to be as good as...
That is what I usually do, I may play the guitar for an hour or so and take a break and on and on the cycle goes. Yet I honestly wish I would be capable of playing for, say about four hours per day. I enjoy the guitar but I lack the time I would prefer for it. I'm currently in my senior year and have A LOT of work to do with some AP classes, therefore I get less and less time to play. I may find myself playing the guitar while I watch tv, just to maintain some level of proficiency. And it may get even worse, in august I'll be going off to college; hopefully I'll get some breaks and find a good band to jam with during my stay. Hence, my recommendation is, play the guitar now! I made my mistake when I decided to take french lessons instead of music about five years ago, and now repent from that desicion...
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Eh, there are so many different ways to improve your skills, hmmm.
The best way to improve technical and mechanical gutiar skill is rigid practice for at least 2 horus a day. This translates to metrinome + charomatic scale over and over again at say 100 tempo. Which is excessively boring.
My favorite way to practice now and better things is to learn an entire album by one of my favorite artists. Learning an album can open you up to some new ideas, with chords, rhythm, song structure, melodies, etc...
It all depends on what you want to be proficient at playing. What style of music you want to learn.
Anyhow combien the two, since palying through one album generally will take about an hour, though it will depend on the amount of songs on it you like and want to play or can play rather. And mechanical exercises are boring but best if done every day for a week or two at medium speeds so that your accuracy is targetted best.
That's my uselsss edvice for this thread.
The best way to improve technical and mechanical gutiar skill is rigid practice for at least 2 horus a day. This translates to metrinome + charomatic scale over and over again at say 100 tempo. Which is excessively boring.
My favorite way to practice now and better things is to learn an entire album by one of my favorite artists. Learning an album can open you up to some new ideas, with chords, rhythm, song structure, melodies, etc...
It all depends on what you want to be proficient at playing. What style of music you want to learn.
Anyhow combien the two, since palying through one album generally will take about an hour, though it will depend on the amount of songs on it you like and want to play or can play rather. And mechanical exercises are boring but best if done every day for a week or two at medium speeds so that your accuracy is targetted best.
That's my uselsss edvice for this thread.
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