Hey, there! Sorry I missed this thread until now. :) Rich asked you exactly the right question. What are your goals?

You said you are intermediate level, so I'm assuming you are beyond the Guitar Fundamentals course material. So, I encourage you to start working through the style course that fits your goals best. If you want to play lead guitar, then what style? Rock, Country, Blues? Pick a style course & work through it!

Even if you can do most of it, it will give you structure & give you some professional instructor insights on building your knowledge & skills.

Having said that, I also want to stress one the most important part: Learn songs! :) And if you want to play lead, then learn songs that have lead parts in them that inspire you & you aspire to play.

I'm going to address your other topics point by point to give you some links to tutorials that can help.

But overall, you should be:

1. Building, refining your playing skills.[br]2. Learning songs.

Originally Posted by: slsnare

Finger Stretching, 5 minutes

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Stretching is always good!

Originally Posted by: slsnare

Chromatic Practice, (maybe a 1,2,3,4 down and up the fretboard) ?5 minutes? (No idea whats realistic)

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It's important to make sure that any exercise you do has some real world application. With that in mind, why do you want to play chromatic exercises? What will you use them for? Unless you are going to play advanced jazz or rock leads, the only value in chromatic patterns is finger strength & dexterity. So I say after a quick stretch, then do 5 minutes of this type of thing to get warmed up.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1829

Also anytime you are just sitting on the couch watching a show you could do that sort of mindless thing & get some more exercise. But don't spend too much valuable time on it.

Originally Posted by: slsnare

Scales (5)

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Which scales you practice, how you practice them & how much time depends on your music goals. If you want to play rock or blues, then you should practice pentatonic scales. If you want to play jazz then you should work on diatonic modes as well!

But keep in mind that if you work through one of the structured courses, you will get appropriate scale practice along with how to apply it!

If you are just looking to build your skills to tackle solos, then you need to know the basic building blocks like this foundation blues lick.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=1614

Or these type of targeting chord ideas.[br][br]https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=217

Or if you are working on rock lead skills, then you need to know how to sequence the scale across the fretboard. Like these.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=185

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=737

Originally Posted by: slsnare

New/Difficult Chord practice(5) (I really have a hard time getting on Barre Chords in a timely fashion)

That's just a matter of repetitous practice. Pick a song that has a tricky barre chord change & just work on changing between those chords. Don't just do it 5 minutes. If you want to get better at some specific chord change, then really drill just those 2 chords for 10 to 15 minutes.

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Chord Change practice (5) - Like, a song with LOTS of chords (Hotel California, perhaps)

Learning a song with a lot of chords takes a lof of time! I'd even encourage you to put other things on the back burner in order to prioritize this!

So, for example, if you practice 5 days a week, then devote 3 of those practice days to doing ONLY warm up stretches & the song. Do that until you get it down pretty well. Once you've got it mostly down, then you can dial back your practicing on it to just part of you practice time until you refine all the little rough edges. Make sense?

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And some sort of practice that utilizes the length of the fretboard. (no clue how ill go about that).

ANYTHING that will help me learn the fretboard more quickly over time.

The pentatonic patterns tutorials above will help open the fretboard. Something like this will too.

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=843

But mostly, it's just a matter of taking your time & systematically working through one thing at a time. There is a lot to know, learn & do! It's a struggle for all of us. :)

Just be patient with yourself & try to enjoy the process.

If it helps, I recorded one of my typical morning warmup sessions. A lot of students ask, so one morning I recorded it for fun & demonstration. I got a cup of coffe, did some stretches & hit record!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2eCYUGZRE

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So much stuff to include.... is this like Upper Body/Lower Body type stuff? Half on one day, half on another day?

The reason we learn all that stuff is so we can apply it in playing music on the guitar. So overall, you should be:

1. Building, refining your playing skills.[br]2. Learning songs (or song parts).

Hope that helps! Please ask more if necessary. Best of success!