This is SO true! Not many people ever seems to think of it like that either. I’ve had long sessions of learning nothing and I’ve had 5-10 minute sessions where I’ve had things just start to make sense and made great strides.
You’ve really got a gift at putting some complex things into a simpler delivery that everyone can understand! I’ve been playing tabs for 15 years and have really gotten stuck. Just bought an electric and signed up for lessons. I subbed after binge watching your videos. Pumped to learn all over again!
I really fw this dude man! Just found this page and something about this vibe is just right for me. KEEP MAKING STUFF MAN 🙏🏽 I'm gonna be on here on the regular, this is my go to now.
You are 100% correct in everything you say. Always spend some time each day trying to learn or enhance something you want / need to know. But I would recommend you spend 75% of your time learning new songs or improving on songs you already know ie: keep it fun...
It's true. 5 minutes of trying to play some a riff that I couldn't get down, be it Crazy Train, Cowboys from Hell, Last Resort or Snow (hey oh) I'd play around 5-10 minutes practicing and then I'd move on to noodling, playing some riffs I already knew or hell, even moving on to another riff I couldn't play and just spending 5-10 on that one, and suddenly the next day, I could just play it much easier than the day before. Doing it in the morning and at night for 5-10 every day would probably make it go fast as well, and after about a week of doing it, I could play all of those riffs about 90%. It truly is how many rather than how much.
This is what I needed to hear. I started learning on my own and got frustrated after a while. So I took lessons for six months to improve my skills. I stopped the lessons because my teacher could not answer my questions about how to structure my practice sessions. He' just say" practice every thing" which is not a real answer at all. I wanted to know how much time I should spend on chords, picking, and technique. In retrospect His style of teaching created more frustration by not conveying to me what this video just did. Up until just now I, would practice spending way too much time trying to nail licks or chord progressions. And hardly any time on technique or reading music. I'm still learning on my own and the best part about it is. I'm no longer paying $75, an hour to be frustrated.😁
I am 29 and I stopped playing guitar for like 6 years ago when I started a family and got busy making a living and I was never really good at it😂, watching your videos created that fire in my heart again and makes me wanna pick up a guitar and be able to learn again and actually get better, I hope I'm not too late
Completely agree with everything you said. And to get real specific... you must practice precisely. If you fudge and muddle through you are training your brain to muddle and will not improve. Your brain must do it right to memorize the right way. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle is a fantastic book on this subject. Cannot recommend it high enough. 🧡⚔️🎨
I like picking things up, and putting them down at the gym... I'm pretty good at that! 👍💪 On a more serious note; I have an interval timer app on my phone that I set up to go off every min for 15 mins and I do it in the morning and at night. If I feel good then I practice. If I feel bad then I play the fun stuff! The interval app keeps track of my progress as well in a calendar.
In applied behaviour analysis, we understand that distributed practice is far more successful, in terms of learning outcomes, than is massed practice. It's why cramming doesn't work (yes, folks - whatever you got in an exam you crammed for is what you would have got anyway!). It's why - in karate training - you spend a short amount of time learning a new technique or practising an already-learned one. In a two hour session, you're not learning a technique for 45 minutes and practising a previously learned one for another 45 minutes ... I suspect that the Japanese had a handle on behaviour analysis very much earlier than we did in the west.
I find what you have Just said to be the No.1. Then I ask myself "Why is it that so Many can not grasp this & put it to work "? If a get to a Piece that I can't work out I forget it 4ever.
Totally agree balance is key If you don’t have fun you’ll quit If all you do is play the same old what you know you’ll never improve So key to have a guitar out so you can grab easily.. you need to have at least one out of the case to grab you’ll play There’s a lot of guitar collectors out there (just look at their hands, no calluses) but lots of guitars🙄🤣 The tone is in your fingers Balance work practice /play and equipment A good Golfer , Surfer or Guitarist could do real well with crap equipment for a reason🤣👍
@@craigwalters5530 it looks like really high grade flamed Maple with a light grey finish. I'm not sure what the term for the color layout would be though...
I agree with everything you say in this video... But... (Regarding the title of the video)... There is no guitarist with skills that we look up to that practiced for less than 1 hour a day to grow their skills. You can't get beyond intermediate without getting addicted. Getting addicted means it's in your hands... A lot. Hours a day.
I'm still at the phase where I can't play anything perfectly. So my difficult thing has been trying to actually perfect basic things. But I've been practicing the Sam a things for 5 months and it's getting better but I don't know if it's the right way to do it.
