Best Practice Strategy

  • Remove distractions, pay attention to posture, loosen up, begin with the basics, ease into it, think quality not quantity, take breaks, set deadlines.

  • Listen before you play—listen to a new piece several times.

  • Sing it—ear training

  • When tackling a new piece, start with the tough stuff.

  • Take it section by section

    “Smart practicing”

    by jeffrey Pepper rogers

    Acoustic guitar

Learning the fretboard

  • Day 1: Low-E string, from open string to 6th-fret,add note by note and say it out loud. Use a timer: play arrangements of notes or from a list—play and call out.

  • Day 2: Repeat from 7th-fret to 12th-fret. Increase note-by-note and call out: then play arrangements and call out.

  • Day 3 & 4: A string repeating the sequence as the last string. Use a timer.

  • Day 5 & 6: D string, repeat. Etc

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