Stage 7 Practice Schedule (Guitar Lesson BC-179) Guitar for beginners Stage 7

This is Stage 7, Lesson 9 of Justin's Beginner Guitar Course.

This video shows you what you should be practicing for Stage 7.

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Hello, how're you doing? Justin here.

You're at the end of Stage 7. Well done!

Lots of cool stuff to be getting on with

and we've now bumped you up

to a 40-minute-a-day practice routine.

If that's too much,

remember, break it into
two twenty minute sessions

and alternate them depending on
what day you're going to do.

So, the things that you should be doing,

my recommended practice schedule,

is as follows:

two minutes on remembering
the notes in open postition.

So that little exercise I mentioned earlier

where you put down the chord

and you try and work out what all the names
are of the notes in that chord.

It's a really good exercise getting familiar
with the guitar neck down there.

Then you wanna spend three minutes

remembering the notes on the thickest string.

That's really important,

this getting-to-know the notes
on the thickest string on the guitar

is an absolutely essential
part of your guitar study.

You won't be able to play
any of your scales

or your barre chords
or your power chords or arpeggios.

Most things related to a guitar
beyond the beginner level,

you need to know the notes
on the bottom two strings at least,

if not the whole guitar
but at least the bottom two strings.

For now we're starting
with just the thickest string.

So, three minutes a day

just looking at it, practising it,

naming what they are,
that kind of thing.

Then we've got five minutes
on the minor pentatonic scale,

just playing the scale up and down.

Use all down picks, keep it simple,

just work through the scale,

all down picks, up and down,
up and down, up and down.

Don't worry about a metronome,

don't worry about any of that stuff,

just keep it really,
really straight and simple.

OK, then you're on to Chord Practice.

Strum, pick out, strum: five minutes.

Just as before you pick any of the chords
that are slightly hazy,

got any dodgy notes in them,
then you want to practise them,

make sure that you get them really good.

It's quite possible that at this stage

you're pretty confident with all you chords

and all your chords sound pretty great

in which case you can leave doing
the 'strum, pick out and strum'

of your routine now
if you are at that stage.

Then you're at your One Minute Changes.

One minute changes

you should be working on your
Dsus4, Dsus2

in conjunction with
either D major or D minor,

also your Asus4, excuse me,
Asus4, Asus2

in conjunction with
A major or A minor

and then you got
three free choice ones to do.

I would probably recommend
that you'd still be working on the F chord.

So F chord to whatever other chord
you feel like you wanna work on.

But F chord is probably,
for most people,

the one that takes the longest to get used to
in you chord changes,

so a bit of work on that.

Then you've got five minutes
on your power chords,

so making sure
that you really work on that stretch

and that you've got all of those notes
working for you properly.

So, just really working that stretch
between the first finger and the third finger.

Very important.

You might wanna also practise
just moving it up and down.

Just experimenting.

Maybe trying to play a chord progression
or two, or a riff or something.

That would be OK

but really predominantly
working on getting the stretch

between the first finger
and the third and fourth fingers.

That would be a really good call.

So, then we've got five minutes
working on songs or chord sequences,

so whatever songs
you've learned up until this point

Might be worth checking out
a power chord tune.

You never know, there's a few around
that could be good for that one.

So have a bit of an experiment
on some of the power chord songs

or your regular songs,

all your repertoire up to date,
it doesn't matter.

Just be working on some songs
that you're enjoying.

And lastly five minutes on
your JUSTIN training exercises

which is your ear training

which is gonna be like working
at your power chords sounds

and do a little bit more advanced
kind of transcribing skills

- oh advanced -
advanced beginner's level transcribing skills.

So you got a lot on your plate now.

Just remember: take each little chunk,

use your timer so you do five minutes.

You hit the start button on your timer,

then you do five minutes :
practice, practice, practice, work on it.

Timer goes off : ding-ding,

end of five minutes,
stop practising.

Try not to be tempted too

just keep on going through your practise

cause what you're probably find,

particularly things like
the minor pentatonic scale,

it's really easy to start practising that
and practising it for an hour,

which is not a bad thing,

but it's a bad thing if that means
that you don't practise

any of the other stuff
you should be doing.

So by all means, go through,
do your whole practice routine

and then go :
'Oh, I really like working on that scale'

and go back to it
and do a heap of practice on it

but do your whole practice routine first.
Little hint for you.

OK, take care of yourselves,
get really into this practice.

You're doing some cool stuff,
work it hard,

when you feel like you're ready
to go on to the next one

you can join me for Stage 8.

See you !