Remember this is just a basic explanation of what you should do, it is extremely
important you look all of these concepts up. Our Links Page may be of help

Preparation
Find a room with very few distractions, have all your equipment at arms reach-
Guitar, amp, tape recorder, metronome, books ,magazines, paper and pencils
And Some sort of timer would also be beneficial, so you dont get distracted
and waste too much time on one excercise.
Warm up
This is done to warm up hands, and "wake up" co-ordination between left and
right hands-Do your warm up slowly.Here is an idea-repeat different sections etc.

Scales, Arpeggios, and Intervals
Use our Scales page to help you here, learn a scale in a single position going
up and down, the two ocatves. Then play a sequence of that Scale-this could
be a 3 of 4 note sequence. Then play some arpeggio built on the root of that
Scale.The an intervallic sequence. And then a few spontaneous licks.
It would be very beneficial if you looked up different ways of playing arpeggios
and intervals, because there are many different types. It is very important to get
a good understanding of these concepts as all melody is built in some way from
these concepts.
Chords and Rhythm
Our Chord Page should be helpful here.Chords and Rhythm by there nature go
together and they should be practiced that way, so try use a metronome or
drum machine. A good way to do it is set your drum machine to a certain style
blues ,funk etc. And play a certain chord as many different ways as you can up
and down the neck. Then learn some new voicings, slowing down the drum
machine and still playing in rhythm.
Improvisation
You can catagorize music into two catagories into 3 tonalities Major, Minor,
Dominant. If you master these catagories you should be able to improvise
in any situation. You can play along to the radio finding the right key or songs
you already know, or Jam along tracks-using the scalar,arpeggio ideas you have
already learnt. You can also record a one chord vamp eg Gminor and explore
your G minor devices you know Repeat with Gmaj7 for major or G6 or G9
for dominant. You can branch and start using more chords as you can confidence.
Ear Training
What you are in essence trying to do is, transport the music you hear onto your guitar.Here are some ideas that may help:
-During Warm up try sing the notes you are playing.Or trying singing and getting
the pitch on the guitar.
-Sing or hum along to your scales, or find the tonic note and hum that.
-Play a chord and sing/hum the tonic note.
-Think of a nursery rhyme, try play it in C without "fishing" for the notes.
-Put a CD in a random spot play it for a few seconds stop it and and try play it.
-Get some one else to play in a certain key and try copy what they play.
-Learn songs from albums you like.
Sightreading
This is reading music from a written page-and then being able to play it on your
guitar. You dont have to know how to read music tab is fine! Repetion will help
you with speed and ability so worry about being slow.Here are some ideas:-
-Transcribe your own riffs and licks
-Transcribe anything new you are learning and read the notes as you play it.
-Transcribe new chord voicings you are learning
When it comes down to it-you shouldn't worry about perfection in this area
more amount of different pieces. Get a piece play a bit once slowly and perfectly
then a 2nd time faster, then a third time faster picking what notes your able to.
Visualization
You dont need your guitar to do this, but dont under estimate its importance.
Some of the best players swear by this.
-When you're away from your guitar ,practice playing a song you know well
in you mind visualising your left and right hand motions.
-Find a lick you wish to learn read the tab and visualise yourself playing it
before you pick up you guitar.
-Play a chord visualise your fingers moving to another chord then physically
move this helps increase acuracy and flow.

Once again Remember you should research all of these, as this is just a
reference point