maybe you should read my blog before getting a guitar lesson

1.Wrong , you HAVE to learn songs *by yourself . not with your guitar teacher . That was one of the few mistakes that i made ...by learning riffs / technique / scales ...

you will realized later you are going to be a guitarist who can only play "his own thing" ...and you are too lazy / or canot cover ANY songs ..
and if i throw you a 2 hours gig , you are going to sound the same for the whole 2 hours

2.ok what he said was wrong

3.never experienced

4.You don't . you can try this

75bpm - 10 minutes
150 bpm - 10 minutes
80 bpm - 10 minutes
160 bpm - 10 minutes
85bpm - 10 minutes
170 bpm - 10 minutes ( if not clean , go back to 160 Bpm )

easiest way to increase speed is ..practice half the speed , then double it up

This post has been edited by gapnap: May 25 2008, 03:29 PM

you can use it for your daily routine..but remember ...there are so much more to guitar playing other than speed and technique..
and remember , speed without control ..is nothing..

well..to make life more interesting ..i usually recommend my students NOT to have a routine ..
But have Short term goals ..like .."By 30th June i want to be able to play that 3 string arpeggio's sweep from far beyond the sun" ..

and work towards 30th June . No point making your practice boring . only practice when you feel like it . if you don't enjoy what you are doing , the practice wouldn't be productive at all..

about scales..trust me lah..major , minor , harmonic minor , melody minor,pentatonic is more than enough ..
i have seen stuff like Ninja scales , Arabic scales , Sex scales..but the only place you use em' is when you are writing your own song.
Most of the time you will find yourself using the major minor harmonic minor and melodic minor much more than those tiny scales...