Guitar Myth Exposed: Thin Strings Equals Faster Playing Speed

In the guitar playing community, there are many theories for making you a better guitar player

. . Some of these ideas are only based on half truths, but much of it is based on myths more than anything else. They offer no help for the person, when they are wanting to play their guitar at a greater speed and improve their style.

One of these myths, includes the theory that when you use thick strings with high action, you will not increase your speed. The indications to this is that the string action needs to be deep utilizing thin strings.

This is only a myth, because in reality, if you have thinner strings, making the action lower, this does not allow you to perform any better or even faster. Thin strings and the lower action, will decrease the resistance during your performance.

This action will make getting to those notes easier but really doesn't do anything for the tone of your playing and doesn't do anything else either, for the skill and speed at which you can play. What you will be accomplishing, is to only make noise and to make it easier to make noise.

Using thin strings will not help you to become a master at playing, even if you will be playing any faster. Accuracy and clarity is what it takes to become a master at playing any instrument well and at a speedy level. This comes with lots of practice. Accuracy only comes when you have taken the time to practice every day, for many years, so if you are a beginner, then you will have a few years ahead of you, before your speed will improve greatly. If you play fast and don't hit the right notes, then what is the point. Fast fingers will come when you have mastered the accuracy skills first. If you want to be a well-rounded player, commit to memory, the scales and chords and the position that your fingers should have on the frets. This will be slow at first. With everything you tackle in life, start slowly at first and work your way up. Some day you fly through those solos with perfection , but time will be needed to achieve this.

For aspiring guitarists, in order to improve your accuracy and speed, it helps greatly to use backing tracks. This will help you immensely, by practicing your speed and your solos and this will become very beneficial for you. Its a great learning tool to be able to take the lead playing with great backup by utilizing back tracks.

This will help you to get used to playing with other musicians, while you are developing your skills. Some day, after practicing with the backing track, you will find that there will be a time, when you will be playing with a real group of musicians and you will be thankful that you had the practice time in this way.

by: Eugene Walker.

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