Stage 6 Practice Schedule (Guitar Lesson BC-169) Guitar for beginners Stage 6

This is Stage 6, Lesson 9 of Justin's Beginner Guitar Course.

This video runs through your practice routine for Stage 6.

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Hi, how're you doing?

Here we are, at the end of stage 6

and we're now checking your stage 6 practice routine.

So, what I would recommend for you

is 2 minutes doing your finger workout.

We nearly throwed that

and you're probably getting a bit bored of that

we're all gonna be stretching it out a little bit more

in the very next stage.

So, just a quick 2 minutes on that.

Just keeping them working out.

And we're gonna have 3 minutes on that little basic picking exercise

just working on getting the anchor down

and picking your strings out one at the time.

So, it's just like a little bit of technical work

just trying to increase the flexibility of that hand

and the accuracy of that hand.

Both really important things to do.

Thirdly, we've got your chord practice

That's still on board

You'll be doing your strum, pick out, strum.

Something that's gonna be with you

right the way through this beginner's course

because this is really important

And as you learn

anytime you learn a new chord

you wanna be doing your strum, pick out, strum

because it really makes sense.

So, 5 minutes on your strum, pick out, strum.

You've then got your 1 minute changes

which is dealing with the F chord

so no matter which version of the F

you've decided that you wanna play

make sure you'll practice getting to it

and getting from it.

So you'll be doing, you know,

the ones that I've got suggested on the website

on the routine

are the F to C, F to E, F to D,

F to A minor and F to G.

You don't have to stick to that

you can pick whatever ones you want

but I really would recommend working on that F chord

trying to get it in under your fingers.

It is a "toughy"

everyone has it, incidentally going back to your chord practice

That's the one

you wanna be working on that F in that one

probably more than any other chord.

If quite possibly only working the F chord for that 5 minutes actually.

Ekhm, I did escape my memory for a second

that you had only F there...

Next thing on your list is

the rythm guitar practice.

And that one definitelly is now devoted to doing

your rust pattern 9

which is the one with the 'tie'.

So the things that you're focusing on

is making sure that your hand doesn't stop moving at any point

that you're consistently doing the

down, down, up, up, down, down...

and it goes

you know

should be a bit hipnotic.

Just practice it over and over again.

I always practice it too

by holding the guitar strings

and just going (plays)

down, down, up, up, down

Another little hint I just thought of,

because I ran out of time the other one...

Is to practice it without strumming the strings at all

just going

down, down, up, up, down

1, 2, and, and, 4

because you know - hiting the strings it's a lot easier to keep your hand moving

consistently without...

because you're not kinda

put off by the sound of the strings.

That's a little handy tip

if any of you are struggling that one.

Next thing you've got

your songs and chord sequences.

So, you could...

not a bad thing to do would be to

if you feel comfort enough with your chord changes

would be to start to trying apply now

that...

this chord sequence

the down...

the strumming pattern 9

onto a chord sequence.

So, you may pick G, C, D, C or something

whatever the chord progression you feel like

and then trying to apply that strumming pattern

and remembering to force the changes

So, do not let strumming pattern stop

for any reason.

It must keep going

and you force the fingers on your left hand

(or, you know, your freting hand)

to make the changes fast enough to not stop strumming.

Do not, DO NOT practice going:

down, down, up, up, down

stop, change chord

down, down, up, up, down

That is going against the whole idea of doing rythm.

The rythm has to stay consistent,

so please make sure you're practicing that the right way.

It will make a huge difference

to how quickly you feel confident and comfortable with your rhythm skills.

Adding to that as well, we've got your Justin Ear Training

if you're happened to be doing that course,

which again I would recommend quite highly.

Now, that whole little package again

this is a half an hour routine

which is quite a lot.

If you're struggling with that,

break it down into two 15 minutes

and alternate between different days that you're practicing.

It doesn't really matter,

you do the best that you can

with the most time that you've got available.

You know, lots of people have a busy life

and it's difficult to fit in a half an hour a day

just dedicated to a hobby like playing guitar.

But if you can, do it.

You will reap the benefits.

The more you practice, the better you'll get, the faster you'll get...

the faster you get better, I should say.

So, have fun with that,

practise really hard,

there is a lot going on on this one,

this stage 6 is a big one

because you've got the F chord
and you've got the 'tie' strumming patterns.

The both are now big deal.

We're gonna be working on those things

little bit more at the next couple of stages as well.

But this is an important little stage to make sure you get right.

So,have fun with that

and when you feel like you're confident with all of these things

then I see you for stage 7.

Take care of yourselves, bye bye.