Achieve Your Guitar Playing Goals with the 5/25 Rule
Introducing The 5/25 Rule For Guitar Players
So What Is The 5/25 Rule
Narrowing It Down To The Top 5
Focus On Your Top 5
So How Does This Relate Guitar?
Set Priorities And Get Clear On What You Want
Exercise Time
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Write your top 25 things that you want to achieve on guitar (or as many as you can think of)
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Select the 5 most important items and either highlight them or put them on their own list. (Keep this list in your guitar folder).
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Focus all of your time, effort and energy on obtaining these 5 goals. Ignore the 20 least important items.
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When you complete 1 of your 5 goals, then and only then can you put one of the other 20 items into your list, make sure it’s important.
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You should do this exercise once a year (or once you have completed all 5 original items) as your goals and ambitions will change over time.
An Example 5/25 List For Guitarists
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Be able to play 1000 notes per minute
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Master my sweep picking
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Be a great blues lead guitar player
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Be a great blues rhythm guitar player
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Record my own album
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Be a great jazz improviser
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Be a great jazz rhythm guitarist
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Master funk rhythm guitar
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Master finger tapping
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Learn my entire fretboard
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Join a band
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Play a live gig
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Have a youtube channel with 1 million subscribers
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Be able to play every song from my favourite album on guitar from start to finish
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Go on a tour of Australia and play a gig in every state
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Sell 1000 copies of my CD
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Learn all of my jazz chords
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Get into a music course at a university
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Master all rock guitar techniques
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Master fingerstyle guitar.
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Complete my Grade 12 Classical Guitar Exam
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Master my music theory.
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Do an audio engineering course
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Get my black belt in karate
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Get my pilots license
Here's My Top 5
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Master jazz improvisation
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Master jazz rhythm guitar
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Record an album
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Sell 1000 copies of my CD
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Get 1 million YouTube subscribers
In Summary
So that is Warren Buffet’s 5/25 rule. I recommend you try it out with your guitar playing goals.
You will be surprised at what it reveals about you and what you find is important.
More importantly, it will give you a clear path to work towards your goals.
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Michael Gumley is a professional guitarist and guitar teacher located in Melbourne, Australia. He has toured both nationally and internationally with his band, has endorsement deals with Ormsby Guitars, Blackstar Amps, Line 6 Effects, Yamaha Guitars & Ernie Ball Strings and is the head teacher at Melbourne Guitar Academy.
If you’re looking for guitar lesson in Strathmore Michael will be able to give your playing the direction that it needs and set you on a path towards your True North!
Since writing this article in 2020 Michael has become an Expert Guitar Teacher who runs development programs and business coaching for guitar teachers all around the world through musical educators website Topmusic for which he is the Head Of Guitar.