Structured daily or weekly plan

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Structured daily or weekly plan

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For people that actually have to teach themselves without an instructor. Who has the actual best course that’s laid out with a structure, where you learn A and then B and then C. You get the idea. Book, PDF, paid program doesn’t matter. I would think that most people don’t have much of a plan and a noodle most of the time. As an industrial mechanic, my brain always focuses on problems solving. Which is always done in steps. There seems to be many programs and they’re all quite different. There’s one I look at that starts with the caged system. To me, I think that would be hard place to start. And I don’t mean just learn cowboy chords and then scales and then triads. I’m in an actual plan that is laid out with a somewhat of a timeframe. With the basic idea, if you follow these steps at the end of this timeframe, you would be playing guitar this well. So people like me with a mechanical brain if you said you have one week to learn the C major scale I would be practicing that every available moment for the week like homework from the college. I guess that’s basically the idea like a college course where you have to complete things in time.
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The whole premise of being an electric guitarist is to be in a constant state of flux, where things that excite you as a player can be taken onboard and correspond with how you present yourself to your world.
If you seek to ground yourself in more mundane exercise, then this has to bear fruition as defining gravity in your delivery.
Up to you how you balance the extremes of endeavour.
If you can imagine your fingers doing it, then the next step is to just go for it.
Time constraints and any thoughts that force any sense of non-achievement are a negative force in a medium that quite simply can reward a player that is grateful for the opportunity to simply play, and be themselves.
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There are two things I would recommend using together. The first is Absolutely Understand Guitar on YouTube. It’s like sitting in a class. You won’t really need your guitar to play along. It mostly covers the theory of playing guitar. To get play-along lessons, pair that with Justin Guitar (the free website, not the app). That will be more play along instruction where you will try to mimic what he does. Those two things are both nice and linear in terms of the progression from beginner to advanced and they should give you just about everything you’re looking for.
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