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Hello, how're you doing? Justin here.

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

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Lots of cool stuff to be getting on with

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and we've now bumped you up [br]

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

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If that's too much,

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remember, break it into [br]two twenty minute sessions

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

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So, the things that you should be doing,

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my recommended practice schedule,

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is as follows:

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two minutes on remembering[br]the notes in open postition.

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So that little exercise I mentioned earlier [br]

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where you put down the chord

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

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

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Then you wanna spend three minutes

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remembering the notes on the thickest string.

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That's really important,

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this getting-to-know the notes [br]on the thickest string on the guitar

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is an absolutely essential [br]part of your guitar study.

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

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or your barre chords [br]or your power chords or arpeggios.

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Most things related to a guitar [br]beyond the beginner level,

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

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

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

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So, three minutes a day

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just looking at it, practising it,

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naming what they are,[br]that kind of thing.

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

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just playing the scale up and down.

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Use all down picks, keep it simple, [br]

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just work through the scale,

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all down picks, up and down, [br]up and down, up and down. [br]

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Don't worry about a metronome, [br]

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don't worry about any of that stuff,

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just keep it really, [br]really straight and simple.

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OK, then you're on to Chord Practice. [br]

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Strum, pick out, strum: five minutes.

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

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

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make sure that you get them really good.

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It's quite possible that at this stage

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you're pretty confident with all you chords

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and all your chords sound pretty great

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

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of your routine now[br]if you are at that stage.

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Then you're at your One Minute Changes.

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One minute changes

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you should be working on your [br]Dsus4, Dsus2

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in conjunction with [br]either D major or D minor,

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also your Asus4, excuse me,[br]Asus4, Asus2

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in conjunction with [br]A major or A minor

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and then you got [br]three free choice ones to do.

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

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

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But F chord is probably, [br]for most people,

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

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so a bit of work on that.

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

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so making sure [br]that you really work on that stretch

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

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

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Very important.

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

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Just experimenting.

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

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That would be OK

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but really predominantly[br]working on getting the stretch

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between the first finger[br]and the third and fourth fingers.

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That would be a really good call.

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

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so whatever songs [br]you've learned up until this point

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Might be worth checking out[br]a power chord tune.

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

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

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or your regular songs,

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

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

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And lastly five minutes on[br]your JUSTIN training exercises

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which is your ear training

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which is gonna be like working [br]at your power chords sounds

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and do a little bit more advanced [br]kind of transcribing skills

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- oh advanced - [br]advanced beginner's level transcribing skills.

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So you got a lot on your plate now.

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Just remember: take each little chunk,

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use your timer so you do five minutes.

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You hit the start button on your timer,

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

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Timer goes off : ding-ding,

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end of five minutes, [br]stop practising.

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Try not to be tempted too

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just keep on going through your practise

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cause what you're probably find,

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particularly things like [br]the minor pentatonic scale,

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

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which is not a bad thing,

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

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any of the other stuff[br]you should be doing.

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

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

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and go back to it [br]and do a heap of practice on it

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

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

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You're doing some cool stuff,[br]work it hard,

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

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you can join me for Stage 8.

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See you !