Guitar practice tips and how to use them

It’s not the following of guitar tips and advice that counts - it’s HOW YOU FOLLOW THEM! If you read somewhere that you should practice playing your guitar for an hour a day, then spend that hour finding what is interesting to you in your practice. Don’t say scales aren’t interesting or that practicing arpeggios is mind-numbing. If you relax and see where you need to begin with your practice then your personal enthusiasm will take over - you’ll see what you need and what you have to do do to get it. Maybe in your practicing of scales you’ll notice you need to work on your upstroke, so then that’s the focus of your practice time irrespective of what scale you’re practicing.
So play your scales and arpeggios, practice new songs, but do it with interest. If you’re not in a particularly enthusiastic mood at the moment spend some of your guitar practice time thinking about what you want to get out of playing the guitar, and what effort you need to put in. Five minutes of guitar practice carried out with some emotion behind it will have more meaning than an hour of drudgery spent waiting for the clock to say you can go now.

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