Before Bed (10 min)
Run through the Lydian scale form combinations, use all learned techniques for picking, muting, and fingering techniques you can do. Remember to play clean notes and apply muting between notes
Work on learning a new selection
Play something you know
Get up early (10 min)
Without amplification do the Lydian Exercise found after the following appendix, continuously as in non-stop for 5 minutes. If you make an error, ignore it and keep playing. Try increasing your speed once you feel you are error free and you do not need to look a the exercise sheet
Throughout the day
Keep an ear open for some song that has a guitar sound or rhythm you like, listen to and identify the progressions in your head as it plays.
A minimum of a ˝ hour scheduled practice daily (30 min)
Work on assignment, play something new – try that song you heard, or at least try to invent something creative. You are at the stage, right now, in which your main goal is to produce clean notes. Speed doesn’t come overnight.
The following pages introduce the terms and concepts that we will be dealing with over this course. It is important to review this information periodically. The lessons that follow will refer you to this section for review.