Get Unstuck: 1 Week to Real Progress
If you can move your fingers and speak a language, you can play guitar beautifully. Here’s how to stop looping the same licks and actually move forward this week.
What You’ll Learn:
- Clarity beats hoping: define what you want to do on guitar and the skills it truly requires.
- Schedule your practice like a pro: a daily block on the calendar changes everything.
- Build a focus zone: a quiet, distraction-free space turns 20 minutes into real gains.
- Get specific: choose exact exercises (position, fingering, tempo, subdivision).
- Always create: turn scales into melodies, riffs, and songs, every session.
Action Steps (Do This This Week)
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Write Your Goal Map (10 min):
- “I want to ____ (e.g., improvise melodically over blues in A).”
- List the skills required (e.g., A minor pentatonic across the neck, timing, phrasing, vibrato).
- Note what you already have vs. what’s missing to reveal the gap.
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Block Practice in Your Calendar (Daily, 20–30 min):
- Pick a realistic time you can hit every day. Treat it like a gig, non-negotiable.
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Set Up Your Practice Space (Today):
- Close the door. Phone on airplane mode. Tuner, metronome, picks, notebook ready.
- Goal: when the timer starts, you’re already practicing, not setting up.
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Choose 3 Daily Elements (Be Precise):
- Example: “G major scale, 5th-position, 1-2-4 fingering, 60 bpm, eighth-notes.”
- Log the details. Tomorrow nudge to 62–64 bpm. Track tiny wins.
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Create Music Every Session (5+ min):
- After the drills, make something: write a short melody, improvise to a jam track, or outline a song idea.
- For today: jam in A minor pentatonic over a simple backing..
