Release Review: Łukasz Kuropaczewski's Practice Principles
Dear tonebuddies,
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our debut course with Łukasz Kuropaczewski! 
We’d love to hear your thoughts on it!
Click here to get to the lesson: https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/home?tbModal=courseModal&tbModalSlug=lukasz-kuropaczewski-practice-principles
- What did you enjoy most about the course?
- Is there anything we could improve, whether in content or the recording?
- Were there any aspects or topics you felt were missing?
- Is the one-pager and the edition helpful for you?
Your feedback is invaluable to us as we strive to make each course better than the last.
If you enjoyed this release, we’re excited to let you know that more is on the way! We’re currently in post-production for two more courses with Łukasz: a Guitar Technique Booster and the Catalan Folk Songs by Miguel Llobet. Stay tuned!
Thank you for being part of our community and for helping us grow. We can't wait to hear your thoughts!
Best,
Martin
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I really enjoyed the course. Łukasz is the guitarist I admire the most and it was really fascinating to look over his shoulder as he's practicing. the course is a great format where he's not explaining the music at hand or teaching general technical concepts, but showing how to practice in the context of a real piece of music. Discussions of practicing can often be very abstract so it's valuable to see it applied. Looking forward to the next courses!
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Christopher Milne Hi Christopher, thank you so much for your feedback, this is super helpful! I also enjoyed Lukasz's approach, I was sitting at the edge of my seat when I recorded that lesson with him!
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This was an excellent course. I have been told many times by teachers to practice slowly. I have read the suggestions from David Leisner in Effective practice from his book Playing with ease. However, it only now, while watching this course that i finally grasped this concept. I have already started to apply this in my practice and this indeed really helps. I would recommend this course to everyone!
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Michel Giroux That's fantastic to hear! It’s amazing how sometimes a concept we've heard many times can suddenly click when presented in the right way. David Leisner's advice on practicing slowly is indeed powerful, and it's great that you're finding real value in applying it to your practice. This course seems to have provided that missing piece, and it’s wonderful that you're seeing the benefits already. Thanks for sharing your experience—I'm sure others will find your recommendation encouraging and helpful!
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I just started using his steps---it reallly helps..
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wei1800dw wonderful! Step by step is the way!
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For me, one of the most useful courses on tonebase.
I was lucky enough to see Lukas in concert.
His technique is incredibly solid.
The same goes for most of his students I've seen in competitions.
So I think his approach is a good one, even if it may seem difficult to put into practice - it's very demanding in terms of concentration.
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GALAIS Olivier Seeing Lukas perform live must have been an incredible experience—his solid technique is truly impressive, and it's clear that his approach produces excellent results, both for himself and his students. I agree that his methods, while demanding, are very effective, especially with the level of concentration they require. I hope you're excited for his repertoire content!
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I love his method and have been using it with excellent results. I would love to hear what Lucasz has to say about practicing scales and arpeggios. Does he include them in his practice? And if so, how does he practice them and what priority/importance does he assign to them?
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Stephen Josephs we are currently working on a Guitar Technique Booster with him, your questions might be answered once we release it!
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martin Excellent!
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It is great to have "practicing slowly" explained and motivated.
I look forward to see a full technical practice and warmup routine and scale/arpeggio work presented on ToneBaseGuitar with a workbook. I enjoyed the short version presented previously on ToneBase at the guitar meeting. I hope for a longer, more complete version with accompanying workbook on ToneBase.
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David That's a great point and I hope they follow that up.
Cheers
Michelle
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Michelle Roper I rewatched and would edit my original post to omit the "warmup" request, since Lukasz makes the point that his method of practice obviates the need of such routine. Instead, I would request more emphasis on developing his technical and general fretboard work as previously presented in abbreviated form on ToneBase. I hope the upcoming video and presentations do so.
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All in all, a well done production, Practice Principles. I really enjoyed how clear Lukacz was in explaining his approach. He made his approach readily understandable and easy to implement. I was also pleased to see that his approach and explanations were very consistent with others that I follow and listen to about how to practice, which have been effective for me. I am looking forward to tweaking my practices with some of the suggestions made here.
A minor improvement I would make is the title for this course. Really what is taught here is an approach on how to learn a piece of music, and how to prep that piece for a performance. In my mind, especially for those of us in the early to middle stages of learning to play classical guitar, practice also includes developing technical skills which we may learn by practicing scales, arpeggios, slurs, sight reading, and so on. Perhaps this course should have a title along the lines of Practice Principles When Learning Repertoire since it does not deal with the learning of technique.
Looking forward to more productions like this one.
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This was one of the best webinars to date on ToneBase. I love his method and I will be using his method from now on. So thank you thank you thank you Lukasz for sharing that technique with us.
What really appealed to me was that the method of practice suits my style of learning. I am very big on technique and whilst I was practising slowly before seeing this webinar it showed me a new style of slow practice that emphasises technique. My current teacher whilst he is very good is big on everything being musical no matter at what stage of your learning you are at. Unfortunately that is a stumbling block because I find it very hard to be musical whilst trying to simply understand and perfect correct finger placement and shape.
Using the 60 BPM on the metronome is brilliant and I have it on in the background. It is amazing how just doing that, my brain connects to the beat without trying. I have found I am playing to the beat better than ever before.
Kind regards
Michelle
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This was a very good lesson with tons of valuable advice, I hope you'll do more with him... clear and straight to the point!
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Fantastic lesson, I am very interested in learning how to incorporate repertoire with daily technical practice. I would love to learn more about how Łukasz balances technical exercises and practice with this type of work. Very well done video with great examples of what slow practice should look like.
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Hi martin I'll definitely check out this lesson right away. Can I make a suggestion? Could you record a lesson on Elegie by Mertz sometime in the future. I'd really like to learn this piece. Thank you for all the wonderful work you do for us.
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Nijwm Bwiswmuthiary Hi Nijwm! I would love to! I was thinking of asking Borbála Seres, Pavel Steidl, or Pablo Marquez to do it; all of them have beautiful approaches to this piece!
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martin Yay! Tbh, I'm a bit surprised that we don't have this piece yet. Yeah, I've heard Borbala Seres' version many times on Youtube. Hannah Murphy has done it beautifully as well.
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This workshop was fantastic. One of your best. Really demonstrated how to practice effectively. And good for all levels of students.
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Solid class presenting fundamental principles of practice. It should be fun and relaxing. Lukas flips the perspective making practice a positive experience. Thank you Lukas and Tonebase.
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Also I totally agree with the split you have to do about playing and working on the instrument as they also require a different state of mind... This is why I consider the term "practice" to be overarching to the multiple activities that one does on the guitar.
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A very good course that should be added to the level 1 or 2 of the Tonebase level system curriculum.
I noticed the comment from Michelle Roper on the need from her teacher to be musical on everything and I think both approaches can be combined together.
When I learn a piece, i set the metronome at 60 bpm for the shortest note in the piece. If the shortest note is 1/8 then a full bar is 8 beats (8 seconds). If I can't play at that speed; I just slow down to 50 or 40 bpm.
For me the real challenge is to make sure I plant my right hand fingers before to fret my left hand.
It is still a work in progress but I am sure it will pay off great dividends when I get used to it.
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