What is your daily practice routine??
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Topic: What is your daily practice routine??
Posted By: activetopics
Subject: What is your daily practice routine??
Date Posted: September 23 2007 at 15:08
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I personally practice at least an hour daily (depending on how much school work I have in store for me), and take my guitar to school w/ an amp to play in a practice room during my free periods. I warm up playing the G-major scale up and down about 10 times over, then the A-chromatic scale, then i play the first riff of erotomania for fun :D Since i'm trying to get into my school's jazz band, i've been practicing jazz chords and playing along with a score that has guitar chords above each measure. If i'm in my non-jazz mode, i either come up w/ new parts for my band or try to learn a new dream theater or symphony x song or something (those are the most challenging and fun to play ^^) |
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Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: September 23 2007 at 16:06
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I play according to my feeling. Usually I warm up listening to music and playing solos on it. But it basically depends what I feel like doing. At times I just take my guitar and compose stuff under set limitations or borders. That's great for theory practise. Sometimes I practise a song if I feel like it. But most often I just play fast chord progressions through and try to adapt my fingers to them, also, I try to play a chor and add a phrase to it. Most of my practise is basicaly improvising or composing. then when I feel like it, I spend 4 hours doing fingerpractise. And I think, if the fingers bleed after that, well, you're doing it wrong. Though mostly I prectise my right hand strikes and picking, like tremolos with two fingers or from 16ths to 8ths. Then playing chords and melody at the same time. Lastly I play through my own songs and try to make something new to them from time to time. I think that's about it. Staying to a tight plan makes it boring though efficient :/ |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 28 2007 at 23:47
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my practice routine.... ahhh... close eyes.. grab a CD.. and plays
along. It's how I learned to play when I started.... it keeps
thing fresh after many years of playing. Since I have quite an eclectic
collection of albums.. prog and otherwise.. you never are sure what you
will get. Country, jazz, new wave, metal, blues, prog
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:58
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Daily practice routine? I could really use one....
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 01:10
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I just started being serious with the guitar. Probably anywhere ranging from 3 hours to 6+ hours a day.
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Posted By: ebag7125
Date Posted: October 14 2007 at 00:29
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I try to play at least a half hour of guitar and French horn a day. If i have time, i'll practice didgeridoo for a while. ------------- 
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Posted By: Pafnutij
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 08:27
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Sit at the Casio and play for 5 minutes.
Go online and post on Prog-Archives.
Go back to the keys and play another 5mins.
Go back to PC and surf porn.
Back to keys again for 5 more mins
Get up and have Coke (capital C!!)
Give Up.
I wonder why, 6 months into this routine, I can't play worth sh!t
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 18:40
Replace "Casio" with "Bass" and you've pretty much got my schedule. ------------- |
Pafnutij wrote:Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: October 20 2007 at 18:55
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About a month ago I replaced reading (and a lot of homework) with guitar dont tell my teachers. so now evry night I play guitar an hour when I'm suppost to be doing homework and for another hour before bed. I have practice with my band 2-4 times a week for 2-4 hours and also am teaching myself to play slap bass when I guit bored of the six string. Oh, I also screw around on the family piano and my brothers synth but only when no one is around and especially with no one listening.
edit: did I mention that I practice my gutteral vocals (and clean ones though you dont want to hear them) while doing all the above ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: October 22 2007 at 21:19
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I play about 4 hours a day.. sometimes more and occasionally Ive literally played all day (like 12 hours). I usually warm up my fingers first - running through scales and sh*t like that making sure im alternate picking 100%. Then Ill probably play through a few covers (along with the CD), then learn something new or just mess around on some scale |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: October 23 2007 at 03:07
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I don't really have a practice schedule, I can some times go a week or so without playing any of the various instruments I own (guitar, baritone guitar, mandola, keyboard and theremin). When I do play I tend not to focus on technique or learning songs, I'm much more into experimenting with effects and creating soundscapes. For a warm up I might play a bit of East Hastings by Godspeed You Black Emperor or if the mood takes me a few King Crimson riffs.  |
Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 00:48
| I'm not the kinda guy who can just sit down and practice stuff. My practicing is songwriting and composition. I'd rather play something my own than something written by someone else. I can't really explain it, and I still admire those who can practice a certain song or lick over and over again, but it's just not for me. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 00:55
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If I actually practiced the guitar as much effort as I put into air guitar (and bass, drums, keys, sitar, sax, etc.), I'd be the most amazing multi-instrumentalist ever. But sadly, I've fallen out of favor with it all lately, or maybe it's the other way around. But I'm really good at the flipping vinyl. |
Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 10:22
I try to write my own stuff... every decent riff I write; Im thinking.. "Ive heard this before". Then later on it's like "Oh sh*t, that's just <insert song> played slightly differently and in a different key". :( |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 10:51
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These days, I play about 6 times per year, when my budd and I get together in his basement and get a little lit up. We then proceed to wail at mostly improv jamming for about 3 hours, then we go outside for.....more refreshments. The funny thing is, we've never played better. We been playing instruments for over 20 years and are much better players now than when we sat in our bedrooms "practicing" for hours on end. What we have learned is that playing music for fun is much from the heart than from the memorization of riffs or scales. The key phrase being "for fun" of course. Obviously if you are a pro learning parts for your recording or specific songs for your gig, you need to work on that. But if your goal is to have fun jamming at improv with a trusted friend, a "practice routine" is not necessary. We can go months without playing, and as soon as we put our Les and bass back on, the inspiration just floods back into our aging carcasses. The stuff we can come up with now during free jamming is so amazing compared to what we did when we were in a band together. Yeah, we're the only two who will ever hear it (aside from his wife upstairs) but that's OK. We play for enjoyment, not for money or to perform. It is the relative rarity of these sessions that make them so fun. If we did it every weekend I suspect it would be far less magical to us.  |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 10:58
| I don't have a practice schedule or something, I play when I feel like it. Mostly I just improvise randomly, sometimes I try to come up with stuff or play through things I've finished. I rarely play songs by other bands on my own these days, though that's how I learned to play (I play bass by the way). |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 13:27
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the other day, this was my practice routine: 10 minutes or so warming up, then 1,5 or two hours of playing the solo to Metallica's Blackened over and over and over again. I found out that was a quite effective way of learning a solo. ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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