Answer: How Fast Can A Person Learn To Play Guitar With Speed (And How To Do It Quickly)
So, you’re wondering, “How fast can a person learn to play guitar with speed?” – or more likely, how fast can you do it?
Answer: It depends…
BUT…
Regardless of your goals, natural talent or current skill level, it doesn’t have to take many years for you to play guitar with tons of speed.
It doesn’t have to take long at all (and you may be able to play faster than you think right now).
The real question is, “How can you play guitar with tons of speed in as little time as possible?”
Now we’re getting somewhere!
I’ll tell you how.
Use these approaches to develop shred guitar speed as fast as possible:
Set Crystal-Clear Guitar Speed Goals
The key step to achieving anything is setting a clear goal
to achieve it.
Guitar players take longer to become faster guitarists quickly because they don’t set clear goals and practice with little direction.
You massively speed up your progress towards getting shredder speed by setting clear goals from which you can create a guitar practice schedule to achieve them.
Use these guidelines while creating your goals:
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Make them as specific and tangible as possible
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Set deadlines
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Check your progress weekly and adjust your
practice approach if you aren’t getting the results you want
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Schedule practice to work on the things that
matter most and stick to it
· Set BIGGER goals that will really motivate you (don’t worry about if they are “realistic” or not”)
Integrate Your Guitar Skills Together
Big mistake many guitar players make:
Only practicing all their skills in isolation from one
another.
Why is this a mistake?
Answer: when you’ve been practicing everything separate from everything else, you don’t learn how to use your skills together in a smooth and musical manner.
A great example of this is scales and arpeggios.
Most people practice these like they are separate entities and it shows in their soloing!
Try this same approach out for yourself using this lick:
Don’t worry if you aren’t up to speed yet…
Learn more about mastering the sweep picking in this lick by reading an article about playing guitar arpeggios with ease.
Use Speed To Add To Your Guitar Phrases Rather Than Just For Its Own Sake
Speed should be thought of as a tool for musical expression
rather than just a novelty for its own sake.
When you use speed to add to your phrases in this way, you discover that you don’t need as much speed as you may have thought.
For example:
You don’t need to constantly sweep pick massive arpeggio patterns up and down the fretboard to “play with speed”.
Instead, you can use a fast arpeggio here and there to connect together slower ideas to create intensity and drama in your playing… or a fast run here and there to connect together slower, melodic phrases.
Practice Guitar In Speed Bursts Instead Of “Slowing Building Speed Over Time”
So you want to play guitar with tons of speed in no time?
Start practicing like you want to!
How?
This practicing approach is great for any tough lick, exercise or pattern.
Implement it into your practice approach now and it’ll help you improve all aspects of your playing for years to come!
Work With A Guitar Teacher To Spot Mistakes In Technique You Aren’t Aware Of
The worst part about learning guitar on your own is you can
be practicing/playing the wrong way for a long time without knowing it.
This means you are making very little to no progress potentially for years!
Don’t let this happen to you.
Working with a great guitar teacher solves this problem.