How To Play Guitar Solos With Speed Without Making Amateur Mistakes

Are you tired of making sloppy mistakes during your fast guitar solos?

Good news:

There are many ways to overcome common mistakes that guitars make and play guitar fast and clean like you always wanted

Sound good?

Great!

Find out what to do by reading the tips below:

Tip: Make Your Guitar Playing Efficient To Make Speed Effortless

If your guitar playing is slow and you make a lot of mistakes, your finger movement is likely inefficient.

This video shows you how to make your guitar playing fast, clean, and more effortless using efficient movement:

While playing notes on guitar, only use as much pressure as needed to sound them. Do this by gradually releasing pressure from the fret until no sound is heard. Then add just a little more until you can hear the note (only as much as needed).

Keep your fingers as close as you can to the fret board.

If you bring them too far away, invest a few minutes each day into slowly practicing while keeping your fingers closer. Over time you will begin to do this naturally.

Question: “My guitar solos all sound a bit boring. I think I use the same rhythms a bit too much, but I’m not sure what else to do. Any advice?”

Generally, while playing guitar solos you want to avoid becoming too monotonous with your rhythms in order to keep things interesting.

This leads to things like phrases that always sound the same as noted in the question.

Think in terms of playing more than one distinct phrase per chord OR extending one phrase over several chords. Also consider playing a single lick or phrase over and over while altering a single musical element about it each repetition.

Quick Tip For Making Notes Even Cleaner In Your Guitar Playing

Make sure any sustained notes or chords you play are always stable as they ring out.

Meaning:

When you pick these notes they always vibrate at the same frequencies, keeping them in tune every time.

Do this by

To do this, attack the strings in a fast downward motion (hitting all the strings quickly). When you do this, your pick will come to rest on one of the higher strings rather than coming up and away from the strings.

Notes Not Sounding Very Clear Or High-Quality? Try This:

Make sure your pick is neither:

  • Flexing slightly with each note (which happens if the pick is very flexible/thin) or
  • You are not holding the pick firmly enough in your hand

The more stable the pick is, the easier it will be to play fast and clean.

Fix this using a stiff pick that doesn’t flex at all when you hit the strings or adjust your grip on it is that does NOT move at all in your hand when playing notes.

Tip: Practice Efficiently To Get Big Results

It’s easy, practicing guitar efficiently is both fun and motivating because you get results much more quickly than if you practice with no clear goals or intentions.

Yet so many guitar players practice aimlessly and get minimal results from their efforts.

This video demonstrates some powerful ways to make every moment of your practice time count so you are able to quickly transform your skills to play faster and cleaner than ever:

Tip: Learn Lessons From Your Favorite Guitar Players

Play your favorite guitar and licks more cleanly using these ideas:

·         Analyze the skills being used in the solo, and isolate them in your practice to improve them more quickly.

·         Isolate small groups of notes from the solo and create your own variations of those note groups to improve your creativity.

·         Check out videos of your players performing and practice performance using similar gestures and moves as them.

Tip: Apply Everything You Know In A Musical Manner

Applying the techniques and skills you learned into musical situations helps you express yourself with what you know.

Learning all your skills in isolation does not help you learn to apply them in music. You’re able to improvise creatively and expressively with any of your skills whenever you want by integrating them together through practice.

Start applying your skills into music using these easy practice approaches:

·         Practice everything by making it musical. For example, practice scales by improvising with them using many different techniques in addition to simply playing the patterns.

·         Improvise to a backing track that uses a single chord, multiple chords or multiple instruments to apply your skills in different musical situations.

·         Practice guitar phrasing using any exercise you practice by trying to make 3 notes of it sound as amazing as possible using any technique or rhythm without changing the notes.

Now you know some of the critical practice approaches to use to make your guitar playing sound as good as the pros. Apply these into your everyday practice and watch your skills go through the roof, fast!

Want to learn even more ways to become a faster, better guitar player in less time? Use these guitar practicing ideas.