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The Comprehensive Guide to Practicing Guitar

• Feel like you’re wasting time in the practice room?
• Don’t know what guitar skills you should be working on when?
• Frustrated with sporadic improvements and long plateaus?
• Need a complete guide to the most beneficial way to practice guitar?

Every musician understands the value of practice, but we can all struggle with the what, when and how when we learn guitar. What we need is a structured plan that yields positive long (and short!) term improvements.

This special compilation edition combines all three of Levi Clay’s ground-breaking Guided Practice Routines for Guitar into one powerful resource for all guitarists.

This three-book collection contains Three 10-week Practice Routines that combine over 380 exercises and over 4 hours of live audio, which you will play along with to instantly improve your guitar skills.

Book 1 – The First 10 Weeks: Foundational Skills for Every Guitar Player!

• Rhythm – build fretting hand dexterity, excellent alternate picking hand motion
• Picking – master picking drills and use these mechanics on beautiful chord changes
• Drill moveable CAGED shapes – learn to play any chord, arpeggio or scale in any key
• Moveable major scales using CAGED – break away from predictable patterns and begin a scale anywhere to 10x your fretboard visualisation
• Advanced picking approaches – learn outside and cross-picking techniques and apply them with melodies, strumming patterns and bass notes
• Advanced CAGED exercises – learn the Circle of 4ths with CAGED shapes to play the major scale in every key
• Legato – develop fluid phrases that combine picking and legato
• Major scale melodic approaches – complete your mastery of major scale shapes with sequenced patterns
• Consolidate your skills – nail a final series of drills that combine everything you’ve practiced and get even more creative with some sneaky bending tricks

Book 2 – The Next 10 Weeks: Next-Level Skills for Every Guitar Player!

• Foundational techniques review – review and sharpen areas of technique for what’s to come
• Closed voice triads – learn to visualise CAGED chord shapes and break them into smaller, closed voice triads
• Dominating dominant 7s – get fluent with one of the most important chord and scale sounds in Blues, Rock, Country and Jazz
• Playing 1/8th and 1/16th note rhythms – sort out your rhythm skills once and for all with Levi’s no-nonsense approach
• Major 7 and Minor 7 workout – a complete workout for major 7 and minor 7 chords. Learn multiple chord voicings all over the neck
• Mastering intervals – break away from clichés and create sequenced patterns with 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths and 7ths
• Embellishing CAGED chord voicings – learn to connect closed voice triads across the fretboard adding musical embellishments
• Articulation and phrasing – learn one of the most important articulation techniques in modern guitar; effortlessly combine alternate picking with legato
• Drilling minor modal scales – dive into the Dorian minor scale – an essential tool in your soloing arsenal

Book 3 – The Final 10 Weeks: Advanced Guitar Skills That Mean Business!

• Advanced major scale workout – Drill extended major scale patterns in all positions and in the Circle of 4ths. Master major scales vertically and horizontally
• Mastering triads Pt1 – Learn multiple triad shapes for major, minor, dominant, diminished and augmented arpeggios. Mix and match voicings to play efficient chord progressions
• Advanced 1/16th note rhythms – Develop the skill of seeing a rhythm on paper and hearing how it sounds in your head before you play it
• Mastering triads Pt2 – Learn to build scales around any triad form. Stop seeing scales as shapes and start seeing them as the flesh on your chord skeletons
• Mastering triads Pt3 – Build on your triad knowledge to form any kind of 7th chord, anywhere on the neck. Learn three-note guide tone voicings and rootless voicings
• Major & minor pentatonic drills – Despite being one of the first things we learn, often we never master pentatonic scales. That’s about to change with this game-changing workout
• Mastering triads Pt4 – The ultimate “joining the dots” workout to help you master connecting triad forms with melodic lines
• Mastering triads Pt5 – Open-voiced triads and foundational chord melody skills. Explore advanced chordal structures used by Eric Johnson and others
• Modal control – Use major scale knowledge to quickly compare and play any modal scale
• Economy/sweep picking – Refine and develop your picking technique with a tailored crash course on economy picking