there's two quotes I would recommend you consider. 1.) theory is like grammar in school. phrases are like vocabulary. it's more beneficial to have a huge vocabulary when speaking a different language than it is to know all the rules of grammar. - Marty Friedman 2.) (john petrucci is referring a three octave scale shape) you can use this in two ways, to use the shape to play melodies around it or you can use it as a run to get from high to low or vice versa
I use to do 2 hours of alternate picking, 1 hour of sweeping, 5 minutes string skipping, 15 minutes for finger strength exercise, 20 minutes ear training and learning songs, jamming and figuring out guitar parts on the weekend. I did that for about a year. now I do one hour of alternate picking, 40 minutes sweep picking, 2 hours of ear training. 20 minutes of improv. and I'm still horrible at guitar
Oh im sure you're good at it seeing that you practice consistent. I'm actually starting these routine plans out because i just noodle and just learn songs and stuff .-.
That's because you're doing too much stuff. Have you ever thought about practicing one thing over and over again for hours? This will yield MUCH better results. Maybe you should check out the channel Guitar Mastery. He goes on about this over and over again.
I enjoy my practice time. I'd rather do it than waste my free time watching t.v. or playing video games. I'm looking forward to seeing how much I've improved in the next year and the coming years'. Everybody blows at least an hour a day doing bull crap. Do you want a skill or do you want to not have a cool skill. When you go to parties etc. the person who brings a guitar and can play is always popular.
Darrell Mortensen sure, but maybe you could take a break from practice. Not every day, in fact not very often at all. But a break never truly hurt anybody.
I recently got stuck and wanted to quit guitar. Lately though after watching your videos I have really jumped back into the guitar with a more excited approach then before. Just wanted to say thanks as well as I am gonna try and apply this video to learning so I can get as good as I can be.
I've been watching your other videos in order to help sharpen up for an audition tomorrow.... Wish, like hell, that I found this one beforehand lol. You're awesome man! Thanks for all of the help! You are doing the right thing! Easily the best teacher (and a damned great player) of guitar that I've come across on TH-cam.
You really are a born and a committed teacher.. you have the key to teach and make a student understand the lesson or how to deal with the situation.. please keep on going what you're doing... Well, I guess you also should start lessons for particular songs or licks or riffs with the needed musical theory behind it... Great work...
I start with 30 minutes of scales and the chords built off of them then 15 minutes of songwriting then 30 minutes of alternate picking then 30 minutes of theory then 15 minutes of ear training for theory I do Modes, keys and intervals focusing on them different days
I think you have some great ideas here. I'll be adapting your ideas for my own practice. || However, from what I've read about general studying, two hours is about right, because there are diminishing returns after that. But that would only include *Exercises, Scales, Chords, and Improvisation* . Theory is probably two hours. Songwriting, as long as one isn't getting frustrated with it, probably has no time limitation. I'm not certain about ear training and sight reading.
Thank you for taking time to outline this schedule. I am curious about the two books you referred to...I am not seeing the links you described. Will you please post those or share them with us?
I love this. I .. sortof.. do this. But not in an organised way and i never know if i have 5 minutes or 3 hours. Some things i do EVERY time i pick up the guitar. This helps a lot by pushing me to get organised
Thanks for your input. The way you think can be applied to all aspects of life. Hell, your video on , I think it was, "how long have you played guitar?"... I believe that was the title, struck a chord;) with me; On a much different level, encompassing all of life, the video spoke the truth. Thanks, buddy! -Holmes
Step 1 6PM: Make a cup of coffee, Step 2: open Tyler's udemy clases Step 3: set 15m of each techs to practice Step 4: grap the guitar from the wall and do it... PS: Love your stuff bro I'm so glad I have all your courses (apart from GS3 for now will grab it soon tho :) )
I practice one day one and only of each category for 1 and half/two hour. So for 1 week every of the seven categories are covered, for next week i just change days, if I did scales on Monday next week week it will be Friday. It is my practice routine.
This is great! Exactly what I've been needing. I have been in a practice rut for a while. Organization like this will definitely help. Do you have any videos or lessons that specialize in music theory and/or how to apply different modes at the right times? And other things like that? Thanks!
