Tips For Playing Guitar Faster When You Don't Have Much Practice Time
It is sometimes hard to find the time to practice guitar as much as you want to get faster and advance your skills. This is a huge problem for tons of people actually… but it doesn’t have to be a problem for you!
Why?
Truth is, you don’t always need tons of practice time in order to get a lot better at guitar.
It is definitely possible to play guitar much faster in a short period when you know how to practice efficiently.
This is because efficient guitar practice gets much more results than inefficient guitar practice.
Translation:
It’s easy to get huge results from just 30 minutes of efficient practice in a day than 5 hours of inefficient practice.
Understanding this principle opens the door for you to make tons of progress in your guitar speed using many different practice approaches.
Guitar Practice Tip #1: Get The Most Out Of Your Time
It doesn’t matter if you have all day to practice or just 30 minutes…
Either way:
You can get massive results.
However…
It’s not the amount of time you practice that matters as much as how you USE this time.
The more effective you make your practice, the bigger the results you get and the faster you become on guitar in less time.
Look for ways to use the concept with all the items you have in your current practice schedule.
Think about your biggest guitar playing goals and choose to work on the items that help you reach them the fastest.
You’ll be surprised at how much progress you make on guitar by simply practicing a few items that have high “transferability” for less than 30 minutes per day.
Guitar Practice Tip #2: Make Fretboard Memorization A Priority
Common frustrating guitar scenario:
You go to play a guitar solo and stay in the same scale pattern or fretboard position.
Eventually, you run out of ideas and your playing becomes repetitive and boring.
How do you avoid this?
Simple.
Make fretboard memorization a priority by practicing connecting scale patterns and arpeggio patterns together all over the neck.
This not only helps you play guitar solo ideas that flow effortlessly, but it makes it easier to blaze up and down the neck without getting lost.
The tab below shows how any given scale pattern contains various arpeggio pattern possibilities too.
The scale in this example is an E major scale starting on fret 7 of the A string.
The arrows point to the frets 7, 11, 9, 8 and 9. These notes add up to form an E major 7 arpeggio.
What other arpeggios can you find using just the notes in this scale or the other scales in the tab?
Note: There are many other ways to practice fretboard memorization, this is just one example.
Guitar Practice Tip #3: Improve On Guitar While You Are Away From Your Instrument
Sometimes you simply don’t have much time to practice guitar at
all.
However, this doesn’t mean you can’t make improvements that help you become a better guitarist!
There are many things you can work on away from your instrument that help you become a better guitarist overall, so getting speed under your fingers feels easier and more fun when you finally get to sit down and play.
Here are just a few ideas to help you improve on guitar while you are away from your instrument:
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Write out the notes of the fretboard
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Write out the notes of specific scale patterns
and how they combine together across the fretboard
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Work on songwriting
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Improve your music theory knowledge
· Develop your aural skills
Now you have some ideas for what and how to practice to get faster on guitar in less time. Learn a killer guitar practice approach that helps you combine many items together to improve them in a short period of time.