One important factor to playing fast is you must think before you play. A well-known guitar teacher, Aaron Shearer, promoted the "aim directed movement", which means you need to know exactly where your fingers have to go before you move them there. This can only be achieved by slow practice.



Another important factor is developing your finger strength. You need to practice not only flexing the finger, but extending it as well. We have used our hands to grab and hold things since birth, thus developing our flexors. It's important to train your extensors in order to learn to play guitar fast. Practicing Rasgueados is a great way to do this.




Building body energy will help you hold out during the fast playing periods by practicing speed bursts. With a speed burst you need to take small pieces of a scale and play it backwards and forwards using the eighth note as the rhythmic value for every note. Using the sixteenth note instead, play the same part of the scale backwards and forwards without stopping. Consequently you can isolate the problems in playing a scale, such as string crossings or shifts.


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