What Is My Recommended Practice Regimen?
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2022
- 1) Find a way to play around a little bit everyday, even just 5 minutes.
2) Always play slow, clean, and musical - don't check out and play sloppy.
3) Determine a core repertoire of short and simple things that you come back to again and again, to perfect them.
4) "Move the ball down the field" with CAGED shapes and pentatonics
5) Don't neglect chords and grooves.
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I've played guitar for around 30 plus years. My advice is - play often, and often play at the edge of your abilities. Push your playing and make sure you're stretching your ability each time. Never ever be afraid to make mistakes.
‘Play every day…’ yes yes yes a thousand times yes! Even though I’m a high schooler who has homework, activities and a job that take up a lot of time outside of school, I still make a precedence to play everyday, even if it’s just playing all the Toad the Wet Sprocket riffs I can play off the top of my head, or playing an acoustic rhythm pattern in DADGAD or something like that. Thanks Eric!!!
Hey man how/what do you practice? Im in your same situation.
Toad the Wet Sprocket! Haven't listened to them in years... Awesome that you even know them (are they popular with high schoolers?)
And this video has reminded me that I need to get back to daily practice!!
@@DeFiSiYT my parents were pretty big Toad fans, and I happened to come across their old copy of Fear, and it kinda blew my mind. Most of my friends my age don’t have a clue who they are though
Trust me you have more time than you'll ever have
@@maJastoL I came here to say that..!
My usual practice routine:
1. Free jam warmup with whatever musical gibberish flows from my heart. I have a little chart of chords taped onto the side of my amp. I try to pick a different key each day. I typically use a looper with a drum beat going. I don't love how fiddly the Boss RC-10R is, but it does have a heck of a lot of different styles of drum loops.
2. Calm down, pull up whatever book or course I'm working through, and work through a chunk. I just finished up a great course called "CAGED Edition of Guitar Zen" ;) Now I'm digging into an Ariel Posen course on rhythm triads. Some days, I can crush a couple pages. Some days, I immediately get stuck and spend the whole session learning one new weird shape or rhythm.
3. Take whatever techniques I just learned from my lesson and incorporate them into whatever idea I stumbled into during my initial free jam. This is when I also let myself tweak all the effects on my board to get weird sounds. Three days ago, it was three delays chained together! Yesterday, I just cranked up a phaser until the wavering made me dizzy!
4. Take 5 minutes to scribble down some notes in my comp book about the day so I (sort of) retain whatever I worked on.
The challenge of taking on one course at a time and planning to mesh those lessons with my next deep dive into a weird effect are huge motivators for me.
I also try to listen to two albums on repeat each week - something old and something new - and try to jam live at least once a week with somebody.
...man, I am not good at music relative to the amount of brain space I give it each week. Oh well. Just have fun trying stuff.
I like this method!
@rogueoperative Gr8 varied, detailed, innovative & inspiring practice routine. AWESOME, It looks like a Winner! It’s got me PUMPED! I’ll try to use a similar path to further my musical Guitar Journey! Thanks so much! 🙏🏼🤘🏼🎸💜
Yeh I reckon I'm about to get off CZcams and do this rn tbh
Thx for sharing
Dude thanks
Im so glad I have found your channel. I’ve been playing 2.5 years and in the intermediate phase but been getting over excited with learning so much as I am in the guitar phase of finally figuring out how everything works but it can be super overwhelming cause I just want to apply everything at once but watching your videos reminds me to just slow down and be patient. Also you remind me to actually focus on my playing too as you mentioned about creating the story first before typing which is a great analogy and sums up my mistake 😂 being at this level I find it’s hard getting teachers on CZcams like you cause most don’t explain sth or just say “don’t use the pentatonic, it’s a waste of time” even though I disagree with this cause it has helped me so much to understand the fretboard even though I can see why seeing it as chords is great too but we all need the caged system.
I'm going through depression and honestly this video uplifted me. Thank you!
