@Bernth and his videos have helped me become so much more effective and efficient in knowing how to practice and what to practice. It’s great to see more and more people embrace effective practices as opposed to traditional “tried and true” methods! Great video!
I practiced like this too back in the day. Almost every waking hour I was playing and practicing. I would sleep with the guitar next to me. Wake up, and play all day. But, the big takeaway is this. For myself and most likely all the others, it wasn’t disciplined practice. It was about being addicted to playing because you loved it. When playing is new, your making huge strides in improvement, all you want to do is play. So, if you want to put time into playing, make it addictive. Make it fun and rewarding. Get into a mental state where you just want to play all the time without having to force yourself to do it. And remember, it’s not about x hours you put in. It’s about having fun and enjoying the process of playing.
Visualisation is the key and forms the cornerstone of the GIT accelerated learning technique. Passionate youngsters do it in the form of daydreaming but it can be formalised into a more organised method that produces frankly stunning results. When we engage the visual cortex we light up other areas of the brain, heightening our learning power by vast amounts. We can even do it without a guitar in hand and see dramatic results. There’s enough literature on the subject of accelerated learning to sink the battle fleet but one small tip I would give is to close your eyes when you practice and vividly visualise what you’re playing, “seeing “ what your hands are doing in your mind’s eye. I guarantee you will see instant improvement in your learning, retention, recall and ability.
Read a study about this. If I remember correctly it was basketball players practicing free throws. The players that were already well trained saw some improvements but players learning a new skill didn't see as much benefit. The takeaway was, visualisation does work but it is much more effective for someone who already knows the correct technique.
What made me practice better was simply doing stretches in my hand and forearm muscles. My speed issues were only hand tension lol. I still have synchronization issues when I'm not warmed up yet but the amount of time I need to warm up to get the synchronization becomes less and less each day.
As an aspiring guitar player, I did realize that I don't have so much time to practice due to my day job. What I can only do is make my practice sessions count even if it's just 15 minutes.
I’m not a great or even good player, but I do about 15 minutes of high quality practice focused on fundamentals like chord changes, scales, tremolo picking, etc… and after that just have fun learning songs.
@@JossMar4688 1 hour, thsts it, he always had a busy life. But he knew what he wanted and thats sll you need, 1 hour of focus, most of us go over a number of thibgs in an hour, he probably ficused on just one thing.
i find the greats didnt practice 63 hours a day...they just had the passion to play guitar and couldnt put the thing down. sitting there listening and transcribing a solo from an album didnt just happen, it took some time. it wasnt always practice, it was passion.
Great advice, yup you definitely see it everywhere from professionals to bedroom guitarist on Reddit. Trying too practice for multiple hours everyday especially in the early stages might do more harm than good, it’s all about consistent quality practice over time.
Can confirm, I have had to relearn so many things over the years. For so many years I just figured I couldn't alternate pick very fast. I'm talking 10 years here and it all came down to how I was holding the pick. As soon as I switched my grip I was able to pick 50-75 percent faster and felt like such an idiot. Live and learn tho, we all have different paths on the instrument
Depends what you're practicing for. Pretty soon after starting to play I was in a band with more experienced musicians and rehearsals went on for about five hours, three times a week. At times, at home, I might have practised half an hour or up to four or five hours, depending on what I was aiming for. Practice time could be divided up with routines for speed, endurance, writing etc. When I was 'in training', anticipating playing live after a period of not gigging I got back in shape by playing along with live albums/videos to get used to the demands of a live gig, not having time to rest when tired, especially. Sometimes you really just can't put the guitar down out of sheer enthusiasm, and other times, if you want to get to 'pro' standard, you have to learn how to grind the notes out, regardless of how you feel.
The thing for me is, why would I limit myself to one hour per day, when I want to play more, I’m actively trying to practice as much as I can, wanting to play my instrument. I don’t want to be someone who sees a guitar and acts like it is the end of the world if I don’t practice for a certain amount of time, I want to be able to enjoy myself while also have the passion of playing.
