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    • #22870
      superblonde
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      Maybe this could be interesting for some..


      How to Develop a Practice Routine
      Jazz at Lincoln Center’s JAZZ ACADEMY Published on Jul 12, 2016
      Master saxophonist Ted Nash talks with you about how to develop a practice routine that you enjoy, that you can maintain, and that you can customize in order to meet your needs as a musician! Recorded May 29, 2013

      Personally I dont like this video much. Master musician at Berklee can’t explain a practice discipline other than to say “Take a scale.. … … take a note, … go up or down.. bend notes.. experiment with melodies.. spend a minute or two.. create some patterns.. play that for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes.. create your own little exercises.” The word rigorous does not apply to anything in this video. Actually I think this video is pretty horrible. I just dont get it. I cant see how anyone especially myself could become an advanced player or even an intermediate player by randomly “take a scale” and noodling melodies for 20 minutes even if picking different scales or different keys 10 times a day. Where’s the discipline? Doug’s Practice Session Creator is way better than this Berklee advice.

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    • #22877
      MotleyCrue81
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      I always feel like practice advice gets so overly complicated. Make sure to always do this or that, blah blah blah.. We know what we ourselves are good at and not good at. Work on things you’re not good at so you can improve, bending, picking speed, etc. put some time aside for each thing you wanna do in that department. Then just do stuff you wanna do, wanna learn a new scale or lick or song? Set some time aside and go for it. Basically, when people think too much about that stuff, they just need to stop and use the time you got with your guitar in your hands doing something instead of overthinking what to do.  🙂

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