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Hi, how ya doin'? Justin here. 
Welcome to IM-159.

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Which is the Practice Routine for Foundation 5.

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What we've got here is 5 minutes of your Triad practice.

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Which is making sure you memorize where the triads are,

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where the root notes are, 
and working out the string groupings 2,3,4

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and the minors on 2,3,4 and then practicing them.

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Then you've got 5 minutes on your triad chord changes

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so bouncing around, up and down the neck,

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trying to get those triad shapes as fast as you can,

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making sure that you remember 
what string the root note's on

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and remembering to look at the root note 
before you try and change to the chord.

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That's the trick for being able to do these kind of 
jumping all over the neck kind of changes.

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We've then got 5 minutes of our usual Major Scale 
with the metronome.

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Hopefully you're getting the speed up 
a little bit more now.

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You should be feeling really confident 
with your alternate picking,

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and really, you know, 
just working on the speed, that's it.

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Remember the speed, the point of the speed rather, 
is to synchronize the two hands,

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that's the real reason that we're doing that stuff,

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it's not really about you playing the scale fast.

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It's about getting a good co-ordination 
between the two hands.

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We've then got 5 minutes of Major Scale improvising,

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so I'm really hoping that you're letting your ear control 
the way that you play now,

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so not just relying on muscle memory,


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you're hopefully incorporating your one finger solos,

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and a bit of that melodic patterns, 
but still letting your ear be the boss.

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Next up we got 10 minutes of the J.U.S.T.I.N. Training,

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and/or transcribing songs on your own.

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I'm really hoping at this stage,
that you're doing plenty of your own transcribing,

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because that is the key 
to becoming a good guitar player.

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I can't emphasise it to you strongly enough.

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Learning songs on your own 
is the thing that will make you good.

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And a failure to do that,

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to ignore my advice and not do any transcribing,

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means that you probably won't ever become 
a really confident guitar player.

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You might be able to kinda play the notes,

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you'll be able to play some songs,

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but there'll be always that thing missing.

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Lotsa times I meet guitar players

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and they come for a lesson, they go

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well I can do this, and I can do this, 
but there's something missing.

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And nine times out of ten,

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the something missing is that 
they haven't been doing any transcribing.

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The second half hour we've got,

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we've got 5 minutes of picked fingerstyle practice.

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So, either making up 
your own pattern and practicing that.

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Or, working on that set pattern that I showed you 


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and/or trying to incorporate it into some tunes,

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working on kind of making it a strumming pattern, 


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but being able to pick out notes individually.

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We've got 5 minutes of legato practice.

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If you're new to legato, 
that'll be doing hammer-ons and flickoffs individually.

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If you're cool with that, then,

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its incorporating it into the Minor Pentatonic 
and the Major Scale,

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using legato technique, 
that is the hammer-ons and the flickoffs,

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to play the scales up and down,

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if you're confident with that,

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you might want to start using some melodic patterns

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and making sure you incorporate 
the legato techniques into that.

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Remember after the Foundation Stage

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you probably want to start doing 
the exercise called the Finger Gym

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which is a real hardcore workout 


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using hammer-ons and flickoffs.

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We've then got your Rhythm Guitar,

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so you're working on your chips,

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spreads, splangs 
and your muted strumming.

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Really, really good fun.

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A very important part of your 
Rhythm Guitar development


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is incorporating that stuff into tunes.

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So when it comes to practicing songs later,

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don't forget to start using those things 
in the real world.

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We've also got now 5 minutes 
on the Major Pentatonic.

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Now, we're gonna be covering that more 
in future lessons.

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But for now, 
just have a bit of a muck around, 


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see if you can make sense of it,

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get used to what it sounds like,

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and do a little bit of improvising 
using that scale,

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because that's probably the best way 
to get it into your system.

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The last thing we've got is 
10 minutes of repertoire.

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So learning some new songs

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that are incorporating the techniques 
that we've been doing.

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Maybe some stuff that uses the pick fingerstyle,

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or that uses chips or splangs or spreads 
or whatever you like.

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But really making sure 
that you learn new songs for every stage.

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And that's it. 
That's your practice routine for Foundation Five.

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There's only one lesson left which is Consolidation,

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but make sure you spend a bit of time 
getting all of these new things under your fingers

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before you work on your Consolidation.

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Take care. See you for another lesson very soon.

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Bye Bye.