Perfect Practice: How to Zero in on Your Goals and Become a Better Guitar Player Faster
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Learn to practice the right way!
The guitar is in your lap. It's tuned. You're ready. An hour goes by and you feel like you've accomplished so little. In fact, a good chunk of time was spent noodling around. On top of that, your mind keeps going back to the other things you need to be doing: the housework, spending time with family and friends, etc. You set the guitar back in its case, unsure if you've actually made any progress. . .
If you find this description all too familiar you are not alone.
Learn the secrets to transforming your practice time into time well-spent. This book will help you to figure out how to identify and overcome the obstacles in your way by showing you what to practice and how to structure your time so you see results faster.
What you'll find in this book:
- Ways of fitting practice time into the busiest of schedules
- How to stay focused and get into the right frame of mind
- How to set realistic goals for both the long term and for each practice session
- Tips for adding meaningful variety and musicality into every practice session
- Tips on what to practice and when
- How to set goals that keep you inspired and ready to practice everyday
- A practice plan for you to personalize!
End practice burn-out and learn how to rethink your practice time with Perfect Practice!
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How to Zero in on Your Goals to See Results Faster
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Contents
1. What is Practice?
2. Finding Time
3. Preparing to Practice
4. Setting Goals
5. Adding Variety
6. Adding Musicality
7. Don’t Forget to Have Fun and Explore
8. The Value of Memorization
9. Creating your Personal Practice Plan
10. Ideas for Practice
11. Final Thoughts
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What is Practice?
Since the late 90s, I’ve taught hundreds of guitar students, and most of them (including myself) have complained about the same problems:
1. I don’t have time to practice
2. I don’t know what to practice
3. I don’t feel inspired to practice
These same three problems come up time and again, so chances are, at some point, you’ve caught yourself saying these same things.
On top of that, most students don’t really understand what it means to practice. For many people, we think of practice as the repetition of the same sort of thing over and over again in an attempt to improve a skill. However, practice is much more complicated than that. Repetition can only get you so far. You have to be engaged with it. You have to have goals, a reason for practicing. Otherwise you end up just going through the motions, resulting in little to no measurable results. This will inevitably lead to frustration, boredom, and eventually a loss of interest in something that you once loved doing so much.
So how do we overcome this? Well, that’s what this book is intended to help you do: to overcome the obstacles in your way of