Learn How To Play Guitar Fast Using An Innovative “Repetition Stacking” Practice For Quick Results

Most conventional guitar speed practice approaches use too little repetition.

For example: A guitarist plays something several times until they are able to finally play it fast and clean once or twice. Using this approach over time causes you to develop hit-or-miss technique making you inconsistent while playing guitar at fast speeds.

This also drags out your progress, so you only get faster very slowly over time.

A better approach is to focus on learning how to play guitar fast and clean while focusing on repetition with efficient practice. There are many ways to do this, and you quickly get results after using this approach for only one or two sessions.

Here is one example of a killer practice approach that uses “repetition stacking” to help you play guitar fast and clean:

Play Guitar Faster Using The Repetition Stacking Practice Approach

You make fast progress on guitar by focusing intensely on making small adjustments to correct mistakes while practicing. Performing many repetitions in a single session allows you to quickly fix any issues that are keeping you from playing fast.

Choose the guitar lick or pattern that you want to play faster and follow the steps below. Get the most out of this style of practice by using short licks or breaking down bigger licks into smaller groups of notes.

Step One: Play the guitar lick continuously at a fast speed for 1 minute. After each repetition, pause for a second or two to reflect on what you just played. Adjust your focus to correct the notes where you struggled (the parts of the lick you made the most mistakes on).

Step Two: Take a minute or two of rest. Think about the mistakes that are holding you back and what you need to do to fix them. Then repeat step one.

Step Three: Next, play the lick similar to how it was played in step one, except: repeat the lick twice before pausing. So, play the lick once, then play it again, then pause.

This makes your guitar playing more consistent using progression in your practice to challenge you to play the lick correctly twice.

Note: If the lick is still to challenging to play without making a lot of mistakes, break it down until you are only playing 3 notes at a time. T

Then slowly add more notes as you fix your mistakes.

Step Four: Repeat step one while playing the lick three times for every pause.

Step Five: Repeat step one while playing the lick four times for every pause.

Step Six: Repeat step one while playing the lick five times for every pause.

Repeat this exercise twice to increase your speed daily by effectively practice playing guitar fast in under 15 minutes.

Next Use These Exercise Ideas To Make Practicing For Speed More Effective:

Idea #1: Repetition Without Pausing

Repetition doesn’t have to be done using a pause every time. Playing continuously helps you test your consistency of clean play while improving your ability to play guitar fast in a new way.

Here is one way to do it:

1.   Choose anything you want to play faster and play the first three notes of the lick/pattern at max speed for 15 seconds without stopping.

2.   Rest for 15 seconds.

3.   Play the next three notes for 15 seconds.

4.   Rest for 15 seconds.

Continue this way until you have played the entire pattern. Then repeat the exercise again. Mix up your approach to improve the lick from every angle by using a variety of note groupings and sequences.

Idea #2: Track Your Progress

Tracking your progress is an extremely effective way to become a faster guitar player in less time, while making practice more motivating and fun.

Here is one way to track your progress while practicing for faster speed:

1.   After practicing a guitar lick using the other ideas of this article, test yourself to see how many times within 30 seconds you can play without making mistakes. Write down this number.

2.   During the next guitar practice session, try to push yourself to decrease this number.

Tracking yourself in this manner makes each practice session more fun and interesting because you are able to see yourself getting better. Combining this with the focused practice approaches above helps you learn to play guitar fast in no time!