How To Improve Guitar Speed By Absorbing The Strengths Of Your Favorite Guitarists

Ever dream of playing with killer guitar speed like your favorite players while everyone listened to you soloing and secretly wished they could play like you?

Sounds pretty cool, huh?

…And this is totally doable!

Problem is, most people give up too soon on being able to play like their favorite guitarists.

Fact: All the lessons you need to learn are hidden in plain sight as long as you want to learn them.

Paying close attention to the playing style of your favorite guitar players helps you absorb their strengths and use them to become a badass shredder for yourself.

Use these ideas to do it and start playing with insane guitar speed just like the pros:

Identify How 3 Of Your Favorite Guitar Players Make A Single Technique Sound Great

It’s incredibly how much you learn by focusing closely on the specific way your favorite guitarists use a single technique.

By learning from multiple guitar players, you give yourself more perspective to expand your ability to play a certain technique even further.

Think about what you want to improve on guitar right now, such as…

·         Sweep picking

·         Tapping

·         Picking technique

·         Tremolo picking

·         Legato

·         Etc.

Once you have determined what you want to get better at, follow these steps:

Find 3 Solos For 3 Guitar Players Where They Use This Technique

Identify 3 different guitar solos for 3 of your favorite guitar players where they use the technique you want to massive improve.

 

Write Down What Makes Their Use Of The Technique So Great

Put down your guitar.

Listen closely to each solo and write down how each player’s use of the technique in their solos makes you feel, what stands out about how they play and why it sounds great.

As you practice these guitarists’ solos, keep these things in mind.

Over time, you begin absorbing these attributes into your own playing.

It’s uncanny!

 

Isolating The Technique From The Rest Of The Notes In The Solos

Now you’re going to begin practicing with your guitar. Since you are focusing on a specific technique, remove all notes from the solo to concentrate only on the notes where it is used.

Narrowing your focus like this makes it easier to make corrections than it would if you were worrying about playing a bunch of other notes.

This makes it easy to practice without becoming overwhelmed, and most importantly, without wasting time on things that don’t help you achieve your specific goal.

 

Perfect The Technique Focusing On Three Key Elements

1. Efficiency:

Make sure you are playing guitar using the most efficient movement possible. This way you do not move your hands any more than is necessary – making it easier to play fast and clean. For example, while tremolo picking, use the idea in this video to pick efficiently:

2. Synchronization:

Make sure you are fretting notes at the exact time you pick the string. This means you hands are in sync together, which keeps your playing clean and makes playing fast feel easier.

This video shows you how to stay in perfect sync with both hands:

3. Cleanliness:

One of the least known ways to become cleaner with any given guitar lick or exercise is to practice for consistency. This means playing aspects of a lick over and over for tons of repetitions until you are able to play it perfectly.

Good news is, this can be done in a short period of time, like explained in this video:

Improvise With The Solo Fragments To Imbue Yourself With Creative Powers

Applying what you learn musically is the key to fully integrating the concepts into your playing in a musical and creative manner.

This is the final stage where you don’t just learn how to play someone’s solo, but learn how to think for yourself and use what you’ve learned in your own unique way.

Try this:

Take any short segment of a guitar solo that you like.

Then, practice for 5-10 minutes straight while using the notes in that segment to improvise as many variations of it as you can think. To do this, integrate different techniques together into the lick such as legato, bending or tremolo picking.

This challenges you to think creatively with not only the melody of the notes, but the way you use technique to create your own music. Practice this often and your soloing improves massively.

This is just the beginning though!

Find out how to transform any average guitar solo into a creative and expressive one using the advice in this lead guitar resource.