What I Practice Every Day As A 20-Year Self-Taught Guitarist - Best Guitar Practice Routine 2024

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I felt a bit at a loss about how to progress, and thought I was doomed to never be able to recognise anything by ear. You changed that with your videos. Thanks, I’m know practicing following the breadcrumbs of your multiple lessons, and progressing and enjoying myself a great deal! Looking into your patreon too, and maybe your course. One thing at a time😊

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[@AaronLyons]

Unstructured creative practice - start with, more relaxed, ease into it . Andrew plays along with songs on spotify, identifying the key, then the chords, then improvising. rhythm practice - done again along with the songs on spotify, but can be done to a metronome. Moving between rhythmic divisions as smoothly as possible, Find the tempo of that song. quarter notes, eight notes, sixteenths, etc. Bounce between them. Can even do it with muted strings. Demonstration at 7mins. Syncopation, random rhythms that fit, freestyle structured practice - now fully warmed up, focus on the hard stuff. New scale, new music theory material, songwriting, etc. bonus tips: When learning licks, understand how they will work in different keys. Copy vocal melodies, try play on the guitar the notes that the vocalist sung.

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I really like the way you teach, it really speaks to the way i like to learn.

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[@daphne_turnbull]

This video gave me some ideas for my practice routine. I want to do more songwriting. I like the idea of using part of my practice routine to do something creative. I might work on songwriting ideas during some of my practice time. I also like your rhythm practice technique.

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Great lesson with this type, I think your right this is the building blocks ,😅 of lead guitar, I've been using for a while now ☺️ I'm sorda mechanical still working with it though . I just now seen how your supposed use 😂.from tk

[@patrickganess8557]

Thank you more rhythm demo will be appreciated

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Sure! I do a longer breakdown of this exact exercise in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKK4pn2BYsmHrpY Here's another helpful rhythm lesson as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKDTimWvg7eobJo

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[@shelleymonder]

I could use some help with phrasing while playing notes within the scales. I hear the melodic sounds I want to make, but could use some quick videos on building up a vocabulary of sound.

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Good suggestion. I'll add it to the list and try to come up with something.

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[@matepojbics2386]

Hi Andrew! I started to learn major scales, and they work really well, and I love play in them, but the problem is that, our band made songs in different keys, and its hard to remember, which scale is in which scale. So my question is, should I learn all the major scales by memorizing them, or there are rules that builds these scale, and I can't learn them instead? Maybe like this I don't have to constantly look at scale charts to learn a scale

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Hey! Good question. It's essentially one shape no matter which key you're in. By memorizing the notes on the low E string you can easily move that shape into any key. Watch these videos if you haven't yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZa9aox4eZt7qq8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/naGtqJSfmdWWo5I kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYm9eJadjt6mhNU Hope they help!

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@@andrewclarkeguitar Thank you very much!

[@bobk9074]

Andrew: What is the average length of time to learn all the concepts of the 2 hour course. Thanks! Bob K

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

It's really going to depend on where your skills are at. If you can already play bar chords pretty comfortably and don't need to spend time working on that, I'd say you could get through all the material in a week or two. Each step has exercises that you might not be able to master on the first attempt, so it's best to take your time a bit where necessary. I've seen some folks take it much slower than this as well. So it's kind of tough to say for sure 😅

[@acrackhead2607]

Damn guess i gotta go practice now 😂

[@theogonepieceguy]

I can figure out chords qith ear but the problem arises when there is a nin diatonic progression 😢

[@wardengrn]

Lol been engaging following along with you, making myself write it down, then play it all. My brain fries and i play while watching cold case files

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Brother please make tutorials on leads

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I've got tons! ☺ Check out this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npLJoHabjbyrd6c

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[@TunaStrata]

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[@DarthCalculus]

So weird, it just occurred to me that I've been playing for 20 years as well

[@Name-bo4ox]

You’ve been playing Guitar for 20 years? How old are u now bro?

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Haha yeah! I'm 32.

[@Name-bo4ox]

@@andrewclarkeguitar damn u look younger, i thought you were around 20 😅

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@@Name-bo4ox haha yeah I seem to get that a lot 😂

[@faixx5]

Always put stand up practice in a day 💀

That's why you don't know much about music theory.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Being self-taught definitely has its pros and cons!

[@monsterram6617]

@@andrewclarkeguitar That's right. Pros: you can do whatever you want without having to learn from anyone. Cons: improvement takes a long time and you may never discover what could be learned in just a few minutes with study/tutelage. I mean, why waste hours of your time learning from people who, over the past 100+ years, have mastered the instrument when you can spend years trying to "figure it out" yourself all for the sake of claiming you're "self-taught"!? Btw, unless you locked yourself in a room for 20 years and never watched another player or listened to any music, you're not self taught. Listening to other people's music, watching them play and then learning... is called _imitation._ Not invention. In reality, you're not self-taught; you're self-limiting.

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​@@monsterram6617 Everybody learns differently though remember that

[@monsterram6617]

@@TouchscreamPresents Not really. There are four different "ways" people learn: Visual, Auditory, Read & Write, and Kinaesthetic. People can have a combination of these but most people (about 85%) are primarily _visual_ learners. So no, not everyone learns differently. We learn mostly the same with some small variations. Additionally, if you go back and read what I wrote you'll realize that what I'm prescribing is how to both facilitate and accelerate learning. The main issue in an actual "self-taught" scenario; by definition, is that you must discover new knowledge over time or by chance instead of being shown right away. No other musical discipline does this, why is the guitar so special that people need to be "self-taught" when there is no objective advantage in it?

[@TouchscreamPresents]

@@monsterram6617 it might be a cultural thing that's guitar specific... Although I'm getting a sense you're being a bit overly irate about the self-taught description itself so I won't engage any further.