That makes me so happy to hear!
Eric, you're the most nice, symphatic and calm guy in "the business".
Love your work! Keep on with your great stuff!!!
Thanks Vincent - I try to keep it chill here!
So great! Thanks. Happy Friday!
The short-story analogy was perfect 👍🏻
Great stuff as always Eric, thank you!
Thank you Eric awesome as usual
Your content just keeps getting better, it's been an honor watching your channel grow like this. I love watching you play and listening to your ideas. Thankfully most everything from this list are already things that I do on a regular basis (especially finding any minute during the day possible to just PLAY something). What I do is play a certain list of arpeggios and other phrases to warm my hands up. From there I print off 5-6 exercises or challenging riffs/licks that I want to master for the week. Once I have mastered those exercises I move them around on the neck and really familiarize myself with what notes are being played. Then I refresh the exercises! :D Thanks for the video Eric you're awesome!
That's very smart to move those challenging licks around - too often we work really hard on some finger buster in Am, but don't do the extra work to move it to other chords/keys - that's where the fretboard knowledge really grows!
That chord from "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is gorgeous, with your chorus pedal on top of the already awesome tone you have is *chef's kiss* perfection.
I'll be applying this mantra "slow, clean, and musical" to my evening playing session. Cheers!
Nice. Thanks, Eric. Good advise.
It's really amazing how your video's just make so much sense. I really appreciate your approach. It's the space between the notes!
I try!
You have one of the best guitar instructions series on CZcams. I always pick up something that is practical to help me get better.
Thanks Eric! Find time to practice/play everyday even if it’s just 5 minutes. Thanks for the advice about learning to type. This has been where I have been stuck. Must get back to your TrueFire course. 👍🙏
More valuable wisdom from The Haug! Still working away on your excellent TrueFire course. Still having a great time with it! All the best man!
Everything is those 5 CAGED shapes - it really is!
Awesome ideas. I've always struggled with figuring out a good practice routine.
Incredible tone on this cover
The story writing analogy is just so true. The notes are there are on the guitar fingerboard already. When playing single string lead lines you just need to hear what you want to play in your head and then translate it to the guitar, even if it’s just note by note.
Man! Super great advice. Thanks for doing what you do.
Super cool , great stuff!
I could have said this for each of your videos, but this lesson contains excellent advice.
I discovered your videos a few weeks ago, and you've already opened up my playing more than anything in years! I'm really starting to fall in love with the instrument again. Also, you always have the most wonderful tone, so it's such a joy to listen to you play. Then you dropped in the line from Jockey Full Of Bourbon! Pure perfection. Gonna have to learn that now
Yay! That's what I love to hear!
Thank you so much for this inspiring lesson
I'm happy to help!
I’ve watched this a few times now. So helpful! Clear and flexible ways to focus! So reassuring too. Thinking about practice this way makes practice so inviting and mentally healthy 🙂🎸
I try to make it sensible and approachable!
Beautiful!
That guitar is so sweet!
Thank you Eric. You are such an excellent teacher and motivator in the best sense of the word.
Thanks Michael - I try!
Eric you are such a talented player and teacher! Thank you
Thanks man!
Loved it so much I watched it twice! Thanks a bunch!
Thanks Carlos!
Thanks man ,glad I found your channel
I really appreciate your channel. Thanks!
Thanks Daniel!
Great opening track! Beautiful tone
Great video- and what a beautiful tone!
Thanks Larry!
Wow such an amazing video. As a self taught guitarist of 5 years, I can see how all of the progress I’ve made and have yet to make relates to all of this. CAGED definitely unlocked the fretboard for me and paved the way for true connection to my instrument
Beautiful guitar and tone
Great lesson …such tasteful playing 👍
Thanks Stevie!
Thanks, Eric
This is how I think about guitar as well. I have never found a teacher who expressed it as clearly and concisely as you did. I will definitely check out more of your lessons. (Started your Truefire stuff....It's great!) Thank you.