Any new updates on this? I mean would you re do this video? Will it look different if you re do it today, because it says it's been 6 years of this video? 😊🍀🍀
+Music is Win Tyler, how often do you learn new songs? I think we all want to be able to play hundreds of tunes well on guitar plus develop ear training to play anything. How do you get over plateaus and ruts?
Helpful stuff I wrote out my own routine its covers about 8hr`s after reading a book about Deliberate Practise so i came up with 2 parts. First mechanics 2nd Motion altho i could never get to the 2nd part of it, last night i said to myself to alternate it. So 1 part one day , the other part the following then alternate that weekly. Also delve into my other books, good thing about it is Section one is mostly reading WL vol1, Reading studies and melodic Rhythms new chords etc and the 2nd day is Technique Legato, sweep hybrid etc and also improv over progressions. Just glad i watched your Channel on practise.. Great Stuff Cheers.
hey man, I've been watching your videos for a while now, especially those regarding the routine as I am currently really confused about how and where my practice should be heading to. but what surprised me is that you never mentioned learning songs when breaking down the practice into sections. is it not s priority for you? should it not be a priority for me? or does any of sections already include this? i'd really appreciate you answering me asap ad I'm the one very confused young gentleman who really wants to get good at guitar. thank you in advance.
check out mid life guitars practice routine asap, its very helpfull. and definitely play songs you like consistently(slowly if the level is too high for you), cause if you dont like what you are doing you will lose motivation
+Vu Manh Kien I'd focus on Exercises, Chords, and Scales. If you're interested, you should check out a beginner course I teach called The Best Beginner Guitar Course Ever. Cheers! udemy.com/the-best-beginner-guitar-course-ever/
i have a question with no answer: why not instead of practicing scales to familiarize with notes and know where to go when you want to play something in your head, why not ear train to intervals, and try to transcribe easy up to difficult songs.. wouldn't that be easier than non ending and boring scales exercises? Maybe even do the job better..? I'm not asking to be a dick I'm just a beginner and want to know what is lacking from this idea..
Great video. Personal experience: 1 hour practice a day, stay in place, don't progress much. 2 hours a day, get progressively better (whatever that means haha). Old New York taxi joke: Passenger gets into the cab and asks, "how do I get to Carnegie Hall?" Taxi driver, "Practice more then four hours a day."
+Shawn Kwai It depends on your goals. If you ever want to be a session guitar player, you'll want to learn to read music. Plus, it's fun to open up a book and just play what's written. Tabs are great for learning songs, but notation is great for learning music ;)
I'm a beginner ....due to lack of a schedule like this mostly, and a lil frustration and laziness .....but 3-4yrs of noodling around how come I've never heard of the "whole tone " scale? Is there another name for it? Or am I even further out of the "know" than I was a;ready depressed about? Lol
Improvisation? I am a beginner, I don't know how to improvise anything... So my schedule routine should be something like: chords, scales, exercises, theory... And so on. I mean things more easier
+Hector Gonzalez Mendez Either that, or make that category 30min, 45min, etc and just do less categories per day. Otherwise increase the overall practice time. This is just a framework for you to mold to your goals
I do about 1hour a day of exercises early in the morning to get it out the way. I do 6 exercises for 5 mins each just alt picking legato string skipping I don't do sweep or hybrid. Don't need it in what I'm playing right now. I learn scales and chords 3x a week only for about 1 hr ....no ear training no sight reading no theory....and most importantly I improv for 2 hrs daily which leads to songwriting. DONT PRACTICE ANYTHING THAT WONT LEAD YOU TO YOUR GOALS YOU WILL BE WASTING TIME!!! Like watching TH-cam videos about learning guitar bahahaha
That's why the biggest step is the first: Setting your goals. If you don't know what you aim for, how are you supposed to be better? It's like walking on the street without any direction. You're walking, yes, but do you know where do you want to go
I disagree about not practicing anything that wont lead to your goal.. whatever that is (mine is to play better). Not learning theory is imho stunningly dumb. Your 2 hours a day "improving" is called noodling..... enough said on that.
