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Nov 7 2008, 10:01 PM
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You should definitely make a system of workouts if you have 4 hours for practice every day. There are tons of things you can practice really, make a list of all different techniques that you like to play and wanna exercise, like this:
- chords - arpeggios - scales - strumming - tapping - legato - slides - bends - songwriting etc.. then you write down the exercise for every thing you wanna do, but make sure it's a small exercise, don't need to write some stuff down that will last you for a couple of months! THis will be a bit demotivating. Just write something that you can finish off in a maximum one month. Then do it again and so on. Of course, you should exercise variety of different stuff, including some songs, but since you're just starting with serious practicing, a bit more time should be dedicated to various techniques. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Nov 8 2008, 01:49 AM
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Techniques need to be practiced in order to play or compose tricky stuff.
But our main goal is to play and compose music, so technique is just a tool when needed. Try it this way,call your mom and play something for her,try to make her feel nice by listening to what you're playing. She's eventually not a musician and she seeks just for the music. That might be very hard when we're focusing just on technique, we easily forgot what is it all about,it's about to share music with someone. So learn new songs,play them to feel good, practice technique to be proud of your skill level, if you wanna be serious pro player one day then those 2 things just come along.  -------------------- Youtube
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Nov 8 2008, 03:41 AM
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QUOTE (Muris Varajic @ Nov 7 2008, 07:49 PM)  Try it this way,call your mom and play something for her,try to make her feel nice by listening to what you're playing. Thanks Muris - that's a real reality check on why we do this
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Nov 8 2008, 11:36 PM
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QUOTE (Muris Varajic @ Nov 8 2008, 01:49 AM) Try it this way,call your mom and play something for her,try to make her feel nice by listening to what you're playing. Yeah that's a good advice indeed. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Nov 8 2008, 11:48 PM
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QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Nov 8 2008, 03:41 AM) Thanks Muris - that's a real reality check on why we do this Anytime.
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Nov 9 2008, 02:22 AM
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I have absolutely no clue. I'm kind of still figuring that out myself. Just do what feels right. I think playing songs is the best, because it lets me play cool stuff that I like to listen to as well.
Here's a weird thought: Practice makes perfect, right? But nobody's perfect. So why practice? 
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Nov 9 2008, 10:57 AM
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QUOTE (resilientguitarist @ Nov 6 2008, 06:23 PM) Thanks! thats good advice. ill try it out  as for my level: i dunno i guess im ok. i mostly do the 7-9 out of ten leven lessons on this site. ive only been playing for three years tho. But my rents and me came to an agreement where i practice four hours a day weekdays and six on weekends. (im fifteen so i have school wekedays .) i also wondered if practicing just tecnique was a bad thing. should i practice more songs?I think that practicing technique is the best way to improve the technique. But I think a complete guitarist is probably made of balanced practice: technique exercises, improvisation, learning new stuff, practicing those you took long time to learn, practicing for playing live. I am actually a counter example to balance. I always has been lazy for technique and I've been playing live recently, so I mostly focused on learning songs. The effect of this is that: 1) I know quite a lot about chord sequences, rhythm and song construction 2) I have several lacks on techniques By the way, from the level you describe you are much better than me in terms of technique, and also can dedicate much more time to practice. So yes, I agree with José, that you should use part of that time to write your own material. What I do is that every time I am practicing, i record every thing new I come up with. It can be a lick, riff, or a chord sequence. It has been working great that way. I have 1-4 song ideas per week. This post has been edited by Gus: Nov 9 2008, 10:58 AM -------------------- my "Thank you GMC!" video
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