Fast Picking, How to pick faster? |
mate, as the other guys said - determination, focused and conscious practice, love for the instrument and especially for the music, will bring you to the place you want to get to 
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Jun 11 2011, 06:17 PM
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As always, practice makes perfect! As everyone has said, it takes time. Its like everything else you must learn to walk before you can run. I use sharp picks so that I have less space to hit another string and helps me with being accurate, I tend to use them during practice time. After that I sometimes switch back to my standard pick and I feel I can play faster from doing so.
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Jun 11 2011, 10:50 PM
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Guys are all right, and if I must say something about speed, then I'll talk about precision.
Precision is what makes fast players. You need to be able to play everything perfectly, in order to play fast. Repeated sloppy playing will get you to fast sloppy playing. Repeated precise playing will (eventually) get you to fast playing. It takes years to achieve precision, and speed comes very slowly. One bpm at a time, not faster. Staying on slow tempos and practicing it slowly and precisely will help, nothing else! 
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Jun 11 2011, 10:54 PM
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First of all don't try to play fast... never play sloppy! Slow it down and just playing building up slowly to a bit past your breaking point then slow down again to finish off playing perfectly.
The main focus is actually to reduce the amount of movement in both hands - focus on one hand at a time then ensure to sync them. Get your fingers as close as possible and choke up on the pick. Change the picking thumb to be straight and not flexable when playing at speed. Never angle the pick (up or down) but instead rotate it forward or backwards (if perfered) about 45 degrees so your got a good picking attack, with the smallest amount of surface area cutting the strings. Remeber to choke up on the pick as much as possible! Less surface means less resistants! With the other fretboard hand, ensure the fingers aren't flicking up! Correct it before it happens and stay relaxed floating all fingers in position when idle (as close as possible). Scale runs will help with this. Less distance equals more speed! Watch for bad habits and try to reduce/remove them, correct before they happen, else your wasting your time. Don't rerun the same exercises over and over, or work on stuff you already know (it's a waste of practice time) - keep practice and jamming separate, instead find your weak spots and focus on improvement them (within your own style of playing). Using a metronome and then syncronizating the hands together (normally one hand will be faster than the other) is the hardest part but brings it together. Good luck! --------------------  Play Games Arcade Take a break, Play Games! Play the best free online flash games at Aaron's Game Zone like Bloons Tower Defense 4! |
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Jun 12 2011, 08:47 AM
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Very good idea
anticipating what you play will always help 
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Jun 12 2011, 08:15 PM
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So many great advices - this is why I love GMC!
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