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    The document provides tips on how to practice guitar effectively from Thomas Viloteau. It recommends determining fingerings for a piece at full tempo rather than slow practice. Complicated passages should be broken into groups of 3-5 notes and practiced with a metronome. With good technique, new repertoire can be learned within a few weeks. Focused practice time is more important than unfocused hours of practice. Additional resources on memorization and technique are also suggested.

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    The document provides tips on how to practice guitar effectively from Thomas Viloteau. It recommends determining fingerings for a piece at full tempo rather than slow practice. Complicated passages should be broken into groups of 3-5 notes and practiced with a metronome. With good technique, new repertoire can be learned within a few weeks. Focused practice time is more important than unfocused hours of practice. Additional resources on memorization and technique are also suggested.

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    The document provides tips on how to practice guitar effectively from Thomas Viloteau. It recommends determining fingerings for a piece at full tempo rather than slow practice. Complicated passages should be broken into groups of 3-5 notes and practiced with a metronome. With good technique, new repertoire can be learned within a few weeks. Focused practice time is more important than unfocused hours of practice. Additional resources on memorization and technique are also suggested.

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    Thomas Viloteau On How To Practice

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    Thomas Viloteau - On How to

    Practice
    “You want it to be very safe when you practice, you want it to
    be perfect.” - Thomas Viloteau

    Outline
    1. “Life’s too short”

    2. Repetition and muscle memory

    3. Metronome uses

    4. Slow practice and fingerings

    5. Complicated passages

    6. Timeframe for learning

    7. Amount of practice time

    8. Additional Resources

    “Life’s too short”


    Life is too short to practice inefficiently. Our practice habits should always allow us
    to learn music as quickly as possible.

    WATCH THE LESSON AT TONEBASE.CO


    Metronome uses
    There are a few main benefits to using a metronome:
    1. Quantifying your practice but setting and reaching clear numerical tempo goals
    2. Practicing repertoire that is meant to be groovy, especially modern repertoire
    that mimics playing with a drummer.

    Slow practice and fingerings


    Slow practice is good, but many people make the mistake of determining their
    fingerings at this tempo. This wastes time because it runs the risk of having to re-
    evaluate the fingerings as you get closer to full tempo.

    It is best to start learning the piece a tempo to decide on the fingerings that will
    work right away at the full tempo. Once that is established then the slow practice
    can begin.

    Complicated passages
    Try to reduce complicated sections to groups of 5 “things.” These “things” can be
    notes, shifts, or other considerations. It could be as little as three notes that
    includes one shift and one other additional technical consideration.

    Practice the groups with a metronome to quantify your progress. Once you can play
    each passage 10 times in a row perfectly, then you can move to a faster tempo.
    Continue this until each group is at the full tempo. It is important to follow this up for
    two to three days to commit the movements to long term memory.

    WATCH THE LESSON AT TONEBASE.CO


    Timeframe for learning
    If you establish good fingerings at the beginning, and work through the difficult
    areas in this way, learning new repertoire should only take a few weeks,
    provided it is the right level of difficulty for you.

    Amount of practice time


    There’s no substitute for raw practice time. Make sure your time spent with the
    guitar is highly focused. Two hours of focus is better than six hours without focus.
    Get as much focused time with the instrument that you can each day.

    Additional Resources
    Try incorporating these practice techniques into your repertoire. Check out the
    additional resources to this lesson below or ask Thomas a question by emailing us at
    team@tonebase.co!

    1. Thomas Viloteau’s lesson on Memorization

    2. Tariq Viloteau’s lesson on Lagrima

    WATCH THE LESSON AT TONEBASE.CO

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