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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 


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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 
two twenty minute sessions

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


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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
the notes in open postition.

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So that little exercise I mentioned earlier 


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where you put down the chord

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

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It's a really good exercise getting familiar
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 
on the thickest string on the guitar

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is an absolutely essential 
part of your guitar study.

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

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or your barre chords 
or your power chords or arpeggios.

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Most things related to a guitar 
beyond the beginner level,

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

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

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For now we're starting 
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,
that kind of thing.

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Then we've got five minutes
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, 


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just work through the scale,

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


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Don't worry about a metronome, 


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don't worry about any of that stuff,

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just keep it really, 
really straight and simple.

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OK, then you're on to Chord Practice. 


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Strum, pick out, strum: five minutes.

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


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got any dodgy notes in them,
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 
the 'strum, pick out and strum'

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of your routine now
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 
Dsus4, Dsus2

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in conjunction with 
either D major or D minor,

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also your Asus4, excuse me,
Asus4, Asus2

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in conjunction with 
A major or A minor

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and then you got 
three free choice ones to do.

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

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

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But F chord is probably, 
for most people,

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the one that takes the longest to get used to 
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 
on your power chords,

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so making sure 
that you really work on that stretch

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

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

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Very important.

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

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Just experimenting.

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

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That would be OK

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but really predominantly
working on getting the stretch

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between the first finger
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
working on songs or chord sequences,

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so whatever songs 
you've learned up until this point

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Might be worth checking out
a power chord tune.

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

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So have a bit of an experiment 
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, 
it doesn't matter.

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

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And lastly five minutes on
your JUSTIN training exercises

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which is your ear training

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which is gonna be like working 
at your power chords sounds

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and do a little bit more advanced 
kind of transcribing skills

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- oh advanced - 
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 :
practice, practice, practice, work on it.

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Timer goes off : ding-ding,

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end of five minutes, 
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 
the minor pentatonic scale,

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it's really easy to start practising that 
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 
that you don't practise

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any of the other stuff
you should be doing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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you can join me for Stage 8.

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See you !