Orientation · Exercise 01

Set up your practice station

Goal
Fix a daily practice time and spot, check your kit, and log day one.
Time
10 min

You'll

  • Pick a daily time and place
  • Check your kit: tuner, metronome, log, timer
  • Log your first entry

Set up your practice station

Why daily

  • 15 min every day beats 2 hours every Sunday.
  • Fingertips: calluses build from frequent use and soften after a week off.
  • Motor learning: skills consolidate between sessions, mostly in sleep. Seven sessions, seven rounds.
  • Momentum: a fixed slot survives a busy week.

Pick a time and place

  • Anchor it to something daily: after dinner, first coffee.
  • Guitar on a stand or hook, never in its case.
  • Chair or stool without armrests.

Check your kit

  • Tuner: clip-on or free app. Tune first, every session.
  • Metronome: any app. Goals are tempos (“clean at 60 BPM”).
  • Log: notebook or phone note.
  • Timer: your phone.

Hear it

Every lesson page has a metronome. Press start and feel 60:

Practice vs playing

  • Practice: what you can’t do yet. Buzzing change, slow pinky, 10 BPM above comfortable. Slightly frustrating by design.
  • Playing: what you already can do. The reward. Do it after practice.
  • A comfortable session was playing.

Run each session as a practice block, then a play block:

Log it

One line a day:

Mon 20 · 15 min · chromatic warmup · 60 BPM · ring finger lagging

Write today’s entry, even if it’s “set up my practice station”:

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