I want to agree, but I have to disagree respectfully. It is vital to invest many hours of quality practice and to be consistent over a more extended period (years). Mark Knopfler once said that you need to want to become great at guitar playing. For me, practising also includes listening to music and transcribing and much more. It takes the “mindset of a musician” to become tremendous, and one hour per day never cuts it for me. 😘
I feel what also really helps is "whom you play with". Where I'm from I know one guy that knows the pentatonic scale & that's it. One guy & that's his only scale! Where more minds working together pushing each other works better than one guy trying to soldier through TH-cam videos. Like me...
You should make a video about overcoming Focal Dystonia on guitar, other just injuries in general. I had to recover from a muscular injury from not warming up properly in 2013 which ironically led me to your channel
While this vid is ok..you gotta ask yourself 'what do i want out the guitar?' To play copy tunes? Original music? Be in a band? Those things and your work, life schedule will determine how far you go. I started at age 20, practiced for hours a day for a few years, then, as i got better, my quality of practice improved a lot. Now in 2022 and 40 yrs of playing, i can lay down the guitar for a month, pick it up like i never missed a beat. Ive found out, its the time you put into it.
The most obvious thing about practice times is that not everyone learns and absorbs information the same way...so two people can practice the same identical lessons and amount of time over a ten year period and one can end up mastering the guitar and the other person might just end up being average.
I gotta say most of this was just false. Ya gotta remember that most of the greats were just kids skipping school to hoan their technique. And they started young so they had time for that, not having to juggle a 9-5 job and four kids and whatnot. Me for example, I practiced 5-10 hours (closer to ten most of the time) for the first maybe two years before it tapered down to 3-5 hours I've been going with the last three or so years, and I was learning Bodom songs after maybe a year of playing. It's just hard work that you have to make time for, because there really is no shortcut. And the cynically harsh reality of it (which is never talked about because most teachers want to keep their senior clientele) is that you're just not gonna have time for it when you're older, so you gotta start doing it now. Not next week, not tomorrow, now! Getting good with minimal time put in and no trial and error whatsoverer is more of a paradoxical exception and wishful thinking than a rule.
While I agree with the need for efficient training, becoming a real master in any profession requires a bit of trial an error as a way to develop good intuition on things. Being able to find your way is essential to becoming a professional
Just play whatever you want as long as you enjoy it. You get better through playing your guitar. You can only get ideas from people like this. They'll never unlock your guitar life the only way to do that is through playing your guitar so keep playing.
Content is awesome, but somehow the video quality looks like its from an 80s VHS cassette haha. Your white balance is way too cool (you look almost blue). Some slight adjustments would make a huge difference in quality! :)
While I agree that necessary practice time varies player to player, and that qualified instruction helps… I don’t agree that trial and error doesn’t count. If we relied solely on pedagogical authorities to oversee development in the 20th century, rock music would not have developed at all. Distortion was “wrong”. Almost every great guitarist of the 60s 70s and 80s played “wrong”. Trial and error is a great practice activity, IF you are paying close attention to what is actually transpiring. I believe you need some degree of heterodox development if you want to develop your originality. Guitar pedagogy itself is often the biggest obstacle to that. It’s not that it isn’t useful. It’s that it can make you “same-y” without some stumbling around in the dark. It’s a balance.
Shredding is a waste of time. 99% of people are not impressed by virtuosos and don't pay to see them. Focus 90% of your time on rhythm guitar and songwriting.
The whole premise of this video is BS. I never heard anyone brag about how much time they spent practicing. It’s unheard of. Never happened. This guy made the whole thing up to sell his course. Who brags about practice time? Nobody. Most of the time, when guitar players brag, they’re talking about the songs they can play. Or showing how they can play really complicated riffs, licks, and solos. Not practice time.
