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"Recording yourself is really important so you can listen back to how you're sounding."
"Monk practice: every single note is your baby, and you are going to care for it as well as you can."
"No, don't even try to make me play these music scales, it's not because I'm lazy."
"No one in this household wants to listen to her practice at all, but -- oh, freezer bunny guitar, I actually like that a lot."
"Own all of your scales and all of your keys."
"Teaching has really helped me improve my playing."
"I went into a room with just myself, my instrument, and someone who knew what they were talking about."
"You can start to use this stuff when you play."
"Find the way that works best for you in strumming."
"So now what we do with this is we move that pattern through the scale."
"The very first thing you do is tune the guitar every time you pick it up."
"Practice using your ear, figuring out playing music you hear on your guitar just by listening."
"Record yourself playing guitar to track your progress and analyze your playing."
"Find out how many easy things you can do that sound great."
"Make sure that the guitar you get will inspire you to play it and practice on it."
"You always want to be the worst musician in the room so you can rise to their level rather than being the best."
"But I promise if you take on that challenge and succeed, your playing will be so much better when you fold back in the non-chord tones."
"Learning to solo involves listening for the chord progression."
"When Rick Biato tells you to practice, you probably should."
"I've been brushing up on my guitar skills and I've been learning some like picking patterns."
"Unless you have perfect pitch, find reference notes and work on your ear training."
"Host a jam session for yourself without ruining everyone else's day."
"But more importantly, it prompts you to think, were there any nice moments throughout the week?"
"I practice because I really enjoy the experience of the music."
"If you do not have a good method of counting fast rhythms or complex rhythms, you are making things very difficult for yourself."
"Make sure you're getting better at the drums away from your kit."
"I remember looking down and being pleasantly surprised that I was strumming and changing chords with no problem without even thinking about it."
"If you want to play fast you got to play slow."
"The reason that we pick up an instrument in the first place is not to endlessly be playing other people's music."
"If you want to play piano, you play piano every single day for four hours without a teacher, you'll get really good."
"You need to practice playing all of your diatonic chords in all 12 keys to truly master jazz piano."
"I made some mistakes on the guitar, so then I redid the pattern."
"Hopefully, you'll have many fantastic hours of practicing and performing using this amazing sheet music app."
"Whatever you're preparing to learn a new key, just run through the scale a couple of times."
"But then let's commit for the rest of this session as we do this very systematic work right through the pentatonic scale that we actually treat it like it's music to be played."
"Regular music practice, thinking artistically, and regular exercise has an impact on cognitive skills such as concentration and attention."
"Jazz isn't just an oral language, it absolutely needs to be part of any jazz musician's practice routine."
"There's one thing you need to do to maximize your bass progress."
"The lucky winner gets to choose from a list of Strats, Teles, Jazzmasters, basses, amps, all just for practicing."
"Playing with the metronome is one of the best ways to train up your own internal sense of time."
"There are two things that make learning songs all the more impactful and all the more rewarding."
"How do I stop chasing gear and start playing more? It's about finding things that inspire you."
"A 10-minute per day simple but powerful piano workout plan that will help you develop effortless, confident, and beautiful playing on the keys."
"This method... really does allow you to be more adaptable on the fretboard."
"Don't underestimate how important technique is or neglect to work on it."
"This actually makes a superb musician's practice amp."
"Just by literally putting the rhythm in your body, it takes it out of being this mental idea... and it starts to actually get it dancing and moving in a different way."
"I'm just practicing drills and scales, I'll get better at that, and then that will translate to whatever I want to do."
"The most important thing this riff taught me was just how fun it is to play along with songs and learn songs you love."
"Just imagine it, it is your metronome, it's constantly moving, it keeps you in time."
"There's 70 play along songs inside the command brain."
"Sight reading is not for playing it perfectly, it's for just getting through with a minimal amount of losses."
"This type of practice can be modified to fit any tune, just change the chord sequence and change the chord qualities to fit the song you're playing over."
"If you want to get as close to this music as possible, you got to play with the recordings."
"Being able to say the notes as you play them is a fantastic way of learning the notes as well."
"It's a great way to build up your ear and also your technique in the difficult keys."
"It's all about getting your hands dirty and playing some simple songs."
"It's wonderful for learning jazz standards for jazz musicians just practicing along."
"The big deal for this little trick that I call the 'objective observer' is that we're trying to remove the emotional relationship between us and what we play."
"Taking a step back and just watching yourself play is unbelievably powerful."
"If you use a metronome, it'll really help your timing."
"It's so much easier on your hands, it helps you be able to play longer, your hand doesn't get fatigued as often."
"It's a question of just playing it over and over until it becomes automatic."
"Playing with the metronome while it skips a beat sounds difficult and intimidating, but it's actually a really fun challenge."
"Take one of your favorite songs and apply the thing that we just learned."
"The motion that you make with the pick at exactly the same time as the finger improves as you practice with a metronome."
