If you really want to learn to play the guitar truly, you have to do something simple before something. We must learn how learning is done between muscle and brain. If you understand the process your brain has to pass to train your muscles, practice sessions will produce effective results as expected.
You probably heard the word muscle memory. This is the process of learning and saving a precise instruction set of each group of muscles needed for all the small tasks your brain needs to play on the guitar. Once the muscle memory is firmly established, it will naturally be easy to play the guitar and it will be an almost unconscious action.
These tasks need to be practiced at a sufficiently slow time so that they can be executed consistently and completely. If you practice guitar with the tempo you make a lot of mistakes you will teach the muscles how to do exercises including mistakes. Unfortunately, muscles can not distinguish between playing mistakes and playing without mistakes.
Here are 12 tips for having a practice session to support the development of good muscle memory:
1. Prepare the whole body for practice.
Please practice while relaxing. Just as an aircraft pilot inspects an airplane before takeoff it is necessary to check body tension, rigidity, tension, pain or discomfort. Tight muscles become intense during practice and may significantly limit the entire range of movement required to master the guitar. Even tension on the shoulder can move towards the arm and you can touch your fingers until then. In order to stay loose, you stretch the entire body and warm it before playing. Start practicing with a slow and easy exercise to prepare your hand.
2. Practice in a quiet and comfortable place illegally disturbed.
3. Practice every day at a specific time.
It begins everyday with a solid effort to practice plans including concrete details of when, where, and what to play.
4. Keep the practice session short, frequent, and very concrete.
It is more effective to practice for 20 minutes each week, 2-3 hours a week.
5. Always practice with the metronome.
Let's repeat that. Always practice with the metronome. Even good guitarists are surprising to beat this rule. By practicing yourself with a consistent tempo you can make your music sound professional. This is valuable if you plan to play only for friends at a stadium filled with parties and screaming fans.
6. Tune the guitar before each exercise.
7. Determine the best practice speed.
For each part of the scale, exercises and songs will find the speed of the fastest metronome that you can definitely play. Practice one day at 25% ~ 30% of the maximum tempo. It will be up to 50% following this, 75% in the other day. Practice at your old highest speed on the 4th day. You may be surprised by the pleasure to find that you have a new, faster maximum speed. However, this routine may seem very slow, but since we actually pay, foretell you to hang up there.
8. Do not learn too many different things in each exercise session.
Practice only a small part of the exercise or song at once. Processing all new songs with one setting makes it difficult for your brain to cement hard muscle memories. We need to practice a few small music spoons at once, so that neonates can not handle the infinite diet of solid foods.
9. You already know, but also work on the problem part.
This may sound very clearly, but new guitarists tend to stumble over the problem part easily and play repeatedly.
10. After warming up for the first 10 minutes, divide the remaining time evenly between the new performance and the new song.
Set aside for a while to just turn around with the guitar.
Please try to inject healthy fun in each exercise session. If you are working on the blues scale, how about trying to improve your solo with a jam track or a favorite blues CD? Select the favorite song to work at the end of each practice session.
12. If you plan to run in person
Practice to play your songs perfectly in private, in front of sympathetic friends and family. Let's make practice environment as close as possible to your future performance conditions. If you run standing, please practice that way. Please feel free to talk about your friendly exercises and laugh at it during your practice. This will help you learn to become comfortable in a distracting concert environment. Consider recording a practice session on a tripod with a simple home video camera.
No matter how well you know the material, the opening night jitter can discard your game. If you practice practice repeatedly in a simulated concert environment, the real thing is easy.
Conclusion: In order to play well, you must know how the body is learned.
