Learn to Play Fast Guitar

A lot of guitarists long to be able to play blazing fast or shred guitar and we all know its no easy task

. Not many beginner players (or even many advanced guitarists) can just sit down and play smoking fast lead lines that tear up the fretboard and sound really impressive.

If youve ever tried to play fast and you just werent ready, it would have been very obvious right from the start as all the notes would sound jumbled together and just sound like a confused mess.

What you are thinking right now is most likely Well, then how do I get to play fast too? You've heard the saying youve got to walk before you can run Well, like it or not that is true in this case too, but there are a couple of little shortcuts for you to take to help you get shredding sooner rather than later.

The first thing you need is a metronome. They come in various styles but the simplest one to use is the simple electronic one with a small built in speaker, whose speed or BPM (beats per minute) can be increased and decreased one BPM at a time.

The next thing is youll take a super simple exercise like the standard 1234 warm up exercise, where the 1234 represents playing the first, then second, then third and then forth note on each string starting with the 6th string and then moving onto the 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd and finally the first.

Now, instead of playing this exercise using all down strokes of the pick, youll want to incorporate alternate picking. As you may recall, alternate picking is where you pick one note using a down stroke and then the next with an upstroke and then you just alternate back and forth. This is a very efficient picking method and it is essential to master it if you want to play fast.

Begin with a slow metronome setting like 80 BPM or so and see how it feels and work your way up from there.

You should be picking a note every time the metronome ticks. Do this perfectly and adhere strictly to the alternate pickingdown-up-down-up-down-up etc., making sure to stay exactly in time and being careful to avoid playing sloppily. When you feel comfortable that you can easily pick every note clearly and perfectly at that speed, write it in a notebook and increase the metronome BPM slightly. Keep repeating this process and before long, youll notice youre ripping up the notes at a high rate of speed of 150 BPM or more!

Repeat exactly the same exercise on any scales you may know as well as the 7 modes. Clean, deliberate alternate picking is the thing that will help you become a fast player that people want to hear.

Learn to Play Fast Guitar

By: Laurie Lea

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