When some people play guitar fast, we look at them in astonishment and wonder whether it is viable for us to do the same? Let us review the situation and see if we can also do something to hurry our speed of playing the instrument. To get started on this, you want a metronome, which is available from the local music shop, or you decide to convince your aunt to lend it to you, or you may quickly download it from the web. A stolen metronome may not be able to help you to play the guitar fast, as there are mostly no shortcuts to success in life. Most of us look for the fastest and most painless way to do things, and that is why most of us are not playing guitar at the speed of light.

Okay, you have your metronome and an attitude adjustment so you are ready to begin. The next thing you need is something to practice, it can be a solo passage from a song or it can be an exercise, like a series of arpeggios or a picking exercise. Here you want to be careful in the selection of your material since you want to be certain about your speed of playing, and ready the metronome accordingly. It is not mandatory to spend time trying to study the passage as something new since you have to be familiar with the piece if you want to gauge your speed of playing. When you know the piece a little, it means that the muscles of your fingers, arms and hands support you as you play the piece and there is no point where you fumble.

This is the next thing you require and to be able to play the guitar quick you want to learn to play slowly first. The part chosen by you for practicing speed should not be too easy, and at the same time, not too challenging either. That is why it makes sense to choose an exercise to practice rather than a song or a piece which has a prolonged solo section.

Now you are starting to see the way forward, if you have your practice musical passage ready, check it with your metronome and make certain you know what your current speed is. Then take the metronome to a level, which is not very high, and aim to reach that level. Let us now talk about something you do not want: muscular tension. You need to practice playing guitar fast without building a level of tensity in the muscles that will work against your goal. To avoid tautness, just stop thinking about the time you have your set goals in the metronome and you just try to accomplish that forgetting about the time you are taking. The idea is not to set the goal to play guitar fast in the future, but to reach your ambition taking slow but steady steps taking one day at a time.

So if you pick out a musical passage to practice in order to play fast, and you devote some time every day to practicing, your guitar playing speed will begin to growth. The day you find that you have mastered one musical passage, choose another one, which is more difficult. The issue is to begin by knowing where you stand now and then set a goal which would you like to reach in the near future.