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Originally Posted by drew1
Krissovo
What are your practicing techniques? Do you warm up first?
I need some help or I can purchase or pay someone to teach me but I wanted to save up $ to upgrade my guitar - to a better one so I wanted to save the cash
So since I was placing each finger down on chords I am now trying to place all fingers down at once so I can go faster between each chords
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My Technique is fairly simple:
Warm up
1. Light finger stretches to get blood flowing
5 mins
2. Scales, I pick two pentatonic scales at differnt possitions (A minnor is good from 2nd fret to stretch the fingers) at this stage it does not have to be clean playing so if my fingers miss or do not quite reach...who cares (it a mental thing, you will soon play clean)
10 mins
3. Some melody work using
PT as a base following a prerecorded chord progression
10 mins
By now my fingers are very supple so I move onto a practice session,
Practice
1. Chord time - Normally 12 bar blues and I pick two keys to play it in (Only one can be A or E...my rule). Here is when I start playing chords for the fist time and I work hard on only getting a clean sound / changes and not so much on speed. Using different keys I can practice different chords and still sound quite musical but constantly trying for the cleanest tone I can get. I will then varry the rhythm and the chords (barres, 7ths/9ths/13ths etc) try to come up with some thing to record
30 mins
2. I have a looper so the next stage is to play some lead over the rhythm I just laid down. If its fast I will use a scale if slow I will use PT.
20 mins
3. Learning a song I am working on
20 mins
4. Free time!!!! Do what I want
I have only recently been using this but it is making come up to speed quickly!