Tomo Fujita Guitar Wisdom

Hi,

In addition, I started to get interested in other people's practice routine. I will post mine and maybe some can give feedback or suggestions.

I'd also love to see yours and learn from the way you all do things.

Mine works on 2, 3, or 4 day rotations of different skills, techniques, theory and songs. I'll post the first 7 days but the cycle is completed after 28 days of practice.

Day 1-

Chromatic Scales-Ascending (5 min)

R 3 7 Swing & Muting (10 min)

Ear Training-Major (15 min)

Triads (30 min)

Finger style (15 min)

Hammer On/Off & Vibrato (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

There, There

Desert Island Disk

That’s the Way

Don’t Let It Bring You Down

Norwegian Wood

Day 2-Jan., 7

Chromatic Scales-Descending (5 min)

Metronome Stress & Blues Bassline in A (10 min)

Ear Training-Intervals (15 min)

Chords-CAGED (30 min)

Finger style (15 min)

Bends & Harmonics (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

Jigsaw Falling Into Place

I Might Be Wrong

I’m Looking Through You

I’m Only Sleeping

Girl

Day 3-Jan., 8

Chromatic Scales-Ascending (5 min)

R 3 7 Swing & Muting (10 min)

Ear Training-Minor (15 min)

Scales & Arpeggios (30 min)

Finger style (15 min)

Picking/Strumming (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

15 Step

Reckoner

Ramble On

Dreamin' Man

In My Life

Day 4-Jan., 9

Chromatic Scales (5 min)

Metronome Stress & Blues Bassline in A (10 min)

Ear Training-Intervals (15 min)

Chords-7th (30 min)

Finger style (15 min)

Hammer On/Off & Vibrato (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

Blues

Improv

Autumn Leaves

Danger Bird

On the Beach

Day 5-Jan., 10

Chromatic Scales (5 min)

R 3 7 Swing & Muting (10 min)

Ear Training-Major (15 min)

Triads (30 min)

Finger style (15 min)

Hammer On/Off & Vibrato (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

There, There

Desert Island Disk

That’s the Way

Don’t Let It Bring You Down

Norwegian Wood

Day 6-Jan., 11

Chromatic Scales (5 min)

Metronome Stress & Blues Bassline in A (10 min)

Ear Training-Intervals (15 min)

Chords-CAGED (30 min)

Finger style (15 min)

Bends & Harmonics (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

Jigsaw Falling Into Place

I Might Be Wrong

I’m Looking Through You

I’m Only Sleeping

Girl

Day 7-Jan., 12

Chromatic Scales (5 min)

R 3 7 Swing & Muting (10 min)

Ear Training-Minor (15 min)

Scales & Arpeggios (30 min),

Finger style (15 min),

Picking/Strumming (15 min)

Songs (30 min)

15 Step

Reckoner

Ramble On

Dreamin' Man

In My Life

Wow, Michael! This is a lot of things! Have you ever tried the sight reading series? I think you would enjoy the structure :)

On that idea that the sight reading series can address a few issues, I’ve been trying to pair a few essential exercises with the sight reading series for 30-60 of total practice time per day.

Right now that looks like this:
—5:00 chromatic exercises (1-2-3-4, 1-1-1-2-1-3-1-2-3-4 on third and fourth strings)
—5:00 C major scale (one finger, one string on strings 2,5, and position play for tempo)
—5:00 C triads on 5,4,3 and 3,2,1 strings

I don’t usually use a timer on those, so those three exercises can creep up to 30 minutes total if I’m not paying attention.

The other part of the practice is just 15-30 minutes of the sight reading series, usually 1-2 pages in Leavitt.

I’m wondering if that looks pretty balanced or whether I should consider swapping something else in since sight reading is covering some of those other topics.

My biggest complaint with this routine is that there’s not much room for songs. I’ve been limping through Take the A Train for two months now.