Thursday, September 17, 2009

Playing Speed question

Question From: PantallicaWRXT
I have a question
I'm sorry to bother you and I know you must be really busy. I was wondering, what would be the best way to increase playing speed on solos. Are there any video you have up that would help me increase the speed of solo/shred playing? Thank you for your time.
Answer from: -=>PB
Ok guys – what is the best way to increase playing speed on solos? Anyone who watches all the videos would know the answer. Are there any videos I have up? Did you LOOK first before you asked?
So lets go guys – whats the answer to this Gentelman’s pressingly difficult question?
Does anyone know the word? It starts with a what? – it’s the 16th letter of the alphabet…

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Well, for one thing, I should think that that you would practice (the keyword here!) the pentatonic scales (or which ever you like) and increase the speed of the metronome as you get comfortable with each level of speed. Lastly (probably should have been first) practice very often liketwo hours a day. Every single day. Without fail.

Firefix said...

M etronome :-)

Firefix said...

P ractise

Unknown said...

Stumbled across this guy by accident. Hailed online as a hero of magical guitar teaching capabilities.
Googled him
Read his bio on his website
Found his link to his blog

First interaction with a student? Belittling and talking down.

Great big answer from this supposed legend?

"Practice".

Great cop out. That's such a lazy answer. Obviously, the student has been practicing to some extent but, clearly, practicing for practice's sake isn't always going to advance a player's ability. Sometimes, it only reinforces that which has already been learned.

I think the originator of this question probably has more questions he may not even know to ask about. I'm in the same boat so, I'll ask for him:

When a player reaches a road block with the metronome where simply increasing BPM in tiny increments is no longer beneficial, how can the player identify and overcome the problem(s) causing him to not improve?

I have heard many talk about training each hand with separate strategies and techniques to improve the function of each hand prior to bringing it all together with two hand synchronization exercises.

So, how would you go about doing this?


"Practice." No duh. Except every player eventually reaches a ceiling where practice alone just doesn't work anymore.

How should one go about practicing? How do you train your hands for their tasks? And then how do you bring them together?

How do you identify which hand is the cause of the problem?

"Practice". What a lazy cop out.