"Take the patterns that you already know and play them... intentionally quiet."
"The quickest way to get to be a good musician is to practice slowly, ironic but true."
"Playing along with backing tracks is a great way to improve your rhythm, get used to playing with others, and just have more fun with your practice time."
"Eventually it gets to that point where it just looks like you are playing by ear when really what you're doing is just pulling together lots and lots of bits of knowledge from those songs you learned and using them to get you through a new song that you're learning."
"One of the most effective ways to practice newly learned stuff is to play it in the cycle of fourths."
"Practicing the use of motifs and listening to players who use them often day in day out is really going to add a new level of maturity to your playing."
"Etudes are not just shortened duration but they are also more musical, memorable, and fun than just playing an exercise."
"I hope that was useful. You practice that along to the backing track."
"Keep up the great work in your own playing; keep persevering in it."
"If you manage to find something that supports your music practice in a very meaningful way and you code it once, you develop a lot of pieces with that, things look very different."
"I'm going to show you the five things you should be practicing every single day to become a well-rounded musician."
"Just sit down with your guitar and have fun."
"Okay, excellent work, everybody. We have that iconic intro down now; we're jumping into the verse section."
"You don't learn to play an F sharp minor by skipping songs that have it."
"The only way to get better at sight reading is by practicing sight reading."
"Practice technique, learn scales and arpeggios in every permutation that you possibly can."
"Improvisation is the most fun thing to practice because this is playing lead sheets."
"This is an amazing practice and kind of fretboard knowledge study to be able to do for arranging songs."
"We're just going to arpeggiate the seventh chords up and down through the entire progression."
"Practicing to a drum machine in this looper is so beneficial for my timing."
"Practice how to play the trumpet so that you can play music and play it well."
"Playing along to music is some of the best ways to learn how to play drums."
"A really great exercise to practice for intonation is the note bending exercises."
"Simple tips and tricks can start discovering what your embouchure should be when it's nice and loose and relaxed."
"Good luck and happy practicing everyone, see you next time."
"Practice with a metronome... makes sure that you're playing evenly at a consistent tempo."
"If you practice licks on this progression, you're gonna have a much easier time soloing on almost any Jazz tune."
"Keep listening, keep singing, and keep practicing, and I'll catch you next week for another tutorial."
"Perfect tremolo should be even, and to make it even, we need to have all pairs of fingers worked out as much as possible."
"One of the great exercises of college would be to have the opportunity to play every one of the sax parts while you're in college."
"This is a video I've wanted to share for a while now on a musical pattern which I really enjoy practicing."
"The more jamming off camera that I do, the more there's no pressure ticking."
"If you're practicing with a student, you can play scales in the same octave together on the piano."
"It's a good way of getting used to using intervals, don't just think of them as these kind of theoretical concepts."
"Keep listening, keep singing, keep practicing."
"Once you've got that lick down, you can start adding it in there with our bass groove."
"All you need is a pair of sticks and a practice pad."
"Happy practicing everybody, happy tone practicing, and see you next time."
"It's so much better than and so much more inspiring than playing along with a metronome."
"The most important thing is just to do it and start playing it."
"Having a drummer built in just makes practice even more fun."
"The reason we play overtones is that it prepares us for playing the altissimo notes, helps us to develop our tone, and can be used as an advanced skill to add more variety to our playing."
"Use a metronome... it really is going to help you improve your skills."
"If you're a beginner or early intermediate, I say get a synthetic, make your life way easier."
"That is really loud even at half a watt, and definitely would be at the right sort of volume for practicing with a band and a drummer."
"Kabalevsky's 24 Pieces for Children, Opus 39... they're great to practice, they're great for beginners."
"You can all double and triple your playing in three months, save yourself an astonishing amount of money doing it, and still rock out tonight or play the blues to play the funk that you love."
"With a little practice, you'll be able to spell, identify, and invert any interval you come across."
"Playing add-on, adding small bits of material to what you already have, is a really big unlock for playing tough material more fluidly."
"If you want to play songs quickly and if you want to play chords and you love pop music, then this is the best thing you can choose."
"It's important when you choose a range to try on the trumpet that you don't try to play something higher than you're comfortable with."
"The more consistent you are, the easier it is to try trumpets and very quickly know what you want."
"Until then, practice smart and play on."
"It's the final piece of the puzzle if you do all three of these things, you're going to find that you're quickly able to get louder and not feel stiff."
"This is a saxophone that I love, I'm passionate about wanting to pick it up and to play it."
"Keep practicing hard and I'll catch you next time."
"Your overall memory will improve and all of a sudden you'll be playing riffs and you'll just see things come to you a lot better."
"Happy practicing, I'll see you next time."
"Considering she doesn't actually have a piano to practice on, she's actually been doing really well."
"Remember the three things you want to practice to get better at ear training are scales, triads, and intervals."
"Once you can do that, it feels so much fun, and like the jam track for this kind of stuff for me is the most fun I can have with a jam track."