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How To Make An Effective Practice Routine
I’m currently working on a short practice guide. The idea is to condense the most impactful things I’ve learned about organizing practice over 30+ years of playing and teaching, including working with well over 1,000 private students. It's not about specific exercises, but how to decide: • what to practice • how to divide your time • how to stay consistent even on short days • how to make sure practice actually moves you forward When it’s done, it’ll be a small downloadable PDF priced at $9. Before I finalize it, I want to make sure it addresses the real problems people have. So I’d love to hear from you: What’s the biggest issue you have when trying to organize a practice routine that actually gets results? Be specific. I’ll use your answers directly when finishing the guide.
How To Make An Effective Practice Routine
1 like • Dec '25
It would be interesting to know what we need to practice not only to develop our technique, but also what we should practice once a technique has been developed and we simply want to maintain it. How should the time be used between the different techniques? A different technique every day once it has been developed?
What do you love doing outside of music?
We all know we’re here because we love to play guitar, but what other things are you into? I’ll list a few things that I like to do to start things off Working out I lift and run pretty much daily. Then we have the dog walks of course. MMA I used to do some Karate and Judo back in the day but now I settle for watching the UFC. I rather crack a beer and watch other grown ups smack each other around😁 Movies & Series I love finding a new series to binge with the wife, we’re out of stuff to watch now so we’re currently rewatching The Sopranos. I also read a lot, both fiction and non-fiction and once GTA VI or the next Elder Scrolls game is out I’ll pick up the controller again. Enough about me, what about you?
1 like • Aug '25
@Peter Nordstrand Nice, thank you. I think I start with Elantris. Still not sure which genre I like most. So a stand alone book seems to be a good idea.
0 likes • Aug '25
@Brian Falcon nice, thank you. I put this book on my list. First sci-fi book I want to read is Dune. Heard good things about it.
Headphone recommendations for practice
Due to living in an apartment block, playing through my amp is difficult at the times I can practice, so I have to use headphones. Unfortunately my Sennheiser Momentum 2 headphones make my ears warm up after only a short while so I'm looking for suggestions from those in the know. :D
1 like • Jul '25
A friend of mine uses the AKG K 812 for guitar playing, mixing, and mastering. He's very happy with it. These headphones aren't a compromise.
1 like • Jul '25
Here are some cheaper options. https://neuraldsp.com/getting-started/headphones-for-guitarists-and-bassists?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=UE%20%7C%20C3%2FM22%20%28Dec%2030%29%20–%20Knowledge%20Base%3A%20Blog%20Post%203%20%28Headphones%29&utm_klaviyo_id=01FD9KREPGJF4VWTPWMXR69DCF&_kx=PU0eRcMkAn2rWmVT5ObjXWfqcI336FVOt0_pT5loK4Y%3D.LF8evq
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Stefan Siekmann
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