Guitarist Levels, Your path to 1000 hours |
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Guitarist Levels, Your path to 1000 hours |
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Apr 8 2012, 06:07 PM |
I think its safe to safe if you have a 1000 hours under your belt, you have a good understanding of what you are doing. I am going to be using this for my progress. I have come up with a fun way of reaching goals. I would like to invite the instructors to give their input, but I have come up with dividing up the hours from 0-1000 into 7 levels.
Hours Title 0-10 Guitar Hero Defector 11-50 Air Guitarist 51-100 Guitar Not A Zero 101-300 Ax Grinder 301-500 Shred N Butter Man 501-750 Guitar Virtu-So-So 751-1000 Guitar Hero What I would like to know is given the average person what things should the know at the various levels? Do you think we could quantify? I like the idea of having a measuring stick to strive to meet, and beat. I have made the hours not to be too long between titles. People can get to Ax Grinder pretty fast. We could create a chart to show what kind of techniques, scales, chords, songs would be equivalent at this level. We could take this beyond 1000 hours, if others who are past this want to develop this further. To me, its about the practice time, the good practice time. I can riff away aimlessly and not get better. I think if we record, observe, and evaluate our practice time. We will see great strides in progress. We all know its not how long you have owned a guitar, or had access to one, but how long you have been playing, and pushing yourself to get better.I would like to hear your thoughts. I think this could be a lot of fun. -------------------- Keep on playing!
DWR My goal is to learn to play guitar like its my second language, and my first words to the world will be "Bite Me!". "Just fn play already!" Guitarist Title: Air Guitarist Guitarist Title thread DWR's EPIC Practice Journal l DarkWaveRiffer's Modern Music Mentored By Cosmin Thread Lead Mastery Mentored by Gab Attacking Scales Mentored By Alex Thread Want to know how to practice for success?? Click here!! Are you sabotaging your practice? Click here! |
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Apr 8 2012, 06:37 PM |
I think 1,000 is actually low. Thats only 40 days or a little over I think. I have more than that, its not as much as it seems. If you play guitar for 24 hours in one week, just about 3 hours a day. In less than a year you have 1,000 hours. I would think something like as high 35,000 - 50,000. Depending on age 100,000 even. To answer the actual post, you should only ever know what you want to know. To me the purpose of guitar is not to play, but to compose. So I have learned based on how my writing has developed. I am good at sweeping and alternate picking, but my tapping is not on the same level because it hasn't facilitated itself in my writing yet. I prefer melodic, vocal passages in lead work so I emphasize phrasing over technique. I don't neglect the other techniques, I just focus on my strenghts, what is going to better benefit myself as a composer. You never know enough though, and you will never know it all. Guitar essentially cannot be mastered and it has no master, it only has disciples seeking the highest amount of truth they can ( to put it so epically ). So if you reach that guitar hero stage, your a guitar hero in only a select few, and more often than maybe just one area. A guitar hero in metal is probably a mediocre flamenco guitarist ( not always the case ) but you see my point Yes, but we are talking about pure practice time, where you are pushing yourself to progress. Many people don't have 8 hours a day to put into practice. If you put in a good 1000 hours of practice, you will be pretty decent. 10,000 hours it takes to be an expert. I like to quantify things. That's one thing I see that is lacking in music in general. I know everyone goes at their own pace, but there should be a way to put a average time to learn a certain technique. Say for instance Vibrato...does it take 20,50,100 hours to have the technique down where you could be called proficient? Some people just want to play songs they hear on the radio, some want to be in a band and play covers, some want to be in a band and make their own stuff up, and some want to learn it all. The common denominator is practice time, and learning the techniques.Our instructors are very good at teaching, given everyone get's the same instruction, and level of feedback people of similar level should learn a technique/concept in a range of similar times. What that range is...I don't know, and I suspect there hasn't been much research on it. I am not trying to squash creativity. I just want to make a road map for myself, and others can use on their way to learning guitar. If I have a 1000 hours of good practice time under my belt, I know I will be at a level where I have found my groove, and the habits I have developed will carry me through to getting better, and better. This post has been edited by DarkWaveRiffer: Apr 8 2012, 07:07 PM -------------------- Keep on playing!
DWR My goal is to learn to play guitar like its my second language, and my first words to the world will be "Bite Me!". "Just fn play already!" Guitarist Title: Air Guitarist Guitarist Title thread DWR's EPIC Practice Journal l DarkWaveRiffer's Modern Music Mentored By Cosmin Thread Lead Mastery Mentored by Gab Attacking Scales Mentored By Alex Thread Want to know how to practice for success?? Click here!! Are you sabotaging your practice? Click here! |
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