Doing it on your own works, but improving requires someone helping you who is better than you/me and making sure you are doing it correctly. Right now I am working on Flowers of Edinburgh. The last one I learned was the Tony Rice version of Church Street Blues with his help. I mostly learn songs on my own from tab and recordings on Utube, but my teacher helps me with the timing and with the hard spots. That teacher had placed in Winfield and won other contests around the country. The last time I took guitar lessons was back in the late 1980s and I had to play for him too. I took lessons for less than a year before Covid.

I am pretty sure you should be playing for him, so he can see your progress. When this Covid is better, I will go back for more lessons.

I am telling you, it has made me a much better player. Then I have to play the parts I struggle with until I get it right. Then we play together as much as we can cover and I play alone too. He plays it slowly and then up to speed and I record both versions. He will play the piece for me, let me record it on my phone so I can refer to it later. He corrects all my mistakes (especially timing) on the spot. I took lessons before Covid from a good teacher. What should I be practicing on a daily basis? It seems like I pick up my guitar and I'm just playing the same C G D A chords over and over with some Old Joe Clark and G/C/D/A major scales at the open position.

I've taught myself some Music Theory, just basic stuff, but nothing crazy as it is obviously overwhelming for a beginner.

I understand how the fret board works and what notes are at the top of the neck.

Pretty much the only fiddle tune I've been learning. This aspect of bluegrass has came very naturally to me.

Gotten pretty good at alternate picking.

Leaned hammer-on and pull off techniques.

My guitar teachers says I won't be playing down the neck for quite awhile.

Taught myself a few of the major scales at the open position.

Nothing crazy here, just switching chords and trying to keep a good rhythm while running the Bass notes. I've practiced this in all the Major Keys you see in bluegrass and have practiced with a Capo in multiple positions. I would love to hear from you all what you think would be a good practice routine given what I know so far! for BLUEGRASS! He just explains things and tells me some stuff to focus on between lessons. My teacher is great but unfortunately he never has me playing for him. Been playing guitar for a little over 2 months now and I sometimes feel like I'm not going in the right direction.

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