I've seen several videos of pro guitarists talking about how many hours a day they used to play and how they always had their guitar in their hands practically all day long. Yes you need passion, yes there aren't any shortcuts, but what this video is getting at is using practice time wisely without lots of wasted time. So I think the premise of this video makes perfect sense, sorry it was over your head.
@@jamiethomas8975 yeah I remember in the 80's, we did not have the tools today, so it was a lot of practicing in the day with songbook after songbook. I spent hours and did not get far until I was much older and started learning theory, scales, intervals, legato, arpeggios, etc..in sections. I still had to have guidance..So I'm not wasting time.
Practice Rule: Quality over Quantity.
@Bernth and his videos have helped me become so much more effective and efficient in knowing how to practice and what to practice. It’s great to see more and more people embrace effective practices as opposed to traditional “tried and true” methods! Great video!
I practiced like this too back in the day. Almost every waking hour I was playing and practicing. I would sleep with the guitar next to me. Wake up, and play all day.
But, the big takeaway is this. For myself and most likely all the others, it wasn’t disciplined practice. It was about being addicted to playing because you loved it. When playing is new, your making huge strides in improvement, all you want to do is play.
So, if you want to put time into playing, make it addictive. Make it fun and rewarding. Get into a mental state where you just want to play all the time without having to force yourself to do it. And remember, it’s not about x hours you put in. It’s about having fun and enjoying the process of playing.
Visualisation is the key and forms the cornerstone of the GIT accelerated learning technique. Passionate youngsters do it in the form of daydreaming but it can be formalised into a more organised method that produces frankly stunning results. When we engage the visual cortex we light up other areas of the brain, heightening our learning power by vast amounts. We can even do it without a guitar in hand and see dramatic results. There’s enough literature on the subject of accelerated learning to sink the battle fleet but one small tip I would give is to close your eyes when you practice and vividly visualise what you’re playing, “seeing “ what your hands are doing in your mind’s eye. I guarantee you will see instant improvement in your learning, retention, recall and ability.
Read a study about this. If I remember correctly it was basketball players practicing free throws. The players that were already well trained saw some improvements but players learning a new skill didn't see as much benefit. The takeaway was, visualisation does work but it is much more effective for someone who already knows the correct technique.
What made me practice better was simply doing stretches in my hand and forearm muscles. My speed issues were only hand tension lol. I still have synchronization issues when I'm not warmed up yet but the amount of time I need to warm up to get the synchronization becomes less and less each day.
How u stretch it
@@kringtheking2657 Just try running your hands under hot water for a few minutes. Otherwise, best to look it up to avoid injury.
As an aspiring guitar player, I did realize that I don't have so much time to practice due to my day job. What I can only do is make my practice sessions count even if it's just 15 minutes.
I’m not a great or even good player, but I do about 15 minutes of high quality practice focused on fundamentals like chord changes, scales, tremolo picking, etc… and after that just have fun learning songs.
Dude you have nailed it on the head! This is exactly what I try to tell my students.
Excellent!👍
Marty Friedman said 1 hour a day, he's a no b.s. sort of guy.
I really doubt that Marty Friedman did practice just 1 hour at day at least in his early days! That guy was a beast at a very young age
@@JossMar4688 1 hour, thsts it, he always had a busy life. But he knew what he wanted and thats sll you need, 1 hour of focus, most of us go over a number of thibgs in an hour, he probably ficused on just one thing.
It’s absolutely criminal that you don’t get hundreds of thousands of views per video. You have the best takes
i find the greats didnt practice 63 hours a day...they just had the passion to play guitar and couldnt put the thing down. sitting there listening and transcribing a solo from an album didnt just happen, it took some time. it wasnt always practice, it was passion.
Great advice, yup you definitely see it everywhere from professionals to bedroom guitarist on Reddit. Trying too practice for multiple hours everyday especially in the early stages might do more harm than good, it’s all about consistent quality practice over time.
