What do you do to practice?

[stimike]

Curious to know, outside of Rocksmith what are your practice sessions like, what do they consist of? Do you do scales? Which ones? Do you go through a set of chords? Which ones? Elaborate!

Lets share our practice methods so people can broaden their horizons even further.

Mine is pretty basic since I'm just starting out, I do the finger stretching for 5 minutes starting on 2nd fret 6th string ending on 5th fret 1st string and then in reverse, and repeat for 5 minutes. Then I do switches between E, Em, A, Am, D, G, C for 5-10 minutes, then play Rocksmith.

I feel theres so much more I can and should be doing, especially more chords and power chords (Which I have yet to learn http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif ) so lets hear what you do!

[stimike]

Curious to know, outside of Rocksmith what are your practice sessions like, what do they consist of? Do you do scales? Which ones? Do you go through a set of chords? Which ones? Elaborate!

Lets share our practice methods so people can broaden their horizons even further.

Mine is pretty basic since I'm just starting out, I do the finger stretching for 5 minutes starting on 2nd fret 6th string ending on 5th fret 1st string and then in reverse, and repeat for 5 minutes. Then I do switches between E, Em, A, Am, D, G, C for 5-10 minutes, then play Rocksmith.

I feel theres so much more I can and should be doing, especially more chords and power chords (Which I have yet to learn http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif ) so lets hear what you do!

[Trey_Trey]

You should go through the first 3 or 4 stages of Justinguitar.com. So helpful and free. You'll probably stick around for the whole beginners course, but those right there are key. I'm parked on stage 6 right now (F cord !!!).

[stimike]

Yep I started doing justinguitar a bit, but I'm so addicted to rocksmith its hard to pull myself away that long. I started off with Marty Schwartz on Youtube though, and he's great too.

[OMyStarz]

I just got the RS game last Friday and have started on justinguitar.com yesterday. Isn't it neat how the first few chords Justin provides are the same as in the first song on RS? The only one missing is the B5.

I think I'm actually preferring the chords to the single notes, I sure didn't see that coming.

Practice routine? I guess I really don't have one yet but I'll be happy to hang around and hear ideas from others.

[stylescres]

Honestly the best practice is just playing song you love. It will keep you far more interested in the long run.

[LP68CA]

I agree with styles. Rocksmith is my practice.

I do scale runs, practice other riffs, and do some skill-building exercises between songs and during intros.

I generally warm-up with songs I haven't 70k'ed first. Then I play the guitarcade games a while before I attack any songs I've played but haven't mastered.

Finally, I rehearse the Rocksmith Recommends tunes a couple of times before playing them in performance.

The routine works for me, keeps me interested, and I don't think I'm running through content too fast or too slowly.

[stimike]

When you do the scale runs do you do them in the mini game? Which order do you do them in?

[LP68CA]

No, I usually just do my scales forward and back, either in full, or in alternating sections.

The scales I generally practice are various permutations of the chromatic, major, minor (harmonic, melodic), minor pentatonic, blues pentatonic. Usually in that order.

I also work on modal fingerings a little, and scale runs that traverse long sections of the neck (good for lead playing).

I haven't gotten used to Scale Runner yet, I think it's the color/number thing. I still wish they'd just give us an option to display note names! But I do think it probably makes for good practice.

In scale runner, I'd probably start with minor pentatonic, then major, minor, harmonic minor. The modes can be skipped for a little while. I'd add chromatic scale practice outside the game too. And try to practice these all over the neck. 1st fret, 5th fret, 12 fret, 17th fret...

[DeepDrummer]

Great advice LP68CA!!
Two warm ups I always do before playing anything is I start on the low E string open then place my index finger on the first fret and pluck it then leaving that finger there, I place my second finger on the second fret and pluck. Leaving that one there, I place the thrid finger on the third fet and pluck. Leaving all those fingers there, I place my forth finger on the fourth fret and pluck. Then I slide up the fretboard to the next fret pressing hard enough to have the slide pluck that fifth note while lifing the other threee fingers. Plant the third finger back on the forth fret and work the fingers back down one at a time. This lands me back to the second fret with the index finger which after plucking I slide up one fret to the 3rd and then start planting each finger one at a time and plucking. I do this all the way up the string and then the opposite back down the string and then I move onto the second lowest (A) string (yellow?). Anyway I do the whole neck once with that and then the second warmup is simply starting at the fifth fret on the lowest sounding string (Low E) and just play one fret at a time similar to the same method as warmup # 1 but only the four notes then move onto the next string. So 4 notes per string.
This gets everything loosened up. Then I start running through Pentatonic and blues minor scales and quickly start improvising as well. It's a great warmup that gets the fingers loosened up and ready to rock. It takes forever the first few times you do it but you get faster and faster at it and soon it's just a matter of a few minutes and you are ready to go. I practice some chords and finger picking, scales, arpeggios and such. I just love noodling around in a pentatonic blues minor. (Pentatonic minor with an additional flatted 5th). I havewn't checked out the scales in the game yet. This just keeps getting better and better.