Practice schedule

I was told by a really good guitarist that the best way to improve form was to choose a song, isolate particular difficulties, and base your schedule on variations on what you have difficulties with.

The example he gave was with Pantera's Flood solo, where he basically practised bends and pentatonics for a week, the went back to the solo and nailed it in a couple of attempts.

Now this dude has be playing for about 8 years, so maybe he is just at most parts of the song anyway and didn't require practise on the other components.

Basically, as a beginner, am i best to start off learning "a little bit of this, a little bit of that", or should i focus on one activity to a moderate degree of competence before progressing to another?

when I was just starting off, I got tons of tabs of all these songs I knew by heart anyways. and I slowly started learning each song. it didnt take me long to figure out the powerchords, or how mostly all the songs has the same sort of flare to them. later on I figured out that flare was the pentatonic scale, which I also just sortof ran accross in my playing around. basically, when I was just starting- I kind of played around with everything, seeing patterns in different types of music and starting to get the whole concept of guitar playing.

now later on, I started focusing on individual things that I really wanted to learn and get down so it would help with playing other songs.


so what I would say- do a little bit of this, a little bit of that untill you get a good feel for the instrument, then move on.
(oh, and keep in mind; anyone who has been playing 8 years will make it seem easy.)

Thanks for the tips dude.

Well, i have a couple theory books here, some tab, and loads of coffee.

What the hell am i doing online?!...

L8r

Originally Posted by: don't_tread_on_Thanks for the tips dude.

Well, i have a couple theory books here, some tab, and loads of coffee.

What the hell am i doing online?!...

L8r

What's this? A GT member who spends time offline? :p I guess the addiction hasn't set in yet. Give it time, this site will swallow your life like a giraffe swallowing the life of a smaller giraffe.

Anyway, when I started learning I just learned a bunch of songs, then picked up techniques and stuff here and there. If this is the best way or not I don't know, but it's worked for me. You could check out some books on guitar method, they should give you some ideas of stuff to work on.

nice analogy, man. :D

Originally Posted by: acapellaWhat's this? A GT member who spends time offline? :p I guess the addiction hasn't set in yet. Give it time, this site will swallow your life like a giraffe swallowing the life of a smaller giraffe.

wow i am so looking forward to when i see that.
started on 23rd :)