Practice guides
Guides
Practice routines, speed and how to measure your progress on guitar. Every guide ends in exercises you can start right now.
- Practice routine · 2 min readA 30-minute guitar practice routine that shows progressA 30-minute guitar practice routine in four blocks: warm-up, technique, speed and music. With timings, target BPM and how to know it is working.
- Practice routine · 1 min readA 15-minute daily guitar routine for busy weeksNo time to practise guitar? A 15-minute daily routine: 3 minutes of warm-up, 7 on one skill, 5 of music. Why short daily sessions work and how to measure them.
- Beginners · 2 min readGuitar practice routine for beginners: the first three monthsA beginner guitar practice routine for the first three months: finger warm-up, chord changes, one scale and a song. 25 minutes a day, with what to measure.
- Measuring progress · 2 min readHow to measure your guitar progress (and stop guessing)Not sure you are improving at guitar? Track four things: clean BPM, chord changes per minute, a monthly recording and minutes practised. How to measure each.
- Speed · 2 min readHow to build guitar speed with a metronomeBuild guitar speed without getting sloppy: find your clean BPM, push +5 BPM in short bursts, then come back down. A metronome method with real numbers.
- Recording · 1 min readRecord yourself playing guitar: the fastest way to hear your mistakesRecording yourself is the quickest way to improve your guitar timing and sound. How to record with a phone, what to listen for and how to rate each take.