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tsphillips
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tsphillips
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Joined: 10/28/11
Posts: 10
12/19/2011 9:09 pm
Hi K-Log,

Given what you wrote about your current skills, I'll toss in my two cents worth of advice. I won't claim to be the fountain of all knowledge, so feel free to take it or leave it.

1) There is no one-stop practice routine. Give up the search. (Although, as an existentialist, I may be biased.)
2) Always spend more time playing the guitar than you do searching for resources on the Internet or on the bookshelves.
3) Talk with other guitar players as much as you can. Play with other guitar players as much as you can.
4) Practice playing songs using only E and A shaped barre chords. Practice this until they feel completely natural.
5) Practice arpeggios.
6) Pick a piece of music you like and learn to play it. The piece should be hard to play, but not impossible. Learn the piece a few measures at a time. Keep practicing it until you can play it with ease. Then move on to a new piece of music.
7) Finally, practice often. Frequent, short practice sessions are more effective at building skill than long, infrequent practice sessions. Pick up the guitar as often as you can. Several times a day is ideal.

Hope this helps.

Tom