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LisaMcC
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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LisaMcC
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 11/02/06
Posts: 4,003
06/18/2023 6:56 pm

Hi Ace,


Your practice schedule sounds great!


I recommend starting your session with something fun and easy, just to get the music in the room, and get your fingers and hands loosened up. 


Then, choose one thing as a starting-point for today's session. It could be one song, it could be a particular chord-change exercise, a scale, what-have-you. 


Spend some time with that project, and assess where it is going well, and where it still needs some more focussed attention and problem-solving. 


Break the project down into smaller components, and work on the spots that are still a little rough, one at a time. Put on your 'investigator hat' and see if you can figure out WHY a particular section is still not coming together smoothly. What, exactly, is happening there? 


Once you identify the issue, get creative with experimenting with various ways of adjusting your technique - whether it be a tweak in your hand-angle, your strategy of getting from Point A to Point B, or whatever else you can think of to try.


Once you discover a solution, something that improves your results, REPEAT it over and over and over, so it begins to sink in to your physical memory.


Then try re-integrating that smaller spot into the larger whole of the project. 


Hope this helps a little!


Have fun - Lisa


Lisa McCormick, GT Instructor
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