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Posted by: Davidian Sep 7 2011, 05:26 PM

Hi!

Finally, my exams are over! So now I have enough time to practice the guitar. And I made some sort of a practice shedule, so I really practice something and don't fiddle around.

I made it for about 1 or 1,30h of playing per day (I also want to use it when school starts again). I hope this'll be enough...

- Warming up (5 min): some kind of spider excercice. I do hammer-ons and pull-offs with every combination of fingers possible on every string.

And then combinations 2-3, 3-4, 1-3, ...

- Scales (5 min): Every couple of days, I'll try to learn a new scale. For example: now I'll learn the first position of the major scale and go up and down (and I'll try to not let my fingers "fly", come away from the fingerboard a lot). I learn them by heart, do random changes, skip strings, play them in thirds, ...

- Chords (10 min): I learn some new chords, and try to perfectionise the ones I know (I have some sloppy changes )

- Alternate picking (10 min): do some excercises from Todd's Saturday Video Lessons

- Legato (10 min): practice some bends, etc. (I'll have a look into Ben's lessons)

- Practice a lesson on GMC I like or a song (rest of the time)


So, what do you guys think? How can I improve this shedule?

Thanks

Maarten

- Legato

Posted by: dark dude Sep 7 2011, 09:13 PM

Add some ear training and theory into there

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 7 2011, 09:37 PM

I think this is all great, and you should add arpeggios here, and practice them in parallel with chords. For example:

Monday: C major 7th chord (all 5 CAGED positions)
C major 7th arp (complete pattern on the neck)

and so you go through all the chords and arps..

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic Sep 7 2011, 09:39 PM

For warming up exercise you have to think on your right hand too, so I would recommend chromatic scales with alternate picking. That's the best way to warm and sync both hands !

My favorite is something like this, down & up:

e[-4-3-2-1-0-------------------------------------------------------------------]
b[---------------4-3-2-1-0-----------------------------------------------------]
g[------------------------------3-2-1-0-----------------------------------------]
d[----------------------------------------4-3-2-1-0----------------------------]
a[-----------------------------------------------------4-3-2-1-0---------------]
e[------------------------------------------------------------------4-3-2-1-0--]

Posted by: MonkeyDAthos Sep 7 2011, 10:28 PM

Composing songs, they don't need to have like 24 min, simple things etcetc is also cool to train

Posted by: Davidian Sep 8 2011, 11:22 AM

Thanks guys! I'll try to encorporate these thing in the schedule.