It’s more or less impossible to play fast if you don’t practice. The key is learning to play not just quickly but accurately as well. No one likes hearing someone literally “shred” a tune. I found a great video today that covers 3 speed exercises to help yourself play quicker.
So if you’re looking for a way to speed up your playing, not the actual process of learning guitar you’ll like these.
Here’s a quick run down of some solid tricks to play quicker.
1.) Practice: Like I said it takes being able to play correctly and play well slowly before you can learn to play well quickly. If this is you then I suggest you take some time to learn to play things correctly slowly before you try to add speed into the mix.
2.) Playing both down and up when you’re picking will double how fast you can pick. This is a regular method used by a lot of high intensity players on lead. It takes some getting used to so again you want to learn it playing slowly before you learn it playing quickly.
3.) hammer ons and offs are also a solid method of playing faster. Avoiding having to pick the string at all can only save you time and that’s what they’ll do for you.
The video will get into the benefits of playing your scales to improve speed while picking as well as using a metronome to monitor your speed and test your skills.
Happy Watching!
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