Get Faster Speed On Guitar By Uncovering Subtle Mistakes With Effective Practice
Does it seem like it’s taking forever to make any progress with your guitar speed due to inconsistent playing or frustrating mistakes?
You probably already accumulated many various exercises and practice materials, but there’s one problem…
It’s not about quantity, but quality.
Your guitar speed practice is most effective when it targets the root causes of your mistakes to help you correct them as quickly as possible before moving on.
Practice like this consistently and your playing guitar speed increases very quickly, making you more motivated and your practice time more fun.
Here are some practice solutions that answer common guitar speed questions effectively for better results:
Question: “How do you hold the pick to play fast while moving from string to string in a pattern?”
Angle the pick about 45 degrees towards the head of the guitar (instead of being parallel to the strings like it is now). This will make the pick slice through the strings easier and help you to play faster.
Also:
When changing strings while picking, do NOT stop the pick in between strings.
Instead let it fall onto the next higher string, using the momentum from the previous note.
After your pick plays the E note on the 12th fret of the low E string, it should NOT end up in between the E and A strings, but instead should fall in one motion onto the A string and start pushing on it, getting ready to play the next note on the A string.
This is essentially a sweep picking motion that is the key to having perfect picking fluency.
Watch this video to learn more about how this is done:Question: “How do you consistently play clean on guitar at fast speeds… in less time?”
When you are practicing a fast guitar licks and you make mistakes or the synchronization between your hands breaks down, focus only on the parts you struggle with rather than playing through the whole lick again and again.
This saves you time and reduces frustration.
Question: “How do perform sweep picking clean at fastguitar speeds?”
When you sweep pick, make sure you always maintain the momentum of the pick as you move
from one string to the next. Avoid making individual pick strokes for every
string – this will kill your picking momentum and make arpeggios sound really
sloppy.
Imagine you are cutting through an onion with a knife to get it ready for a meal. Your
knife cuts through in one quick motion, not many small motions one after the
other. This is how you need to pick while sweep picking to keep things fast and
clean.
Make this easier by actively watching your hand as you pick in order to spot
mistakes and keep things smooth.
Improve the synchronization between your hands by trying this:
Practice two strings at a time.
Practice only the ascending portions of the lick.
Practice only the descending portions of the lick.
When you split up arpeggios into just a couple of strings at a time it becomes easier to
process what your hands are doing even if you are playing at your max speed.
This trains you by helping you feel what is like to play fast – making it more
effective than practicing slowly and speeding up over time.
Then you just need to add more strings and expand from there to conquer the lick.
Want to learn more ways to play guitar with fast and clean speed?
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