Sunday, December 22, 2024

34 thoughts on “GUITAR PRACTICE SCHEDULE

  • I start with 30 minutes of scales and the chords built off of them then 15 minutes of songwriting then 30 minutes of alternate picking then 30 minutes of theory then 15 minutes of ear training for theory I do Modes, keys and intervals focusing on them different days

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  • There's no link in the description to the 2 sight reading books mentioned in the video. Anyone know the names of the 2 books? TIA!

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  • Any new updates on this? I mean would you re do this video? Will it look different if you re do it today, because it says it's been 6 years of this video? ????????????

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  • this showed up on my recommended from 6 years ago. his craft has been mastered and it’s payed off amazingly for him. i will now do this. hopefully

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  • Wow! This is so common sense, yet it completely escaped me! I’m going to draw something like this up. Thanks so much for sharing this! ???? ????

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  • If you're a beginner, one of the most essential talents you can have is the ability to push music aside and tolerate increasingly sophisticated noise as you persistently grind repetitive technical drills that are musically lightyears apart from the kind of musical expression that made you pick up the instrument in the first place. I have developed a Stockholm syndrome with EADGBE because a lot of the time that I spend practicing that's the entirety of what my music is made of. It only gets marginally better grinding scales, and even then the most beneficial exercises have zero regard for musical quality, the only important element is teaching your nervous system all the different permutations of combining smaller movements sequentially that will eventually enable you to play something that sounds interesting. 

    If you jump right in by trying to learn to play the songs you like and your practice time is spent more on trying to play music rather than make [increasingly sophisticated] noise, you're going to develop a solid foundation of bad habits, end up spending your time solving all the wrong problems (in the wrong ways), and will reach your skill cap much sooner than necessary because your bad foundation strangled your potential, but you didn't see that in the beginning because you didn't have the skill and insight required to sense what was happening as you were making progress. You may not even realize it in retrospect and may conclude you weren't meant to play at a higher level, sell your guitar and walk away depressed. All because you wanted to play music but didn't have the stoicism required to endure the soul-drenching technical exercises. Remember that for the mind to live you need to feed the body. The best you can do is develop a fetishistic relationship with the tactile side of playing an instrument, and derive pleasure from developing and refining the movements of your whole body, while forgetting about music. If you can do that, it's a superpower. Also remember to breathe well – breathing is part of the posture.

    Don't ever practice mindlessly. If you're zoning out and doing stuff subconsciously, you're in the wrong state of mind for practicing – you should probably be playing and prioritizing music instead. When you practice you should be fully conscious of everything that is going on and concentrate on small details with intensity that is impossible, impractical, unnecessary and of less importance for a live musician. Best practicing is like a state of trance where there exist only you and the guitar. In Adam del Monte's words; "It should be a sacred moment."

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  • Helpful stuff I wrote out my own routine its covers about 8hr`s after reading a book about Deliberate Practise so i came up with 2 parts. First mechanics 2nd Motion altho i could never get to the 2nd part of it, last night i said to myself to alternate it. So 1 part one day , the other part the following then alternate that weekly. Also delve into my other books, good thing about it is Section one is mostly reading WL vol1, Reading studies and melodic Rhythms new chords etc and the 2nd day is Technique Legato, sweep hybrid etc and also improv over progressions. Just glad i watched your Channel on practise.. Great Stuff Cheers.

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  • hey man, I've been watching your videos for a while now, especially those regarding the routine as I am currently really confused about how and where my practice should be heading to. but what surprised me is that you never mentioned learning songs when breaking down the practice into sections. is it not s priority for you? should it not be a priority for me? or does any of sections already include this? i'd really appreciate you answering me asap ad I'm the one very confused young gentleman who really wants to get good at guitar. thank you in advance.

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  • Just wonderful, I've been looking for "guitar heroes 3 trainer" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried – Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher – (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some super things about it and my neighbour got amazing results with it.

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  • Very much appreciate the authenticity and humility you are sharing here and wishing i had this concept of a practice schedule 20 years ago

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