Im not sure if Tyler got this routine from Berklee, but I know Steve Vai used to break down his practice time in the same 8 categories Tyler does (Exercises, Scales, Chords, Ear Training, Sight Reading, Theory, Songwriting, Improvisation), though I assume Vai would have spend 1-2 hours per category per day, instead of just 15 minutes.
Is it bad to only practice improv? Usually my "practice" is just playing for hours over different backing tracks which I feel is kind of helping me I guess but y'know. Im kind of alright at theory because of some stuff I read on the internet like all the modes and scales and how to apply them
I'm not a teacher, but from my own experience I've found that only practicing improv (sometimes called "noodling") isn't a great way to learn. Practicing improvisation is important, but tends to reinforce what you already know as opposed to helping you learn new skills. Of course improv is fun but I don't think you'll see much improvement unless you focus on building new skills.
Biyoka it's very important. This is where you APPLY what you have learned into songs or jams. This where you come up with riffs and chords and melody lines to your own songs. Is not waste of time...just incorporate it in your practice schedule.
Okay, being a teacher I'll say to you that: 1- yes it's fine to improv, and you should! 2- Do it AFTER practicing. Meaning, why not learn a scale, practice it over and over, and then try to put a backing track after practice to apply what you know? For example, today you practiced sweeping arpeggios. And you practiced in the harmonic minor scale. Combine the two, put a backing track like in B minor, and just jam using sweeping and using the harmonic minor scale. You'll memorize "patterns" in each scale and in each tonality which will yield much more fullfilling and more awesome noodeling at the end. It's not a great way to learn, but it's a way to "master" what you know
Screw those schedules. Just learn the things you feel like learning, unless it´s always improvising over backing tracks. It´s fun to vary between things you learn so if done right, you´ll get all the points.
Mate you are taking all the fun out of it! It becomes a chore. The only way is to have an attitude of 'just pick it up and do what you feel' and then you notice that you end up doing more, learning more and looking all those things up out of shear curiosity. The hole gets deeper and deeper as you go. It will happen out of curiosity if you truly love the guitar. Playing guitar/learning an instrument is to escape time and its constraints, not introduce new ones!
If you're a beginner, one of the most essential talents you can have is the ability to push music aside and tolerate increasingly sophisticated noise as you persistently grind repetitive technical drills that are musically lightyears apart from the kind of musical expression that made you pick up the instrument in the first place. I have developed a Stockholm syndrome with EADGBE because a lot of the time that I spend practicing that's the entirety of what my music is made of. It only gets marginally better grinding scales, and even then the most beneficial exercises have zero regard for musical quality, the only important element is teaching your nervous system all the different permutations of combining smaller movements sequentially that will eventually enable you to play something that sounds interesting. If you jump right in by trying to learn to play the songs you like and your practice time is spent more on trying to play music rather than make [increasingly sophisticated] noise, you're going to develop a solid foundation of bad habits, end up spending your time solving all the wrong problems (in the wrong ways), and will reach your skill cap much sooner than necessary because your bad foundation strangled your potential, but you didn't see that in the beginning because you didn't have the skill and insight required to sense what was happening as you were making progress. You may not even realize it in retrospect and may conclude you weren't meant to play at a higher level, sell your guitar and walk away depressed. All because you wanted to play music but didn't have the stoicism required to endure the soul-drenching technical exercises. Remember that for the mind to live you need to feed the body. The best you can do is develop a fetishistic relationship with the tactile side of playing an instrument, and derive pleasure from developing and refining the movements of your whole body, while forgetting about music. If you can do that, it's a superpower. Also remember to breathe well - breathing is part of the posture. Don't ever practice mindlessly. If you're zoning out and doing stuff subconsciously, you're in the wrong state of mind for practicing - you should probably be playing and prioritizing music instead. When you practice you should be fully conscious of everything that is going on and concentrate on small details with intensity that is impossible, impractical, unnecessary and of less importance for a live musician. Best practicing is like a state of trance where there exist only you and the guitar. In Adam del Monte's words; "It should be a sacred moment."
