Metal Guitar Speed Picking Practice Tips That Develop Killer Technique
Want to learn how to master speed picking technique to give your guitar playing impressive fire and intensity?
Good news:
Being able to do this probably won’t take as long as you might think…
The key is to practice using more strategies than just “try to pick faster by moving your hand faster.”
Integrating different shred guitar ideas together helps you get faster much more quickly.
Take your metal guitar playing and speed to the next level using these unique practice tips:
Start Speed Picking Sweep Arpeggios
As you know already, sweep picking is a critical technique for almost all lead guitar players.
That said:
Integrating sweep picking ideas together with on-point speed picking not only bolsters your sweeps, it places your overall picking technique into the category of pro-level regardless of what you are playing!
Find out how:
Your sweep picking technique sounds excellent when you add precise tremolo picking on the topmost note in the pattern to give them an intense sound.
This demands you to establish the capacity to immediately center your focus on a note without hesitation.
Hint: Alter the note that is accented by speed picking to make that note perfect. When you do this sometimes you are able to perfect every note in the phrase separately.
In addition, try out speed picking the notes of the shape at a slow speed as a separate (more speed picking-focused) exercise.
Integrate String Skipping With Sequences
Mixing these techniques into one phrase is a great approach that sounds awesome and transforms you into a refined + faster guitarist.
Merging these techniques is an effective way to develop numerous areas of your guitar playing simultaneously. This leads to more enjoyable and rewarding practice that never fails to improve your speed.
The solution to making this practice worthwhile is playing the lick in tiny parts so you aren’t discouraged whenever you can’t seem to master things in your initial practice attempt.
Practice this by string skipping with sequences of a few notes at to begin with. As you go to skip over the string, perform this skip numerous times instead of just one time. This helps you master it far better by concentrating on it more.
When doing this, also pay attention to using the picking motion in this video:Use Single String Ideas
Licks, scales or other ideas that only use one string are generally a known concept and lots of shredders neglect them. Having said that, they help your speed greatly once you know the right way to use them.
This kind of practice tests you in a distinct way that typical scale shapes (the ones that move over various strings) simply can’t in order to develop strong synchronization between your hands.
Practice using single string ideas routinely and pretty soon, your hands will become like a well-oiled machine — locked together closely in conjunction.
When practicing, focus just playing maybe three notes of the scale to start. This makes things a lot easier to focus on playing them perfectly.
To get even more out of this, pick the strings using a lot of extra power to play the notes.
This forces you to be more precise with your timing, but it also helps you see fundamental flaws more easily so you get better faster.
Learn more ways to get faster on guitar by studying the information in this free guitar speed eBook.