Many newbie guitar students want to know how long they need to practice before their practicing becomes playing. The short answer is practice every day for say, half an hour and you will notice you will gradually get some command over your hands and your guitar. But the way we practice varies from person to person.
Here’s a video that discusses the question of how long it takes to get good on the guitar:
Kaizen is a practice that originated in Japan and involves going about our daily lives in a way that produces continuous improvement. You make your work more enjoyable and find ways to eliminate waste.
This practice, or group of activities can be applied to our guitar practice. If you think about it now, you can probably see lots of ways you goof off during your guitar practice time. We all tend to daydream to some extent, or doodle around with old, familiar material when we should be working on new stuff. Or, sometimes we find excuses to cut the practice time short.
We can implement Kaizen in our guitar practice by looking for small ways we can improve. Maybe you could take a few bars of a new piece and see what is necessary to get those right instead of playing through the whole piece endlessly in the hope that quantity of practice will produce quality playing.
One of the common mistakes guitar students make is to try to play too fast. You will often see someone who has learnt a scale to a certain degree who will grit his teeth and try to fit all the notes into the required amount of time. This wastes a lot of energy and stops improvement in playing. The first big idea you will need to put into practice in order to improve is to work WITH your body. Your body has its own way of learning new movements and once you learn to cooperate with your body you will find that the speed and smoothness of your chord playing and picking will increase quickly.
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