I don't practice to a schedule because I think thats what causes people to get sick of things by forcing themselves to do it. If you just practice when you want, you stay interested for longer. EDIT: I should probably have mentioned that I do music in school and I go to a private guitar teacher so maybe that makes up a bit for not consistently practicing?? idk
I think the combination of both is best. Make a selection (small or large, depends on your goals) of things you need to learn - either general stuff (scales, technique) and/or sections of songs. Then make practice a daily habit and choose everyday something from the list
i think the best way to do it is get that 1-2 hours everyday where u force yourself on doing some of these things, and in the rest do what ever you want. For eg i dont like memorizing songs, but i like playing them, so i have to force myself to learn them. Same thing for other things, sometimes u just have to force urself if u want to improve
15 minutes for technique is too short unless you focus on a single technique. You won't make much progress! Sight reading is pretty useless to someone playing in a rock band. If you want to be a session player or play in an orchestra then it might be useful. Ear training is the most important. Without a good ear you won't be able to improvise or write songs or even play live!
Stuningly wrong about technique. Ive seen this type of player.. their entired body tied up in knots forcing their hands to do something they get worse at as they try it due to stress. Best imho and this works for me.. do something..especially something WAY above yoru skill level every day. Even for 60 seconds. 5 minutes. Whatever.. but do it every time you pick up the guitar. One day you'll be doing this far above your level thing youd have spent hour after hour painfully trying to learn.. and notice you can just do it... at least passibly.. then that youre good at it.. then that youre very good at it.
Sight reading is not useless. I play in a metal band and we never use sheet music to practice our stuff, but you never know what you may get in front of you. It's never a bad thing to know the language of music.
This is just a framework of course. You can choose to throw out more than 2 categories to focus on your own goals. \m/
This is a much-needed lesson that I wish I would have known when I was younger.
+Freespiritphil Me too!
there's two quotes I would recommend you consider. 1.) theory is like grammar in school. phrases are like vocabulary. it's more beneficial to have a huge vocabulary when speaking a different language than it is to know all the rules of grammar. - Marty Friedman 2.) (john petrucci is referring a three octave scale shape) you can use this in two ways, to use the shape to play melodies around it or you can use it as a run to get from high to low or vice versa
I use to do 2 hours of alternate picking, 1 hour of sweeping, 5 minutes string skipping, 15 minutes for finger strength exercise, 20 minutes ear training and learning songs, jamming and figuring out guitar parts on the weekend. I did that for about a year.
now I do one hour of alternate picking, 40 minutes sweep picking, 2 hours of ear training. 20 minutes of improv.
and I'm still horrible at guitar
Oh im sure you're good at it seeing that you practice consistent. I'm actually starting these routine plans out because i just noodle and just learn songs and stuff .-.
Wtf are you serious ? Thats really demotivating 😂
That's because you're doing too much stuff. Have you ever thought about practicing one thing over and over again for hours? This will yield MUCH better results. Maybe you should check out the channel Guitar Mastery. He goes on about this over and over again.
I enjoy my practice time. I'd rather do it than waste my free time watching t.v. or playing video games. I'm looking forward to seeing how much I've improved in the next year and the coming years'. Everybody blows at least an hour a day doing bull crap. Do you want a skill or do you want to not have a cool skill. When you go to parties etc. the person who brings a guitar and can play is always popular.
"the person who brings a guitar and can play is always popular"
although you are right, this should never be the main goal of learning guitar
Darrell Mortensen sure, but maybe you could take a break from practice. Not every day, in fact not very often at all. But a break never truly hurt anybody.
Whenever I come back from my guitar break, my skills improves. You need break in between.
What's wrong with video games?
@Deven Loomis very true, breaks are very important. I do the routine in this video for 2 hrs a day, but I try to take 1 or 2 days off per month.
I recently got stuck and wanted to quit guitar. Lately though after watching your videos I have really jumped back into the guitar with a more excited approach then before. Just wanted to say thanks as well as I am gonna try and apply this video to learning so I can get as good as I can be.
