How To Improve Guitar Playing Speed By Creating & Maintaining Insane Amounts Of Momentum

What is a major killer of guitar playing speed?

Answer:

Breaking up your momentum.

Why is this?

When you break up your momentum, all the speed you were creating in one hand gets thrown out of sync.

This causes your technique to become sloppy (especially at very fast speeds).

What problems commonly cause your momentum to stop or get slowed down?

I’ll tell you:

·         Inefficient picking technique

·         Weak picking attack

Let’s fix these things today.

Today you are going to learn how to maintain your momentum to generate smooth and flowing speed in your guitar licks.

Here are three ways to do it:

 

Use Efficient Picking Technique For Easier Speed

Using picking technique that is efficient makes playing guitar with speed feel extremely easy and effortless.

However, most guitar players don’t do this!

Why?

It’s common for people to only use alternate picking to play most things.

This causes you to use inefficient movement at kills the momentum of your picking motion, leading to sloppy, frustrating play.

Solution:

This video shows you an efficient picking style that helps you avoid sloppy play by maintaining momentum so you never have to slow down:

Using this picking approach:

·         Helps you maintain your momentum while moving from string to string

·         Makes it easier to lock both hands together for effortless speed

Slowly integrate this picking approach into your guitar practice over time until it becomes your default approach.

This way, you do not have to feel like you’re starting from zero after spending so much time to get fast with your current picking technique.

 

Don’t Stop Your Picking Hand While Sweep Picking

Maintaining momentum with your picking hand is critical for playing flowing sweep picking arpeggios that amaze anyone who hears you.

Break them momentum, and everything falls apart.

This video (see 4:28) shows you why maintaining momentum in your picking hand is critical for sweep picking and how to do it:

Note: Some sweep picking arpeggio patterns (like in the video) involve playing more than one note per string in the middle strings using hammer ons or pull offs.

Don’t change your approach during these patterns – continue to maintain as much momentum as you can in your picking hand.

 

Use A Powerful Picking Attack For Better Accuracy

Using a lot of power in your picking attack keeps both hands in sync. This means your pick hits the string as soon as you fret the note. Without this sync, you will miss notes and your playing sounds sloppy.

Here’s why picking with more power helps your accuracy:

Picking using a weak attack masks these mistakes so that you may not notice them for a long time.

When you pick with power, any mistakes you make become very clear. This forces you to adjust to fix them.

After picking with power becomes your default approach, you start to notice that everything feels more effortless and accurate … because it is!

This video shows you the difference between picking with power and picking without it:

Using more picking power is one of the easiest things you can do to improve your guitar speed and accuracy with little effort.

Think of it like turning on a program to work in the background on your computer. It’s always there, but you barely notice it (once you start picking with power all the time).

How much power should you use?

Pick with enough that people could hear you if you were unplugged.

Now you understand the importance of maintaining momentum in your picking hand.

Truth is, most guitarist never learn about this – so you are a step ahead of most players.

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