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YYB

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  • Birthday 01/19/2022
  1. Anyone using software they like and would recommend for creating your own chord frames? (i.e. those 6-lined schematics showing where your fingers go.) How good software for creating TAB?...
  2. Another thought or two... Gerald Klickstein teaches guitar at UNC and says that students usually learn more from fresh music, seemingly due to the boredom factor. No surprise, but that does suggest to me an insight that some of the fascination with repertoire is really about getting bored with the songs we're working on. On the other hand... Fascinating study showed that a concert pianist who seemed to be working constantly and deliberately was actually only playing the instrument in practice about 25% of the time. That suggests that, as important as 'deliberate practice' is (see Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outlier's'), a weakness is that you aren't playing all that much. So that's clearly a point in favor of a robust repertoire.
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    Metronome

    The more I read, the more ways I see that there are to use a metronome to improve speed. I'm not talking about 'shredding' per se; just about trying to increase the tempo you're capable of with chord changes, a song, a tough lick, etc. If you feel like you've got a good approach with the metronome, could you share EXACTLY how you use it to improve speed?...
  4. Pretty happy with my practice schedule, in terms of the balance between technical work, theory, fretboard mastery, etc. One thing may be missing - I practice so many different things, I hardly play real music! I've read a number of people who say that it's important to have a group of songs you know and to regularly play through some of them, start to finish (without woodshedding a lick, polishing a section, etc.). I'd be more motivated if I knew how much of precious practice time to devote to repertoire. 98% of my improvement comes from woodshedding, not playing through songs intro-to-outro. So to put a sharp point on it: if you're still interested in developing chops, and understanding that that development takes a significant investment of time doing other-than-repertoire work (scales, theory, metronome, etc.), what percentage of your practice time do you feel is worth devoting to song play-throughs?...
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