Why Common Guitar Practice Advice Causes Unclean Playing At Faster Speeds
Following most guitar practice conventional wisdom often leads to slower progress, formation of bad playing habits and lots of unnecessary frustration.
Avoiding these conventional approaches to building speed on guitar to prevent mistakes that cause sloppy playing at faster speeds:
1. Starting slow, then gradually building up to speed
Everyone has heard this piece of advice! Practicing slow and slowly building speed leads to sloppy playing at high speeds and/or causes you to make very slow progress over time.
Using this approach trains you to play with inefficient motions when you go to play much faster. This makes playing fast feel like a struggle!
Avoid this by breaking the item you are practicing into smaller sections of notes.
Then practice a few notes at a time using short bursts of speed with quick 1 second pauses in between.
This improves your 2-hand sync at fast speeds, makes your hand movements more efficient and makes practicing feel much less frustrating than it would otherwise.
2. Playing Everything As Fast As Possible
Guitar players commonly make the mistake of only practicing at their top speed without improving their 2-hand synchronization. This trains you to move your hands fast, but turns you into a sloppy player. This is very frustrating to say the least!
Practicing to explicitly improve your two-hand synchronization helps you play faster AND makes playing with speed feel effortless.
3. Finding As Many Guitar Speed Exercises As You Can
Accumulating a lot of guitar speed exercises is useless until you understand HOW to practice them to get results.
Doing this is more likely to cause you to feel overwhelmed. Instead, focus on increasing the top speed of your 2-hand synchronization and learn practice methods that make this possible.
Learn ways to increase the speed of your 2-hand synch by reading this guitar speed building article.
About The Author:
Tom Hess is a guitar teacher online, progressive rock guitarist/composer and a touring musician. He teaches guitar players in his rock guitar lessons online. Go to tomhess.net to get more guitar playing speed resources and follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
