Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Learn to Play Guitar Fast - Tips to Help You Play Guitar Fast

If you want to learn to play guitar fast you must have a few things. Besides the material things like a guitar and a metronome, you also need patience, and lots of it. Even though people might think that they wont learn very fast if they take things slowly, I can safely say that by speeding things up you will make sure you don't learn anything fast. With that in mind, I decided to write down a few tips that helped me learn to play guitar fast.

Before showing you the tips I would just like to say that there is a natural order of things when learning guitar. There are people who love the instrument from early age so they can patiently learn anything because they really like it. There are also people, like me, who would like to learn to play the guitar just for the fun of it or as a hobby. For these type of persons, wasting an hour or two a day to practice the guitar, slowly can be a drag. Speeding things up will only get you used to playing fast but using a very poor technique. So using these tips is very important to really learning how to play the guitar fast and using a proper technique.

Tips To Learn To Play Guitar Fast
1. Too many players start slow, as it is recommended, but then accelerate too fast. They haven't really learned the moves so their muscle memory isn't ready for a faster pace. In the end they end up losing what they already learned or learn a bad technique.
2. There are many different exercise patterns out there. Look for one that is more suited for your level, you don't want one that is too hard and too easy. You need a pattern which is easy enough for you to use but hard enough to offer a challenge. Having a goal is very important when you want to learn to play guitar fast.
3. Whenever you get used to an exercise, try and move on to another. You don't want to overdue an exercise, that way you will avoid the stress repetition syndrome. Before moving on to another exercise, take a few days break. That break will help you consolidate what you've learned.
4. When hastening the pace at an exercises, make sure you do it right. Move up to the point where you start making mistakes. From that point it is very important to go back to the speed you started with. This helped me quite a lot.
5. It is very important to have a goal. When picking an exercise pattern, tell yourself at what bpms you want to do it. After that try and get there, having reached your goal you will gain the confidence and patience to go on.

Before starting a practice session, make sure you warm up properly. The best way to do that is to repeatedly squeeze a tennis ball or something similar for a few minutes with each hand. Then warm up on the guitar for a bit with some simple exercises. Make sure you use all 4 fingers and work your way up and down the chords. Taking it slowly you will be able to play whatever songs you want as fast as you can. And that, my friends, is how you learn to play guitar fast.

By the way, if you are a beginner and don't know where to start, try these Free Guitar Lessons.
But if you want some more advanced lessons, I strongly recommend the professional e-course I've using. It helped me set some very solid basics and advanced grounds. You can find it here: Learn to Play Guitar Fast.

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