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Guitar Practice Schedule

Monster — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:09:59 +0000

You want to learn how to play the guitar like a rock star? You have to practice and then practice some more. I was lost when I first started out. Scales, chords, songs…I felt there was so much to learn and I wanted to know every thing at once. It took some time before i figured out a practice schedule that acctually worked for me.

Here are the basic things an asprering guitarist must practice in order to becaome a musician.

Reading Music : learn and practice standard music notation and guitar tablature to learns. Your music reading skills will improve. You’ll be able to learn your songs faster and improve your guitar techniques. In time you’ll aslo be able to “hear” sheet music just by glancing at it.

Chords : Practice strumming. Learn various chords progressions. Play songs in different keys.You should memorize the fundamental chords for all 12 keys. You should be able to change chords fast ans smooth.

Performing : Memorizing songs and recording your self as you play will help you gain confidence. Beginners focus on their hands. When you record yourself you can concentrate on listenting. You’ll know exactly where you need more work.

Theory & Technique : Study scales & more advanced chords. Learn and practice arpeggios, slides, pull-offs, finger-picking, hammers and other techniques.

Fretboard : Memorize the notes on your fretboard if you plan on soloing.

Ear Training : Try to learn and identify chords, notes, intervals, rhythms, and other basic elements used in music. Ear training is especially important to those who wish to play and sing.

Improvisation : It’s time to put all of what you learned together. Practice your techniqies and play sounds you’ve learned. Make your own chords and use scales to write your own songs.

Daily Practice Schedule:

Playing the guitar takes time but the efforts are worth it. You really want to succed? You should play at least one hour every day. Here is a schedule to help you out.

10 min. Warm Ups
15 min. Theory (scales, chords…)
10 min. Ear training
15 min. guitar techniques (alternate picking, tapping…)
10 min. Improvisation

Guitar playing is like any thing else. I will leave you with a quote from Abraham Lincoln:“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

Play, play and then play some more!

Major And Minor Pentatonic Scales

Monster — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:15:45 +0000

In this guitar lesson we will see that there are two types of pentatonic scales, major pentatonic and minor pentatonic scales. Pentatonic scales are composed of five pitches per octave as opposed to major scales who use all seven pitches. Pentatonic scales are used every where from Jazz, blues, children’s songs and folk music. Practice these exercises and gain speed and knowledge of your fretboard.

Major Pentatonic

A major pentatonic scale consists of the 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 5th - 6th notes of a major scale. The following shows an example of G major pentatonic scale.

w=whole step and h=half step

Exercises

Here are some exersis to practice your major and minor pentatonic scales. Download the PDF documents and print them out. You can also play along with the music ninja, the audio is also for download. Have fun and keep practicing.

The music ninja contains two tracks, click next to hear the second scales.

Minor pentatonic scale exercises printable PDF

Minor Pentatonic audio (MP3)

Major pentatonic scale exercises printable PDF

Major pentatonic audio (MP3)

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Blues Scales Guitar Exercise

Monster — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:45:41 +0000

Open the Blues Scale PDF document, you you can save a copy on your pc or simply print it. Once you feal compertable playing the scales you can try to play them with the audio. The ninja contains two tracks. The first is only the scales and the second is the scales with percussions.

This is just a sample:

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Blues:

Scale formula - 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7
Notes in a C blues scale - C Eb F Gb G Bb C

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Practicing Major Scales

Monster — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:02:51 +0000

Major Scales Guitar Exercises for you. In my last article I wrote some theory about scales and using formulas to find our scales. Now it’s time to pick up some speed and learn the notes on the fretboard. We are one step closer to becoming a guitar master.

You can download this PDF document containing exercises to master the major scales.

Here is a sample of what you will find:

The download contains C D E F G A B Major Scales and C# D# E# F# G# A# scales. Have fun and enjoy, keep practicing and speed will come.

Listen to my little ninja and then when you have practiced try to play along. There are two track. The first is the scale and the second has added percussions.

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