The Good Musician

Remember how important it is to keep a practice diary. Following that, if you have a Mac, and happen to play electric guitar, catch an adapter cable and get yourself GuitarLog.

This application allows you to record your practice sessions, manage them, compare, and work with a metronome.
I love this app. Especially the ability to manage instruments lets you keep track of which instrument you used for which take. Sometimes you forget how you got that super-solo sounding so cool, that’s when GuitarLog can help.
It also creates statistics, and you can practically throw any kind of media at it to manage …read more

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You already know how important it is to keep a practice diary. It’s time you knew how to practice more effectively by forming your sessions properly.
Let’s look at a session of 45 minutes.

00:00 – 00:15 Technical Excercises: Begin your session by warming up with technical studies. Pick just one excercise in a maximum of 3 areas of focus. On the guitar, I do one exercise for the left hand (legato playing) and one for my right fingers. My third exercise is a study by Sor or

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