Speed Guitar Licks That Improve Your Shredding Skills In No Time
Looking for cool speed guitar licks that help you play faster and impress anyone listening?
Tip:
It’s not as much about the licks themselves as it is about the specific skills they help you improve. It’s easy to start practicing guitar licks that sound cool but don’t really help you achieve what you want from them.
Today you are going to learn several ways to practice guitar speed licks while improving the skills you need to work on to make a lot of progress in a short amount of time.
(For example: see this guitar speed video about overcoming plateaus.)
Sound like a plan?
Cool!
Study the ideas below and start playing guitar with faster speed than ever before:
Approach # 1: Power Pick The 1st Note On The String
Picking the 1st note on each string with a lot more power is a potent tool for maintaining your hands in sync.
This makes playing guitar with faster speed feel a lot less complicated and easier as time passes.
Check out this video to see a demonstration of this idea:Advantages of using this practice technique:
– Emphasizing the initial note on each string makes it easy for your hands to stay in perfect sync.
– Accenting the first note resets your 2-hand synchronization and helps you to play clean and fast in order to lower the frustration of making errors during the learning process.
– You develop your ability to play notes accurately and with excellent quality.
– You can focus on strengthening a single note, one note at a time, in order to play fast guitar licks that sound amazing in less time than it takes others.
Approach # 2: Accent Notes In A Particular Rhythm On An Open String
You cause yourself to focus more carefully by using a heavy pick attack to accentuate notes in a particular time or rhythm.
As an example:
Try persistently picking an open string by picking in a four note pattern (common time) where the first beat is always emphasized with stronger power.
Attempt this practice concept at slow and fast speeds.
This pressures you to think more thoroughly about how you play each note.
Practice this with more complex rhythms and faster tempos to increase the challenge.
For example, emphasize the first beat in 7/4 time, 7/16 time or 13/8 time.
Keep in mind: A neat feature of playing in 7/8 is that the pick stroke of the accent rotates every single measure.
This pushes you to play with stronger focus, resulting in higher quality technique.
This is likewise a terrific style of exercise for establishing more articulate and sturdy speed picking technique.
Test it out by speed picking in quick bursts of 2-4 notes at once, with a quick rest in between each repetition. Then accentuate various notes and move forward to use more notes in the group.
Bonus Guitar Soloing Creativity Tip: Explore rhythm/meter more and incorporate more variety into your guitar playing.
This gives you more creative ideas and helps you express a greater variety of emotions in your tunes.
Time signature shifts can be a very cool way to add tons of tension into what you are playing and allow you to repeat the sections of the music you previously played in a new way without it sounding boring.
Think more about this area of music when you play guitar licks and solos in general to start making musical phrases with more variety.
Approach # 3: Emphasize Notes Within Scales, Arpeggios And Licks
The next rank up is to learn how to use a potent picking attack to accent one or more notes in any guitar exercise.
This is a terrific method to guarantee that this single note is played totally clean– and if it’s not, to help you identify the mistake that must be addressed for you to do so.
Break apart the lick into smaller sized portions and shift the note that is accentuated to shift your attention from one note to another.
In addition, this can apply to many other guitar skills, such as playing single string scale licks (great for developing synchronization between your hands).
This method can also be integrated with accents in a certain rhythm to seriously increase your power to focus to another stratosphere!