sees a guitar and acts like it is the end of the world if I don’t practice for a certain amount of time, I want to be able to enjoy myself while also have the passion of playing.

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  • I'm happy to be able to practice weekdays 4+ hours. Would it be more effective to do it in 1 or 1.5 h intervals, or doesn't make much difference?

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  • @Bernth and his videos have helped me become so much more effective and efficient in knowing how to practice and what to practice. It’s great to see more and more people embrace effective practices as opposed to traditional “tried and true” methods! Great video!

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  • The most obvious thing about practice times is that not everyone learns and absorbs information the same way…so two people can practice the same identical lessons and amount of time over a ten year period and one can end up mastering the guitar and the other person might just end up being average.

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  • While I agree that necessary practice time varies player to player, and that qualified instruction helps… I don’t agree that trial and error doesn’t count. If we relied solely on pedagogical authorities to oversee development in the 20th century, rock music would not have developed at all. Distortion was “wrong”. Almost every great guitarist of the 60s 70s and 80s played “wrong”. Trial and error is a great practice activity, IF you are paying close attention to what is actually transpiring.
    I believe you need some degree of heterodox development if you want to develop your originality. Guitar pedagogy itself is often the biggest obstacle to that. It’s not that it isn’t useful. It’s that it can make you “same-y” without some stumbling around in the dark.
    It’s a balance.

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  • Visualisation is the key and forms the cornerstone of the GIT accelerated learning technique. Passionate youngsters do it in the form of daydreaming but it can be formalised into a more organised method that produces frankly stunning results. When we engage the visual cortex we light up other areas of the brain, heightening our learning power by vast amounts. We can even do it without a guitar in hand and see dramatic results. There’s enough literature on the subject of accelerated learning to sink the battle fleet but one small tip I would give is to close your eyes when you practice and vividly visualise what you’re playing, “seeing “ what your hands are doing in your mind’s eye. I guarantee you will see instant improvement in your learning, retention, recall and ability.

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  • I feel what also really helps is "whom you play with". Where I'm from I know one guy that knows the pentatonic scale & that's it. One guy & that's his only scale! Where more minds working together pushing each other works better than one guy trying to soldier through YouTube videos. Like me…

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