Hows it been going
@@rockthrower1847 lmao he quit hahaha
lol 3:34
"...A, you're going to go insane"
I've been watching your other videos in order to help sharpen up for an audition tomorrow.... Wish, like hell, that I found this one beforehand lol.
You're awesome man! Thanks for all of the help! You are doing the right thing! Easily the best teacher (and a damned great player) of guitar that I've come across on TH-cam.
Very much appreciate the authenticity and humility you are sharing here and wishing i had this concept of a practice schedule 20 years ago
Thanks Tyler, I finally started dedicating myself deeper into the creft of practice. Your video really helped me out!! Thank You!!!
You really are a born and a committed teacher.. you have the key to teach and make a student understand the lesson or how to deal with the situation.. please keep on going what you're doing... Well, I guess you also should start lessons for particular songs or licks or riffs with the needed musical theory behind it... Great work...
this showed up on my recommended from 6 years ago. his craft has been mastered and it’s payed off amazingly for him. i will now do this. hopefully
This channel is awesome. I wish i found this when i was starting to play guitar.
you got a new sub even though I had been following you since a long time on facebook! keep up the good work man!
Wow! This is so common sense, yet it completely escaped me! I’m going to draw something like this up. Thanks so much for sharing this! 🎸 👍
I start with 30 minutes of scales and the chords built off of them then 15 minutes of songwriting then 30 minutes of alternate picking then 30 minutes of theory then 15 minutes of ear training for theory I do Modes, keys and intervals focusing on them different days
Thank you so much for this mate! This is exactly what I needed!
+jyseninthecloud Glad I could help!
I think you have some great ideas here. I'll be adapting your ideas for my own practice. || However, from what I've read about general studying, two hours is about right, because there are diminishing returns after that. But that would only include *Exercises, Scales, Chords, and Improvisation* . Theory is probably two hours. Songwriting, as long as one isn't getting frustrated with it, probably has no time limitation. I'm not certain about ear training and sight reading.
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for taking time to outline this schedule. I am curious about the two books you referred to...I am not seeing the links you described. Will you please post those or share them with us?
Thanks Tayler 😊
After 8 years, still a very reliable schedule plan
I was trying to do something similar these past days and this will help me a lot! Thank you!
Love this !! :)
Gonna try it.
Nice vid!! Very helpful!! Off to complete my 1st practice schedule. Thanks for the help!!!
I love this. I .. sortof.. do this. But not in an organised way and i never know if i have 5 minutes or 3 hours. Some things i do EVERY time i pick up the guitar. This helps a lot by pushing me to get organised
Thanks for your input. The way you think can be applied to all aspects of life. Hell, your video on , I think it was, "how long have you played guitar?"... I believe that was the title, struck a chord;) with me; On a much different level, encompassing all of life, the video spoke the truth. Thanks, buddy!
-Holmes
This is helpful, Thanks.
Step 1 6PM: Make a cup of coffee,
Step 2: open Tyler's udemy clases
Step 3: set 15m of each techs to practice
Step 4: grap the guitar from the wall and do it...
PS: Love your stuff bro I'm so glad I have all your courses (apart from GS3 for now will grab it soon tho :) )
Any updates sir about your guitar progress ?
I practice one day one and only of each category for 1 and half/two hour. So for 1 week every of the seven categories are covered, for next week i just change days, if I did scales on Monday next week week it will be Friday. It is my practice routine.
Referencing this to pair with the GSS I just got to set up my 2 hour routine
Thanks dude!
I'm one of your students! Thanks!
Great idea,,,actually just about time. Tnx
this is awesome guideline
Thank you
I thought this was a Jared dines vid lol
Nick N hehe
This is great! Exactly what I've been needing. I have been in a practice rut for a while. Organization like this will definitely help. Do you have any videos or lessons that specialize in music theory and/or how to apply different modes at the right times? And other things like that? Thanks!
Thank you Bro!!
Thank you!
Where are the links to the books?
This video is so good I wrote a wickedly awesome song before I decided to watch it.
A) you're gonna go insane ahahah
Awesome tips just subbed gonna check out the other vids
Good discipline. +1 for the Guinness pic. I am enjoying one right now! Guinness is Beer, everything else a facsimile.