Thanks so much my dude!
I really believe that a simple repertoire, combined with the CAGED stuff is the way!
These lessons keep getting better and better. This one inspired me to learn to play the second half of the Something solo correctly, and to practice the whole thing deliberately and mindfully.
It's a great one to store away - so lyrical and memorable!
thank you for this Eric! You're a legend!
Thanks Roland!
Long ago, my buddy gave me an old beater nylon string. I was like "What is this for?" He said, "Leave it laying around the house and pick it up any time you got a minute. You don't need to fire up all your shit to practice!" I think leaving something always at arms length is a great way to stop procrastinating and start practicing. I really like my Ibanez 175 copy for this, but a nylon string (which I think you talked about before) is a great choice too.
i only have my epiphone ls but i leave it at arms length from me at all times. that way i play multiple 15min sessions a day extra on top of my practice, and it really does make a difference. but nothing tops playing every day imo!
Ya know, I'm really NOT a Beatles fan, but my oh my is that a beautiful little piece! What an inspiring video/topic. Today I'm going to make a weekly schedule and dedicate a fresh notebook to my practice time. No new gear this year-- it's going to be all about learning my instrument ;)
I'm not a big Beatles fan, rather a huge George fan.
I also am not a huge Beatles, fan. Nontheless, that solo was the shiznills.😋😋@@charliedillon1400
Incorporating your ideas here. Thank you. I needed some tweaks and direction to my practice regimen. This has been a welcome change to scales, sequences, ear training, songs…rinse repeat. Slowing down has been so beneficial instead of just robotically moving through my routine. Thanks Eric.
Yeah - scales and sequences are definitely good to do for a while, but then you can switch and work on phrases!
Awesome information
Love you man. You are the best. Always inspiring
Thanks Rich!
Brilliant lesson as always Eric thankyou. My problem is sticking to things. When I've been in covers bands in the past, the set list was everything, now I dont gig at present so I'm jumping from one thing to another & I never know how long to stick with something & so the dog chasing his tail situation never ends for me & I'm getting soooo frustrated. At least your lessons are an inspiration so thankyou🙏🏻
Thank you su much for the tips!
Nice Bird! Great Channel from a new fan of your work. Cheers! From mtw in L.A. Epi LP player these days. A 1998 Trad Pro- Pelham Blue through old Peaveys. Monster cables, Levy straps. Fab Pedals for fun. Jam nights, bands, etc. Cheers!
Great lesson!
I will always be here for the simplification when things get too be too much on this guitar journey. Thank you Eric!
There's so much information screaming at us all the time!
@@EricHaugenGuitar I am so impressed that no matter what you play, you have precision and great tone. I am currently trying to perfect that, learn blues theory, and building finger strength and accuracy for solos- I love playing guitar- just need clarity with so much to do!
Love this. Daniel Spree - the bassist for Phile X & the Drils - also talks about the importance of slowing down, not speeding up, when practicing. Creates a much more profound connection to the music and understanding of what you're doing. Thanks for the insights, Eric!
Yeah! It's hard to do - to keep putting air between the notes!
I was never musical until I was past 65. I joked that I was born with two left ears.
And just like my Mom, I bought a piano at 65 and started geeking out, and yes, I'm learning music theory. My daughter loaned me her tenor ukulele, and I bought a baritone now and so I'm crashing guitar videos for ideas.
I want to learn the fretboard and master major triads first. But there are no black keys on the fretboard. So I did the next best thing. I put postit notes on my piano keyboard and now I have strings on my piano. I had to move my bench way to the left and my left hand is practicing learning chords and inversions. That really helped things click. Next are minor shapes, the Circle of Fifths progression, and it'll be time for lunch.
It's been 4 years that i went back to guitar lessons with a teacher, he never made me practice a scale. Not once. All about playing slow, in the pocket. I am really convinced this is it.
yes!
