Practice Regime

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Edwin

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Hey everyone,

Haha.. wow this is like my first post. Anyway, I'm just curious what is everyone's practice regime like?

Sample Qns:

a. How many times a week and for how many hours do you structure your practices?
b. How do you structure each of your practices?

Just curious to find out.. :)

Like for me, still in NS la.. so I can only squeeze in half to bout an hour's practice everyday. Maybe couple hours on weekends. I tend to stick to practicing whatever i had for guitar class. Occasionally when i remember, i'll just do some chromatic warmups.. Yup.. Haha.. or revise some songs/techniques i learnt from previous lessons. Of course, practise songs for upcoming gigs too!

Cheers to an awesome forum. :)

Edwin
 
woo i practice hmm almost 4-6 hrs a day.I'll just go some chromatic runs to extend my fingers dexterity and maybe some appregios to go with that.to get my fingers move more i play songs from The Human Abstract blah blah blah.thats all..:D
 
Each of us will vary.

Some got families, jobs, NS, school.

Those with better privileges, 4-8 hours (I sound jealous :P)

Those with some constraints like long working hours or NS, whatever counts.


What to practice? Varies.

NS, if you only have 1 hour max during book-ins and book-outs weekend, and you're doing a 45 min DT set; unless you super zai, I think you can only practice the specific songs. Not much specific techniques, only those in the songs.

Just do whatever you can, suggestion is, if you have a band, learn all the songs until you're very familiar first. Before moving to more techniques or trying new stuffs. Guess thats quite common.
 
ya man.. that's kinda how i do it la.. i onli squeeze the technique stuff on weekends when i can do 2 - 4 hours depends.. how in the world does dime like put in 4-6 hours everyday ?? 0.0 Are u like not schooling and unemployed or something.. 0.0
 
haha imagine those ppl with short attention spans like me, technically i spend 1 hour out of the 4 hours i use to practice ahaha
 
For the ones that has passed the "Shred Barrier"
15 minutes finger exercise ... warm up
30 minutes revised and improvised own made up lick
30 minutes learn one song / make new licks
15 minutes understand the theory behind the lead part / implement the new licks on 3 backing tracks Rock,Blues,Metal or Etc

altogether 1 hour 30 minutes , thats my daily practice

For beggining who want to go bypass the "Shred barrier"
2 hour chromatic run (4 notes, 3 notes, 2notes, mixed pers string) + metronome
2 hour learning juz one fast licks from one song and master it
1 hour of making riffs and etc for cool down

hehehehe 5 hour aint that bad, its worth the hardwork, sooner or later it pay-off, i took around 3 months to bypass the fast-runs
 
Edwin said:
ya man.. that's kinda how i do it la.. i onli squeeze the technique stuff on weekends when i can do 2 - 4 hours depends.. how in the world does dime like put in 4-6 hours everyday ?? 0.0 Are u like not schooling and unemployed or something.. 0.0
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zakk wylde practices once he goes home from school through the night. he sleeps in school. eddie van halen practices from 7-3 at night..
 
3-5 hours daily,

15 minutes - Chromatics
45 minutes - Scales
1 hour - Some weird technique i suck at, like sweep picking
30 minutes - Guitar tricks? play behind head, shit like that
remaining time - Screw around, play songs, write new stuff.
 
haha.. man.. cool stuff that everyone's been saying.. i like the one that has like time reserved for practising licks he created himself.. :) That's a hurrah for creativity..

haha.. Man.. i guess sleeping in school n jamming in the wee hours of the night are impossible for me now.. cos sleeping in camp means sleeping in camp on the weekends as well.. n jamming in the wee hours of the night will mean spending sleepless nights in camp on the weekends.. 0.0

Oh well.. I'm sorry.. I jus love blaming it on the army.. HAHAHA! but the time will come when i have 8 months to jam 6 hours a day.. time will tell if i will have the discipline n passion to do so.. :P But to those who alr do so, I salute you!

More regimes? Its cool reli.. i think i'm alr thinkin of including some of the stuff everyone mentioned!
 
By the way, just curious anyone ever tried the steve vai 10 hour guitar workout b4? hahaha! Its like always see it on guitar tablature websites..lol.. wonder if it reli worked for anyone..
 
never work for me ... me like to learn smart not hard ... 10 hours juz worn out my interest ... juz a simple interesting 1hour 30 mins can really boost the creativity level .

but for beggining that ones to learn how to shred its better to really sit down in empty room with juz ur electric guitar without amp and juz practice practice practice for 5 hour , listen to ur playing, is it clear without an amp ...

to be honest i never touch an amp for the first 5 months, and i cant tune for goodness sake for first 3 months so i was " indirectly forced" to just sit and practice on my fingering yup2 , 3 months 6 hours a day , including saturday and sunday included .
 
the army's a bitch when it comes to practicing your axe with a regime. thank god i learned the instrument before i enlisted. and when it came for my time to come, i would immediately start my warm ups, riffs, scale running etc when i got home.

but theres no rush really, because the more you rush to brush up your skills, you will feel you only have accomplished almost nothing in such constricted time. take it easy and take your time, only play when you have lots of it. thank god im stay out personnel and can afford to riff on the axe.

.....i wonder why they didn't put me in MDC. the people there really need to up their standard as i had a terrible time listening to them during my CO evening. the bassist was the only person who kept me groovin'

lol anyway...

basically this was my bmt regime.

1. warm up, finger stretches and the like. 10-15 mins....ok not so long la..5 mins.
2. scales. mastering one ive learnt and learning a new one. 1 hour 30 mins
3. technique. perfecting what im weak at and trying out new ones. 1 hour
4. jamming a song and learning a new one. depends...roughly only like 40-50 mins.
5. and my favourite, improvisation jam! and if i feel like it, i can go on for the whole day! just kidding. my timing would be something like 45 mins or somethin'

hopefully this might help. now i can work on my vocals since i have more time.
 
Shit i am lagging alot! On school days i only practise 1hr..Holiday i shd be practising but instead i am youtubing and UG-ing!

I think malmsteen practises 25 hours a day :D:D.

[/lamejoke]
 
in fact malmsteen practices actually 8 to 9 hours a day when he was a teenager. 25 hours is quite unrealistic for a person, do correct me if im wrong if there IS someone who does that. after all we do need to eat, sleep and do our daily stuff in 24 hours. and personally, im already pooped out at the 24th hour lol.

its okay to slack off practicing for a while, i do that at times too. the main thing is always to get back at what you're doing and keep going!

cheers! ;)
 
E|12p17-----12p13-----12p15-----
B|-----12p15-----12p17-----12p13
G|-------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------
A|-------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------

legend : p = pull-off

try doing this for warm ups.it really gives your fingers more dexterity.
and make sure to bar the 12 fret when doing the pull-off.
 
haha that was just a joke la..

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Im using this currently to train my speed up. Basically just canon in D#.
 
coolz... that's some pretty interesting warmups.. i so agree bout the army shit.. but oh well.. i finally am stay out alr.. hahaha.. can't wait to ORD in NOVEMBER!!
So I guess hurray.. i can practise more and make use of what u all say.. esp since I don't need to search for Mr MSK anymore..
 
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