Time to set up effective practices routines for the FINAL module of Grade 2! :)
View the full lesson at Module 14 Practice | JustinGuitar
I’m kind of lost right now, so used to having those routines and videos, not sure how to continue 
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Only 4 days into the new routine and I already getting a bit bored. Any tips how to switch things up?
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how many songs have you learnt?
best way out of being bored is use what you learnt to play music.
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Hi @Bitilein
Your post is now 7 days old so you may have already succumbed to and died from tedium! haha 
If not, let us know what you have in your practice routine and we can suggest ways of livening it up.
Cheers 
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Does anyone have any songs they can recommend to practice that use either these slash chords, or percussive hits?
Edit: Actually scratch the percussive hits, I just realized Justin talks about Proud Mary by CCR, so I’ll give that a try.
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If anyone is like me and needs extra song lessons in Grade 2 that use the electric guitar, I have made a list from the song lesson videos from grade 2
(18 song lesson videos on the website in grade 2 where Justin is playing an electric guitar):
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smokestack Lightning
Sweet Child O Mine [EASY CHORDS]
Closing Time
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Sugar
Basket Case
Sing
Anarchy In The UK
Walking The Dog
Eye of the Tiger
I Belong To You
Call Out My Name
we fell in love in october
Molly’s Lips
All Your Love
Nothingman
Break On Through
My background is mostly acoustic guitar and when I was in Grade 3 and tried to play grade 3 songs that use electric guitar, I realized that I needed much more practice on electric. So I plan to learn from all of these song videos and shore up my weakness on the electric.
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I’m not sure what songs to use in this practice routine. Is there an easy way I can filter songs with slash chords?
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The Songs page has filters but unfortunately not for slash chords. You can filter grade 2 songs and see what is in there. Sadly, it is a bit of pot luck finding ones with slash chords at the moment. https://www.justinguitar.com/songs?grades=2
- The Needle And The Damage Done - Neil Young
- Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
- Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
- Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
- Mister Bojangles - Jerry Jeff Walker
- Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
In this lesson Essential Slash Chords these are above and in the lesson about easy slash chords lesson will probbably also be some and … hopefully you can continue with more easily songs … this first ones are not that beginnerish but I see it is also a grade 2 lesson…sorry if to hard …I take another look 
Greetings
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I’m at the end of Grade 2 and I’ll probably go the rest of the year with consolidation. I was wondering just how much time I should spend on a weekly basis trying to improve my strumming, chord changes and playing without looking. If anyone who has gone on to Grade 3 could share a practice routine that helped them in those areas, I like to hear your thoughts or ideas.
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Put a lot of time into the chord changes for sure. You want to have them down solid. Its ok if you dont have your barr chords solidified, but the open chords those you want to have nice at the targeted one min changes and then the chord perfect and make sure each string is sounding out. The strumming 1patterns its certainly nice to have done some work per the routines in grade 2, but they will be hit heavy in grade 3. My above and beyond was practiced in my songs mostly. Old fatlithful would be the pattern that would be a good one to have down other wise a nice up down in half or just quarter notes for you level is ok.
This was my daily practice routine for my grade 1 and 2. I combined them both. I dont include my song practice in my dailies. Some do its not a bad idea at all and super easy to add in.
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Ontime, thanks for the response and your practice routine. I’m going to try and use it to be able to advance my playing to get ready for Grade 3.
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