Play Amazing Guitar Solos By Learning How To Make Each Note Sound Really Good

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Solution: How To Avoid A Common Mistake That Leads To Low Quality Guitar Phrasing

There is one subtle mistake guitarist make that affects the quality of their guitar phrases without them realizing it:

Being inconsistent in how they play notes (i.e. picking harder or softer without noticing, fretting some notes too close to the fret or missing tough notes during string transitions).

Making these mistakes can ruin the effect of mastering one note at a time as shown in the video, if you're not careful.

Here is what to do to ensure every note is top-quality:

Record the same guitar pattern 2 times into your nearest recording app and (if possible) pan one track completely to one side and the other totally to the other side.

After that listen (using headphones when possible) and pay attention to where errors occur. This will be very simple, because once you notice anything that sounds one way in one ear/speaker but not in the other, that suggests a problem.

Figure out what that issue is (by listening to each recording alone) and then when you begin playing again, make sure to keep that area clean.

For instance, you may notice that you seem to play the same part either with different approaches to palm muting.

This will mean that you should pay attention to your palm muting in that area of the piece and keep the pressure the same while playing.

If you discover that one track has string sloppiness in a specific spot but sounds clean in the other, that means you need to more diligently monitor your muting techniques as you play that part in the music to make sure that the noise never happens.

This makes your aural skills more rounded so that you can become more conscious of your own mistakes and correct them. It also has the side effect of improving your general musical ear, making it easier to begin memorizing which notes have specifici emotional qualities.

Do this drill as part of your guitar practice and your playing becomes a lot more tight.

How To Add Speed Into Your Guitar Licks Without Sounding Unexpressive

Problem: Guitarists learn how to play guitar fast, but not how to use their speed in a musical way. This leads them to create robotic, exercise-like solos that don't sound very memorable.

This frequently happens when guitar players play long, never-ending lines of fast notes.

Here is what to do instead to keep your speed under control and clean, so you are better prepared to use it in a musically expressive manner:

Work on identifying your mistakes without stopping playing at faster speeds

For instance, when you are playing a sweep picking pattern at or near your fastest speed and find that your hands aren't together, you need to be able to understand which note (s) are not clean as you are actively playing.

To do that, your ability to focus needs to become much more polished.

Try breaking up hard guitar licks into smaller sized blocks of a few notes at once.

Then pick these few notes at your greatest speed.

This makes it a lot easier to see your mistakes.

Another process that will help you during faster parts (most especially with legato) is to move between faster playing and slower, more melodic playing continuously (in 10 second intervals). This helps you get a better feel for using speed to control the musical tension of your phrases.

When you only play fast for many minutes at a time, at some point your hand becomes tired and your technique becomes sloppy (rewarding bad habits).

So if you go back and forth between slow and fast playing in quick bursts of effort you are able to change your muscle memory by evaluating slower technical motions before playing again at your highest speed.

This trains you to learn the right motions fast and instill them into your top speeds.

As you sharpen your listening, you will begin hearing the exact errors you make at your fastest speeds (with anything you know how to play) and you know precisely how to fix them.

To End Things, Here Is An Essential Tip For All Serious Guitar Players:

Start studying guitar with a guitar teacher in the place of learning all on your own.

It's frustrating to become stuck in your guitar playing and clueless of what you need to do to make improvement without someone with tons of experience to assist you.

This makes improving on guitar become tedious and unmotivating rather than enjoyable - as it needs to be.

This is exactly why I encourage all guitarists take lessons with an excellent guitar teacher.

This is very critical for helping you make accelerated progress, because a decent guitar teacher is reliable at getting you to spot where you are on the wrong road, change any ongoing playing habits and receive new knowledge about playing guitar that you would not have found if you learned totally by yourself.

Not only does this make practicing guitar more fun, it makes it far less frustrating. In addition, you become a badass musician, faster.

When you are driven to reach a new level of skill in your guitar playing, I can help you with this in my Breakthrough Guitar Lessons.

I have given instruction for multiple decades to thousands of musicians around the world and am very proud of the musical results I have been honored to get for them.

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