How You Can Play Guitar Fast Like A Shredder By Applying Lesser-Known Practice Concepts
Are you tired of not playing guitar as fast as you really want? Don’t give up just yet! You only need to change the way you practice to give yourself a massive boost in the right direction.
Tip: Following conventional guitar speed practice ideas often doesn’t work out in your favor.
Why?
The majority of guitarists practice ineffectively and don’t really know how to practice to
correct their mistakes.
Good news is, there are 3 unique and powerful ways to practice that help you play guitar fast like a shredder in much less time.
Forget About Practicing 5 Hours Per Day – Practice Smarter, Get Better Results
You probably hear stories about so-and-so guitar player got great by practicing 5 hours a day every day.
This may have worked for one person, but here’s the truth:
You become a faster, cleaner and better guitarist by practicing for quality not quantity.
You want to get big results?
Practice efficiently 30 minutes per day and you can easily make massive progress compared to someone who practices inefficiently, but
spends all day doing it.
Learn how this works by watching this guitar practice video:
Using what you just learned, take action now by:
Organizing your guitar practice items, licks and exercises into categories. Then see which skills overlap and can be combined together to save you practice time and make your practice more efficient.
Then focus on eliminating all mindless or wasted practice time by making every second count.
Correct Specific Mistakes Using Rapid-fire High Repetition Counts
It’s a common mistake to practice something until you are able to get it right a few times, then moving onto something else.
Don’t do this!
Developing excellent, consistent guitar technique takes a lot of (the right kind of) repetition.
Don’t just improve your weaknesses a little, master them by drilling them until there is absolutely no trace of imperfection!
Using high repetition counts is the key.
Practice this concept by:
1.
Choosing any guitar exercise or lick that you
want to master.
2.
Isolating any problem areas from the rest of the
practice item.
3.
Breaking down the problem areas into groups of
no more than 3-4 notes.
4.
Playing through each of these groups for 100
repetitions.
5. Incorporating the groups back into the original practice item and testing yourself to see how you improved.
Don’t Slow Down Your Hands – Speed Up Your Mental Processing
Slowing down to practice can be useful when correcting some aspects of your guitar playing. For example, if you’re just beginning to play a technique or exercise for the first time.
However…
Correct mistakes at fast speeds is not only an effective way to practice, but a critical way to program yourself to automatically fix mistakes that only happen at a higher tempo.
As the video explained, adding the brief moment of rest at the end of the speed burst helps you process any mistakes. Keep this in mind especially while practicing high repetition counts.
Don’t be afraid to practice at speeds that are much faster than what you are used to while using this approach. Even if mistakes are made, you program your mind to process notes faster – planting the seed for faster playing in the future.
Fact: The 3 guitar practice approaches you just learned are extremely effective for improving your guitar speed. However, you also have the ability to double your current speed while practicing even less than what was discussed in the first point of this article.
How?