This makes alot of sence.i pick up my guitar several times a day.i never think about time tho.sometimes ill play two hours straight and not even realize it.lol
While I think that it is beneficial to break practice up into smaller chunks multiple times a day, you are absolutely not going to become a high level musician playing less than an hour a day. You can become a decent low level intermediate musciain playing a half hour a day, but it will take many years and if you want to be a serious guitar player you are absolutely going to need to put in hours a day....there's just way to many different things you need to be able to learn/combine/and master to really get good at guitar
I think his title is misleading. If you're not playing about an hour a day you won't be more than a strummer or someone who knows a few tricks. But if all you have is 15 mins, you should make the most of it. I wish I had 4 hours to practice. I could get 4 years worth of work done in 1 year.
I'd love a reply on this, would you say at the start of every practice session, one should maybe have fun for like 10 minutes then actually practice for 30 or something as such, or would a half,half balance be good as well. Thanks brother. Would love to be a student.
Most of the stuff I've tried to learn to enhance my playing has been a waste of time over 25 years and led me to play generically. Pick from the very very best for inspiration and work out your own sound early on. Work on the basics which most get wrong eg uneven vibrato or effective picking. Don't play with feel it makes you sound generic play with conscious thought. Learn lots of rhythms harmony and melodies with dynamics.
What if you practice the same thing every day (repetition) for a long time (duration) and still can't get it? I'm sort of kidding, but I'm also sort of not.
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Dude, I've never seen someone explain this subject so good, you have a talent for teaching and explaining, keep it up👍
This is SO true! Not many people ever seems to think of it like that either. I’ve had long sessions of learning nothing and I’ve had 5-10 minute sessions where I’ve had things just start to make sense and made great strides.
That's how it's done! Commit long-term to short-term sessions.
You’ve really got a gift at putting some complex things into a simpler delivery that everyone can understand! I’ve been playing tabs for 15 years and have really gotten stuck. Just bought an electric and signed up for lessons. I subbed after binge watching your videos. Pumped to learn all over again!
I really fw this dude man! Just found this page and something about this vibe is just right for me. KEEP MAKING STUFF MAN 🙏🏽 I'm gonna be on here on the regular, this is my go to now.
Great message about repetition Mike. Subbed
Thanks brother. Love your channel. Rick told me you two are friends :)
So true to life. It’s the balance of enjoying songs but also working on what you need improvement on. Always!
You are 100% correct in everything you say. Always spend some time each day trying to learn or enhance something you want / need to know. But I would recommend you spend 75% of your time learning new songs or improving on songs you already know ie: keep it fun...
Just bought a year subscription of your courses. Good stuff - Thanks
Love it! Best of luck to you!
Great advice, makes sense
Thanks!
Just put it down. Excited to pick it up again. Subbed
Yes sir.... I experienced this playing for an hour on my balcony and just burned me out. Now I seldomy pick it up. Great video / great advice 👍
One of the best explanations on the topic I have ever seen. Thank You Michael !
It's true. 5 minutes of trying to play some a riff that I couldn't get down, be it Crazy Train, Cowboys from Hell, Last Resort or Snow (hey oh)
I'd play around 5-10 minutes practicing and then I'd move on to noodling, playing some riffs I already knew or hell, even moving on to another riff I couldn't play and just spending 5-10 on that one, and suddenly the next day, I could just play it much easier than the day before.
Doing it in the morning and at night for 5-10 every day would probably make it go fast as well, and after about a week of doing it, I could play all of those riffs about 90%.
It truly is how many rather than how much.
+1 subscriber. Stumbled across your channel. Really like it! Keep up the good work
Thanks!
This is what I needed to hear. I started learning on my own and got frustrated after a while. So I took lessons for six months to improve my skills. I stopped the lessons because my teacher could not answer my questions about how to structure my practice sessions. He' just say" practice every thing" which is not a real answer at all. I wanted to know how much time I should spend on chords, picking, and technique. In retrospect His style of teaching created more frustration by not conveying to me what this video just did. Up until just now I, would practice spending way too much time trying to nail licks or chord progressions. And hardly any time on technique or reading music. I'm still learning on my own and the best part about it is. I'm no longer paying $75, an hour to be frustrated.😁
I am 29 and I stopped playing guitar for like 6 years ago when I started a family and got busy making a living and I was never really good at it😂, watching your videos created that fire in my heart again and makes me wanna pick up a guitar and be able to learn again and actually get better, I hope I'm not too late
How’s it coming along?
