How To Eliminate Sloppy Mistakes From Your Guitar Technique And Sound Badass Every Time You Play Your Guitar
By Tom Hess
Chances are you’ve experienced great guitar playing days when you made very few mistakes… This felt good didn’t it?
You’ve likely also experienced days where nothing could go right in your playing and you constantly made mistakes. Does this all sound very familiar?
Good news is, everyone who plays guitar goes through this same experienced. This includes the very best guitar players in the world.
Wouldn’t it be great to make every day a good guitar playing day?
For sure it would… and it’s not as hard to do as you might think.
The most simple way to get rid of the sloppy mistakes that cause frustration in your playing is improving how you practice. This helps you become a better guitarist faster, regardless of how much time you have to practice each day.
The following demonstrates an easy solution to a frequent issue many guitarists have (playing with picking technique that uses excess motion). This video helps you eliminate this problem from your playing for good:
The following are five additional practicing tips that help you play guitar great, even when you aren’t feeling like you’re at your very best:
Guitar Practice Tip #1: Remove Excess Tension From Your Body That Causes Sloppy Mistakes. Here Is How:
Relax your hands as long as you can while playing — This makes it less difficult to play with your hands in perfect sync and avoiding making mistakes.
Guitar Practice Tip #2: Make Your Guitar Technique Very Efficient, So Your Playing Is Accurate And Consistent. Here Is How It’s Done:
When you play with efficient guitar technique, you don’t move your hands any more than is necessary to play the notes. This makes playing fast feel much easier by getting rid of frustrating mistakes that lead to sloppy noise.
These are just a few basic approaches for developing better guitar technique efficiency:
*Don’t move the pick away from the strings while playing (unless you are playing with string skipping technique).
*Fret notes by using your fingertips.
*Use a heavy guitar pick. Your pick needs to not bend whenever you strike the string.
*Keep your fretting hand thumb on the lower part behind the neck while playing scales and/or arpeggios. This makes it easier to play cleanly because you are able to stretch to play notes without straining your wrist.
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Guitar Practice Tip #3: Consistently Work On Performing On Guitar In Front Of Other People, To Overcome Nervousness & Play Without Mistakes When It Matters Most. Here Is How It’s Done:
It’s much easier to play guitar without making mistakes at home in your room than it is to do it while performing in front of other people. Here are several ways to make less mistakes while playing in live situations:
Simulate real-life musician performing conditions when you practice guitar.
For instance:
*Stand up to practice.
*Practice guitar while keeping the amp very close to you.
*Practice guitar with the amp in the other room.
*Practice guitar far away from your amp by playing in a different room.
*Practice guitar while moving around and performing (making gestures as if you were playing on stage).
Most importantly, perform guitar for other people every chance you get.
Guitar Practice Tip #4: Combine Guitar Techniques Together To Make It Feel Effortless To Play Challenging Guitar Licks. Here Is How It’s Done
What is one aspect of guitar playing that so many guitarists wish they could master but never actually work on? Combining all their musical skills together. Combining skills refers to being able to easily use your skills together in a musical way that sounds, smooth, natural and effortless.
Mastering this makes your guitar playing mistakes disappear.
Guitar Practice Tip #5: Develop Better Guitar Technique Than You Think You Need. Here Is Why This Helps You & How To Do It:
Think about your greatest goals with guitar technique. Maybe you wish you could play certain riffs or guitar solos, or maybe you wish you could raise your max playing speed by 50 beats per minute. Set up your goals to try to play at a level that is a little higher than what you want. Example: practice playing a song that is 20 beats per minute faster than the actual tempo you want to play it at.
When you improve your technique in this manner, it’s easier to play without making mistakes because you are never too close to your limit. This makes it more fun to play guitar because you are able to stop worrying about making mistakes.
Now that you have learned many ways to eliminate mistakes from your guitar playing, are you ready to discover a much more simple guitar practice method that combines this info together to make your playing more clean and accurate? Get this eGuide to find out how to develop fretting hand finger independence and start playing guitar in an effortless manner.
About The Author:
Tom Hess is a highly successful guitar teacher, recording artist and virtuoso guitar player. He teaches guitar players from all over the world in his online guitar lessons. Visit his website tomhess.net to get free guitar playing resources and to read more guitar playing articles.