Can confirm, I have had to relearn so many things over the years. For so many years I just figured I couldn't alternate pick very fast. I'm talking 10 years here and it all came down to how I was holding the pick. As soon as I switched my grip I was able to pick 50-75 percent faster and felt like such an idiot. Live and learn tho, we all have different paths on the instrument
Depends what you're practicing for. Pretty soon after starting to play I was in a band with more experienced musicians and rehearsals went on for about five hours, three times a week. At times, at home, I might have practised half an hour or up to four or five hours, depending on what I was aiming for. Practice time could be divided up with routines for speed, endurance, writing etc. When I was 'in training', anticipating playing live after a period of not gigging I got back in shape by playing along with live albums/videos to get used to the demands of a live gig, not having time to rest when tired, especially. Sometimes you really just can't put the guitar down out of sheer enthusiasm, and other times, if you want to get to 'pro' standard, you have to learn how to grind the notes out, regardless of how you feel.
It is not about how much time you spent practicing, but about what you practice and how.
This video will do some serious good for people's sanity. Subscribed.
More is more - yngwie
The thing for me is, why would I limit myself to one hour per day, when I want to play more, I’m actively trying to practice as much as I can, wanting to play my instrument. I don’t want to be someone who sees a guitar and acts like it is the end of the world if I don’t practice for a certain amount of time, I want to be able to enjoy myself while also have the passion of playing.
I want to agree, but I have to disagree respectfully. It is vital to invest many hours of quality practice and to be consistent over a more extended period (years). Mark Knopfler once said that you need to want to become great at guitar playing. For me, practising also includes listening to music and transcribing and much more. It takes the “mindset of a musician” to become tremendous, and one hour per day never cuts it for me. 😘
I've never timed myself either, I just do it as much as I can, as well as I can, as often as I can.
I feel what also really helps is "whom you play with". Where I'm from I know one guy that knows the pentatonic scale & that's it. One guy & that's his only scale! Where more minds working together pushing each other works better than one guy trying to soldier through TH-cam videos. Like me...
All positions at least, hopefully?
You should make a video about overcoming Focal Dystonia on guitar, other just injuries in general. I had to recover from a muscular injury from not warming up properly in 2013 which ironically led me to your channel
I wish I had heard this when I started playing. I have been playing for around 6 years but have probably less than 500 hours of practice time.
While this vid is ok..you gotta ask yourself 'what do i want out the guitar?' To play copy tunes? Original music? Be in a band? Those things and your work, life schedule will determine how far you go. I started at age 20, practiced for hours a day for a few years, then, as i got better, my quality of practice improved a lot. Now in 2022 and 40 yrs of playing, i can lay down the guitar for a month, pick it up like i never missed a beat. Ive found out, its the time you put into it.
The most obvious thing about practice times is that not everyone learns and absorbs information the same way...so two people can practice the same identical lessons and amount of time over a ten year period and one can end up mastering the guitar and the other person might just end up being average.
Summary of this video: purchase my course
Exactly. So, why are you wasting time sitting here commenting?
Rock on...
I'm happy to be able to practice weekdays 4+ hours. Would it be more effective to do it in 1 or 1.5 h intervals, or doesn't make much difference?
I gotta say most of this was just false.
Ya gotta remember that most of the greats were just kids skipping school to hoan their technique.
And they started young so they had time for that, not having to juggle a 9-5 job and four kids and whatnot.
Me for example, I practiced 5-10 hours (closer to ten most of the time) for the first maybe two years before it tapered down to 3-5 hours I've been going with the last three or so years, and I was learning Bodom songs after maybe a year of playing.
It's just hard work that you have to make time for, because there really is no shortcut.
And the cynically harsh reality of it (which is never talked about because most teachers want to keep their senior clientele) is that you're just not gonna have time for it when you're older, so you gotta start doing it now. Not next week, not tomorrow, now!