Sure, we need to know scales *enough,* but then get onto playing phrases!
Love your videos!
Thanks Liam!
Just what I needed on a Friday! Thank you so much! Pizza later to round out the day!
This is the way!
Nice round tone!
I'm just here to thank you and congratulate you for using the correct word. Not regime, not regiment, but regimen. Bravo!
Thanks - I try to speak goodly!
Love you playing the Something solo so much. ❤for that.
thanks Eric
not gonna lie, man... when I saw during the week you posting some pedal steel over something I thought we`d have some `hendrix doublestop something`. but this is even better. From experience, what I use the most from your CAGED course on TrueFire is practicing my strumming hand. I didnt realize I knew so few rythm types, and that a few notes would colour so much between my chords. Now everything I already know I try to Bo Diddley it for a few minutes when I pick up the guitar in some different chord shapes. The confidence man, it`s already there!
Yeah! The Diddley pattern is so adaptive!
(I apply it to everything too)
Extremly useful, thanks.
This reminds me of a quote from Bruce Lee: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Oh yeah I've heard that one too!
The more years I play, the more songs I forget. That makes revisiting my repertoire all the more fun.
Me too!
Just stumbled upon your channel. Love the relaxed, honest and straight forward approach. I'm staying. Keep it up!
Thanks so much!
That's exactly what I'm trying to do every day. Thank you for this confirmation of my intuitive routine ;-) Playing Scales in proportion to it's belonging caged chords. This helps you out in several ways: learning the underlying notes of a chord / arpeggio and beeing able to improvise over chord changes.
I'm an Architect!
(I am forever re-watching Seinfeld btw)
So I‘d recommend you this ;-) czcams.com/video/PYX1P1w9xRQ/video.html
I feel seen. I have been working on the things we talked about last week, and I think it's sinking in! And the benefit of having a thick skull means that once things get in there, it's hard for them to come back out.
Perfecting the minutiae!
Good stuff 🤠
Love the Gibson Firebird !
Beautiful tone in intro...beautiful tune😎👍
Stripping down all the fx pedals, etc...
Really keeps practicing easier...
Less set up time..ie; dialing in each effect and amp fiddling.
Pick a guitar. Pick an amp. Grab a groove.
Play.
😎👍❤🖖
Love Brother
Eric, you are a fantastic teacher! All your advices are exactly how I feel about dealing with that wonderful, inspiring, satisfying - I could go on...- instrument. Playing guitar and having music around me, as often as I can, is the best way to stay happy and get through my life! Each morning, before I catch the metro for work, I play for about ten minutes. That sets me off perfectly! I start my day in a relaxed, sometimes inspired and satisfied way. That's the wonderful thing about electric guitars: You can play them unplugged at 6 o clock in the morning, without disturbing your wife (who thinks I'm a nerd) and your neighbours (who probably think the same)! :-)
Yeah - if we keep the musician part of the brain awake, it's always there ready to play!
That intro was something beautiful!
Thanks Nedim!
First thing first, that Firebird is sweeeet.
I'm more of a rhythm guitarist but for what seems like centuries, doing the basics barre chords. In fact for the past 30 years not moving forward. I took to listening to this video and it's the first I've came across by yourself, I picked up the guitar, barre chord C, bottom E 8th and played a 4 note scale from G, bottom E 3rd fret.... Started going forward with an F, E, D and A I think.
Quite stoked that instead of just covering songs it's the first I've actually progressed a little. What a great video, big fan already. 👏👏👏
Oh and I take breaks of not just day but months/years... This has me kind of hooked a little.
I realize this is isn’t a “practice” tip, but:
Take every opportunity to play with other people. It’s fantastic to play with people that are better than you. But it’s even useful to play with people that can learn from you (if you have the right attitude). In any of those situations, try to be MUSICAL (it’s not a contest, or a chance to show off)
An hour playing with musicians is worth MANY hours practicing.
