Anyway--I'm looking for some advice regarding the way I practice. Currently, I'm using an acoustic guitar (yamaha 720); shopping for an electric, but that's turning out to be a rather complex decision making process. I put in anywhere from 30 mins to (sometimes) 2 hours a day, time/energy determined. Usually, this is what I do.
First--warm up/build finger strength by going through the Spider Legs exercises, but on a chromatic scale. This takes around 10-15 minutes.
Second--using a metronome, I go through a couple major/minor scales, using a couple different patterns for each (this is based on the absolute beginner section). Another 10-15 minutes.
I've just started toying around with the barre chords exercises described by Mr. Schlegel in the beginner section--another 10-15 minutes.
For whatever remaining time I have left, I toy around with simple songs that I know, but mostly just in the capacity of playing the basic chords in conjunction with whatever else is going on. Trying to get beyond stuff that just utilizes A/G/D/E/F/C major/minor chords.
Specifically, I'm wondering what I can do to work in new techniques, and which techniques might, as it were, but "next on the front of progression." I've glanced at quite a few of the lessons beyond the "Absolute Beginner" stuff, and quickly became overwhelmed. I fully subscribe to the idea that mastering any of them will be time well spent, regardless of what sort of music I might want to play in the future, I'm just not sure where to go at this point.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for this great site!
M