I don't practice guitar, really. Oh, I practice tunes on the guitar, but I'm practicing the tunes -- I don't really sit down with the guitar and say, "I'm going to practice guitar now; I'm going to work on speed, or such-and-such technique." I play the guitar, and whatever practice I get happens while I'm playing. (I'm not discounting the idea that I should practice, only noting that I basically don't.)
In one book I read about how to train as a pianist, that was actually presented as a point of contention: Whether it's really profitable, after a certain point of technical proficiency, to keep playing Czerny and Hanon, or wouldn't it be better to stick to Chopin's Etudes and Bach's Fugues, which have their particular technique demands that you will learn how to satisfy anyway in the course of learning how to play that particular piece.
What I took away from that discussion, and what I apply to my recorder and piano now, is that warming up exercises are valuable, limbering up exercises are valuable, and speed exercises are valuable; but particular technique exercises might just as well be taken care of while practicing particular pieces. I can practice arpeggios with my left hand and the last movement of the Moonlight Sonata, or I can practice the last movement of the Moonlight Sonata for twice the time. I know which one I'm going to pick.
...but caveat: That only applies after you've reached a certain technical proficiency with $INSTRUMENT. For the piano, I'd say about four years, for instance. No dropping Hanon or Czerny before that.
Yah, when I was learning guitar, I did practice. I practiced scales, I practiced changing from chord to chord, and even though strumming mostly came pretty naturally, I practiced various strumming techniques as well.
So it probably is a level-of-proficiency thing ... bass guitar and mandolin are so close to guitar that most of my guitar proficiency carried over, whereas clarinet is different enough from recorder and oud is different enough from guitar that with those instruments I merely had a head start.
Then there's the Appalachian dulcimer, which isn't very guitar-like in general, but comes very close to one particular guitar technique I'd already learned or something. For some reason the different left-hand position didn't slow me down at all.
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In one book I read about how to train as a pianist, that was actually presented as a point of contention: Whether it's really profitable, after a certain point of technical proficiency, to keep playing Czerny and Hanon, or wouldn't it be better to stick to Chopin's Etudes and Bach's Fugues, which have their particular technique demands that you will learn how to satisfy anyway in the course of learning how to play that particular piece.
What I took away from that discussion, and what I apply to my recorder and piano now, is that warming up exercises are valuable, limbering up exercises are valuable, and speed exercises are valuable; but particular technique exercises might just as well be taken care of while practicing particular pieces. I can practice arpeggios with my left hand and the last movement of the Moonlight Sonata, or I can practice the last movement of the Moonlight Sonata for twice the time. I know which one I'm going to pick.
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So it probably is a level-of-proficiency thing ... bass guitar and mandolin are so close to guitar that most of my guitar proficiency carried over, whereas clarinet is different enough from recorder and oud is different enough from guitar that with those instruments I merely had a head start.
Then there's the Appalachian dulcimer, which isn't very guitar-like in general, but comes very close to one particular guitar technique I'd already learned or something. For some reason the different left-hand position didn't slow me down at all.