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Guitar Players...Get a Balanced Practice DietCraig Bassett Do you have a wide variety of things that you practice. Or do you like to binge You know...the type of player who practices sweep picking for a kazillion hours a day but only know three chords! Having a balanced practice routine is essential if you want to become a versatile guitarist. If you just practice one or two things, sure youll get great at those things...but youll be weak in other key areas. In this lesson youll learn how to create a practice routine that is well-balanced and will help you work towards your ultimate vision of how you would like to play. I generally categorise what I practice into one of seven areas:
Everything that you practice will fit into one or more of the above areas. For example, if you are learning a very challenging cover tune by transcribing it off the CD you are essentially working on your technique, repertoire and ear training at the same time. If you also write down the song in standard notation, you will also be developing your music reading skills. Now…do you have to practice things in all seven areas I believe that you dont have to if your vision doesnt require it. For example, if someone wants to become an awesome classical guitarist and has no desire to improvise, then I believe that they dont need to practice things relating to improvisation. We all have limited time available for practice, so its a waste of time working on things that dont specifically help you reach your goals. Lets go through a few exercises… Exercise One: Think about the vision that you have for your playing for a few minutes.How would you like to play in ten years time. Make it exact! Once youve done that, brainstorm as many things that you need to practice in order to play like your vision. What specific things do you need to learn, develop and practice Write them down now. Exercise Two: Next to each of the things written down for Exercise One, write down a category next to it. For example, if you wrote "I need to be able to play faster" then write technique next to it. If you feel that something you wrote belongs to more than one category, then write down all the categories it could belong to. Exercise Three: Look at your answers for the previous two exercises. Once youve done that prioritise the categories shown below. For example, if you feel that technique is the most important thing you need to work on to reach your vision then put a 1 next to it. **Practice Area Priority Level 1-7** [Note: 1 is the highest priority].
Now heres the important point. You should spend the most time practising your number one priority. I know its pretty obvious, but youd be amazed at how many people dont do this! I know a few guitar players who would like to be able to play incredibly fast, yet they dont do a lot of technical practice. Talk about setting yourself up to fail! Exercise Four: Decide how much time every day you will spend on each category. Write it down below. **Practice Area Time Invested Daily**
All done Great! So what’s the next step The next step is to decide on a specific activity for each practice area.Make sure to write them down. Here are a couple of examples of what someone might put down... Technique: I will invest 10 minutes a day on alternate picking exercise one. I will start with the metronome at 80 beats per minute bpm and increase it by 4 bpm daily as long as I can play it perfectly. Ear Training: I will invest 10 minutes daily a day on A minor pentatonic ear training exercise one. Got the idea You would have one specific activity for every practice area. If you have a lot of time to practice you could set more than one activity per practice area. Give this method a try. Ill think youll be more than happy with the results!
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