At some point every guitarist wants to know what the secret is to learning guitar fast. There is no magic potion, but there are a few things you can do to speed up the process.
Before I start, let me say this, I just turned 29 years old, and for years I have not only studied guitar, but also personal development. Read about Personal Development on Wikipedia to learn more.
In essence, personal development is the study of goals and achievement. It involved setting goals, creating plans to achieve them and learning to be happy with your accomplishments and keep striving for higher goals.
The same ideas and concepts also work with the guitar. You need to know what you want to achieve, set a goal, make a plan to achieve the goal and then take action to accomplish it.
You have done this even if you don't know it, even getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is a goal that you accomplish everyday, without even trying, maybe you even used goals to get that guitar you always dreamed of.
You probably figured out now that you can use this while learning to play fast on the guitar, soon you can introduce it to all your other guitar techniques like shredding, scales and tapping.
Alright, lets get down to it! We need a goal, play guitar fast, ok, that is good, but not specific enough, we need to choose a pattern we want to play fast, so pick a 3 note per string pattern on the B and E string and lets focus on that, like this:
---------4-5-7-------------- E
-4-5-7---------------------- B
Now, we need a real achievable goal, lets say we want to play at 80BMP, so set your metronome and on every click, pick a new string. Use down up down, up down up picking for this one.
If 80 BMP is too tough, slow it down to where you are comfortable and can do it nice with no mistakes, sounding perfect.
Once you can do it at a slow pace, just keep doing it, until you are totally sick of it, just keep doing it, we are training our muscles the exact motions at a slow vibration level. Once our body adapts to this speed, we can then increase the BPM on our metronome a few clicks, and again do it perfectly for a long time, like 5 minutes. Set your goal to get up to 120BMP. I bet you within a short time, maybe 20-30 minutes you can be there, depending on your skill level.
You can probably shred that lick by now and can impress your friends with your new speed chop, so go find some new riffs and apply your new speed learning method, remember, start slow, stay slow, slowly get faster, set a goal that is just on the edge of impossible and don't stop playing until you can rock it at the speed you set.
We grow on our successes, so make sure you set goals that you can easily achieve, then inch by inch increase the difficulty and reach.
Some goals may be on the edge of really difficult, if they are too challenging, then stop for a little and try again in a few minutes, some things you may have to work on for weeks, to get them good, just start slow and start where you stopped last time, and keep going faster.
I really hope that this helped you realize the secret of how to play guitar fast. You can learn guitar fast, just be patient.
As Bruce Lee said, "Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. - 31872
Before I start, let me say this, I just turned 29 years old, and for years I have not only studied guitar, but also personal development. Read about Personal Development on Wikipedia to learn more.
In essence, personal development is the study of goals and achievement. It involved setting goals, creating plans to achieve them and learning to be happy with your accomplishments and keep striving for higher goals.
The same ideas and concepts also work with the guitar. You need to know what you want to achieve, set a goal, make a plan to achieve the goal and then take action to accomplish it.
You have done this even if you don't know it, even getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is a goal that you accomplish everyday, without even trying, maybe you even used goals to get that guitar you always dreamed of.
You probably figured out now that you can use this while learning to play fast on the guitar, soon you can introduce it to all your other guitar techniques like shredding, scales and tapping.
Alright, lets get down to it! We need a goal, play guitar fast, ok, that is good, but not specific enough, we need to choose a pattern we want to play fast, so pick a 3 note per string pattern on the B and E string and lets focus on that, like this:
---------4-5-7-------------- E
-4-5-7---------------------- B
Now, we need a real achievable goal, lets say we want to play at 80BMP, so set your metronome and on every click, pick a new string. Use down up down, up down up picking for this one.
If 80 BMP is too tough, slow it down to where you are comfortable and can do it nice with no mistakes, sounding perfect.
Once you can do it at a slow pace, just keep doing it, until you are totally sick of it, just keep doing it, we are training our muscles the exact motions at a slow vibration level. Once our body adapts to this speed, we can then increase the BPM on our metronome a few clicks, and again do it perfectly for a long time, like 5 minutes. Set your goal to get up to 120BMP. I bet you within a short time, maybe 20-30 minutes you can be there, depending on your skill level.
You can probably shred that lick by now and can impress your friends with your new speed chop, so go find some new riffs and apply your new speed learning method, remember, start slow, stay slow, slowly get faster, set a goal that is just on the edge of impossible and don't stop playing until you can rock it at the speed you set.
We grow on our successes, so make sure you set goals that you can easily achieve, then inch by inch increase the difficulty and reach.
Some goals may be on the edge of really difficult, if they are too challenging, then stop for a little and try again in a few minutes, some things you may have to work on for weeks, to get them good, just start slow and start where you stopped last time, and keep going faster.
I really hope that this helped you realize the secret of how to play guitar fast. You can learn guitar fast, just be patient.
As Bruce Lee said, "Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. - 31872
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