Originally Posted by: richjoan

Hi everyone,

I joined a while ago, but did not practice too much and did not get involved in the forum. I have now decided its time to get serious.

I am currently 45% through the Anders GF1 course.

One question I have is in the fact that I cannot seem to find any information on the time input roughly expected for each course and each lesson and at what standard for each exercise etc I should be at before I move forward. As a new player, this is really tough to Figure out for yourself. I understand it will be different for different people but some sort of guidlines would be good.

Thanks all in advance.

Hopefully you'll come a the forum to give this a read.

The challenge is that people learn at a different pace. This makes 'time spent' not a specific measurable thing. You do know that since that what ya said :)

I would go to the extent of not even worrying about the amount of time you should spend. The best measure is you level of mastery of the 'thing' you're learning. That's still not a specific answer so it doesn't answer your question. For that matter, does 'mastery' best explain it?

Any measure I've ever used in learning something is; 'I'm comfortable enough with that'. The problem with a time measure is that some things will be easier than others. Don't spend time on something that you got comfortable with pretty quickly.

The method I apply (that I made up for myself) is a 'Move Forward but Look Back' method. I didn't realize in all my years of playing that I did this. My practice now is not about learning how to play since I've been playing for decades, but I do now spend a good bit of time learning new styles and disciplines.

For instance, I was watching a video on jump blues and wanted to learns some of the moves/licks. Lots to learn in this video so I just started to dig in on the licks and get a 'chunk' down. Next time I picked up on learning those licks, I started by working on the next set of licks but I went back to those original licks I'd learned. So as I learned and built the chunks of licks I worked on something new and then pulled the old licks back in at the end. It's a review but is instructive on building knowledge.

For you, you may not want or need to go back to all the GF1 lessons all the time but, back to mastery, after a time of 'Move Forward but Look Back', you'll be comfortable enough with a 'thing' to not have to review it anymore because it's just a part of your skills.

Hopefully this all makes sense.