How To Play The Guitar Very Fast Using Effective Practice & Planning
You don’t need natural talent to become a very fast guitar player that shreds with the best of them – Instead, you need to learn how to practice effectively in a way that gets consistent results.
This means pushing yourself to step outside of your comfort zone, clearly identifying your mistakes and planning your practice in a way that helps you fix them fast.
Good news:
It’s not as hard as you might think.
Find out what you need to do to play guitar fast by using these pieces of advice to increase your speed quickly:
Set Speed Goals And Deadlines For Reaching Them
It’s difficult to achieve significant results in anything with creating a clear goal and effective steps toward reaching it.
Example:
Think of trying to find a hidden treasure on an island
without a) a map or even b) the goal of finding hidden treasure.
What are the chances you’d simply stumble upon it some day? Not so good.
It’s the same with increasing your speed on guitar.
The idea of “getting faster” is very vague, and there are many different subtle ways to do this in many different areas.
The clearer you make your guitar speed goals, the greater your chances for reaching them.
When you then set a deadline for your goals, you motivate yourself to achieve them even faster!
Push Yourself To Play Above Your Max Speed Even If You Make Mistakes
It’s a common (and understandable) behavior for guitarists to stop playing when they make mistakes.
Why does this happen?
Simple.
We don’t like to make mistakes/feel wrong/feel stupid.
However, the more you push yourself in these moments, the better your chances for learning and improving… but you have to do it the right way.
For example:
Play things above your current max speed and be okay with making mistakes.
That’s right! Play something way faster than what you are used to and don’t
focus on mistakes.
The purpose is to get your hands moving so that your brain begins to really believe it IS possible to play that fast.
Think of this like planting the seed in your mind for the shred speed that is to come.
Supplement your guitar practice with just a little bit of this each day to water the seed and watch it grow!
Practice At Fast Speeds In Short Bursts
You don’t need to practice things on guitar by playing a
long string of notes over and over.
Speed can be built in just short bursts.
This makes becoming a faster guitarist easier, less frustrating and more fun.
Integrate Speed And Technique With Phrasing
Remember: Being a “fast” guitarist isn’t just about having speed, but knowing what to do with it.
In addition to practicing guitar for faster speed, you need to practicing integrating your speed together with your phrasing.
This helps you avoid the common frustrating problem of being able to play fast but not knowing how to play anything that sounds remotely musical (while soloing, improvising, etc.)
Here are just a couple of ways to make sure your speed sounds musically expressive by integrating phrasing and speed together while practicing:
1.
Improvise daily by not just playing freely, but
by also focusing on just a few notes at a time. See how you can make just 3
notes from any given lick sound great using speed together with any other
technique you are familiar with.
Ready to learn more ways to play guitar faster than ever?
Wish you could do it while practicing 50% less?
Yep, it’s possible!
Learn how to do it (for free) by downloading this guitar speed resource.