Learn How Practice Guitar Effectively To Make Faster Progress

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Practicing guitar effectively leads to better results and faster progress. However, many guitarists make slow progress in their playing not just because they practice inefficiently, but because they do not isolate their main problems and practice them enough times. This approach only takes a few minutes and will almost instantly improve any guitar playing issue you are working on.

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Tip #1: Fix Weak Guitar Picking Technique Causes Sloppy Playing

Why is a weak picking attack a problem?

Answers:

It allows mistakes to go unnoticed.

Using a weak picking attack to play notes prevents you from hearing them clearly and allows subtle mistakes to occur without you knowing it.

In some cases, guitar players are unaware that they are actually using a weak picking attack in order to not have to face the mistakes they are making.

In other cases, guitarists simply never learned to pick with strong articulation.

When you pick with power and articulate the notes clearly, it brings all your mistakes into the forefront.

It forces you to confront them and correct them if you want to play cleanly.

For example: you might find that picking strongly makes it a lot harder to keep both hands in sync to play with good timing.

When you aren’t using good timing, you miss notes or they sound muffled. This tells you that you need to work on two-hand synchronization in order to clean up your playing.

It Increases The Chances Of Using Inefficient Picking Technique

Picking with weak articulation is harder to get away with when using efficient picking technique such as directional picking. Directional picking means always picking in the direction you are moving while changing strings (and using alternate picking on single strings).

This approach reinforces articulate playing to make mistakes and inconsistencies obvious.
 

What To Take Away:

Your guitar playing becomes cleaner and sounds better when you use efficient picking and strong articulation to play notes.

Practice using power in your picking attack for just one week and you start learning about many mistakes that need to be corrected in your playing. Good news is, using strong articulation becomes second nature very quickly.

 

Tip #2: How To Clean Up Your Guitar Playing By Practicing At Fast Speeds

You don't need to “practice guitar slowly and work up to speed over time” in order to play fast and clean.

Here’s how to achieve this goal without slowing down:
 

Work On Mentally Processing Notes At Fast Speeds

Playing guitar fast and clean requires being able to mentally process the notes your fingers are playing.

Whenever you are unable to do this, you begin missing notes, playing out of time or playing notes unclearly.

One way to improve your ability to process notes at fast speeds is to break down the exercise/lick you are working on into smaller 3-5 note segments.

Then, while playing at your top speed, focus on practicing each individual segment in isolation from the others by repeating it for several minutes. As you do this, insert a moment of rest in between each repetition.

Using this approach helps you identify mistakes in your playing that only occur at fast speeds.

While you briefly rest in between each repetition, you give yourself a moment to identify and correct the issues that kept the segment from being perfect.

Some examples of issues you might spot could be: missed notes, hands being out of sync or notes bleeding together. As you repeat the segment at a fast speed while focusing on correcting the problem, you train your mind to look for and correct these things automatically.

Once you are able to play a single 3-5 note segment perfectly, begin integrating it together with the other segments. Before long, you master half of the original lick, 3/4 of the lick and the entire lick. This approach is especially effective when combined with different types of practice strategies.
 

Bottom Line:

Your guitar playing cleans up very quickly after improving your ability to process notes at fast speeds. Playing fast becomes much less of a struggle and you break through any plateaus that were stuck on. Combine this approach with a powerful picking attack for even better results.

Note: There are even more ways to clean up your guitar playing.
 

Tip#3: How To Make Arpeggios Feel Creative Without Playing Fast

Playing basic major and minor sweep picking arpeggios eventually becomes boring.

Fortunately, there are simple ways to make your sweep picking more creative and interesting.

Here are three ways to do it:
 

1. Add Other Notes From The Scale Into Your Arpeggios

You are not limited to using the same basic major or minor sweep picking arpeggios every time you play. Your guitar playing has more potential for expression when you use 7^th chord patterns and other patterns with added notes (such as the 6^th or the 9^th).

Look for at least 3 different ways to play basic arpeggios with one or more added notes. This is often as easy as moving the highest note up or down by a couple of frets or so.

It also sometimes requires playing two notes on a single string. The more creative you get, the cooler your sweep picking sounds.
 

2. Stop On Individual Notes Of An Arpeggio Using Tremolo

Using tremolo adds tons of intensity to your arpeggios without playing the actual patterns very fast. Additionally, isolating individual notes with tremolo helps you articulate them better and play more accurately while playing the arpeggio as normal. Whenever you feel like an arpeggio needs to be cleaned up, use this approach to fix the notes that are causing you trouble.

How to practice this: Go through an arpeggio and isolate the highest note (in pitch) to by using tremolo technique. Then go through the pattern once more and apply the tremolo to the second highest note. Keep doing this until you’ve played through every note of the pattern.
 

3. Play Your Arpeggios On Lower Strings

Playing on lower string gives your sweep picking arpeggios a different texture that sounds unique even when you are only using basic patterns.

Look for several ways to play a given arpeggio all over the fretboard by starting the arpeggio with the lowest note on the fifth string. Use inversions (playing arpeggios with different notes used as the lowest note) to think of creative ways to give your arpeggios more variety.

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