I don't practice more lessons in the same time. I need maximum focus for each lesson to keep in mind all the details as in original lesson (same picking direction, angle of pick, accents and also to learn new techniques). For me working at one lesson with full focus and respecting all the details from it, gives me 100% profit after lesson.
Every day in parallel with the lesson I work at improvisations, increasing speed and other stuff.
My practice routine looks a little different but it works for me very good. First of all I have some strict rules which I'll never break. So, I don't keep around me phones, watch, FB. The end of practice is only when I'm satisfied about results for the current day, no matter how much hours I must spend for this.
Because for me to improvise it's very relaxing, I work every technique separately over an improvisation. It's my way to combine the pleasure with hard working
Let's say that I start with bending technique. I choose a backing track and I make an improvisation using different kind of bends but the idea is to use bend, after bend, after bend... The purpose is after I finish the recording to have all the bends in a right pitch. If I fail one single bend, I start again another one, until the take will have all the bends in a perfect pitch. My thinking behind this practice is: if I can play 50 bends almost consecutive in a right pitch, I'm pretty sure that when I need to play less bends in a take I will not fail. This kind of practice gives me more confidence in playing.
When bends in the take sounds good I chose another technique. As an example raking and I must use in an improvisation almost all the notes with different kind of raking (fast, slow, aggressive, soft, etc).
After this, I choose another technique and I will make the same. Also when I work for muting I choose a very, very annoying tone, full of gain (more than normal) but it help me to have a proper control when I use a normal tone.
I always end making an improvisation using a mix from everything and the most important for me, I apply the technical details learned from my current lesson in my own stuff. The improv must sound like a song not as a jam.
My practice for increasing speed it's worked with metronome and after this I apply over a backing track.
This is how it looks my daily guitar practice
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This post has been edited by Monica Gheorghevici: Jun 18 2015, 07:57 PM
