Guitarists can be seen as being on a ramp or a plateau. On a ramp you acquire technique rather than perform and on a plateau you perform rather than acquire technique. Perhaps an ideal is to combine the two, the ramped plateau.
After fifty years of playing I am now on a plateau. I mostly work on preparing pieces to perform. I have most of the techniques needed to play what I want but if a piece requires it I will work on that specific technique only as much as is needed. A certain amount of practice is to do with maintaining repertoire, but playing everything everyday serves no purpose. So currently I have about 5 or 6 songs I work on every day and maybe once a week I do partial back catalogue maintenance.
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