Play Guitar Faster In No Time Using 3 Effective Practice Concepts
Want to learn how to practice more effectively in order to play guitar faster in less time?
You’ve come to the right place!
The first step is to forget about most of the conventional practice advice that has been given to you.
Most guitarists waste tons of time using practice tips that really slow them down.
Here are three effective practice concepts to use in your playing to get faster on guitar quickly:
1. Practice For Quality Over Quantity
Ever heard people talking about how some great guitarists have practiced 3, 5 or 10 hours per day?
Most of us don’t have this kind of time to practice every day, but even if you do, don’t worry you don’t have to.
Why?
Although some people have practiced this way, this practice
approach is highly inefficient and ineffective.
Practicing for long hours makes it nearly impossible to maintain the level of focus you need to get big, consistent results in your playing. Generally, our ability to focus peaks around 40 minutes and quickly declines the longer we are engaged with a particular activity.
(Note: Of course, you CAN practice more than once per day if you want to)
Bottom line:
Practicing for quality over quantity helps you get better faster.
This approach is better because it is more centered around using time effectively rather than hoping that something good happens just because you “do more.”
Next:
Organize all your practice items based on their priority and find out which items overlap and can be combined together to make your practice
as efficient as possible.
Correct Specific Mistakes Using Rapid-Fire High Repetition Counts
It feels good when you are practicing something and you are finally able to play it pretty well a couple times or so.
Don’t stop there though!
You only develop top-tier, consistent guitar technique through tons of repetition.
Once you are able to play something perfectly for just a single time, you have developed the blueprint for how to do it many times.
Drilling the correct movements in your hands using high repetition counts is critical.
This video shows you how using high repetition counts works wonders:
Practice this concept right away by:
1.
Selecting any guitar exercise you want to work
on.
2.
Finding and isolating the difficult notes of the
exercise.
3.
Breaking down the problem notes into small
groups of up to 5 notes at most.
4.
Playing through each of these note groupings for
500 repetitions (only takes a matter of minutes).
5. Integrating the difficult notes back into the original exercise and seeing how much you have improved.
Don’t Slow Down Your Hands – Speed Up Your Mental Processing
Many guitar players think you can only practice to get faster by first practicing slowly, then gradually speeding up over time.
Slow practice can be effective for learning the basic movements of a technique or exercise.
However, you do NOT need to “slow down” in order to get faster. Instead, focus on speeding up your mental processing.
The brief moment of rest between repetitions is key for helping you to correct mistakes that only occur at faster speeds. Take full advantage of this while practicing to make sure you improve as quickly as possible.
Don’t be nervous about practicing at tempos that are much faster than what you are used to. Even if you make mistakes, this has the potential to help you program your mind to process notes faster.
The 3 guitar practice methods you just learned are extremely
effective for improving your guitar speed.
There is more to learn though!
Find out how to double your guitar speed in 50% less practice time by downloading this free guitar shredder resource.