Want to become a better guitarist and have more fun practicing? Add circuit training to your guitar practice routine. Circuit training combines several exercises in a very specific way for a pre-determined period of time.
Wish you could transform yourself into a great guitar player faster than ever while enjoying practice sessions more? One of the best ways to accomplish this goal is to use circuit training to make your guitar practice extremely effective. This training combines different guitar exercises in a very unique way for a set duration of time.
The following process describes how circuit training improves your guitar practice effectiveness:
1. It uses your time more efficiently. You work on improving various techniques in the time that most guitarists would only work on one. This helps your guitar playing improve at a faster rate.
2. It’s more fun than other common practicing approaches. Circuit training integrates many different exercises and techniques together to eliminate the repetitive nature that comes with most practice routines.
3. It strengthens your guitar playing fluency. In order to use the skills you learn in actual music, you need to combine a variety of guitar techniques together. Circuit training is excellent for this.
4. It helps your mind maintain its focus. It is hard to concentrate when you play the same exercise over and over in a repetitive manner (your mind becomes bored). Circuit training rotates through different exercises, solving this problem. This also makes your guitar practice time more effective.
Guitar Practice Training Circuit Sample:
Warning: Make sure you warm up your hands thoroughly before you start your practice session!
As soon as you have warmed up, complete these steps:
1. Playing at 80% of your maximum speed, play a scale using legato only for a total of 7 repetitions (a single repetition = one time through the scale both ascending and descending).
After you’ve done this, go right to this next step:
2. Playing at 85% of your maximum speed, use palm-muting to play a basic power chord with a rhythm of three notes per click (triplets) for 20 beats of the metronome. As you do this, limit yourself to only playing with downstrokes.
After you’ve done this, go right to this next step:
3. Playing at 85% of your maximum speed, use hammer ons and pull offs to play trills on any two notes of your choice (for best results, play in all areas of the fretboard). Additionally, switch to a different pair of fingers every 8 beats. Once you’ve used every combination of fingers at least 3 times, you are done.
After you’ve done this, go right to this next step:
4. Play any string skipping lick you can think of for eight repetitions at EIGHTY percent of your fastest speed.
After you’ve done this, go right to this next step:
5. Play any scale of your choice using three notes per string at TWENTY to FORTY percent of your fastest speed while not using your index finger to fret notes (in other words you can only use fingers 2, 3 and 4) for a total of three repetitions.
After you’ve done this, go right to this next step:
6. Play a scale sequence or rhythm guitar riff of your choice while using double picking (picking every note two times) for a total of ten repetitions.
Go through this circuit nonstop for twenty minutes.
Here Is How To Successfully Complete This Guitar Practice Circuit:
-Whenever you use legato technique, pick the first note of the string and use legato (hammer ons/pull offs) to play any other notes on that string.
-To get the absolute best results and have the most productive practice, plan the specific exercises and metronome speeds you will use in advance. Make sure not to hesitate after you complete a step. Have all necessary information written down ahead of time so that everything flows effortlessly.
-When moving from one exercise/step to the next, reduce the amount of time for setting the metronome tempo to ten seconds max.
-Don’t hesitate after you’ve finished the circuit. Go immediately back to step one and begin again.
-Get rid of any extra tension in your body as you practice. This is crucial for building up stronger endurance as you practice. This video will help you remove excess tension in your guitar playing:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/K4CA-auTUVc
-Never play guitar if you experience pain! While it is normal to experience fatigue (a dull, burning sensation), it is not normal to feel sudden sharp stabs of pain... this is a sign that you need to stop immediately.
In summary, this circuit training approach should be used to compliment your guitar practice, NOT to replace it entirely. For best results, use it with other guitar practice methods to become a better guitarist even faster.
Use this circuit training method along with your usual practicing methods two times per week for 4-5 weeks total. You’ll quickly see that your guitar practice is becoming more efficient and fun.
Learn how to easily make your guitar practice extremely effective.
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