Next, use these practice steps to get faster on guitar in no time:

Step One: Divide Up The Guitar Lick Into Smaller Chunks

Shortly after picking the guitar part you want to get better at, practice it into small divisions of just a handful of notes per part.

Practicing a guitar solo like this helps you play it with tons of speed faster.

Why?

Due to the fact that it makes the notes less complicated to mentally examine so you don’t feel distracted by mistakes or pass the time playing ideas you already can play in your sleep.

Bonus Guitar Creativity Tip: Make your guitar soloing better by staying on phrases longer and developing them.

When soloing over a longer backing track, stay on each phrasing idea to develop it more and get these important benefits:

1. Get several chances to play the phrase with better phrasing instead of moving on and leaving the phrasing only average. You will also be forced to think about phrasing much more when you know that you don’t have the possibility of immediately playing lots of new notes to mask the phrasing not being as creative as it can be.

2. Make your soloing more interesting for the listeners because they will perceive the whole solo as a song within a song (vs. a collection of licks without any connection/structure)

3. While you develop each phrase you will have a lot more time to think of the new phrase to play to make it fit what came before much better than if your mind is constantly thinking all the time about what to play next.

Step Two: Set Up Your Practice For Each Section

Most guitar players would work on everything at once a few times, then ultimately become unmotivated if they don’t pick up the solo immediately.

Let’s work with a more effective method.

Since you have the solo split into parts, begin to laser-focus on individual notes to perfect them separately, before blending them all together.

For the next week, arrange one or 2 segments each day to work on. What you work on most will be based on which parts of the guitar solo you have problem with most.

Be sure to keep improving by not always spending the majority of your time on the licks that are easiest or the most entertaining. Pay attention to what forces you to improve your playing ability the most, then you get driven as you see big results (which is truly entertaining as well!).

Step Three: Practice Each Section To Get Better At It Using A Special Practice Approach

Use this special guitar practice method with each guitar solo item to play with faster speed and precision:

1 minute— Play every note as fast as you can, while inserting a second of silence after each repetition.

Try for playing 5-10 beats per minute faster than the solo’s original tempo.

Identify any mistakes you make to use this information to correct your playing each time you repeat the notes.

1 minute– Ensure your string muting works for getting rid of unplayed string noise.

Focus your mind on how effectively you are muting with your fretting hand for 10 seconds and how well you are muting in your picking hand for the remaining time (or any other division of time).

1 minute– Make certain any notes with vibrato are in perfect tune, and if the solo doesn’t have them, search for places to include them (such as longer-held notes). View this video to find out how to play with outstanding vibrato and bending technique: