What can you do to get fast at moving your finger and better at guitar?

Question

dont say practice!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

slowly increase a series of finger moves. Get them accurate and time how fast you do it. Test yourself and force yourself to go a bit faster and faster until you fail. Then take a break and try again but this time see if you can beat your last record. keep it up for a month and you will whizz through the chords!

Answer 2

I also am experiencing the same problem, Watch videos of the fast guys and notice theres not a lot of movement from their picking hand, thats a general rule (minimum movement for maximum speed) Malmsteen has an amazing way of sounding very fast yet his pick hand has virtually no movement, Im still trying to figure out if he is rapidly moving his first finger and thumb or not...it seems to be the only explanation. Making small circles with your pick is another way to play fast, just imagine youre holding a pencil and drawing small circles on the strings. I get to a certain speed and my fretting hand fingers wont move off the strings fast enough to sound out clearly its a dam worry when you see other guys getting away with it.........one thing I do know is that you have to start slowly ,so that the finger memory can imprint itself in your mind, then play real hard to the point of failure, then drop tha pace down again , you have to spend time in that uncomfortable zone to progress......but always drop back a notch or two so youre not making a hash of it..... try to get some online footage of Micheal angelo Batist, Chris Impellatiri, Paul Gilbert and Malmsteen I wouldnt put too much faith in guys like children of boddom or dethmetal coz 90% of the time its the fast drummer thats doing all the work, while the guitarists are generally posing and going thru the motions.

Answer 3

Try to strengthen your fingers by squeezing a rubber ball. Also, make sure to stretch out your hands before playing. I won`t say practice, but when you are playing, DO NOT RUSH! I don`t care if you can the play the song backwards, give your fingers the time to learn the frets on the neck of the guitar. As long as you know that there is no easy way to learn speed, you will be fine. Dexterity comes from using your fingers for any instrument. Try piano, clarinet, anything with repetitive motions.

Answer 4

Practicing isn't enough - you have to practice CORRECTLY. In order to increase speed you need to use an electronic metronome and practice along to a very slow tempo at first VERY accurately. Then click up the speed on the metronome one notch at a time until you can no longer play what you are playing accurately. Then click the speed back down a few notches and practice there for a while. It is more important to be accurate than to be fast, so that you can be fast AND accurate instead of fast and SLOPPY which sounds bad! Be sure to relax as much as possible when you do this - getting all tensed up will actually DECREASE your speed.

Answer 5

Sorry but the answer is good old PRACTICE- the only way you'll get better, no other way to do it. Try lots of exercises that get your fingers accustomed to moving fast, and you'll notcie a difference when you go to play that one tune that you just really want to play.

Answer 6

I'm going to say practice.

But let me say that you might find it helpful to find a nice riff that walks all the way from the top to the bottom of the fretboard. Just play it over and over again, and once you have it memorized work on playing it faster.

Don't forget to economize the movement or your picking hand, as well, by being sure to pick up/down only when appropriate.

Answer 7

Well, I won't say it, but......

Also, remember to relax while you're playing. If you are all excited and tense, you can't go fast. It really crops up when you are about to play something tricky or difficult. Look up "Doyle Dykes Wabash Cannonball" on youtube and watch how relaxed he is.

Answer 8

OK I wouldn't say it. Place your fingers on a board and have a friends shoot at them with a BB gun. That will get you moving them faster.

Answer 9

crap that was exactly wat i was going to say dude! uz outa luck!
just kidding okay make sure that u don't have long nails cuz that can get in the way...and maybe get lessons from a proffesional experienced guitar player and every time u do practice (i'm sure u do cuz u said 4 us not to tell u do...haha) try getting faster and faster and playing different songs instead of the same ones..that could help..:)

Answer 10

i find that using repetition works find something that works your muscles and repeat it over and over you start slow and work up speed as your fingers get stronger play it until it hurts and then play it some more you can also try scale exercises