Understanding Guitar

One Beginners’ Efforts

Are you able to get enough in? I never feel like I can get enough practice in, but on the other hand I also feel like I can only practice so much at once.

I figure that I probably get, on average, about one hour (perhaps one an a half hours) of guitar practice in per day. Some days, I get more, some days I get less.

I just got back from my weekly lessons. We, as always, went over new material. However, before the new material, we went over an old Ionian scale [I found some here: http://gosk.com/scales/major-scale-for-guitar.php – The particular one I was playing through was “Major, sweep pattern ”]. It was one of the first scales that I learned. I couldn’t remember it right away! Even though I had to have practiced that particular scale literally thousands of time.

The problem was that, though I had practiced it thousands of times, I hadn’t recently practiced it. I’ve been (obviously) practicing the newer material that I’ve been given. But because I never have enough time to practice (so I feel), I can never get back to the early, early material.

When my teacher springs “the old stuff” on me, it catches me off guard and I have trouble remembering exactly how it goes.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions? Perhaps patterns to approach fitting old material in to “short” practice sessions?

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