Are you ready to get great results every time you pick up the guitar?
One of the keys to getting the most out of each and every practice session is: focus.
If you are not able to keep your focus during your practice session what kind of results can you really expect from your time?
To keep your focus during your practice session, you must eliminate as many potential interruptions as possible. When you do this you ensure that your practice time remains your practice time, not time that can be easily stolen from you.
An interruption is anything that diverts your attention from what you have chosen to spend your time on—playing guitar.
An interruption may be someone knocking on your front door, someone calling you on the telephone, or if your computer is on all the time, it could be the little “ping” sound that says you have email.
If you share accommodations with others, let them know that you are not available during your practice session. Turn off the ringer on your phone, and let your answering system handle any calls.
An interruption steals time from your guitar playing two ways:
1) The actual time of the interruption. This is the amount of time it takes you to put the guitar down to answer the phone and then return to the guitar.
2) Once you are playing again you have to pick up where you left off. It can take quite some time to get back into the flow of what you were doing, or sometimes you just never quite get back to where you were.
Don’t let this happen. Take control of your time and eliminate as many interruptions as you can before you start your guitar practice session.
Does this include the TV?
The best-case scenario is to have completed your guitar session before you sit down to watch television. When you do turn on the TV, by all means, play some guitar if you feel like it. Just don’t consider it to be a true practice session—look at it as being bonus guitar time.
Remember that anything that takes away your concentration will slow down your progress. So it’s much better to play guitar for a half an hour and then put your guitar away and watch television for a half an hour, rather than play guitar for an hour while you watch TV.
If you want to watch TV and play guitar watch something that will improve your guitar playing…concert DVDs and instructional guitar DVDs.
Play your electric or accoustic guitar without interuptions for 30 days and see the improvements!
