Have you ever thought about what the one thing is that your favorite guitarists have in common when playing fast? Here is the answer: every one of them plays in a way that looks extremely effortless. In reality, shredding on guitar not only looks easy - it actually IS easy…or, to be honest, it becomes easy after you go through the process of training this skill correctly.
Sadly, nearly all guitar players can’t make their speed playing feel easy, and any effort to play guitar fast is a challenge. Reasons why this happens are plenty, but one of the most typical is pursuing the traditional practice mindset of beginning to practice slowly and building up speed little by little. Despite the fact that this approach DOES have a few of advantages, it also has many serious restrictions (when applied at the wrong time or mistakenly… as happens quite often).
Below are the reasons why the conventional speed practice strategy (beginning to practice slowly and improving speed gradually) makes it hard to build guitar speed:
You now understand what the disadvantages are of the ordinary approach to building speed on guitar, so I will show you one of multiple approaches you can use to move beyond guitar speed plateaus and make your playing feel comfortable while playing fast. This strategy is one of many that I use with my electric guitar students to assist them in building higher levels of guitar speed.
Practicing For Speed Using “Guitar Shred Bursts”
As a more effective alternative to the traditional speed building method, I want you to practice training your guitar speed using “speed bursts”.
Watch this guitar lesson video to see how this practicing idea works:
Here are the reasons why practicing guitar in speed bursts will help you increase your guitar speed quickly and effortlessly:
Now that you have learned a better way of making fast guitar playing feel effortless, the next step to take is find out all the other tactics that will lead you to double your guitar speed (I will show you these tactics totally free). Find out how by looking at this page about doubling your guitar speed.
About The Author: Tom Hess is an electric guitar teacher online and recording artist. He trains guitar players from around the world how to reach their musical goals in his correspondence guitar lessons online. Visit his website tomhess.net to receive many free guitar playing resources, mini courses, guitar practice eBooks, and to read more articles about guitar playing.