Any new updates on this? I mean would you re do this video? Will it look different if you re do it today, because it says it's been 6 years of this video? 😊🍀🍀
Hey buddy. it's 2 years later. How did you do with your schedule? Are you still following this schedule?
He's made an updated video since this
My schedule practice was pick up the guitar and rock out.
This sounds brilliant at half speed
I practice all the day every lesson I get from internet and from my tutor!
Where is piano routin
I wanna go four hours a day
jam !
+Music is Win Tyler, how often do you learn new songs? I think we all want to be able to play hundreds of tunes well on guitar plus develop ear training to play anything. How do you get over plateaus and ruts?
Helpful stuff I wrote out my own routine its covers about 8hr`s after reading a book about Deliberate Practise so i came up with 2 parts. First mechanics 2nd Motion altho i could never get to the 2nd part of it, last night i said to myself to alternate it. So 1 part one day , the other part the following then alternate that weekly. Also delve into my other books, good thing about it is Section one is mostly reading WL vol1, Reading studies and melodic Rhythms new chords etc and the 2nd day is Technique Legato, sweep hybrid etc and also improv over progressions. Just glad i watched your Channel on practise.. Great Stuff Cheers.
what's that Guinness for?
You should master math rock and give us some lessons
Nice
hey man, I've been watching your videos for a while now, especially those regarding the routine as I am currently really confused about how and where my practice should be heading to. but what surprised me is that you never mentioned learning songs when breaking down the practice into sections. is it not s priority for you? should it not be a priority for me? or does any of sections already include this? i'd really appreciate you answering me asap ad I'm the one very confused young gentleman who really wants to get good at guitar. thank you in advance.
check out mid life guitars practice routine asap, its very helpfull. and definitely play songs you like consistently(slowly if the level is too high for you), cause if you dont like what you are doing you will lose motivation
What is the piano book? I don't see a link for it.
This video is win
What does learning repetoire fall under?
so when do u fit in your first and second album? before practice id imagine
I have a question: if I am a beginner, how should I organize those activities? what focuses should I work on more?
+Vu Manh Kien I'd focus on Exercises, Chords, and Scales. If you're interested, you should check out a beginner course I teach called The Best Beginner Guitar Course Ever. Cheers! udemy.com/the-best-beginner-guitar-course-ever/
This facking relic
Great videos. helped me out alot. thanks!
There's no link in the description to the 2 sight reading books mentioned in the video. Anyone know the names of the 2 books? TIA!
i have a question with no answer: why not instead of practicing scales to familiarize with notes and know where to go when you want to play something in your head, why not ear train to intervals, and try to transcribe easy up to difficult songs.. wouldn't that be easier than non ending and boring scales exercises? Maybe even do the job better..? I'm not asking to be a dick I'm just a beginner and want to know what is lacking from this idea..
Can I do 08hours Practice Schedule because I have 08 hours to spend in Practice Room?
10 hours of practice in 1 day is good
now we no what to practice, so how do we practice it
Grayden Taylor I'd recommend basic English spelling and grammar
@@guitarlimited That is not necessary.
Great video. Personal experience: 1 hour practice a day, stay in place, don't progress much. 2 hours a day, get progressively better (whatever that means haha). Old New York taxi joke: Passenger gets into the cab and asks, "how do I get to Carnegie Hall?" Taxi driver, "Practice more then four hours a day."
This really motivated me to focus my studies on what i really need to improve! Thanks man, great job \m/
What do you mean when you talk about learning CHORDS? you mean inversions and arpeggios? What else? Thanks
Sounds like a plan
thanks for all the help for an inconsistent player like me. just asking, it is more beneficial to read notes instead from tabs?
+Shawn Kwai It depends on your goals. If you ever want to be a session guitar player, you'll want to learn to read music. Plus, it's fun to open up a book and just play what's written. Tabs are great for learning songs, but notation is great for learning music ;)
I'm a beginner ....due to lack of a schedule like this mostly, and a lil frustration and laziness .....but 3-4yrs of noodling around how come I've never heard of the "whole tone " scale? Is there another name for it? Or am I even further out of the "know" than I was a;ready depressed about? Lol
Do you know of an app to organize practice? I'm going nuts trying to find one
do you have original music? where can I get it
What were the books and where are the links?
