When playing fast you want to hit the string again quickly, and you can't if pick is moving too far away. As for the pick, work to minimize how far beyond the string it moves after striking. Pay CLOSE attention to how far away from the strings your fingers move.they SHOULD hover very close to the strings, and preparing for their next movement (IE the first finger should be over the next string, while the 4th finger is playing it's note, etc). For ay a chromatic run, up and down the strings. I've had to rip apart my technique many times, and start from scratch.starting at 60BPM at 1/4 notes, and slowly progress to 120+ 16th notes.Īs for speed in general you must MINIMIZE and ECONOMIZE finger & pick movement. It can be painfully slow, but is absolutely necessary. PLUS, they are not at ease, and will tense up, which adversely affects your desire to speed up. If you don't do this, or learn bad technique, that's all the fingers will be able to do, because that's what you taught them. When you start playing fast you aren't commanding each note/movement, rather commanding a set of movements, that preferebly they have memorized. The muscles must learn the CORRECT motion at a slow pace, and graddually speed up. Forcing the fingers to bend to your will, will never work. Focusing on sheer speed is a dead end, if it's speed and speed alone.ĭrew hit it on the head. Shred through un-shred.Īlso, FWIW, guys like Cooley and Malmsteem definitely know their theory cold (Cooley in particular has what I consider a VERY underrated grasp of counterpoint, the bassline the guitar plays under his "Under the Influence" solo owns), and what separates these two in particular from hundreds and thousands of their imitators is their sense of phrasing. The speed will come as resistance decreases. Learn to relax, and practice movements at slow speed, focusing on a smooth, relaxed flow rather than speed. If you focus sheerly on raw speed, you're likely to try to muscle your way through a lick, relying on physical excertion rather than fluid motion, and this will actually long-term hold up your playing. Move lightly, with as little motion as possible, and a gentle tough. The best way to build technique is by slowing down the component parts of a particular physical motion on the guitar, and rather than forcing yourself to move as fast as possible, try to learn to move with as little resistance as possible. Have you ever thought that maybe, counterintuitively, that this is your problem?
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