Comments on: Is there a “perfect” guitar practice routine?

By: David Bird

David Bird — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:33:07 +0000

Guitar magazine are wonderful! What is not profit based when it comes to wanting to be professional?
Way back, I read anything I could get a hold of; to me it was worth exploring everything I could and doing so made me a “smart” musician. Given any Joe can post “how to” stuff on the internet, one may run into a lot of that stupidity stuff Frank Zappa talked about so much. This was very strong advice to be critical of what you read. I believe you should only practice things that will be useful toward achieving your goals, realize how important rhythm is, and try to make musical sense with every note you play or don’t play.

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:37:19 +0000

I agree I’m not saying anything groundbreakingly new here, just providing a totally non-scientific n=1 case study. Glad you found it useful, in any case!

By: Sagar

Sagar — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:33:52 +0000

Quality advice! There seems to be a lot of similarity between what you have said and what Justin Sandercoe says on his site (www.justinguitar.com)

Also, thanks for the article on playing slow to increasing alternate picking speed. A friend directed me to the article some days back, and though it’s probably the oldest rule of guitaring never bothered following it properly at first. I gave it a sincere try today after reading your article and it works magic!

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:53:07 +0000

I think her name is Zoot.

By: Kristof

Kristof — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:22:22 +0000

Who’s the girl?

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:49:00 +0000

Very good article. I’m probably in the Steve Lukather camp with regards to this article.

I think practice should be made fun, it shouldn’t be forced. The only way anyone is going to succeed is if they devote 100% of their attention to it, and they can’t do that if guitar practice has become another boring repetitive maintenance task.

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:15:16 +0000

Glad you liked it, Elaine! And you know, the advice applies blogging as well, nudge nudge, wink wink

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:48:22 +0000

Great article, Lori! And you know, practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Then again, you’ve already covered the way perfectionism ruins other things. So, I think your plan — striving to better yourself in attainable steps (paraphrasing if you don’t mind) — is STELLAR advice.

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:24:34 +0000

I want to know how he comes up with those amazing songs!

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:22:55 +0000

Sounds like you’re very focused, Küsu. Good luck reaching your goals (and beyond…)!