How To Play Guitar Fast
It’s the desire of almost all guitarists to be able to learn how to play guitar fast but most people find it’s not the simplest thing to accomplish on their own. Even some very experienced guitarists find it difficult to just sit down and know how to play blazingly fast and still manage to sound impressive.
If you’ve ever tried to do this yourself when you weren’t experienced enough it would have been quite clear immediately as the sound would just come out completely mixed up and distorted.
At this point you may be thinking, “well will I ever be able to learn how to play guitar fast?” There is however a simple and effective strategy you can use to get you well on the way to shredding up those fretboards. The key to this strategy is bearing in mind that you need to walk before you can run and remember to persevere.
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Firstly, you’ll have to get yourself a metronome. There are many different varieties but the simplest one to use is a basic electronic version, which incorporates a little speaker, and which has a speed or beats per minute (BPM) that you can increase or decrease by one beat per minute at a time.
The next step in learning how to play guitar fast is to start with a straightforward exercise such as the typical 1234 exercise used for warming up. This involves playing in sequence the first, then second, then third and then fourth note on each string, beginning with the sixth string and then going onto the fifth, fourth, second and lastly the first string.
Then, instead of playing these notes just by using down strokes with your pick, you need to integrate alternative picking. Alternative picking is where you pick one note with a down stroke, pick the next note with an upstroke and then alternate doing this backwards and forwards. This is a very efficient picking technique which is essential to learn if you want to master how to play guitar fast.
Begin with the metronome on a reduced setting, for example about 80 beats per minute, and see how you go. You can then start slowly increasing the beats per minute as you go along.
The key to this technique is that with every tick of the metronome, you should be picking a note. Do this flawlessly and stick stringently to the alternative picking, being careful to stay precisely in time and avoid playing haphazardly. When you reach a point where you feel that you are confident you can effortlessly pick each note clearly and exactly at that speed, jot this down in a notebook and then increase the metronome speed a bit. Keep repeating this technique again and again and you’ll soon notice that you’re able to play the notes at a super high speed of 150 beats per minute or greater.
You can then move on to repeating this technique on any scales you have learnt. By doing this and using simple, purposeful picking you will find you’ll easily be well on your way to learning how to play guitar fast.