Improvisation? I am a beginner, I don't know how to improvise anything... So my schedule routine should be something like: chords, scales, exercises, theory... And so on. I mean things more easier
In the 15 minutes exercise, you want to improve 4 techniques, how do you divide your time? You do 15 minutes of a different technique every day?
+Hector Gonzalez Mendez Either that, or make that category 30min, 45min, etc and just do less categories per day. Otherwise increase the overall practice time. This is just a framework for you to mold to your goals
Which category would Strumming patterns fall under?
padshardbank Exercises, I believe
ah man schedules don't work for me, if I don't want to play, I don't want to play
where are these books listed?
what 2 books are you talking about?
Reading studies for guitar - Leavitt
Melodic studies for guitar - Leavitt
yo
When you mention sight reading do you mean tab or music scores?
Scores
I do about 1hour a day of exercises early in the morning to get it out the way. I do 6 exercises for 5 mins each just alt picking legato string skipping I don't do sweep or hybrid. Don't need it in what I'm playing right now. I learn scales and chords 3x a week only for about 1 hr ....no ear training no sight reading no theory....and most importantly I improv for 2 hrs daily which leads to songwriting.
DONT PRACTICE ANYTHING THAT WONT LEAD YOU TO YOUR GOALS YOU WILL BE WASTING TIME!!!
Like watching TH-cam videos about learning guitar bahahaha
That's why the biggest step is the first: Setting your goals. If you don't know what you aim for, how are you supposed to be better? It's like walking on the street without any direction. You're walking, yes, but do you know where do you want to go
I disagree about not practicing anything that wont lead to your goal.. whatever that is (mine is to play better). Not learning theory is imho stunningly dumb. Your 2 hours a day "improving" is called noodling..... enough said on that.
That is only true in the beginning.
Hey ! Is it from berklee college ?
Im not sure if Tyler got this routine from Berklee, but I know Steve Vai used to break down his practice time in the same 8 categories Tyler does (Exercises, Scales, Chords, Ear Training, Sight Reading, Theory, Songwriting, Improvisation), though I assume Vai would have spend 1-2 hours per category per day, instead of just 15 minutes.
Is it bad to only practice improv? Usually my "practice" is just playing for hours over different backing tracks which I feel is kind of helping me I guess but y'know. Im kind of alright at theory because of some stuff I read on the internet like all the modes and scales and how to apply them
I'm not a teacher, but from my own experience I've found that only practicing improv (sometimes called "noodling") isn't a great way to learn. Practicing improvisation is important, but tends to reinforce what you already know as opposed to helping you learn new skills. Of course improv is fun but I don't think you'll see much improvement unless you focus on building new skills.
MattyBEightyThree Thanks
Biyoka it's very important. This is where you APPLY what you have learned into songs or jams. This where you come up with riffs and chords and melody lines to your own songs. Is not waste of time...just incorporate it in your practice schedule.
Okay, being a teacher I'll say to you that:
1- yes it's fine to improv, and you should!
2- Do it AFTER practicing. Meaning, why not learn a scale, practice it over and over, and then try to put a backing track after practice to apply what you know? For example, today you practiced sweeping arpeggios. And you practiced in the harmonic minor scale. Combine the two, put a backing track like in B minor, and just jam using sweeping and using the harmonic minor scale. You'll memorize "patterns" in each scale and in each tonality which will yield much more fullfilling and more awesome noodeling at the end. It's not a great way to learn, but it's a way to "master" what you know
Screw those schedules. Just learn the things you feel like learning, unless it´s always improvising over backing tracks. It´s fun to vary between things you learn so if done right, you´ll get all the points.
You look like Kmac2021 in this video
Who need sight reqding while u can play by ear😎
Mate you are taking all the fun out of it! It becomes a chore. The only way is to have an attitude of 'just pick it up and do what you feel' and then you notice that you end up doing more, learning more and looking all those things up out of shear curiosity. The hole gets deeper and deeper as you go. It will happen out of curiosity if you truly love the guitar. Playing guitar/learning an instrument is to escape time and its constraints, not introduce new ones!
