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Closing Thought – Establish a Routine of Learning
(^) Ideally, practice times should be a regular and planned part of your daily routine. Music learning is quicker,
more enjoyable and more effective when the task of extracurricular and put squarely into the realm of scheduled, daily and routine. If you wait for learpracticing is taken out of the realm of optional anning to be d
convenient, it probably will never happen. When yominutes of focused practice is worth an hour of sitting on your couch with your guitar in your hand plu do sit down to practice, make it focused. Twentyaying
around on whatever comes to mind. Your practice tiyour dream of playing music. Keep Learning! me is time that you set aside just for you, your guitar and
Tips for Successful Learning
- Be accurate with the finger exercises. Getting the correct finger movement can be very slow at
first, but with faithful, daily attention accuracy and speed will quickly develop. - When the hand, wrist or fingers start hurting, restimprove.. Try again later. Endurance will gradually
- Don’t get frustrated.accurate as your motor skills develop. Your fingers are going to feel clumsy at first. Kee p trying. They will get more
- Be patient with the learning process. Getting the proper motor skill control takes time and
consistent effort. - Practice when the mind is relaxed and fresh.improvement. Consistent daily practice yields steady and gradual
- Strum the proper number of strings for each chord.downward strumming motion. Use one smooth and controlled
- You have memorized the names of the strings.
- You can play all of the finger exercises on pages 4steady down and up picking motion with only minor hesitations between finger movements.-5 in your lesson book. Use a
- You can form the C and G7 chords correctly. play them perfectly, just that you are able to form them correctly. It will take a while to get each At this point, it is not as critical that you are astring to sound out. ble to
The main focus at this stage is that your fingers are going to the right strings.