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boaber22
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boaber22
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Joined: 04/03/18
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06/10/2020 6:36 pm

Hi All,

Fairly new to Guitar Tricks and have to say I'm loving the site. However I must admit, I feel like my enthusiam and engagement is weaning a bit as I go through the Rock Levels and wondered if anyone thats "Completed" the site if you will has any reccomendations or best practsie advice for structuring your practise and what to focus on to get that sense of achievement and progression?

I guess I'm just maybe hitting that first wall and feel like I'm not progresing a fast I as I could or that there is enough varierty in the levels to keep me as focused as I should be.

A short background on myself:

I first started playing guitar in my teens (I'm 36 Now), and unfortunately put it down and hardly looked at it again when I went to university at 18, until I joined the site a couple years back. I was comfortable with open chords, power chords and the odd basic/simple solo. I was into just rocking out alongisde my favourite pop punk bands like Green day, Blink, Sum 41.

While I still love rocking out to these bands, my music taste has somewhat expanded since then and I would love my guitar skills to follow suit and mature.

I started the site on Guitar Fundamentals 2 and I am now in the midst of Rock Level 2. Anders is fantastic!

What I was wondering is, is it probably best to stay with Rock Level 2 for now or if anyone has any advice on chopping and changing between modules/exercises to keep focused, engaged and to add variety such as:

Monday - Guitar Fundamentals 2

Tuesday - Scales Excercises

Wednesday - Theory

Thursday - Blues level 1

Friday - Guitar Fundamentals 2

Saturday - Acoustic

Sunday - Learn a Song

Revisitng specific exercises to keep your knowlerge up to date would be good too or to keep introducing these throughout the modules. So for example, we learned the Am Pentatonic in Rock level 1. But now as Ive moved into Rock Level 2 I probably couldnt show you how to do a minor scale in any position , which if I'm right was in Guitar Fundamentals 2 :-/

If anyone has any suggestions on the above with pointers to content/modules in the Guitar Tricks system to go with it, I would love to hear from you.

I hope everyone is safe and well during these strange and testing times :)

Best Regards

Robert