Seems like it works for him
P.K. That has not been my experience...like, at all. If I don't schedule it, I won't do it; no matter much I enjoy it.
If you're a beginner, one of the most essential talents you can have is the ability to push music aside and tolerate increasingly sophisticated noise as you persistently grind repetitive technical drills that are musically lightyears apart from the kind of musical expression that made you pick up the instrument in the first place. I have developed a Stockholm syndrome with EADGBE because a lot of the time that I spend practicing that's the entirety of what my music is made of. It only gets marginally better grinding scales, and even then the most beneficial exercises have zero regard for musical quality, the only important element is teaching your nervous system all the different permutations of combining smaller movements sequentially that will eventually enable you to play something that sounds interesting.
If you jump right in by trying to learn to play the songs you like and your practice time is spent more on trying to play music rather than make [increasingly sophisticated] noise, you're going to develop a solid foundation of bad habits, end up spending your time solving all the wrong problems (in the wrong ways), and will reach your skill cap much sooner than necessary because your bad foundation strangled your potential, but you didn't see that in the beginning because you didn't have the skill and insight required to sense what was happening as you were making progress. You may not even realize it in retrospect and may conclude you weren't meant to play at a higher level, sell your guitar and walk away depressed. All because you wanted to play music but didn't have the stoicism required to endure the soul-drenching technical exercises. Remember that for the mind to live you need to feed the body. The best you can do is develop a fetishistic relationship with the tactile side of playing an instrument, and derive pleasure from developing and refining the movements of your whole body, while forgetting about music. If you can do that, it's a superpower. Also remember to breathe well - breathing is part of the posture.
Don't ever practice mindlessly. If you're zoning out and doing stuff subconsciously, you're in the wrong state of mind for practicing - you should probably be playing and prioritizing music instead. When you practice you should be fully conscious of everything that is going on and concentrate on small details with intensity that is impossible, impractical, unnecessary and of less importance for a live musician. Best practicing is like a state of trance where there exist only you and the guitar. In Adam del Monte's words; "It should be a sacred moment."
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I don't practice to a schedule because I think thats what causes people to get sick of things by forcing themselves to do it. If you just practice when you want, you stay interested for longer.
EDIT: I should probably have mentioned that I do music in school and I go to a private guitar teacher so maybe that makes up a bit for not consistently practicing?? idk
To each their own of course! However, consistent practice is always better than inconsistent practice if you ever want to improve.
I think the combination of both is best. Make a selection (small or large, depends on your goals) of things you need to learn - either general stuff (scales, technique) and/or sections of songs. Then make practice a daily habit and choose everyday something from the list
i think the best way to do it is get that 1-2 hours everyday where u force yourself on doing some of these things, and in the rest do what ever you want.
For eg i dont like memorizing songs, but i like playing them, so i have to force myself to learn them. Same thing for other things, sometimes u just have to force urself if u want to improve
15 minutes for technique is too short unless you focus on a single technique. You won't make much progress! Sight reading is pretty useless to someone playing in a rock band. If you want to be a session player or play in an orchestra then it might be useful. Ear training is the most important. Without a good ear you won't be able to improvise or write songs or even play live!
Stuningly wrong about technique. Ive seen this type of player.. their entired body tied up in knots forcing their hands to do something they get worse at as they try it due to stress. Best imho and this works for me.. do something..especially something WAY above yoru skill level every day. Even for 60 seconds. 5 minutes. Whatever.. but do it every time you pick up the guitar. One day you'll be doing this far above your level thing youd have spent hour after hour painfully trying to learn.. and notice you can just do it... at least passibly.. then that youre good at it.. then that youre very good at it.
I am always baffled whenever a rock guitarist talks about sight reading.
Sight reading is not useless. I play in a metal band and we never use sheet music to practice our stuff, but you never know what you may get in front of you. It's never a bad thing to know the language of music.
i like ur channel a lot but that SLURP killed my ears lol
Fuck that. Seems too much like studying.