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To further your analogy, the only way to speak English is to get engrossed in it. Repeating arbitrary words without an understanding of syntax and grammar would get you nowhere fast.
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It's effective.
Anyway, I disagree with the premise of your video. That is going to get boring really fast and will do nothing to improve the player's vocabulary. A player could learn songs that call for certain techniques, like alternate picking, and they could build up their skills works on a particular song. For example, learning a Fear Factory song is going to give a good alternate picking work out and will beat the hell out of spending hours on scales and patterns against an unmusical click.
And I'm someone who spent years in a room running all the permutations of finger exercises, arpeggios, scales and such.
That is all good stuff to do but learning songs is more important.
The OP comes across as a recent graduate of a music school- that is all well and good and there is a place for the sort of playing you get taught at music college.
I'd be interested if he thinks the same thing 10 years from now.
Having a fixed idea of what players should spend their time on is a mistake because you don't know the goal of that player.
I probably spend 50% on learning songs and 50% on technique and I consider myself to be a very technique heavy kinda player.
The OP also fails to acknowledge that the most useful skill for a musician is transcription.
If you want to be a shredder then running scales and arpeggios is only part of the work.
The next, more important bit is to find ways to apply that learning and the most efficient way to do this is by transcribing solos.
You learn how to apply thing things you've learned by studying the greats who have come before you.
There is no better way.
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