| If you don't have a Pandora, then look into getting one. It will make practicing fun for you. Its got the metronome, along with a variety of different beats, amp models, effects, and an aux so you can practice to bands you like and figure out their stuff.
Start with finger exercises. Across the board, up and down the neck. Make sure you're fretting correctly, and consistently. Make sure you're picking or plucking correctly and consistently (time, volume, tone). Practice different patterns, everything from 1/4 notes to 16th notes. Do this with a fretted pitch, then do it walking up and down in half steps. Practice triplets. Start slow and stay slow. When that sounds solid. Pick a quicker tempo. Do it with a metronome. Practice on keeping your fretting action light and even. Don't clamp. Practice on your picking or plucking hand...also light and even. You can play quicker with a lighter touch than you can when you're really digging in.
Practice simple repeated patterns. Do them longer than you think you need to (set the timer for 10 minutes and don't stop until you've heard the bell). Then pick another simple pattern and do it again. and again.
Learn the fingering patterns for a few modes and scales. Work them all over the neck. Figure out how to hit those notes in different ways (up and down a string, across the neck, or a combination).
Anytime you start some new exercise or pattern, so it slow. Don't jump to hyper speed. You have to build muscle memory, once you've got that, start speeding it up.
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