Start Playing Guitar Faster By Practicing Efficiently & Effectively
Making tons of progress during practice and playing guitar faster than ever feels amazing.
It’s unfortunate that so many guitar players never experience this.
Why is this such a rare occurrence?
Answer:
Many players do not understand how to practice in ways that are effective and fun to get the most out of their time.
Good news is, you’re going to learn some of these approaches today.
Begin By Warming Up For Excellent Results
A good warmup is critical for effective guitar practice.
That being said, there are effective ways to warm up and
warm up approaches that waste a lot of time …
Warm up routines that aren’t so good focus on using generic
exercises that aren’t related to whatever you put in your practice routine.
Don’t fall for making this common mistake!
Warm up with related exercises to the ones you will practice
to prep your hands to master them!
Remember, warming up is also a form of practice too.
This consists of:
– Lightly touching the frets of what you will play (but not
playing the notes ).
– Using legato only.
– Picking strings while not sounding any notes.
While warming up, pay attention to using portions of exercises related to your guitar playing goals. This way you are a lot better prepared to practice them and get the results you desire.
Lead Guitar Timing Tip:
When you practice playing guitar to a metronome, pay attention to your timing.
Make sure you aren’t playing notes ahead of the click vs. right on the click. Remember that when you practice lead guitar, your timing is just as important as when practicing rhythm guitar (and you need to build up the awareness of timing in both lead and rhythm playing contexts).
Focus on making the first note of each beat in a phrase line up with the metronome exactly, and the other notes will fall in time as a result.
Play Fast And Don’t Worry About Mistakes.
The way you develop better skill with anything is to practice with intensity your current limit. Most guitar players steer clear of this approach because it means making frustrating mistakes (which at times feels irritating).
Well, here is some advice: Forget about that and move outside your comfort zone to make tons of progress to take your skills to a new dimension!
Take any guitar exercise you are practicing, and apply the tips below:
1. Figure out the tempo at which it is played.
2. Utilizing a metronome, turn up the tempo by 25 beats per minute and play the pattern for a few minutes. You will make some errors, but don’t worry about this. Welcome it!
3. Now, take a second to assess the mistakes you made.
4. Turn the metronome down by 5 beats from the current speed
and repeat the process.
5. Then turn the metronome down to the normal tempo and
practice it.
Organize Licks Into Smaller Sized Sections Of Notes
Breaking licks down into small bursts of a few notes at a time makes them a lot easier to process mentally.
Another amazing result of practicing guitar this way is you can play at much faster speeds.
Why is it like this?
Trying to play many notes in rapid succession at fast speed can be difficult. Playing only a few is MUCH easier to process.
This gives you a way to move from not being able to play a fast lick at all to being able to play at least some of it.
Develop A Couple Of Skill Sets To Make Playing Guitar Fast Feel Like Second Nature
Want to make playing guitar like a shredder feel easy?
Not a problem.
There are two key factors you need to work on for you to do this and keep your hands together to avoid sloppiness.
1. Strike the strings with more power in your attack.
This power pushes you to play with excellent timing otherwise you will mess up and make mistakes. Sooner or later, this becomes
easy and your accuracy increases.
2. Pick the notes of a given exercise twice.
This helps your head process what your fretting hand is doing by bringing your picking hand up to speed.
After playing like this for a while, your hands become locked together and playing guitar faster feels easy. Want to uncover more ways to play fast licks on guitar that sound musically expressive? Learn (a lot more about) how to do it by checking out this guide to playing guitar solos expressively.