This is something I’m also curious about. That is “the truth of woodshedding “, it doesn’t seem often talked about , I assume this is becuse teachers do not want to frighten students off with making them think they need to spend hours on scales,chords and arpegios and exercises. This is true of course for the hobbyist or casual player who just likes to play songs for 10-20 minutes after a days of work , guitar is enjoyable .
But there are those of us who don’t aspire to be professional but do want to be the best they can be. It seems all the greatest players have spent considerable time woodshedding the basics like scales, chords,arpegios ,exercises ,drills following the circle of 5ths, ect. These are all foundational material which is pre requisite in order to become advanced . I certainly do not claim to be advanced in any way but Im Very interested in the subject of “how to practice “ and “what to practice”.
I really like tomo’s 2 dvds “accelerate your guitar playing “ and “more accelerate your guitar playing “, these dvds have many foundational exercises like scales, caged chords ,rhythm , blues etudes , technique exercises ect ect
I have been practicing some of these exercises in my practice routine and have seen great improvement in my rhythm and technique , and general playing. But I certainly am very interested in learning more on this subject of practice and woodshedding .
How one balances practicing and reviewing old material with learning new material , I’ve tried making lists of things to study and learn.
Research Into all this does seem conflicting , the famous guiatr teacher pebber brown was huge on daily practice of picking exercises , scales,chords ,arpegios , whilst I’ve heard another pro jazz guitar player say first you must learn all the scales,chords and arpegios and then move away from practicing them as soon a spossile and focus on been musical instead of practicing exercises .