Copy My 30-Minute Jazz Guitar Routine — I Run It With You, Start to Finish

You practiced on Monday. By Sunday it was gone. It's not memory and it's not discipline — practice dies in the three minutes before it starts, when you sit down and have to decide. So I stopped deciding. This is my 30-minute jazz guitar routine — major scale, diatonic loop, triads — one key, same order every morning, and I run the whole thing with you, explaining every block as I go. Guitar in your hands, key of C. Don't decide anything. Just play what I play. The routine starts at 2:55. This is the last 30 minutes of the full two-hour session. If you want to know where these three blocks come from and why they go in this order, the whole session is linked below. 🔗 THE PHONE NUMBER SERIES ⬅️ PREVIOUS — The full two-hour session: 736-2514 Is Only Half    • 736-2514 Is Only Half. Here's the 30 Minut...   ▶️ WATCH NEXT — Start the series from Part 1: The Magic Phone Number    • A Berklee Professor's 'Magic Phone Number'...   ▶ #1 A Berklee Professor's 'Magic Phone Number' Unlocks Jazz Harmony    • A Berklee Professor's 'Magic Phone Number'...   ▶ #2 736-2514 Starts on 7. Your Tunes Don't.    • 736-2514 Starts on 7. Your Tunes Don't.   ▶ #3 Diatonic upper structures — the colors on the loop    • You Were Buying Jazz Chords You Already Owned   ▶ #4 One Chord Breaks 736-2514. It's the Best Sound in the Song.    • One Chord Breaks 736-2514. It's the Best S...   ▶ #5 The full session — 736-2514 Is Only Half    • 736-2514 Is Only Half. Here's the 30 Minut...   ▶ #6 The 30-minute routine — this video 📺 SERIES PLAYLIST — Why Your Jazz Guitar Doesn't Sound Like Music    • Why Your Jazz Guitar Doesn’t Sound Like Music   🎸 FREE COURSE — Essential Building Blocks: two hours of lessons and a 28-page PDF. Every shape, shell and triad in this routine, laid out in the key of C. https://www.voicelidjazzguitar.com/bu... Every Tuesday I also email a free one-page 30-minute routine — same sign-up. 📱 THE FDA ROUTINE — the practice tool I'm running in this video. Today's key, three 10-minute timers, and it remembers yesterday. https://app.voicelidjazzguitar.com/?u... 🔔 SUBSCRIBE    / @voicelidjazzguitar   ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Why Jazz Guitar Practice Disappears by Sunday 1:05 The Three Minutes Before Practice That Kill a Routine 1:40 Two Decisions — One Key, Fixed Order (Richie Hart) 2:16 Why I Built The FDA Routine — Functional Diagonal Approach 2:55 Block 1 — Major Scale: Today's Key and the Dice 4:04 Hear the Scale — Metronome and Speed 4:41 Modes From One Major Scale Fingering (C Phrygian) 7:00 Key + Dice = The Mode You Practice Today 8:55 Practice Scales by Ear, Not by Looking at the Fretboard 10:21 Start With One Octave — Movable Do 11:00 Block 2 — Diatonic Loop: Shell Voicings and Count-In 12:20 Solo and Mute Each Chord — Hear One Voicing 12:48 Upper Structure and Hide Root 13:36 Secondary Dominants Inside the Loop 15:12 Django Line and Wes Line Shapes on the Loop 15:51 Play the Loop Together With the Count-In 17:07 Hide the Roots — Guide Tone Movement 17:42 Block 3 — Triads: Cycle 2 and Cycle 7, Three String Sets 18:34 Cycle 6 — Only One Note Moves 19:39 Play the Triad Cycle With the Count-In 20:16 Cycle 4 and Cycle 5 — Two Notes Move 20:49 Open-Voicing Triads — Inversions and Voice Leading 22:14 Open Voicing on the Cycle of Sixths 24:27 How to Pace 10 Minutes Per Block at Any Level 25:25 That's the 30 Minutes — What to Do Tomorrow 26:29 Free Essential Building Blocks Jazz Guitar Course 27:27 Subscribe — Until Next Time #jazzguitar #practiceroutine #jazzguitarlesson #guitarpractice #voiceleading