Setting Practice Priorities
At any one time, there’s a million things we can work on with our playing. Literally every area of our playing can always use improvement. Our speed playing, chord transitions, chord progressions, rhythm, improvisation, It’s important to have priorities for practice.
Depending on where you’re at with your guitar playing, you need different advice at different times.
Use ideas that immediately start making you better, and discard the rest. Focus in the area where improvement is actually happening. Maybe the new ability will open up doors.
Lets say you really want to work on speed picking, and you’ve been on a plateau around 110 BPM for some reason. Then during one of your warmup exercises, you suddenly make a new distinction about a chord change, and so you work on that.
You find the added balance in the hands from getting a chord grip down a bit better made your fingers address the fretboard at a better angle, and now you pass through your 110 BPM plateau with your speed playing. These kind of trade-offs happen all the time, where one thign helps another.
Be aware of these these tradeoffs in your own playing.
