How To Spend Your Practice Time Wisely, Or how to get the most out of practicing? |
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How To Spend Your Practice Time Wisely, Or how to get the most out of practicing? |
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Dec 28 2011, 08:18 PM |
Awesome advice! It is very important to practice properly and organized - that is when fast results are visible.
QUOTE [4) jam along with tracks and record yourself when you can hear back what you played it's easier to correct mistakes and develope your own style you don't need to spend a lot of money and get super expensive software! I did it with a built in audio card and a very simple computer mic and a free software that I got from a friend of mine! True! Video recording your playing seems trivial thing to do - but doing that really opens up your eyes/ears. It is also so easy to do it nowadays with cheap webcams, phones etc. Even simple audio recording will help a player develop rapidly. Neat thing to do is to record videos (GMC REC) and then view them after some time to see how much progress you made - its very motivating actually -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Dec 28 2011, 10:17 PM |
Awesome advice! It is very important to practice properly and organized - that is when fast results are visible. True! Video recording your playing seems trivial thing to do - but doing that really opens up your eyes/ears. It is also so easy to do it nowadays with cheap webcams, phones etc. Even simple audio recording will help a player develop rapidly. Neat thing to do is to record videos (GMC REC) and then view them after some time to see how much progress you made - its very motivating actually Absolutely agree with you!!! Recording a video is even better! And as you said its great way to see your progress! -------------------- |
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Dec 28 2011, 10:59 PM |
These are some very valuable and wise advices Alex, thanks for sharing!
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Dec 29 2011, 09:58 AM |
Video-ing myself is something I plan to do , to see where my technique maybe floored and also to help control any weird facial expressions.
I don't want to look like this guy when I play -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Dec 29 2011, 10:48 AM |
You have a Fractal!!! I'm gonna get one soon!!! That isn't me. I hope I don't make those faces when I play!!!! but I do have the Axe FX Ultra, I can't see a time when I can afford the 2, but I've been happy enough with the Ultra for 3 years so I'm not worried. Have you tips for practising scales in a useful and effective way? This post has been edited by PosterBoy: Dec 29 2011, 10:48 AM -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Dec 29 2011, 01:48 PM |
I'll do that and maybe try and develop some exercises that help master moving between positions too.
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Dec 29 2011, 03:11 PM |
Another good idea for practicing scales, would be to learn as many ways to go through a scale as possible and by that I mean, trying different patterns and different subdivisions so that your perspective on that scale will be as wide as possible! Once I have the scale pattern under my fingers I always practice it in intervals. It's not often in actual music you play straight up and down a scale. -------------------- My SoundCloud
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Dec 30 2011, 01:41 AM |
I (like many guitarists) have a pretty short attention span, and get distracted/bored easily. What has really helped me recently is....
-Metronome. Always. Wish I started using one when I was younger. I thought they were "boring" when they actually make practice more productive and fun. -Warm it up! Always start with a slower warmup pattern. I change it up. I personally don't like just playing a straight up shape or pattern, unless it sounds good. Lately I even play the "Zelda: Castle" song riff, because it's almost a diminished arpeggio type thing. Anyway, it's fun, stretches the hand, and get's my timing on. -Mix it up!! I try not to focus on any ONE thing too much. Sometimes, due to gig requirements, I'm forced to focus on just learning new material and riffs. It happens. But when I break from that busy time, I like to branch out and play as much as possible. For example, I'm fresh off of a TOUGH gig with my NES band "EMULATOR" (getting Contra, MegaMan, Castlevania and such, up to speed, required most of my practice time pre-gig!!) so now I have plenty of MY OWN practice time!! I'm mixing it up with Muris' "Country Picking Advanced Lesson" video (really fun!! Up to about 110/115bpm only), but also looking into expanding my theory and arpeggio knowledge (Ivan's workshop). As long as I have a "gameplan" before picking up a guitar, and make sure not to stay on any one thing too long, I seem to maximize my practice productivity! -------------------- Check out my awesome Nintendo Cover-band, EMULATOR!! http://www.reverbnation.com/emulator Now.....go practice!! |
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Jan 26 2012, 03:44 PM |
The way it worked for me is to keep my sessions diverse, fast changing, and with short term goals. For example, let's say you work on pentatonic scale, minor scale, arpeggios and chords for ONE WEEK (then you move to other arpeggios, other scale i.e. melodic minor)
usually, people would think: - 30mins of pentatonic up & down with the metronome - 30 mins of minor scale up & down with the metronome - 30 mins of arps up & down with the metronome - 30 mins of chords up & down (the neck) with the metronome and repeat the same process tomorrow..etc.. this can be VERY annoying practice routing. Instead, why not doing it like this: 10 mins of warmup - 15 mins of pentatonic with backing track on slow tempo - 15 mins of minor with backing track on slow tempo - 15 mins of arps with backing track on slow tempo - 15 mins of chords with backing track on slow tempo - break 5 mins - 15 mins of pentatonic with backing track on medium tempo - 15 mins of minor with backing track on medium tempo - 15 mins of arps with backing track on medium tempo - 15 mins of strumming chords with various drum patterns on medium tempo - break 5 mins - 15 mins of transcribing a new song - 15 mins of jamming, and trying to incorporate some simple things from that practice tomorrow: 10 mins of warmup - 15 mins of learning a new lick - 15 mins of bending with backing track - 15 mins of riffing with drums - 15 mins of whatever - break 5 mins - 15 mins of pentatonic with backing track on fast tempo - 15 mins of minor with backing track on fast tempo - 15 mins of arps with backing track on fast tempo - 15 mins of strumming chords with various drum patterns on fast tempo - break 5 mins - 15 mins of transcribing a new song - 15 mins of jamming, and trying to incorporate some simple things from that practice then mixing all these together, i various ways, but so that the sum always be the same at the end of the week/month (meaning that you balance out your techniques: scales, arps, strumming, bending, vibrato, chords, intervals, riffing - all these should be BALANCED OUT, if you want to sound good). This way, you won't look at the clock with boredome while practicing, but when you look at it, you would wish that the clock turned slower This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Jan 26 2012, 03:47 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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