Now on the Equipboard YouTube page - Practice Guitar 10x Faster With These Useful Tips!

is one of the tips to drink beer and watch tv while practicing to make sure your hands can work independently when your brain is in standby?

all kidding aside, one thing that always served me well was to watch TV and any incidental music I heard I would find out if I could just pick out the melody before it changed. Am I so proficient my ear and hands are connected, and I can just hear those notes and play along accurately? obviously thats built on practicing those scales/modes and knowing the fretboard/keyboard backwards and forwards. Me and my dad used to play "name that chord" too, great practice. I don't know if they still make dads like mine, I'm not sure I'm that intense with my son... probably not.

Got to agree playing along with the TV works for me.

I've mentioned this on other forums, only for music teachers to come back at me with " you HAVE to apply focussed deliberate practice " ...whatever.

Got to agree playing along with the TV works for me.

I've mentioned this on other forums, only for music teachers to come back at me with " you HAVE to apply focussed deliberate practice " ...whatever.

Obviously exercises are also needed, but once you have that mechanical stuff down its TV mimicry. When I taught, I didn't pass that on because... why would you need to pay me for lessons after I showed you the modes, some exercises and told you the TV trick?! Although, even giving intermediate level lessons I found I was always having to tap people's hands to get their fingers arched and right hand positioned well... tap their right elbows to stop them from playing from their arm and to go from wrist for rhythm and knuckles for for 1 line stuff. But they didn't appreciate those finer points right away, you have to withhold the TV trick if you're teaching. Unless you like being unemployed.

And yeah, if I give you lessons in person I will poke you with my headstock to correct your sloppy technique. Once you can play as well as me you can get sloppy. While you're learning? do what I say, not what I do... I spent years acquiring my bad habits, I developed good ones first as a kid. My dad would frickin' hit me... not in a damaging way but he'd whack my knuckles hard enough to remind me for the rest of the day when I was learning. And internet lessons don't touch in person because there's no random acts of violence online. I tried doing some zoom lessons with some former equipboard members who asked but I couldn't physically impart wisdom and it was a fail. epic fail

can't get your bends and vibrato where they need to be without physical abuse, sorry

but Kevin's tips kill, everyone watch and share

daily practice is not enough though, if you're not doing your laundry while wearing your guitar you're messing up... live with it, make it the piece of your body that was always missing... and sleep with a metronome under your pillow for 5 years... with it on and clicking in your dreams, obviously

dream in time kids

That's a useful insight on the teacher's perspective. I've been self taught on this and that since leaving home. Guitar was the first instrument I tried but quickly floundered after it was fell on and crushed by a fat lass at Glastonbury Festival!

I switched to harmonica after that and learned by buying records of classic harmonica bluesmen and then playing along to the 33rpm LPs slowed to 16rpm. At the time I was also working on a book production line, standing all day by a machine folding dozens of book page batches every 30 seconds. It was noisy, boring work but I had my harmonica and could hear it through my head - three years of that and I got pretty good... just so long as I play at 120 bpm 😉

At the time I was also working on a book production line, standing all day by a machine folding dozens of book page batches every 30 seconds. It was noisy, boring work but I had my harmonica and could hear it through my head - three years of that and I got pretty good... just so long as I play at 120 bpm 😉

Must have been like making industrial noise records but it probably had a better payout!