Get Faster With Your Guitar Speed By Practicing Effectively
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Playing guitar at really fast speeds sounds impressive and feels amazing.
Unfortunately, very few guitar players are able to use speed cleanly and musically in their playing. This results in a lot of frustration and wasted time.
However:
You do not need to end up like them.
Use the exercises below to start playing guitar with fast and clean speed using effective practice tips and concepts:
Guitar Exercise # 1: Make Playing Guitar With Fast Speed Simpler By Breaking It Down & Getting More From Your Time
Any guitar playing concept can be made simple by doing one basic thing. An easy way to do this is to group notes into smaller sized, digestible portions rather than trying to master an entire lick all at once – which feels frustrating and overwhelming.
Breaking things down minimizes your chances of overwhelmed by complex runs and helps you identify the necessary changes you need to make to fix your problems.
Add some ingenuity into the mix, and any guitar idea becomes an astoundingly reliable device to help you become a much better and faster guitar player.
Now, try the same concept in your guitar practice to split up any guitar idea into many (processable ) parts.
Next, use this procedure to practice and flesh out the lick while thinking expressively at the same time:
Pick the portion of the lick you targeted that is most formidable for you.
Move through the lick by using quick bursts of speed like seen this clip:Use this approach for five minutes or so.
Next, play openly with the notes of the section you focused on earlier. Don’t worry, this is simple. Just use the melody of the notes as a skeleton, while generating variants of it using slides, fast picking, intense vibrato, different note rhythms or any other technique you can think of.
This switches up your practice from purely reproducing the notes, to enhancing your creativeness and improvisation knowledge all at once. This makes your practice much more efficient. Practice this for five minutes.
Afterwards, go back to practicing the segment with speed bursts for several minutes.
Carry on like this with the section you are on or other portions of the lick until you have gotten the hang of them. Then begin merging various smaller segments together until you can play the entire idea without making mistakes.
Guitar Exercise # 2: Maximize The Challenge To Maximize Your Results
Every guitar lick can be modified to make it more of a challenge, so it helps you develop your skills a lot faster. One fantastic way to do this is to vary the kind of pick strokes used to perform the lick.
Playing with solely upstrokes (or downstrokes) on every note for 30 seconds is like strengthening your picking technique. After you have done this, playing the original lick normal is easier than ever before and feels like unleashing a gigantic amount of gathered energy to shred notes at insane speeds!You recognize a massive change in the level of difficulty from one strategy to the other.
Observe that: Not only does increasing the challenge make the original lick feel simple, it also boosts your skillset to keep both hands together in perfect sync.
Lead Guitar Tip:
When you practice lead guitar to a metronome, pay attention to your timing. Make sure you aren’t playing notes ahead of the click vs. right on the click. Remember that when you practice lead guitar, your timing is just as important as when practicing rhythm guitar (and you need to build up the awareness of timing in both lead and rhythm playing contexts).
Focus on making the first note of each beat in a phrase line up with the metronome exactly, and the other notes will fall in time as a result.
Guitar Exercise # 3: Isolate Notes To Make Them Sound High-Quality Using Fast Speed
One of the most typically missed ways to perform any single note flawlessly is to pinpoint it with tremolo picking technique.
This is like practicing a guitar solo lick repeatedly hundreds of times, except it’s just one note and it’s simple to repeat it loads of times in just a few minutes.
Speed picking a single note within the context of a lead guitar pattern is simple, makes it more fun to play and can be repeated with every note.
This video clip demonstrates how to isolate the notes of a pattern to master them faster with effective concentration :Now see this video to ensure your speed picking is efficient for maximum speed:
Choose any guitar pattern you want to develop and play faster then use the methods above to pinpoint one note of the pattern at a time. Continue like this until you’ve mastered the whole lick.
Integrate the concepts of all three guitar speed exercises in this article to make even the most complicated lick simple to master.
That said, there are lots more ways to develop your lead guitar licks and play killer phrases that make an impression on your friends.
Learn these approaches with this free guitar solo guide.