And have a guitar that you leave out…so you pick it up a lot.
Bravo!
I'm gonna check out bundle up today. The album art looks dope and title reminded me of wasting my summer doing bundles
Yay! I'm really happy with how it came out!
Great video. I add that I try to identify the note by name prior to movement. Slow at first but helps with note id across fretboard
Oof, sensational clean tone from that Firebird and diddy little Supro!😊 Good advice Eric, thanks👌
Those stock epiphone pickups too!
I was gonna change them out - but there's really no need!
Thank you
LOVE dat Firebird!!!
I start my day with the Satellite riff which I believe Dave Matthews wrote as a warm-up riff that became a song.
That’s a great riff!
that guitar is just wow 😍
We as people hate to take the time to learn. We want instant results. Being disciplined in practice is important, but don't forget why we play. We play because we love music, so be sure to have fun, and enjoy the music you are creating as you practice. All work, and no play is never fun, and music is for fun, so just jam out and have fun. When I started playing guitar over 50 years ago, we didn't have CZcams with endless lessons, so ever in of gain was hard fought for. Today we can learn very fast from CZcams and other tools available to help teach. Use these tools and you will get better much faster.
I’m a guitar teacher and I always point my students to your videos
I would say the biggest hugest lesson I got from Eric was waaaay back on the video where he covered One More Cup of Coffee for the road, and the Andulusian cadence. The big eureka was that there is a pentatonic scale behind every chord! Once I absorbed that, and started practicing it every day (over a year now), the fretboard makes sense and my playing is way more cohesive.
So I've just now hit this aha moment in my own playing and trying to get it down. Takes time but holy crap was it a rewarding moment getting that understanding and now implementing.
Yay! The pentatonics really are the root of everything!
Do you somehow remember the title of that video? I’d really appreciate it.
Lead Strategies: When to Switch From Pentatonic to Harmonic Minor@@falconserek
@@darthstrings1thank you! ❤
Listened to Bundle Up, I really enjoyed it. Some shades of Floyd and Richard Thompson in there which I appreciate.
Thanks Jacob! Tons of Tom Petty influence in there too - something about the directness of the way he wrote always stuck with me 🤙
Thanks!
Thanks 🙏
eric bro, i love you
Aww thanks man!
Really nice, thank you! Do you have a specific set of videos about the CAGED system? I tried to learn it from different CZcams channels, but I have never been really able to fully understand how it works. Thanks a lot for your hard work, I really appreciate it!
It actually all starts with Hendrix!
Like 4 years ago I did this one and it went kinda viral:
czcams.com/video/AzF4SDdeEV0/video.html
@@EricHaugenGuitar thanks a lot, I'll be watching it! :)
Before you start practice make sure your sitting in a comfortable posture..if you feel pain, stop.. Great lesson, well explained..
damn, that's a beautiful guitar.
Good one. As someone once said, "Amateurs practice until they get it right, Pros practice until they can't get it wrong."
Ooooh I like that!
Hooked me again Eric. Thanks
That's an extremely cool guitar😁
I’m only 2:13 minutes through but I came to say thanks for bringing up Ribot.
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7:53 minutes through, I noticed that the guitar is cooler than it should be
Ribot, Harrison, Hendrix, Knopfler, Campbell, Summers, Rawlings - those are my guys!
Eric, don't call us out like that 😂 too true about cramming may have worked before but not with something like guitar. Attention to detail is so important like you mention, you could learn so much by playing one note differently.
Yeah - the hyperfocus is such a thing!
Something is an absolute beautiful song, my wife and I had it as one of my wedding songs
Yeah those late Beatles George songs are so good!
I would love a video discussing the different styles of music, or musical jobs, and the relative skills that apply to them. It could be a comparison of the different pathways--the more direct paths--to different goals. It might include rough estimations of when someone would be considered intermediate on each path.
Oooh good idea!