How To Learn Fast Guitar Licks Without Getting Frustrated
It’s no secret:
Playing guitar licks as fast as you want is sometimes very frustrating due to all the mistakes you make along the way.
Making mistakes is natural, but you can easily be less frustrated by them when you have a few practice secrets, approaches and mindsets to help you out.
This is incredibly helpful for making tons of progress on guitar in little time and for making your guitar practice more fun.
You want to get faster on guitar and have fun doing it, don’t you?
Thought so!
Let’s get started.
Practice In Short Amounts Of Time Rather Than For Long Periods
Nothing is more frustrating than practicing a repetitive motion over and over for hours while making constant mistakes.
Fortunately, this is NOT the only way to practice guitar and get faster.
Fact: practicing in short blocks of time can not only be incredibly effective and efficient, but it can also be very fun and much less frustrating.
Short blocks means practicing in periods of time within the 15-30 minute range several times a day (if possible) instead of practicing several hours of time all the way through.
This keeps your practice fresh and keeps you from losing
your focus as you would in longer practice sessions.
It also removes much of the frustration of making mistakes as you are better able to identify them since you are more focused, and they don’t pile up over a long period of time.
Bottom line:
Practice guitar in short bursts rather than only practicing in long sessions. This makes practicing more fun and engaging rather than tedious and frustrating.
Bonus:
Use Just A Few Notes To Improvise Tons Of Creative Licks
A common cause of frustration for guitar players is they attempt to play solos by playing as many notes as possible… hoping that something cool will come out of it.
This makes it very frustrating when it just sounds like a big mess of notes!
Solution:
Work on your guitar phrasing so you can play very
expressively by using just a few notes at a time.
Then gradually add more notes as you become better and better at playing expressive solos.
This video shows you how to improvise with a few notes to massively improve your guitar phrasing and create better licks:
Transform Mistakes Into Opportunities To Improve
Making mistakes certainly can become frustrating. But why? Because they are seen as roadblocks that stand in your way.
They don’t have to be though!
Mistakes are actually opportunities to learn exactly what you need to do to improve – when you see them this way.
Sounds simple right?
It is, but very powerful!
Start using a mindset that examines your mistakes for opportunities to improve rather than seeing them as a frustrating problem you have to deal with.
This simple change in mindset works wonders and truly transforms your guitar playing!
Get Better Faster & With Less Frustration With The Help Of A Teacher
Working together with a guitar teacher is such a no-brainer to eliminate frustration from your playing.
Why?
Let’ examine one of the biggest causes of guitar playing frustration:
“Not knowing what to do.”
This is a big problem if you are learning guitar alone.
Having a great guitar teacher helps you understand exactly what to do to reach your musical goals and helps you see problems in your playing that you couldn’t otherwise.
It also gives you valuable support through coaching, training and mentoring.