Practice

After the last article on how to measure improvements in your guitar practice a reader emailed with the following question on improving their practice: Hi Sam ,I’m learning a fingerstyle piece called struttin rag by stefan grossman. I’m struggling to even slightly increase the tempo a few beats to get a tiny section at the same speed as the rest of the piece which i can play no bother.It needs this tempo to bring about a lively performance.

A concept that we explored in How to Practice Guitar was making small improvements each week. By making a 1% improvement each week, we know for a mathetmical fact that as long as we’re consistent with our guitar practice, eventually we will reach our goals, whatever they may be. It’s an important, and I think, very motivating concept. It’s something that we’ve discussed several times in various posts on this blog.