How To Get Faster Fingers On Guitar Using Cool Legato Scale Runs

Having excellent legato technique = faster fingers on guitar.

I’m sure you knew that already, but…

Do you know how to practice legato technique for guitar to both get faster fingers and develop efficient technique that makes playing with speed feel easy?

Well if you didn’t, you’re about to!

There are several things people misunderstand when it comes to legato guitar technique.

This slows them down and causes them to play sloppy.

Here are three ways to practice legato for faster fingers, cleaner notes and more impressive technique:

Practice Legato Using More Speed (But Not More Force)

Using a lot of pressure to pull-off notes while playing legato wastes energy and slows you down. You only need to use just enough to get the note to sounds, while focusing on pulling-off quickly, like snapping your finger.

This video shows you the fundamental way to play with excellent legato technique:

Alternate Picking & Legato During The Same Lick

Combining picking with legato playing is an excellent way to not only integrate two different techniques together (making your practice more efficient), but to challenge yourself to lock both hands together in sync.

How does this work?

Simple.

You have to pick the notes at the exact time you fret them to play a clean note.

Playing a guitar lick that mixes legato together with picking forces you to be very precise with your timing.

This gives you faster fingers with better timing.

Practice this concept using this easy exercise:

Alternate legato with picking as shown in the tab below:

This is a very powerful way to lock your hands in sync.

Now, take this same concept and apply it to other aspects of your everyday guitar playing, such as:

· Practicing scales

· Playing guitar licks

· Improvising

This simple approach quickly gives you a better feeling of control over your speed so that it feels smoother than ever before.

Improve Much Faster Using High Repetition, Low Note Count Practice

Most guitar players do not take advantage of high repetition practice to get faster fingers and cleaner playing.

What does this mean?

They only practice something several times or repeat it enough to get it right once before moving onto something else.

Good news is, you can repeat a given guitar lick hundreds of times in just a matter of minutes.

This gives you the opportunity to make A LOT of progress in very little time.

Use high repetition guitar practice to make a lot of progress to get faster fingers in no time:

Choose any guitar scale you want to make faster and cleaner.

Play through just the notes of a single string of that scale using legato only. Repeat this at your max speed as perfectly as possible for 100 repetitions. This will only take a minute or two.

This video demonstrates the effectiveness of this style of practice:

Next, move onto the next string and repeat.

Do this until the entire scale is completed.

This rapid-fire method of practice makes playing with speed much easier due to the limited number of notes you are working with. After using this and the other legato technique approaches above, playing guitar faster while picking feels at little easier than it did before.

Integrate both picking and legato approaches together consistently to watch your guitar playing get better and better in a short period of time.