What Should You Practice On Guitar? (Answered)

[@izzatafandi9298]

1. Guitar technique 1:50 2. Music theory & application 2:59 3.ear training 4:58 4.phrasing (how you play the notes you play) 5:50 5.fretboard visualization 6:55 6.Chord and scale vocabulary 8:18 7. Play in time 10:10 8. Practice creative application (songwriting, improvisation, etc) 11:07 Mistake 1. Learn lots of songs and solos by other players 12:30 2. Learning how to read music 13:57

[@JCT1926]

I don't give my praise easily, but this guy is absolutely a great teacher who really knows his stuff, imo.

[@portlandguitaracademy9789]

This video is an absolute no nonsense guide to the real skills guitarists need to develop. I use this exact same philosophy with my students. If you don't already apply guitar practice in this way, start today. This is gold. Great video Mike.

[@Disrup7or]

that was great, but i still don't know what specifically to practice. I have no idea what kind of exercises to do for technique, or any other aspects.

[@Sinergism]

This is simply the best overview on what playing the guitar is as a "complete entity" I have ever heard. I wish so much I had heard this 30 years ago, so I could have known then what to aim for in my playing. My playing never really improved back then so I gave up. Who knows, maybe the next 5 years will blow my first 5 out of the water. I even wrote out your main points, and hope to build a practice regime around them. Thank you Mike!!

[@jessejorgensen3931]

First you should have millions of subscribers. I've only been playing 6 months. I never wanted to play like steve ray Vaughn. So i didn't pay much attention to technique. And i found ways around my weaknesses. Now i want to do more. Now i have to relearn all my scales. I had flying fingers. And it was fine for what i wanted to play. Now its not. Do yourself a favor learn it correctly the first time. Save time and frustration. And do everything this guy say. I improved within 30 minutes. No joke. And thanks dude. No frills. You're a really good teacher.

[@GlennMichaelThompson]

You cover a lot of good points! I've been playing, practicing, learning as well as teaching guitar for almost 40 years.... and there's still stuff I want/need to learn. I work from a personal library of books and dvd's that I've accumulated over the years. Also spent time taking lessons with some great teachers. Nothing can replace a good teacher. An interesting book I've recently been working with is "The Musician's Way - A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness" by Gerald Klickstein. There's a companion website for the book too. On the subject of practice time I'd suggest the dvd - "Maximize Your Practice With David Liebman - Effective Practice Techniques for All Serious Musicians". It's good to work on expanding your musical knowledge, concepts etc. You don't have to confine your studies to strictly guitar related material (imho), but don't neglect it either.... Guitar IS a unique instrument in the way it's laid out, tuned, and has it's own groups of techniques. Depending on one's style, direction, and approach will demand the type of picking techniques you decide on approaching.

[@Mizziri]

How do you train your ear?

[@frankonaco1986]

Damn! you are good!! Thanx for the Vids man, I really appreciate it!

[@squashedmike]

Hey, I read the article “How To Practice Scales…” that you link to from this video. You say NOT to follow the CAGED system and that using that system will be “…forever limiting your guitar playing creativity in very severe ways” and that it has “crippling musical restrictions” Umm… Guthrie Govan and Rick Graham (amongst others) teach the CAGED system. Obviously they teach plenty of other stuff too, but they are hardly players with crippling musical restrictions!

[@hugoflores8090]

I appreciate the quality of the information. Thanks.

[@simonpark843]

This is an excellent video. Thank you.

[@LonskiBig]

...Great points on phrasing....

[@w.allencaddell6421]

Mike Philippov, I'm a "Month Old Player" but I'm 55 years old (on June 22).I don't want to just play my favorite songs. I want to know my guitar backwards and forwards, able to play anything from Spanish Guitar, Classical Guitar, Blues, Jazz, etc. Yes, one day I'll write music. But I'm a long way away from that. But every journey begins with a single step. I have quite a few questions though,,,

[@jebstv4835]

so therefore i conclude.. that this guy is the best teacher.. final

[@ernestomartinez2335]

Can You Make a Video On Scales??&How They Work??

[@ChaosoneX]

Is it because of playing other people's songs that a lot of creative works tend to be more lackluster? Because I notice that plenty of people that can play songs by Slash or Jimi Hendrix, but when it comes to original material, they're generally "soft" for want of a better word.

[@padmanabhan5907]

Hi Mike, This video is very useful. Thanks for it! The one area which I think most guitar players tend to neglect is ear training. This is an area which i always neglect. I knew that it was one of the most important areas.But I had no idea on how to start training your ears, where to start,etc. So I started doing "Ultimate Ear Training for Guitar and Bass [Gary Willis]" but stopped after sometime as it got very boring. Do you have any video that explains in details how a guitar player must train his ears, where to start and how to start ? Thanks.

[@Andy647170]

you talk a lot man...but I found it usefull...keep doing this

[@TheBhannah]

thanks for such great info and advise

[@papicojones]

Hey man, YOU ROCK!! Do you have anything on melodic minor and its modes and how to make progress with melodic minor? I'm really stumped :c

[@lovewhitsnikkers]

Glad i found you on ultimate guitar, looking forward to the ear training video!

[@aaronbergAPB]

Nice post. Kudos

[@91Chacarron]

Whats the best way to practice ear training? learning music theroy then playing a random note and guessing by ear what note it is before checking? what about chords? any vid or insights would be nice! :)

[@tuttimannnnn]

great video.. just one question mike... can you go over some ways to train your ear? Thanks

[@josesantana276]

HowToPracticeGuitar Nice, i really need that too

[@matthewmartinez5021]

Thanks! :)

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

This guy's Unibrow is probably a better guitarist than I am.

[@branionn]

Cool . Do you have a video of how to train sweep picking ?

[@HowToPracticeGuitar]

+Branionn, yes: Best Sweep Picking Exercise For Improving Your Sweep Picking

[@shreeharibharadwaj9531]

I love your hairstyle

[@vicpnut1]

There were no links embedded in video

[@mercuryramos2692]

I am really eager to learn guitar.. Just started to learn by watching on many videos.. My big problem is that I don't have the timing or rhythm ... How will I know how many beats on particular songs.. Even on singing I don't have the timing..:/

[@joshuaesparza2984]

Rythyms something that should come naturally but you could try practicing/playing along to a metronome or drum track

[@tdtrubulgames777]

What are you like now ?

[@matthewevans3718]

Or unless u only wanna play like thurston Moore or somethjng

[@HowToPracticeGuitar]

+Ernesto M., I have a whole video course about how scales work here: practiceguitarnow.com/guitarscalesandsequences.html

[@CharlieTheSupersaurus]

What do you advise to help in developing coordination with the dreaded pinky and combating the flying pinky syndrome?