Correct Practice Rountine???

So my friends, I have been strumming for about 18mths now. If I keep banging away at chords, arpegios, majors and relative natural minors, triads, pentatonic, blues pent, harmonic minor, chromatic scale runs, the 8 modes, songs and improvising in and around short riffs...will this lead me in the right direction??

You've got pieces of the puzzle. The beautiful thing about the Guitar Tricks courses is that you get the pieces of the puzzle laid out in a structured fashion and you're lead in the direction to make yourself the best player possible. I've heard GT members say that they've been using what they know for a long time but feel stuck, then when they use the fundamentals, tutorials and courses provided by Guitar Tricks that they've progress furthur in 2 mos. then they had in years. Don't limit yourself!

Practice your weakness more than your strengths though. A little tip, make a schedual for everyday of the week and with a time limit for each exercise, that way you will make sure to practice that technique and not slacking off because now you know you only have this long to practice it.

Originally Posted by: bushido1So my friends, I have been strumming for about 18mths now. If I keep banging away at chords, arpegios, majors and relative natural minors, triads, pentatonic, blues pent, harmonic minor, chromatic scale runs, the 8 modes, songs and improvising in and around short riffs...will this lead me in the right direction??

Since you already know more than most that consider themselves guitar players, I'd say so. :D

In addition to what Neal said, my personal opinion is that guitar players can find themselves stuck on the knowledge part and not apply what they know. Creating music! There's lots of satisfaction in using what you know to make a nice, well done bit of music. You know, flex your muscles a little bit from what it is that you've learned. Just learning guitar is great and the journey is enjoyable but I've always felt the knowing what I know allows me to better apply what I've learned.

I started writing something yesterday. I'm still creating around a core idea. Thing is, I'm writing something 'just because'. I'm never going to be a rock stat, but I want the idea fleshed out because it feels satisfying to me. I'll record it some time just to hear the breadth of my idea.

I think the point is that not to just limit yourself to learning but o take what you know and do something with it, even if for yourself.

Does anyone have a practice schedule laid out which would be of benefit to others?

One thing I've done is create an Excel spreadsheet to organise my "spider fingers" practice. It just makes sure I cover all the finger combinations. It's very simple but it helps me.

I just thought that if there was a practice schedule already out there then I'd like to see if that too would help. I guess it's a bit like when you join a gym and the trainer gives you a routine which covers all the muscle groups spread over a weeks training.

Sharing what's already out there would save everyone re-inventing the wheel!
:)