Tips for building guitar speed?!
Question: I just started playing guitar about a month ago. I seem to be improving everywhere except for my speed and alternate picking. I have alot of trouble doing gallops and triplets, and i play mostly thrash metal so those techniques are pretty important. What are some tips or some exercises to help me build speed and accuracy.
Answers: I just started playing guitar about a month ago. I seem to be improving everywhere except for my speed and alternate picking. I have alot of trouble doing gallops and triplets, and i play mostly thrash metal so those techniques are pretty important. What are some tips or some exercises to help me build speed and accuracy.
Start out by picking up and down on your top string at a fast pace then move to the next string and then the next and so forth. this will build picking speed. Next after you move on from this hold your left index finger down on the string you are picking and hammer your middle finger on the upstrokes and pull off on the downstrokes while picking fast. Switch to the ring finger and then the pinky. Move to the other strings with that as well until you can do it on all strings. Now as far as scales the rest of the people on here are right. Practice your scales. They are very important. As far as the cocaine comments on here..... let these sorry crackheads go ruin their lives and end up dead or worse. Sucking **** for drugs. losers......
Cocaine.
yea cocaine
scales will help you, you will be able to play faster (and when you play them you're supposed to alternate pick) don't expect to be able to play fast for another couple of years
No beginning guitarist wants to hear this, but practicing different scales is the only way I know of, besides the help of lowering the action on your guitar. Practicing scales simply builds finger strength, muscle memory, and familiarity with the fretboard. Dedication and patience are the other two tips I can offer you.
cocains a hell of a drug
Scales. And cocaine.
SCALES they are boreing and frustrateing but it is the way to go.learn techniques like hammer on pull offs bends realeases. heel dampening. finger rolls or banjo rolls triplets paralel picking all that good stuff.but scales are the single most important thing to learn lead.
find the major minor and pentatonic,mixalodian and the liike
Practice. Practice. Practice.