Most guitar teachers and working guitar players would define guitar practice time as time spent working towards a goal. If you sit in your room with your guitar for four hours a day and don’t practice anything beyond playing simple songs using chords in the first position, then at some point you will stop growing as a guitar player.
If you want to continue to grow as a guitarist, you will need to find areas of guitar playing where you can improve. You probably have some kind of basic goals concerning acquiring advanced technique or the kind of sound you want to get from the instrument.
Even if your basic goal is about sounding like a certain guitar player you can translate that general goal into which scales you need to learn and whether you should be devoting a lot of practice time to power chords or alternate picking, You do this by watching the artist you want to emulate and discovering the basics of his technique and the source of his sound.
Next, you will discover areas you need to work on because you are not very good at them. For instance, if you don’t like playing barre chords you might need to devote extra practice time to find out why you have trouble with them and how you can improve.
So much for discovering your own individual needs and weaknesses, in the next post we will look at some general areas of guitar playing that can be included in guitar practice sessions.
First – the general rules:
ALWAYS TUNE THE GUITAR BEFORE PRACTICING
ALWAYS USE A METRONOME
ALWAYS KEEP THE GUITAR OUT OF ITS CASE AND WITHIN REACH
Here is a video lesson on the preparation necessary for practicing electric guitar:
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