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I had always read that you should always practice with a metronome, but didn't bother as I thought I didn't need to. I recently decided to try and was amazed at the effort it took to remain precisely in time! Not only did I learn about keeping in time, but it forced me to slow down to a tempo that allowed me to play the melody without pausing.
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08-03-2024 08:39 AM
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Narrow your focus on the precise jazz style or stylists that turn you on.
Tune everything else out. Don't be afraid to ignore 99.9% of all the advice you will read about (including this post!).
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Always make sure to be mad at theory. This will make you more musical.
Last edited by Bobby Timmons; 08-20-2024 at 12:15 PM.
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Spend less time practicing and more time arguing on JGO, obviously.
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#1 Most Important - Confidence And Playing with Others
Don't wait or worry thinking you need to be "good enough" to practice, rehearse, play with, or perform with others - that's missing the fastest way to learning what is most important; get doing those things now.
#2 Practice Focus On Your Ear
Listen to tunes, remember how they go, recognize the sounds of their chord types and progression changes, and melodies, then play them... not being able to do this now is irrelevant; practice means you keep trying until you learn how.
Develop the habit of practicing until you hear the discovery of something new, then explore ways to make it musically useful, remember that, experiment with application in other tunes.
#3 Theory
Always make sure to be mad at theory.
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Originally Posted by raylinds
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To steal a tagline from Nike- Just do it! I have never been a morning person. No matter what time I go to bed or how much sleep I get, I hate getting out of bed in the morning. I finally realized the hard part was getting out of bed. Once I did, I was fine and ready to go.
Sometimes I do not feel like practicing, so I just pick up my guitar. Once it is in my hand, I am ready to play. Even if it is just a half an hour, it helps!
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Originally Posted by John A.
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Record yourself, and listen back to it.
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Originally Posted by AJLo
Last edited by benhatchins; 08-27-2024 at 05:16 AM.
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Originally Posted by raylinds
and keep the guitar out and ready
(not in a case)
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learn a tune a week..it dosen't have to be "jazz"...but pick tunes you like!!
review the tune in week two..and so on..try this in clusters of ten
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Originally Posted by wolflen
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My one best piece of practice advice is to not read posts about the one best piece of advice.
Seriously, I agree with the metronome advice, with the goal of trying to practice along with a beat, either with a backing track or a metronome. The idea being I try to slow things down to where I can play along with minimal mistakes. Most times this is really really slow. Then as the muscles get memory and I start acquiring the finger technique, I start to speed it up. The main point is to try not to practice mistakes, and slow things down until I can actually get close to playing it without mistakes. I also break things down into small sections, and memorize them, so I don't have to process them from music to mind to fingers, but rather from mind to fingers.
What is really working for me now is to have more fun and joy in my playing. I am doing this by having multiple avenues of learning. So at this time I am doing three things: Learning a song (Misty), taking an online course, and learning some theory from a book. I jump around from these so I don't get burned out, as I can obsess over one of them and get frustrated.
Enjoy the journey!
Paul
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