How To Play FASTER (The Right Way!) | Quick TikTok Lesson

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This is something I am frequently asked “How do I get faster on the guitar?”

Today I’m going to show you the fundamental practice method for developing your speed the CORRECT way on the guitar.

This can be used to practice exercises, scales, patterns/sequences, or lines from your favourite solos!

Give it a try and if practiced consistently, you WILL find you’re able to play faster! 🤘

#guitarlesson #learnguitar #kieselguitars

[Jamesftd]

I'm gonna give you the keys to the lamborg... Metronome.

[cryptidconn]

Thanks for this, dude. Your videos always help me. I've been playing for 16 years now. I can play chords, know the names of the notes of each fret on each string, I can tap, shred (very basically but learning to get better), I can do scales and inprovise within a key pretty well, etc. But I'm entirely self-taught so whenever I see your videos I always watch what you do and try to take something from it. So thank you for this.

I've been told my "style" is quite blues rock. "Richie Sambora like" a couple people have said. Which is a huge compliment

[ascendedsleeper]

Great video and helpful advice. I'd like to add the "bursting" method to all the things you mentioned. What I mean by this is: you take a pattern you're working on, play it 2 notes per click and after that 4 notes per click for the same tempo. Alternate 2 notes per click and 4 notes per click until everything sounds clean.

[BigAL__]

Thank you!! This is so helpful. Gonna try this out now

[sixthsense]

Finally found a video with corect exercise method. Thanks 👍

[JAMBO-qkgp]

Honestly for a long time I neglected the metronome. I would use it occasionally and practice some scales, but I went right to to notes per beat on 100 nom and never realized how sloppy I was til I listened to myself. It was super hard going down to like 80bpm and doing single notes, but now I feel like I’m finally cleaning up a bit

[korat]

So when I reach my first target tempo lets say 120bpm 16th notes and up my bpm to 125 do I start at quarter notes again or 16th straight away. Also thanks for all the lessons/exercises you put out. (sick guitar also Jason Becker rocks)

[johnd]

How do you use a metronome to practice little licks that are faster than the rest of the solo and syncopated? Like the fast section of the intro riff on fade to black. I don’t understand how to use a metronome for that because the rhythm changes in the section?!

[darrelladams]

How to play better faster? It’s easy.
1)turn off the Xbox or PlayStation
2)put your phone in a different room
3)find a comfortable space
4)practice your Damn guitar with the same time commitment we normally spend on games or our phones or tv
5) repeat steps 1-4

[Soloist]

This is so tricky, as someone that spent at least 6 years religiously doing 3-4hrs solid, each day, of alternate picking practice with a metronome, and getting nowhere, there is more to playing quickly, or at least in picking fast. Legato is easy, took me a month or two to master Satriani's hardest licks, but there are mechanical problems to alternate picking that brute forcing this with a metronome will never fix, and it's an awful, awful feeling to waste your prime years working on these techniques. While I love your educational material, I suggest anyone having difficulty with alternate-picking specifically to check out Troy Grady's exhaustive study of alternate-picking, there is so much to glean from his work; I honestly feel like it's the only way to have a fighting chance at turning your practicing efforts into something demonstrable. I mean, unless you're one of those freaks that intuitively figured out how to master alternate-picking really early on, the mechanics are not very intuitive, and you can easily waste your life trying to obtain a modicum of improvement in the area of alternate-picking.

[vladimirlebedenko]

Metronome is very important Jamie, but what about the proper hand pick grip or correct motion of it? With the wrong right hand posture you will eventually hit the wall. Not talking about you but about regular guitar enthusiast.

[MartinMaat]

This is not the whole story. I used to play a lot (and it never amounted to much, that's not the point) but I do have some experience with playing fast. Whatever scale you choose to practice, there will be transitions that are awkward. That you can practice and get up to a particular speed with, but those transitions will be where you hit a brick wall. You need to skip a string or get back to the same string one more time to pick the note you need, do something that is out of the convenient flow in order to get to the next note, something that makes it impossible to maintain the speed. Those are the interesting bits to address.

I never really got over them, no matter how much I played those awkward points remained weak and problematic.

[petemcr]

I've started doing this recently and definitely something I always overlooked was how important using a metronome actually is, wish I knew this a while back.


Also learning to enjoy the process has been a big help, I actually enjoy practice sessions now instead of treating them like obligation, has helped massively

[BOER]

Good video. I actually think the opposite is more effective initially- to play fast, you have to try playing fast. Just tremolo on one string - Troy Grady has an awesome video on this. I think Shawn Lane said similar things - start fast, then clean up. Because you could be nailing it slow, but a lot of people tap out around 120-130bpm and cant increase because they have inefficient motions. And the only way to know if a motion is efficient, is to floor it. Then, take that motion that you know can go fast, and practice is slow getting faster to build accuracy/stamina :)

[uutooyu]

if you cant feel time playing fast is futile

[thefourthwritedjentleman]

Absolutely agree, I think everyone has the ability to play fast too, it’s all about timing

You’re lessons are awesome and you’re an absolutely phenomenal player, top tier technique and frightening picking hand

Down to earth and hilarious too, I wish I had had a teacher like you when I started 30 years ago

[minutecomicswalahollywood]

Hello Jamie,
I really liked the colorful graphics on your electric guitar. ❤

[Emrys_Guitar]

Thank you for this! I don’t plan on being a “shredder” but I do like blues and need to learn to be a bit faster than I am

[TheTimeProphet]

Strangely I have already started doing this from watching another video.

[JEMBlades]

Great reminder! I definitely need to be using my metronome more consistently. Going up (low strings to high) is rock solid and in sync. Going down my ring finger and pinky are hard to coordinate. Any tips?