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If you only have 30 minutes a day to practice guitar I would suggest focusing on just one to two things per day.
Otherwise the quality of your practice or guitar lesson is minimal. Here are some examples based on my goals.
Remember your's can differ.

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5 min warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up

20 elements intervals / ear rt hand technique scale studies arpeggio / review /

min training composition journal

5 min cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down

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5 min warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up

20 weekly goals scales and rt intervals and elements and arpeggio andear review and
min and theory hand technique elements' composition training journal
relationship

5 min cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down

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5 min warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up

20 free play with elements free play with elements free play with review and
min recording recording recording journal

5 min cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down

These are three examples of a 30 minute guitar practice schedule. Now when you read my goals and guitar practice
schedules, you'll notice that they seem theory intensive as opposed to technique. That may be the case but there are
a couple of reasons for that:
 u. The first reason is that I think that in order to become the best musician or guitarist that you can become,
you must understand how music works. You have to develop a relationship with it. My practice sessions are
nothing more than me enhancing my relationship with music. That's how I try to look at it.
2. The second reason is that based on what I want to accomplish, I need to understand theory. You notice that
my goal wasn't to play arpeggios as fast as I can, or to shred like Vai or Satch. It was to do something with
the skills that I have, to say something through technique and to me applying theory to emotion is the most
efficient way to accomplish the goal.
3. Lastly, I NEVER STUDY THEORY WITHOUT MY GUITAR IN HAND. I'm a teacher by trade but I try to keep
guitar playing from being purely academic. So I always learn and practice the theory on the instrument.

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5 min warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up

20 relationship of interval scales and rt hand arpeggios and review and

min elements positions / ear phrasing technique composition journal
training dynamics

20 interval positions scales and rt hand arpeggios and relationship of free play
min / ear training phrasing technique composition elements and song
dynamics ideas

u0 scales and rt hand arpeggios and relationship of interval positions plan out
min phrasing technique composition elements / ear training next week
dynamics

5 min cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down

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5 warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up

min

30 free play composition and song develop rt hand phrasing and try and put
min and song structure / decide elements from techniques and fretboard it all
ideas message and driving ideas from dynamics position: together
elements Sunday fingerings

20 journal to journal to tie in journal to tie in journal to tie in journal to tie in review and
min tie in journal

5 cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down
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5 warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up warm up

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30 rt hand interval study left hand study: chord structure and improv over free play and idea
min arpeggios and and fretboard scales, phrasing placement on vamps generation
dynamics placement and speed fretboard

20 journal to tie in journal to critique journal to critique journal to critique journal to gauge
min critique improvement
since Sunday

5 cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down cool down
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· Focus on a specific aspect of playing at a time. Don't try to cover all right hand techniques in one day.
· Focus on one technique or area of study and do it right and learn it thoroughly. I can't stress this enough.
· Don't practice shoddy technique.
· Don't practice halfheartedly. If you want to learn something, learn it inside and out until you're just about sick
of it.
· These guitar practice schedules are simply examples you can go by. But you should base them on your
goals. Usually I alternate between the different schedules and sometimes I skip here and there, whatever.
The point is, as musicians and guitarists we change and so should our goals and practice regimens if need
be. I usually take a day off during the week to clear my head, mine just happens to be Saturday.