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Practing your speed on guitar...
| Message Board > Music Chitchat - General ( Indie, Jazz, World, Electronic etc.) > Practing your speed on guitar... |
| _Griphin_ User Info... | OK, no-one can apparently teach me guitar, so I ask what did you first learn to play to practice your speed. It seems the only way I'm gonna learn is by either paying too much money to Long and McQuade or learn off the internet, it seems. Anyone? - Thu, 12 Jul 2007 1:43pm Edited: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 1:47pm | ||
| the JAK User Info... | get a metronome - Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:33pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | speed is a funny thing that everyone wants to learn... With that last sentence being fairly general in speaking of the average guitar player masturbating the fret board until you hear nothing but a stream of notes strung along together to make a wave of shred. Sounds pretty cool, but personally I would rather teach how you can acheive a better sound/technique through practicing alot of rhythms raising the tempo from a slow chunky type melody to a fast wrist fucking tempo. That would, in my opinion, give you an idea of how you need to specialize your muscle memory. Ie) if your good at keeping it together in a slower beat, then practice your "shredding" movements at the slower pace; thus working up to a pace that you are trying to get to. If you find yourself filling in too many notes/playing too many notes at the slower pace; then find key notes in that barrage of shred that make the melody happen and play those notes at a faster pace. Simplify everything making the process easy for YOU. Though what works for me might not work for you; give it a try(if you can somwhat understand what im getting at). But at the end of the day; speed certainly doesn't make a guitar player so much as making that guitar your bitch and getting the sound that YOU want opposed to a sound that the guitar creates. - Wed, 18 Jul 2007 2:52pm | ||
| THE JAK User Info... | get a metronome...practice scales along with it first in ones ...like if its a major scale you go "doe,ray, me..ect along to the click then switch to two's ...so now you are going "doe,doe,-ray,ray,me,me...ect.along to the same tempo of click....then do three's...so now you're playing along with the same click ...never changed the tempo..but now its going doe,doe,doe-ray,ray,ray-me,me,me...ect sensing a pattern?...keep going till you can pick in fours then and only then speed up the tempo - Wed, 18 Jul 2007 7:01pm | ||
| Andrew User Info... | practicing is for nerds - Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:36pm | ||
| Jl User Info... | The Jak, that's a good method provided your muscle memory is developed enough to recognize that pattern you illustrated. I agree with you in that its a good way to practice your speed; but you have to already have the technique and know-how to develop speed in your method. I think for a less developed player you need to focus on the basics(just like anything else); develop a good technique for your hands on the fret board, then endevour to develop mind boggling arpeggios. In short, if you dont know what and why you can/have/are able to play a sweeping arpeggio along with a melody then you should be starting on developing the comfort with the melody/time sig. etc... Griph, from what i've gathered in reading some of your other posts on you learning guitar is that you've progressed past the 'power chords' and want something more to chew on. Try the methods you see here and hopfully it will help out! Just remember, always perfect the basics before moving on!!! - Thu, 19 Jul 2007 1:28pm | ||
| Tyler User Info... | learn a song or part of a song slowly. play along with a metronome until it's perfect. speed it up by 10 bpm and play it until it's perfect. repeat until you can play it at 9000 bpm. - Fri, 20 Jul 2007 2:06pm | ||
| Aidan Logins User Info... | Cocaine before rehearsal. - Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:19pm | ||
| Andrew User Info... | practicing is for football players - Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:59pm | ||
| DTjackson User Info... | Get tabs to, like, a really crazy guitar solo. Like a Ritchie Blackmore Deep Purple solo. Run through it slow. Learn it all the way through so you don't have to look at the paper and then just, as others have mentioned, take it up in intervals of speed. - Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:55pm | ||
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