How To Practice Speed On Guitar Using Laser-Focused & Effective Repetition Training

Pushing your guitar practice to extremes sometimes has an incredible effect that helps you improve your playing speed FAST in one session. No, this doesn’t mean practicing for 10 hours straight… Instead, one excellent practice approach for getting fast results is to use “repetition training”.

This means repeating a guitar lick or exercise many times in a row in order to get in as many “reps” as possible in a short period of time. When done with correct technique, this propels your guitar speed and accuracy through the roof regardless of what lick you are working on.

Here’s how to practice speed on guitar using repetition training to get quick results:

Correct Difficult Notes With Laser-Focus Using Tons Of Repetitions In A Short Period Of Time

How many times do you repeat a guitar speed lick you want to play before you are able to do it? The answer is probably many times, but these repetitions are usually spread out over many weeks or months.

Fact: the same amount of repetitions can be done within a single practice session to help you master any given guitar lick much faster.

The simple practice approach consists of the following:

· Choose any guitar lick and look for the challenging notes within it that are holding you back.

· Isolate those notes and practice them for 100 repetitions (only takes a few minutes).

This video demonstrates the concept of repeating ideas many times to quickly make massive improvement in your guitar playing:

By isolating difficult notes or groups of notes like this, it becomes easier to play the entire guitar lick at full speed (because you are no longer bogged down).

Balance Your Picking Attack For Smoother Guitar Speed With Upstrokes

Guitar speed becomes much easier when you have solid upstrokes in your picking attack. Focusing your attention on this aspect of your playing for many repetitions at a time improves your speed guitar technique in no time.

Develop faster picking speed with solid upstrokes by picking only with upstrokes 1,000 times (takes only a few minutes at most).

Follow these tips to make this practice as effective as possible:

· Pick on a single string for 300 strokes, then pick a scale for 300 and any guitar other lick of your choice for 400.

· Pick as fast as you can without missing the string too many times.

· Resist the temptation to use a downstroke.

· Pick in different note groupings such as groups of 4, 5, 6 or 7. Accent the first note of each group by picking harder.

You massively improve your guitar picking speed in just a few minutes a day by practicing this simple exercise.

Improve Your Guitar Speed Using Better Movement Efficiency By Watching Your Hands Closely

Watching what your hands are doing while you play guitar reveals subtle mistakes that you never knew were there. You also become a better overall guitar player when you aren’t always dependent on watching your fretting hand while playing.

Practice guitar while looking specifically at your picking hand or fretting hand for a set number of repetitions.

· While looking at your fretting hand, pay attention to when mistakes occur due to things like position shifts or the position your index finger needs to be in to properly mute unplayed strings above the one you’re playing on.

· While looking at your picking hand, pay attention to the efficiency of movement in your picking technique.

This video demonstrates the importance of watching your picking hand to keep it as efficient as possible:

Also spend time not looking at the guitar at all to train yourself to better feel mistakes when they happen. This way you know to correct something without needing visual confirmation.

Improve Your Tremolo Picking Guitar Technique Speed In 5 Minutes

One of the secrets to guitar speed is that you can only play as fast as your brain can follow. Practicing to improve your mental processing speed is just as important as playing scale patterns, sweep picking or any other conventional approach.

The smaller and faster the movement (in your picking or fretting hand), the harder it is to track mentally. Being able to track really small and fast movements has a massively positive effect on your guitar speed over time.

The key to fast speed picking is efficient picking motion.

Watch this video to learn how to practice speed picking on guitar by making your picking motion smaller:

Quickly improve your tremolo picking speed while practicing anything by doing the following:

· Choose the lick you want to improve.

· Tremolo pick every note in the lick using efficient picking motion (as shown in the video) for 100 repetitions. Rest as needed in between repetitions.

After doing this exercise, you also notice that playing the lick like normal becomes much easier. This is because you have warmed up your picking motion and mental processing speed.

This guitar speed practice approach is just one of many innovative ways to get faster. Learn more ways to practice building speed by reading this free guitar speed online guide.