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Most Guitar Practice Is Bullshit! And a video to prove it.

This Is the Minimum That Actually Works.

Feb 12, 2026
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The Technique Without Burnout Plan
Credit: Marc Bosch Bernal

Why this matters (right now)

Most guitarists don’t fail because they lack talent.
They fail because they don’t know what to practice, when to practice it, or how to practice without frying their nervous system.

Confusion is exhausting.
Decision fatigue kills momentum.
Burnout quietly convinces you that “maybe you’re just not built for this.”

Wednesday is where that stops.

This is the day we replace vague intention with specific action.
This is where progress becomes unavoidable.

The Technique Without Burnout Plan exists for one reason:

To help you practice technique that actually sticks without tension, frustration, or endless second-guessing.

Not more hours.
Not more exercises.
Just the right work, done consistently, in a way your body and brain can sustain.

The core promise

Cleaner playing. Less tension. Zero guesswork.

And more importantly:

Paid Lundinke members never wonder what to practice.

That’s not a marketing line.
That’s a design principle.

The real problem with most technique practice

Let’s be honest.

Most technique plans fail because they:

  • Chase too many mechanical ideas at once

  • Ignore musical context

  • Treat tension like a personal flaw instead of a physical signal

  • Confuse discipline with suffering

So players bounce between:

  • YouTube rabbit holes

  • Screenshot folders of exercises

  • Half-finished practice routines

  • Guilt-driven “I’ll start again Monday” cycles

The result?

📉 Inconsistent progress
📉 Rising frustration
📉 Physical tightness that sneaks into everything you play

This isn’t a motivation issue.
It’s a systems issue.

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The Technique Without Burnout Framework

Every week follows the same simple structure:

1️⃣ One mechanical focus

Technique improves fastest when your nervous system knows exactly what it’s aiming at.

Not speed and accuracy and string crossing and phrasing and tone and endurance.

Just one thing.

Examples:

  • Pick depth consistency

  • Fretting-hand pressure reduction

  • Synchronization between hands

  • Wrist angle stability

  • String tracking accuracy

Why this works:

  • Focused attention reduces tension by up to 30–40% (motor learning studies consistently show this)

  • The brain adapts faster when the signal is clear

  • You stop “muscling through” and start refining

This is how technique compounds instead of resets every week.

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