GOALS

I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping .. later  🙂

What can you find here ..

The steps to more productive practice time:

Specifically .. Define your Goals .. Identify Fundamental skills to learn .. Establish a practice session design ... Keep a notebook; a journal of your ideas, allocate some focus on rhythm, and learn some songs. --------------- These things get you started.

The visual tools to more productive practice time:

Visual charts to learn scales and chords at your fingertips.

. . . . GOALS

Goals:  Anything we practice implies we perform.  What do you want to perform?  A 12 Bar Blues.  A song.  Campfire songs.  Various forms of music span a wide set of skills.  So choose.  What type of music makes you want to play.  What techniques and skills are used in that type of music.  You can construct a practice routine that incorporates these goals, so you learn something specific, tangible, sequential.  Go to the GOALS TAB here to build out your GOALS definition.

. . . SKILLS

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. . . . high quality instruction

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. . . PRACTICE DENSITY

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. . . . MUSIC STRUCTURE (THEORY)

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. . . . PLAY SONGS

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SMART PRACTICE

You have limited time to practice .. say 45 minutes .. If you can focus your time and effort, your playing will improve faster. Here's how ..

Detailed scale charts ... learn musical relationships ... FASTER

When you only have 45 minutes to practice, you want to locate the materials quickly, with little hassle. These easy to access pdf files will help you move to the guitar quicker.

AN EXAMPLE OF YOUR PRACTICE SESSION

Your practice session can range from noodling to productive.  Right?  What can you do to be prepared, learn what you want to learn, have it be cumulative, and be able to recall what you’ve learned.  Does it help you to make music  . . . . . . . . . . . 

Practice Density .. a tactic to build musical insights that connect the dots:

What is practice density?  How can you achieve this relatively frequently?

GOALS