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LisaMcC
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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LisaMcC
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 11/02/06
Posts: 3,976
01/17/2009 2:20 pm
Hi Itsmesilly,

I tell my students to try to go for it every day, even if it's only for just five minutes. Here's why:

You are training your fingers and your brain to learn a whole bunch of new things. The more FREQUENTLY you remind them, the more quickly they will absorb them. So even just a five minute run-through of a few exercises or chords or a song is better than waiting all week, and then giving it an hour on the weekend.

Of course, doing both would be best!

But I work with tons of adult beginners whose lives are just too busy to accommodate a daily practice routine that takes a lot of time.

Besides, you never know. If you commit to five minutes a day, some of those sessions may magically morph to ten, fifteen, twenty....and before you know it, you're putting in more time than you thought you had to spare.

And yes, location, location, location! Make sure the guitar is right there, easy to grab at any spare moment.

Keep us posted - and have fun!
Best wishes, Lisa
Lisa McCormick, GT Instructor
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