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ok let me better explain this. I gues it came across like I have been doing this for ever but I haven't!! When I was first practicing 30+ hours a week, it was basically open chords, strumming, fretboard, etc. I only worked on this schedule for 6-7 weeks "after" a year or so of just noodling and messing around, reading, research, new gear, tone searching...etc, not really "practicing" daily on this or any schedule for that matter. That's when I wrote this schedule out. Then I stopped practicing new stuff for months and months, so I never really progressed any further, with ANY of these techniques
 
I can't play barre chords well enough at all and I definitely cannot switch between open and barre chords fluently. As far as the modes, they ARE ALL 3 note per string, but I am still probably around 80-90 bpm clean, so I really haven't progressed there either. Chord progressions are still tough for me because I lack the theory side of music. So although I can play "fairly" well, I haven't really stuck to this schedule after that 6-7 week period. If I did, I probably would be light years ahead of where I am now I still need to work on timing and left/right hand coordination, that's why I still need to work on chromatics and stuff.
 
 
That's the thing, I can't because I never stuck to this or any schedule. I lost some motivation along the way! Family, work etc ...... And lately, past 4-5 months, I'm lucky if I played 1-2 hours a week, sometimes going 5-6 days without even picking up the guitar at all......so all-in-all, I have a LOT to work on still.
 
But I do understand what your saying if I get back to practicing regularly, which I hope will be soon
 
On a good note though, I learned an old Emerson Lake & Palmer tune, "Lucky Man" yesterday....didn't realize how easy it was:D Verse: G-D Chorus: Am-Em-D with some Dsus2 and Dsus4's in there.
What I would love is a bunch of songs that use open chords that I can learn so at least I can start to put together a song list....right now its only 3

OK, here's my take on practicing. I don't know how anyone can only practice for 30 minutes to an hour a day and not get totally frustrated/bored with the rate of progression that their making. When I actually sat down about a year ago and laid out on paper my practice routine, I finally realized how much time was needed to actually progress, at what I consider, would be a "decent" rate of progression.
 
20-30/min Chromatics moving up in half steps.
20-30/min on MODES: go through all seven modes 2-3 times with a metronome.
15-20/min A Bb Phrygian lick that I like.
15-20/min Just the Lydian mode moving up in half steps frets 1-5 (Good for stretching)
30-60/min Barre chords !! Could really spend 2 hours a day on just these.
20-30/min chord progressions with open chords and barre chords and combining them also.
20-30/min Finger picking.
20-30/min Minor pentatonics in all 5 positions
30-60/min Scales; Major, Minor and Blues all positions
1 hour Practice 1 or 2 songs that I am trying to learn.
 
then spending some time just playing, could be 1-2 hours of just having fun
 
So as you can see, that's about 4-6 hours of practice without even including the "fun time"
 
...all that doesn't even include practicing things like bends, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs, tapping, etc etc. Never mind the time it takes if you actually want to learn a
favorite solo that you like which takes a lot of time as some of you know. And lets not even talk about finding certain tones of favorite songs. Finding good tones takes an enormous amount of time with all the different effects and all the parameters for each one. You could spend hours/week just learning, delay settings, reverb, EQ, Chorus settings, plus your guitar volume/tone/pick-up selector settings and how they effect your tone.....it's just endless........and let's not even get into mixing and recording!!! And then what about all the reading on forums and books, and watching videos etc etc
 
When I first started playing, I was putting in 30 to 50 hours A WEEK. When I first posted my song "Influenced" on JS Forums, people where amazed that I had only been playing for just over a year. They said I showed the experience of someone that has been playing for 3-4 years or more because of my phrasing, the accuracy of my bends, my timing etc ....and the funny thing is I still think I suck as far as skills. If I only played for 30/min a day, I really don't think I would have stayed with it at all.

Wow Excellent!! All though I don't watch the show, it is a very successful sitcom here in the states Congratulations Hans, well deserved.

Beautiful job on that Hans.....worth the effort

Congratulations Hans Not sure what you mean by "this is a very sexy message" .....must be a translation thing but that's ok ....there is nothing "Sexy" about this message at all. Maybe it has something to do with the name of the song?? What does "Liebe" mean ?

Easy there buddy, don't want you getting all "Hollywood" on us
 
Congratulations

Congratulations Hans! Nicely done

Wow nice Hans Congrats buddy

Done !