Guitarist Levels, Your path to 1000 hours Options

[DarkWaveRiffer]

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.

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[Mudbone]

Well I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is someone has been working on something similar to this for a couple of years now. That person is me

The bad news? don't expect anything special to happen when you get to 1,000 hours.

I have been documenting every hour I practiced, and how much time I have dedicated to a particular skill, song, or riff. This project of mine is called Evolution of Zero. I even have a website, but so far there is nothing on there. I'm currently trying to get out of engineering school as fast as I can, so what little free time I have goes to practicing. I simply don't have the time construct a website to be what I want it to be. Hopefully this summer I'll get it up and running. I have so much information to share, but it is beyond the scope of a simple forum post.

So, why is it called "evolution of zero"? We all start of at zero. You, myself, and Malmsteen. We all start of at the same point. No one was born with a natural talent to play guitar, piano, or become a professional athlete. We all had to learn our skills. But why do some people excel while others lag? What does one group have that the others don't? This is a complex question, and the answers is more obvious than you think.

Getting from zero to hero isn't a step by step process. Its an evolution. There are no stages that indicate your progress. Every day there are micro improvements happening. By the time you have learned what you wanted to learn you'll feel like you have always known it. As far as the physical aspect of playing, there are no eureka moments. You'll know that you have reached your short term goal when you forget how hard it was to get there.

Even though I have a clear, quantifiable goal - 10,000 hours - conquering this massive hour count isn't the primary objective. It is simply a conduit to carry me on my journey.

I don't want to drag this post on too long, but I will give you some tips. Forget about milestones, they will only disappoint you. Right now your only objective should be to practice perfectly. Speed is not important, and making your fingerwork sound like music is not important. If what you're practicing sounds like music, you're playing it to fast What you're doing now is programming your muscle memory. Thats it. You'll never be able to play what you feel if your fingers can't operate on their own.

Anyhow, check out my signature. For well over a year I have been posting how many hours I have practiced. I consider it my Zero to Hero rating. I do have to update it though, as I have added some hours to it

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