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Does This Sound Good To You Guys

Isaac Moss

Free Bird Player
Nov 11, 2019
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Hey guys so pretty much over the past year and a half I’ve gone through a ton of different practice routines and I think this one shoud be final because I’ve combined elements of what I’ve heard from everybody from Syn to different youtubers. But anyways I’m gonna make a five hour routine and repeat some of it afterwards in like cycles.
Hour 1- Technique
Hour 2- Theory/Fretboard
Hour 3- Practicing Something Of Choice
Hour 4- Transcription
Hour 5- Creativity/Improv/Noodling
So yeah if any of you guys could respond to me what you think I’d greatly appreciate it! Also I won’t be on the school as much because I’ll be on summer break and I’ll be playing all day!
 

Pablo De Miguel

Campfire Attention Holder
  • Nov 11, 2019
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    But i would do theory and transcription hours the firts because you can use them as a warm up and I would put technique, practicing and inprovising all toguether at the end of the routine because you fingers would be more active those 3 hours I think
     

    Firsty Lasty

    New Student
    Nov 11, 2019
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    Five hours without a break isn’t going to work. I personally take three kinds of breaks.
    First, the quick break: always be willing to put the guitar down for a moment when it feels right. There are times I put the guitar down for probably not even fifteen seconds just to relax, check my posture, and have my hands free. It would probably look silly if you saw me do it, just put the guitar down for no reason and pick it up again a moment later, but it feels great. Depending on how I feel I might not do this once in an hour of practice, or I might do it numerous times.
    Second, I try to take a few minutes off every ten or fifteen minutes to clear my head. I try to empty my mind in this time almost like meditation. I started experimenting with this when I learned that it is very popular among bass guitarists to do a 15 minutes on 5 minutes off cycle in the hopes of optimizing learning.
    The third kind of break is of course the longer breaks. Within a five hour block of practice there should be at least two long breaks where you get up and walk around or have a snack or something. You don’t need to do something that will destroy your guitar concentration, like playing video games, but you do need to get up so that your body stays healthy.
     

    Isaac Moss

    Free Bird Player
    Nov 11, 2019
    113
    1
    Thanks for the input guys and I try to Put in more than That every day although I would have to agree that it is hard to sit there for five hours straight without taking a break.Normally I have to get up and just go get a drink of water or just sit on my phone for a few minutes but that’s like under 10 minutes during the entire span of five hours and I try and play as much as I can to begin with although I hate saying that because I really don’t think my Playing reflects that but I think writing I’m pretty good at though for the amount of time I’ve been trying to do that. ALSO I used voice type thingy so if something makes no sense that’s why 😂