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run the block

30 minutes, five blocks, a timer on each one — the fretboard maps and your songbook open right where you need them.

how long today
05:00

hands

warm up and buy back your left-hand independence

one finger per fret, metronome at 60. play 1-2-3-4 up the neck, then permute the order: 1-3-2-4, 1-4-2-3, 2-1-4-3, 4-3-2-1. no buzz, no cramping. if your hand aches you are squeezing the neck instead of fretting it.

week 3 of 4
this week’s fretboard focus
muting, ghost notes, dynamics

the same lines you already know, but quieter. left-hand mute, right-hand mute, ghost notes on the off-beats. record it. the goal is that the groove reads even with the pitch taken away.

your songbook →

four weeks, then round again with a harder tune.

the tools are the routine

each one is a block of the routine — the runner above opens it when you get there.

fretboard · 7 min
know where you are without looking

this week's shape lit up on the neck, with the notes named

tunes · 8 min
one 8-bar section of a real song, by ear

the tune you're learning, with its key, tempo and first-phrase tab

how to practice

most people don’t need more practice time. they need the time to count.

  1. 01

    change the tempo or change the notes. never both. if you cannot name the one thing you are working on right now, you are not practicing.

  2. 02

    your real tempo is the fastest you can play it five times clean in a row. not four. drop the metronome ten bpm below that and live there.

  3. 03

    playing a song start to finish is performing. loop the two bars that break, at half speed, until they stop breaking.

  4. 04

    phone mic, one take, listen back. you will hear timing and buzz that you cannot hear while your hands are busy.

  5. 05

    date, tempo, what broke. two lines. next session starts where the last one ended instead of starting over.

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