Guitarist Levels, Your path to 1000 hours |
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Guitarist Levels, Your path to 1000 hours |
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Apr 8 2012, 06:07 PM |
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. -------------------- Keep on playing!
DWR My goal is to learn to play guitar like its my second language, and my first words to the world will be "Bite Me!". "Just fn play already!" Guitarist Title: Air Guitarist Guitarist Title thread DWR's EPIC Practice Journal l DarkWaveRiffer's Modern Music Mentored By Cosmin Thread Lead Mastery Mentored by Gab Attacking Scales Mentored By Alex Thread Want to know how to practice for success?? Click here!! Are you sabotaging your practice? Click here! |
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Apr 8 2012, 09:00 PM |
This is just a path to 1000 hours, not path to Guitar legend. Its also just adding some mile stones to reach. It would be fun to record what people are reaching at various levels, and inject some level of competition. We can also see if given enough people, and data, gather some averages. We could also make it a contest. Its also not about mindlessly consuming 1000 hours of information. Its about focused practice. If you look at how efficient most people practice, you might get 20-30% efficiency, unless they are applying some of the principles I spoke about in my practice for success thread. 1000 hours of good practice. I think you will be surprised given your current level, if you record 1000 hour from where you are, the progress will be measurable. I was working on a segment where I had to do some upstrokes, and in my mind I was thinking it would take me days of practice to get it down, and in reality took me 2 hours of getting comfortable, tying it in and building some fluidity.We are not going to set ourselves up for disappointment. The milestones will be reachable, and each successful milestone builds on each other in confidence, and motivation.
-------------------- Keep on playing!
DWR My goal is to learn to play guitar like its my second language, and my first words to the world will be "Bite Me!". "Just fn play already!" Guitarist Title: Air Guitarist Guitarist Title thread DWR's EPIC Practice Journal l DarkWaveRiffer's Modern Music Mentored By Cosmin Thread Lead Mastery Mentored by Gab Attacking Scales Mentored By Alex Thread Want to know how to practice for success?? Click here!! Are you sabotaging your practice? Click here! |
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