Getting good with minimal time put in and no trial and error whatsoverer is more of a paradoxical exception and wishful thinking than a rule.
Glenn Tipton learned to play the guitar at 19. He didn't start that young
@@TotalMeltdown2 I started at 16, when I said young I wasn't talking about starting as a child
While I agree with the need for efficient training, becoming a real master in any profession requires a bit of trial an error as a way to develop good intuition on things. Being able to find your way is essential to becoming a professional
Just play whatever you want as long as you enjoy it. You get better through playing your guitar. You can only get ideas from people like this. They'll never unlock your guitar life the only way to do that is through playing your guitar so keep playing.
Content is awesome, but somehow the video quality looks like its from an 80s VHS cassette haha. Your white balance is way too cool (you look almost blue). Some slight adjustments would make a huge difference in quality! :)
While I agree that necessary practice time varies player to player, and that qualified instruction helps… I don’t agree that trial and error doesn’t count. If we relied solely on pedagogical authorities to oversee development in the 20th century, rock music would not have developed at all. Distortion was “wrong”. Almost every great guitarist of the 60s 70s and 80s played “wrong”. Trial and error is a great practice activity, IF you are paying close attention to what is actually transpiring.
I believe you need some degree of heterodox development if you want to develop your originality. Guitar pedagogy itself is often the biggest obstacle to that. It’s not that it isn’t useful. It’s that it can make you “same-y” without some stumbling around in the dark.
It’s a balance.
I see video, I click
When I first stated guitar, I practiced 24/7 5 days a week 😳
practice 63 hours a day 😅😅
So you're telling me that you DON'T brag about having used dial-up? 😶
Hahahah, the time warp! Teach me that
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your hips
Then bring your knees in tight
@ xD
You make me nervous 😳
It's much better to practice 30 minutes a day everyday, rather than 3- 4 hours only once or twice a week
So if I can play 16th notes at 400bpm I can go back in time and practice 63 hours a day?! Cool.
0:33 adam02?
Joe Satch said One HOUR is good enough!! it is better than 5 hours with ONE paying attention and 4 hrs just noodling!!
I knew he wanted to sell something lol!
Go out on the road and play four one hr sets per night. You'll feel like Superman after a month.
And what about "10 000 hours" theory ???
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@@HowToPracticeGuitar Thank You very much !!!
I got better by leaving a guitar in the kitchen where I can see it and grab it for a quick 10 minute sesh or whatever
xdddddddddd
Yngwie is the best!!!!
Shredding is a waste of time. 99% of people are not impressed by virtuosos and don't pay to see them. Focus 90% of your time on rhythm guitar and songwriting.
Yes, play what impresses other people, not what you enjoy.
Yngwie said in a interview he use to practice 8 hours a day!
SRV used to do that also
Nah this is just someone trying to make money selling THEIR program
The whole premise of this video is BS. I never heard anyone brag about how much time they spent practicing. It’s unheard of. Never happened. This guy made the whole thing up to sell his course. Who brags about practice time? Nobody. Most of the time, when guitar players brag, they’re talking about the songs they can play. Or showing how they can play really complicated riffs, licks, and solos. Not practice time.
You and your 2 subscribers make an excellent point. Since you've never heard of something, it must be unheard of. 👍
I've seen several videos of pro guitarists talking about how many hours a day they used to play and how they always had their guitar in their hands practically all day long. Yes you need passion, yes there aren't any shortcuts, but what this video is getting at is using practice time wisely without lots of wasted time. So I think the premise of this video makes perfect sense, sorry it was over your head.
@@jamiethomas8975 yeah I remember in the 80's, we did not have the tools today, so it was a lot of practicing in the day with songbook after songbook. I spent hours and did not get far until I was much older and started learning theory, scales, intervals, legato, arpeggios, etc..in sections. I still had to have guidance..So I'm not wasting time.
Get to the point quickly
advice from someone who can't even play like pros welcome to youtube