How To Integrate String Skipping Into Your Rock Guitar Licks (& Other Speed Guitar Tips)
Want to play killer rock guitar licks and solos?
String skipping is one of the coolest shred guitar techniques that makes your licks sound awesome!
However:
Many guitar players only use it sparingly as more of a gimmick than a musically expressive guitar technique.
Learning how to integrate this technique into your guitar playing effectively helps you make it more musical, so your guitar solos/licks sound both jaw-dropping and musically expressive.
Sound cool?
Great!
Let’s get started – use these ideas to improve your string skipping and play guitar with fast, creative speed:
Integrate String Skipping With Sequences
Blending these techniques into one phrase is a great approach that sounds amazing and takes your skills to another level to make you a more musical and faster lead guitarist.
Integrating these techniques is a useful way to develop numerous areas of your guitar playing at the same time. This leads to more fun and fruitful practice that never fails to improve your speed.
The trick to making this practice helpful is playing the lick in tiny divisions to prevent you from feeling frustrated if you can’t seem to cleanly play all the notes in your initial practice attempt.
Play this by string skipping with groupings 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 improve it more effectively by emphasizing it more.
When doing this, also make sure you are using the efficient picking motion shown here:Start Speed Picking Sweep Arpeggios
No doubt, sweep picking is a requirement for almost all lead guitar players.
That said:
Coupling sweep picking together with on-point tremolo picking not only develops your sweeps, it places your entire picking technique into the category of pro-level regardless of what you are playing!
This is how it works:
Your arpeggio licks fantastic when you add precise tremolo picking on the topmost note in the arpeggio to give them an intense sound.
This needs you to acquire the capacity to immediately center your focus on a note with incredible accuracy and precision.
Suggestion: Alter the note that is focused on by speed picking to make that note perfect. Doing so once in awhile you are able to perfect every note in the arpeggio independently.
In addition, practice speed picking the notes of the lick at a slower BPM.
Harness The Power Of Single String Licks
Scales that use only one string are a well-known concept and lots of shredders overlook them.
But the truth is, they transform your guitar speed if you know precisely how to practice them.
The key value of practicing single string guitar licks is that they demand you to keep both hands in perfect sync in order to get the best result.
This approach to picking tests you in an one-of-a-kind way that ordinary scale patterns (the ones that move over one or more strings) don’t.
Work on single string phrases regularly and before you can snap your fingers, your hands will become like marching band of marines — locked together closely in harmony.
As you are practicing, focus just playing a few notes of the scale to start. This makes the process much simpler to focus on playing them without mistakes.
Also, pick the strings using a lot of extra power to sound the notes.
This ultimately makes things more challenging, but it also helps you see errors in your playing more easily so you improve faster.
Learn more ways to get faster on guitar by studying the information in this free guitar speed eBook.