Hi fasteddymac,

i am reading som pe good advice here as to your question. And it sounds to me like you have a pretty good handle on how to practice, whether you work with the GuitarTricks course, or combine it with something else. 

My only little reminder is that you want to make sure your practice time includes some “micro-practice”. For example, let’s say you are practicing a particular scale. And there is always one little spot in the scale that is a little rough - don’t think it will magically get better if you just keep practicing the whole scale from the beginning.

Instead, take a few minutes to isolate any consistent hiccup-point, and try to figure out why it is giving you trouble, and experiment with how you might do it a little differently for better results. That is what I mean about “micro-practice”: drilling down on the details of any little problem spots, and THEN, integrating it back into the whole. 

In other words, and THEN, play the whole scale from the beginning, and see if the whole thing works more smoothly now. 
Micro-practice is super valuable with all kinds of different skills - strumming, chord clarity, chord changes, fingerpicking, whatever yoy are working with. 

Have lots of fun with all this!!

- Lisa