Rosemary’s Thoughts

When watching some one play the guitar fast, we cannot help but wish that we could also play it like that. Let us study the alternatives we have in learning to play the guitar quicker on a regular basis. The very first thing you are going to want is a metronome, which you can purchase one from your local music depot, steal one from a maiden aunt or download one for free on the net. If you pick out to steal one, then I am afraid you will not make much progress in your quest to play guitar fast because short cuts just do not work. Most of us look for the fastest and most painless way to do things, and that is why most of us are not playing guitar at the speed of light.

So you have a metronome and mentally ready to get rolling. Now you need something by which you can do your practice sessions and these could include a part of a song, which has a solo segment, an exercise like a series of arpeggios or a picking exercise. You want to select your material carefully because you will want to know exactly how quick you want to play in terms of the settings on your metronome. Spending time to learn the piece is really not necessary as when you know the piece, you can start to growth your speed of playing gradually. When you know the piece a little, it means that the muscles of your fingers, arms and hands support you as you play the piece and there is no point where you fumble.

This is the next thing you need and to be able to play the guitar fast you need to learn to play slowly first. The exercise you have chosen to play should not be too easy, but at the same time it should not have too many hard bits. That is why it makes sense to select an exercise to practice rather than a song or a piece which has a prolonged solo segment.

Now you are beginning to see the way forward, if you have your practice passage ready, check it with your metronome and make certain you know what your present speed is. The next thing is to take a metronome setting not too far above your current one and make that your goal. Let us now talk about something you do not need: muscular tension. To learn playing guitar fast, the last thing you need is muscular tensity. To avoid stress, just stop thinking about the time you have your set goals in the metronome and you just try to reach that forgetting about the time you are taking. The idea is not to ready the goal to play guitar quick in the future, but to reach your ambition taking slow but steady steps taking one day at a time.

So if you pick out a passage to practice in order to play quick, and you devote some time every day to practicing, your guitar playing speed will start to growth. Once you have reached a level of skill on one exercise, pick out another one with a couple more challenges. The issue is to start by knowing where you stand now and then set a goal which would you like to reach in the near future.