Guitar Practice Routine – Chord Change Exercise
A difficult hurdle to overcome as a beginner guitar player is mastering your chord changes. You must be able to change from one chord to another quickly and without error.
How to Practice Guitar Effectively
An Effective Guitar Practice Schedule
Feel free to practice these things in any order, but always do #1 first, the warm up. You also don’t have to do them all in one sitting either. You can do a few at one practice session, and next time you sit down to practice, you do the other items in the list you didn’t do the first time, etc. Also, feel free to change the number of minutes for each to suit your own needs. Maybe you want to practice for 2 hours; maybe just 30 minutes – it is completely up to you. You can view this schedule as a general blueprint, which you can modify as you like. Read more
When Playing Guitar, Don’t Forget Your Thumb
By Keith Dean
You can use it to hitch a ride. Roger Ebert has made a fortune using one or both – up or down. It’s universally recognized as the sign for a number of affirmatives – “okay”, “good job”, “looking good”, “it’s under control”, among others. It’s also the appendage that one would be inserting “where the sun don’t shine” in a well known metaphor for aimlessly idling one’s time away. We are, of course, referring to the thumb.
Learn How To Play Guitar By Ear
Playing by ear is arguably the most joyful and expressive ways of playing the guitar. In its purest form a person can play anything they hear in their head instantly on the guitar. Whilst very few if any guitarists can actually play absolutely anything on the guitar immediately, there are some extremely skilled guitarists that come close. With consistent and appropriate practice, you can definitely expand your abilities to play by ear, moving closer and closer towards the goal of playing purely by ear. I can’t do the practice for you, but I can show you some very useful methods to help you learn to tune in and play by ear.
Accelerate Your Guitar Playing
By Mike Hayes
First, define your objectives and determine your approach. These objectives may change as you progress, but a goal is important before starting to play the guitar.
Learn Guitar Online – Practice Traps & How to Escape Them
By Mike P Hayes
Over practicing for your next performance can be a trap because it can lead to information overload, physical burnout and decreased performance. Practice makes perfect right? We’ve all heard that phrase before from music teachers, parents etc., with so many people telling us it’s got to be correct.
Guitar Lesson: What Is The Ultimate Way To Practice On Your Guitar?
Is there a best way to practice on your guitar? Of course you have to make your practice sessions effective but could there be a way to practice that is more effective than other ways?
Finger Strength
If you practice often and for more than an hour at a time, you will be able to build up decent finger strength on your own. But if you’re looking to quickly build finger strength and stamina, there are an unlimited number of exercises you can do to speed up the process. Most finger exercises are difficult as well, which adds a second degree of practice. The following samples are exercises that sound horrifying but yield great results if used actively. The rationale of these exercises is you help your mental skills and your physical finger skills.
Finger Exercises For Playing The Guitar
If you exercise often and for more than an hour at a time, you will be able to build up decent finger strength on your own. But if you’re looking to have stamina as well as finger strength fast, there are an infinite number of exercises you can do to speed up the process. Most finger exercises are mentally challenging as well, which adds a second degree of practice. The following examples are exercises that sound horrible but yield great results if used actively. The purpose of these exercises is you help your mental and finger skills.
Guitar Lesson: Practicing Or Playing Music?
By Peter Edvinsson
What is most important as you try to 
learn to play guitar? Technical guitar exercises or playing music? What areas should you focus on as you try to use your practicing time as effective as possible?
