This is true but an hour is 4% of a day.TLDR
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He means allow yourself to go back to the beginning with a technique . It’s ok not to have to be able to do something when you’re learning it however good the rest of your playing usually is.His last point: "When you're alone, allow yourself to sound terrible"
I don't remember who, I think a Classic Guitar teacher, said the opposite. Something like "even if you're alone, always play like if there was a master in front of you". e.g.: never play out of tempo, pitch, etc.
And I've seen one drawback of playing terrible when practicing. I've recently found one of the reasons why I am often sluggish with the tempo: I have learned to play by ear, playing over records (vinyls, yes, I'm that old). To do that, I had to first listen to the note, and then play it. That has made me used to play with certain latency, to listen what is going on even when I have already learned the notes. Now I am trying to correct that with routines of strict metronome exercises.
That was when I opened this thread:
Does your tempo suck? (Metronome Boot Camp)
This post is inspired by @TSJMajesty What's Worse Than...? thread Being conscious of how much my timing sucks after nearly 40 years playing guitar, I have decided to enroll the free METRONOME BOOT CAMP Lesson 0 has useful tips, Lesson 1 is about using the metronome, and Lesson 2 "Bury the...thegearforum.com
OK. That is what I am doing now with he metronome. That is not to sound "terrible", it is to sound "basic"He means allow yourself to go back to the beginning with a technique . It’s ok not to have to be able to do something when you’re learning it however good the rest of your playing usually is.
This is true but an hour is 4% of a day.
It's because of the cheap PSU I got with my QC.
I was told it's because you don't have the correct tonewood.
True. Provided absolutely nothing else ever happens in your life.Sleep = 7 hours
Work + commute = 10 hours
Personal hygiene = 1 hour
Dinner (cooking + cleanup) = 1 hour
Chores = 1 hour
More like 25% of what's left of a day.
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Haven’t seen any “played today using headphones” gifs in a while. You good?TLDR
1. Work
2. Wife
3. Kids
4. ADD
5. #2
I (sort of) adopted Petrucci’s recommendation back in the Mid-90s:
I had to figure out how to organize my materials in such a way that I would be able to cover all three facets of guitar playing during a practice session. So I did the only thing I could think of: I set up a filing system. And you know what? It helped me so much, I still use it to this day! I heartily recommend that you create one for yourself.
Source: https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/john-petrucci-practice-tips-part-2
Haven’t seen any “played today using headphones” gifs in a while. You good?
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