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Things You Should Be Doing - #1 (Two Phases of Learning) (Patreon)

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Welcome to my new mini series called Things You Should Be Doing.

This small collection of videos will focus on what I consider to be mandatory elements of actually improving as a player and musician, or to put it simply Things You Should Be Doing. 

In this first video, I discuss what I consider to be the two phases of learning. Phase 1 is what everyone knows and does but Phase 2 is often ignored, and it is often the reason why so many people have a hard time actually learning things! This is probably the most important thing to actively do, as it applies to basicaly everything.

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Things You Should Be Doing - #1 (Two Phases of Learning)

I discuss what I consider to be the two phases of learning. Phase 1 is what everyone knows and does but Phase 2 is often ignored, and it is often the reason why so many people have a hard time actually learning things! Intro To This Series (0:00) Phase 1 - Active Practice (1:11) Phase 2 - Passive Noticing (2:36) Why So Many People Don't Learn (4:14) How I Actually Practice (6:19) Keep Your Brain Open (9:55)

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Dustin Burt

I remember trying to visualize the the chords of a major scale while driving. I would choose the 1, then identify the 4th, and 5th, of the scale to identify the major chords. I would then fill in the remaining minor chords and one diminished chord. This helped me move from counting on my hands what the major chords were in the key to seeing it clearer on the fretboard when I was playing. It also helped recognize why the 5th is directly above the root on the A, D, and G strings.

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>99188683

It's actually crazy how much you can get done by doing little things like this when your passively driving, or at the gym or something. I remember one day thinking "I should memorize the notes of every major chord", so I then just cycled through all of them in my head while I was making the 40 minute drive to school. I literally had them memorized in under two weeks. In two weeks worth of passive work, I memorized something that people go years never actually learning, and it's only because I made the choice to do it. It truly is not difficult, you just have to actually keep your brain open for learning opportunities.

Dustin Burt
>>99176020

It's a tough pill to swallow. I remember when I was younger trying to motivate myself to pay for proper guitar lessons. "Adam knows a guy who made him a great player in just two years. That would be $2,400 to be an amazing guitar player". Needless to say, six months into lessons I realizes that this dude is not going to beam the ability to play into my head and hands. We are all truly self taught and never self taught at the same time. Someone has to point out the way while you are the only one who can walk the walk, The good news is that we now know the path!!! I been playing guitar for twenty years. I have looked over Bill Edward's Fretboard Logic, Desi Serna, Barrett Tagliarino, all kinds of CAGED YouTube videos. This course has done over the last year the most to connect my hands to my ears. To give me the confidence to say that I can play guitar. Take it slow, Don't skip over the Power ups and practice lessons. They will help you identify what you need to work on. I Don't know LoG. All I know is what has worked for me.

Josef Ludewig

After 30 years of guitar playing I started with phase two😂 Its so much fun to see how everything is connected I was doing so far, without thinking about it:)

Simone Stefanini

In your examples of the second phase, during the "passively noticing" phase, you decide to learn the 5 function when bending from 4 to 5. So you build the connections slowly, one by one just noticing one at a time to avoid overwhelming your brain with too many things. So in that case, your hands play a bunch of licks but your brain decides to notice the 5 only to cement it in your brain, Right?

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>99268895

This is a fantastic comment, and is something that I didn't really articulate in the video, but is crucial. You're absolutely right, although I am playing a bunch of things I am making a point to only notice one tiny element of those things, like you said noticing the 5. There are of course many other notes going on, but by allowing myself to notice just one piece of the lick, I can make real progress while not overloading my brain. Afterwards, I might do the same lick and notice a different note, maybe the b3 this time. It's all about focusing on tiny easily digestible elements one at a time, until you've got everything comfortable.

Dylan Taylor

This is true. Okay thanks for making it plain and simple