Completely agree with everything you said. And to get real specific... you must practice precisely. If you fudge and muddle through you are training your brain to muddle and will not improve. Your brain must do it right to memorize the right way. The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle is a fantastic book on this subject. Cannot recommend it high enough. 🧡⚔️🎨
I like picking things up, and putting them down at the gym... I'm pretty good at that! 👍💪 On a more serious note; I have an interval timer app on my phone that I set up to go off every min for 15 mins and I do it in the morning and at night. If I feel good then I practice. If I feel bad then I play the fun stuff! The interval app keeps track of my progress as well in a calendar.
In applied behaviour analysis, we understand that distributed practice is far more successful, in terms of learning outcomes, than is massed practice. It's why cramming doesn't work (yes, folks - whatever you got in an exam you crammed for is what you would have got anyway!). It's why - in karate training - you spend a short amount of time learning a new technique or practising an already-learned one. In a two hour session, you're not learning a technique for 45 minutes and practising a previously learned one for another 45 minutes ... I suspect that the Japanese had a handle on behaviour analysis very much earlier than we did in the west.
I find what you have Just said to be the No.1. Then I ask myself "Why is it that so Many can not grasp this & put it to work "? If a get to a Piece that I can't work out I forget it 4ever.
Totally agree balance is key
If you don’t have fun you’ll quit
If all you do is play the same old what you know you’ll never improve
So key to have a guitar out so you can grab easily.. you need to have at least one out of the case to grab you’ll play
There’s a lot of guitar collectors out there (just look at their hands, no calluses) but lots of guitars🙄🤣
The tone is in your fingers
Balance work practice /play and equipment
A good Golfer , Surfer or Guitarist could do real well with crap equipment for a reason🤣👍
That PRS is perfection 🤩
I was thinking that, lol.. Anyone know what the body colour/design is called?
@@craigwalters5530 it looks like really high grade flamed Maple with a light grey finish. I'm not sure what the term for the color layout would be though...
It’s a McCarty
I agree with everything you say in this video... But... (Regarding the title of the video)... There is no guitarist with skills that we look up to that practiced for less than 1 hour a day to grow their skills. You can't get beyond intermediate without getting addicted. Getting addicted means it's in your hands... A lot. Hours a day.
Thank you so much!
Well said bro! Keep it fun!! 🎸🎸👍
Great advice!
This is really great advice
Guitar model plz?
I'm still at the phase where I can't play anything perfectly. So my difficult thing has been trying to actually perfect basic things. But I've been practicing the Sam a things for 5 months and it's getting better but I don't know if it's the right way to do it.
Good stuff🤙🤙🤙🤙
This makes alot of sence.i pick up my guitar several times a day.i never think about time tho.sometimes ill play two hours straight and not even realize it.lol
Same here. I'll just have it sitting on the couch will me. When I feel myself starting to lose focus on playing, I'll stop and watch TV for a bit.
Truth rings!
First video. Subbed.
I want to practice more than an hour a day, I love to practice, more importantly I need to practice😏
While I think that it is beneficial to break practice up into smaller chunks multiple times a day, you are absolutely not going to become a high level musician playing less than an hour a day. You can become a decent low level intermediate musciain playing a half hour a day, but it will take many years and if you want to be a serious guitar player you are absolutely going to need to put in hours a day....there's just way to many different things you need to be able to learn/combine/and master to really get good at guitar
I think his title is misleading. If you're not playing about an hour a day you won't be more than a strummer or someone who knows a few tricks. But if all you have is 15 mins, you should make the most of it. I wish I had 4 hours to practice. I could get 4 years worth of work done in 1 year.
THANK YOU 😳😳😳
I'd love a reply on this, would you say at the start of every practice session, one should maybe have fun for like 10 minutes then actually practice for 30 or something as such, or would a half,half balance be good as well. Thanks brother. Would love to be a student.
How did those 70s rock gods learn?
Most of the stuff I've tried to learn to enhance my playing has been a waste of time over 25 years and led me to play generically. Pick from the very very best for inspiration and work out your own sound early on. Work on the basics which most get wrong eg uneven vibrato or effective picking. Don't play with feel it makes you sound generic play with conscious thought. Learn lots of rhythms harmony and melodies with dynamics.
What if you practice the same thing every day (repetition) for a long time (duration) and still can't get it? I'm sort of kidding, but I'm also sort of not.
We talking about practice not the guitar 🎸🎸 that I love and die for we taking about practice nothing else but practice
"You Don't Need An Hour A Day".... yea...more like 8-9 hours per day
I practice 3 minutes a day. I'm hoping to be a shitty guitarist in 60 years
GO ON. DO IT!
@@Guitargate 😄👌
wait yall do an hour? i do it till 10 after school lmao