Lauren Bateman says 15 focused minutes beats an hour of unfocused practice. Spend five minutes each on chord changes, finger dexterity, and strumming rhythm to build muscle memory fast.
So I tell people, you do not need one hour to practice. I tell students, if you can give me 15 minutes, that's awesome, because you can focus on the three fundamentals, and that's hitting chords and chord changes. All right. We do a lot of finger dexterity exercises. This is one of the biggest things that I think most guitar teachers overlook, especially for an older audience. Finger dexterity, Doing these chord changes. It's a whole new mechanic. I don't care if you're someone some people like, oh, I type all the time, so it should be fine. It's like typing is a different mechanic. I mean, there's some similar similarities because you're doing this and you're doing this, but it's a whole new mechanic. And we have to train the muscle memory, and that takes time, so we focus a lot on that. So there's chords and chord changes. You know, there's your finger exercises for dexterity and then strumming and rhythm. Okay. If you can do these three things as a beginner, or even if you're someone who's been learning on your own for a while and you feel like you're kind of plateauing, you work on these three things, five minutes a piece. You will see so much progress in your playing.
