Practice Routines? Options

[steve25]

Hi guys. I was just wondering if people had different ways of practicing and if people noticed that their practices have really helped them to improve and what works best for you? I've been playing for about 9 months now and i practice reguarly at least 2 hours a day but usually more than that except for saturdays because i work all day so that's like my day off if you like even though if i didn't work i'd still be playing guitar anyway. So here's my general practice routine and let me know what you think if it'd be a good one to do

1. Practicing stuff i'm not so good at - This would be at the moment certain chords such as F, Bm, C and Tapping as i've only just started doing tapping so i'll practice that. This usually lasts about half an hour

2. Practicing scales and chords - This is usually the stuff that i do know like practicing the pentatonic scale, power chords and other various chords. This also lasts for about half an hour

3. Speed practicing - By this i mean using a metronome to practice and get quicker at scales, using a metronome for alternate picking, tapping, hammer ons/pull offs etc. Also practicing triplets/sixteenth notes etc. This can vary in time usually around half an hour though

4. Learning new stuff (optional) - i usually do this if i feel i've progressed enough, need to now or just generally getting bored of my practice so that i don't lose interest. This could be anything from a new chord, new technique, new scale, new song or even just something here on gmc like a riff or a solo or something

5. Songs (optional) - again i don't always do this but sometimes i'll practice songs and learn new solos and riffs from those songs. And also play stuff that my guitar teacher has given me.

6. Improvising - For the last part of my practice and this varies greatly in time i improvise making solos from scales or riffs and licks and things and using chords to make rhythm etc anything really. Sometimes i won't always get anything good that's worth keeping but at least i'm still learning from it

So that's it for now let me know what you guys think of that if i could be improving from that kind of practice and what you guys do to practice as well.

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[Eat-Sleep-andJam]

Well Ive seen some good practice routines and some very bad ones. Sure Id love to just sit at my computer and play and jam but sadly that wont get you to where you want to be . Do you think when steve vai was a noob he just sat around his house and eventually came up with something amazing that one day magically turned into tender surrender ? No ! He worked hard on theory and scales, different chord progressions arpeggios and what not non-stop. And look at him now .


Next time your just " Sitting around " waiting for some magic to happen, pick up your guitar and " Really " practice. Dont waste time that could be useful to your journey as a musican.


- John

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