Guitar Practice Space - Why You Can And SHOULD Have An Awesome One - Sunday Update #27
Hi there, Tomas Michaud here.
Welcome to my Sunday Update.
Today, I'm gonna talk about some ideas on how to set up your guitar practice space to
help you to be successful in your quest to become an awesome guitar player.
So one of the ideas that I work with in my life is that I tried to set up my life in
a way that it helps me become successful now what by that of course discipline and will
power all important and I found over the years that I cannot completely count on that.
A good example of course is a diet.
Most people know better than the (0:46) kinds of junk foods or fattening food right in front
of their face when they're trying to diet.
Well I found there are lots of things you can do in life.
The kind that sets yourself up to be more likely to be successful and one of those things
you can do when you're learning to play guitar is to create a practice space that you like
and that works for you.
What I mean by works for you that has the tools handy that looks inviting that's make
it easy to just say I'm gonna go, sit down and practice not have to take 5 to 10 minutes
to kinda get everything arranged.
And sometimes it's just enough to kinda derail a good intention so let me tell you about
my practice space of course you're gonna use what's best for you and I understand that
some things will work better for some people and others but also not everybody can't do
an ideal practice space.
You do what you can and anything is an improvement so let me give you a little tour of my Practice
Space.
One of the things I like to do is to have a space now fortunately I'm able to do that
in his place in my life every room.
It's not only used for practicing but I can keep my things set up and ready to go -- that
means, I can close the door and not only other people are going to disturb you when they
see the door closed, we have an understanding of course but more importantly for me, I know
I'm not irritating somebody that is hearing my scales over and over and over and you have
to admit, it can be irritating to hear the same thing over and over if it's not you actually
that's working on it.
The other thing, I'm pretty cautious about is that I have a good solid space to sit down
on and that means with back support.
I have learned over the years that as my back starts getting sore, I'm not just gonna practice
as much.
And as a matter of fact, I might bear it through one day but the next day, it's not gonna do
me in and maybe worn my practice so a good back support, comfortable.
I know when I sit down I can look forward to a good experience.
I also have my Metronome handy and ready to go.
I like to keep my guitar tuner on my guitar, here I have it on my headstock of my guitar
and it's very convenient for me.
This is a clip on tuner.
I used a guitar stand for when I'm working at something I need to read, this is a nice
KNN portable guitar stand that I can put away if I don't need it and I also keep a notebook
handy.
I talked about this more in my blog post.
It's important for me to have a place to write down some ideas so I don't get hang up on
thinking I need something to do or I should do or something that's gonna destruct my practice
or God forbid, interrupt me, have to get up and take care of.
I just write it down and then I don't worry about it now so write down and practice ideas
and sometimes even song ideas.
Here's my little wooden footstool that I used to put my leg up that way, I can put my guitar
on the prop leg and actually helps relieve a little pressure on my back when I'm practicing.
It's good to have a little art work around.
There's doll in the room.
This doll is actually a duplicate of the doll I had when I was 1 to 3-years-old.
The original one is pretty beat up, I still have that one too.
You don't want to see that.
This just keeps around as a kind of reminder of my roots and it makes me feel good.
And of course, my practice session wouldn't be complete without a cup of my favourite
Rishi black Chinese breakfast tea.
The other thing that I used that I can't show you right now is the TIMER and the reason
that I can't show you is because I'm using my iPhone to record this video and that's
where my timer is.
It's a great convenient little timer that I have with me all the time but in the past,
I've used a mechanical egg timer and it's something I highly recommend.
I also talked about in my post a system for making little chunks of time to practice and
why that's helpful so you can read more about that in my blog post.
Thank you for joining me today and in this Sunday Update and thanks for coming in to
my space with me.
I feel like, I've invited you into my private kingdom.
I hope you have a great week and look forward to seeing you again.
Bye.