Learn to play guitar fast
Rock guitarist needs to learn to play guitar fast. The technique is simple, it is a matter of left and right hand coordination which needs some time to perfect this technique.
The scope of this post is to learn the very basic techniques that allow guitarist to play guitar fast using “alternate picking” (by a guitar pick). Other guitar techniques such as “sweep picking” will be covered in the future post.
In details, left and right hand technique are illustrated as follows:
Right hand technique: (alternate picking)
Rules to play:
1. Use a guitar pick.
2. Play the first note with pick down stroke.
3. Play the 2nd note with pick up stroke.
4. Play all successive notes in up and down motion of pick (regardless of the string)
Aim for clean notes first.
The Speed guitar drill Tab:
As said, play it slowly first. Specifically (the nine notes of this Speed guitar drill:)
1st note: Down ,2nd note: Up 3rd note: Down
4th note: Up, 5th note: Down, 6th note: Up
7th note: Down, 8th note: Up, 9th note: Down (repeat pattern over and over again)
Play the notes as clear and as slowly as you can at first. This is not for overnight success. Guitar speed playing takes patience and time. I suggest you can use a metronome for your practice, set it a slow tempo first then gradually make it faster each day as you progresses. You can use any types of guitar, but recommended is electric guitar with or without distortion. The purpose is for you to be familiar with the fretting distance and the force you will need to exert on your left hand fingers.
Left Hand Technique:
As said early, left and right hand must be well coordinated to create maximum speed. After discussing the right hand techniques above, below are the tips you can optimize the left hand fingers.
First,remember this important finger mnemonics:
Refer to the tab above, the LH Fingers means “Left hand fingers”, so this means you will position your finger 1 on the 1st note and play it downstroke with pick, 2nd note with finger 4 and play it upstroke..so on and so forth (also to right hand techniques above).
To illustrate the above principles, watch the video clip below with actual illustrations of the procedure. Remember to play slowly at first to give time for your fingers to learn.
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