Ultimate Practice Routine
Follow a four-path guitar practice plan
Ultimate Practice Routine is a step-by-step guitar practice plan. Steve Stine, GuitarZoom's Master Instructor, organizes it into four paths. The Core Path covers finger strength, warm-ups, legato, picking, metronome work and essential techniques. The Experience, Awareness and Creative paths cover learning from songs, the notes on the fretboard, scale and chord theory, and practicing creativity. The course has 24 video lessons, close to 4 hours in total, plus a 22-page PDF book.
What Ultimate Practice Routine is about
Steve breaks every skill into simple steps you can follow. In these videos, he introduces the course and teaches finger strength and downpicking exercises.
Course intro: Course Intro · 5:03
Free preview lesson: Finger Strength/Dexterity · 3:42
Free preview lesson: Downpicking · 4:50
Is Ultimate Practice Routine right for you?
- Players who don't know what to practice. You want a clear plan for each practice session.
- Players who want steady technique work. The Core Path covers finger strength, picking, metronome work and essential techniques.
- Players who want more than exercises. You also want to learn songs, the fretboard and theory, and be more creative.
- Any level. The course is split into four paths covering technique, songs, the fretboard and creativity.
Skills you'll walk away with
- Practice finger strength and dexterity exercises and warm-ups
- Practice legato and three-finger combinations
- Practice downpicking and alternate picking
- Practice with a metronome and work on rhythm and groove
- Practice bending, vibrato and sliding
- Learn from songs and tell ego songs from project songs
- Learn the notes on your guitar and visualize the fretboard
- Practice creativity as part of your routine
The course, module by module
The full lesson list is below.
Course introduction
An overview of the practice plan and how the four paths work.
What this course is not
A short lesson on what the course does not try to do, so you know what to expect.
What this course is
A short explanation of the goals of the practice plan.
Path 1: The core path
Finger strength and dexterity, warm-ups, legato studies, the 20-second exercise, three-finger combinations, downpicking, playing with a metronome, alternate picking, rhythm and groove, and essential techniques: bending, vibrato and sliding.
Path 2: The experience path
How to learn from songs, and the difference between ego songs and project songs.
Path 3: The awareness path
Learning the notes on your guitar, fundamental scale and chord theory, and fretboard visualization.
Path 4: The creative path
How to practice creativity, plus final words.
Learn at your own pace
Clear video lessons
Every move is shown up close. Pause, rewind and repeat each lesson as often as you need.
Practice materials
Includes 22-page PDF book. Use them to practice what you learn in each lesson.
Yours for life
Pay once and come back any time, on your computer, tablet or phone. No subscription.
Steve Stine
Steve has taught guitar for more than 30 years and has helped millions of players in over 100 countries. He has a Music Education degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead and taught guitar at North Dakota State University. He's known for breaking hard things into simple steps you can follow. Read Steve's full story
What students say about Steve's teaching
Excellent · 4.8 out of 5 on TrustpilotRead our reviews"I'm amazed with just how much improvement I've seen in my own guitar playing."
Don B.United States
"What I'd really say is definitely take Steve Stine's course. I think you would find it really, really beneficial."
Demetrio G.Canada
"One major problem that I had was just being lost. Steve helped me find the way."
Jared H.United States
"It's clear, precise and I can follow along really well."
Jim C.United States
"This is top class. Thank you very much. This is really good, gold standard."
Brian H.United Kingdom
"I really like Steve's systematic approach to practicing."
Kevin M.United States
Ultimate Practice Routine questions
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Where to go after Ultimate Practice Routine
12 Essential Techniques to Practice
Twelve short lessons on picking, warm-ups, scale positions, arpeggios and finger-picking to add to your practice.
Warm Up Routine
Stretching, pre-practice and legato warm-ups, plus 18 down and alternate picking exercises and G major scale picking.
Picking Booster
Warm-ups, finger combinations, economy and legato picking, metronome drills and bursting for building picking speed.
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