Your Oppinions On What You Should Practise |
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Your Oppinions On What You Should Practise |
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Dec 12 2010, 12:56 AM |
Interesting question. You can leave old exercise once it becomes boring. There are plenty of ways to practice something, and you can invent hundreds of combinations. Why not make it interesting along the way?
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Dec 16 2010, 08:54 PM |
You have a good point there, and finding a nice balance between exercises and regular playing is very important. Have you made some kind of practice plan?
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Dec 29 2010, 01:41 AM |
Break down your exercises into more shorter and accomplish-able tasks, and insert some music/songs!
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Dec 31 2010, 05:44 PM |
Hi everyone. I had a thought today about practise. One of the exercises i do during my practise is a scale pattern where you start a scale playing the first four notes. Then you play another four notes from the same scale but starting on the second note. Then you play another four notes starting from the third note and so on. When you play this its quite a work out. Especially if you then decend the scale in the same fashion. The thing is this exercise i find is really demanding, and usually i find it takes a good few attempts to get it right. Me being me i tend to keep going at it until it works, and on a bad day this can mean i play it over and over sometimes spending a whole hour on just that one exercise. On the other hand its quite delightful when it goes right first time and i complete the exercise in 10 mins or so. However this rarely happens because its so tricky. The exercise was given to me by my old guitar teacher because it is good for working your outside alternate picking when ascending, and good for your inside pick when descending. I've just hung on to this exercise i suppose mainly because its hard. Now the point i want to raise is this. This exercise is not musical really, and i can't see any real practical use for it during a solo. Some scale patterns are great as both an exercise but also sound cool and can be used in a solo say. But not this one, its purely boring chromatic pattern repetition stuff. The question is this. Is there any point practicing something just because its hard, even though if serves no real practical purpose other than to improve a particular skill? Im pretty sure now that i can play what i want to play, without going over and over this same old exercise. Should i be sacrificing so much time on something i can never really use when i could be spending that time on something i can use? How do we know when to leave an old exercise behind and not bother with it anymore? Jon Mayhem. That exercise you do is called "Progressive sequencing". What are you doing is making sequences when playing scale. By playing 2 notes, 3 notes , 4 notes , 5 notes etc up and down the scale and starting each sequence on each note of the scale. It is confusing but very good workout and I recommend it. It will also make your brain work a lot. Your hands will get used to all the different combination of fingering the scale. It can actually be very musical in a solo situation. If you would just play scale up and down straight it won't sound musical. But make it in sequences of 3 or 4 notes and go all the way up at a decent tempo? It will sound like a very cool speed run which can be very useful in lead playing. -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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