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Hey guys, as guitar players we naturally crave speed!
Though speed is important, it's good to focus on your feel and technique too 
Here's some tips that can help you build your speed:
-Practice with a metronome
-Keep a "speed chart" to track your progress
-Try different picks
-Practice trilling
-Practice 2x/note, 3x/note, 4x/note
-Work on tremolo picking
Don't expect to play as fast as Yngwie overnight!
Speed takes time.
Cheers.
to add to the metronome tip
if you are a cubase user ( or any sequence user )
open a blank project
start the tempo @ say 120 and over the 40 bars ramp it up to say 180 bpm in the tempo track
turn the metronome on
start your sequencer ...over the next 40 bars it will speed up gradually from 120 to 180 as you practice
you can set this up to suit what you're practicing and increase the tempos as you get faster
you can get speed training progs that work on the same principle but are a bit more sophisticated
every serious musician should use a metronome when practicing..bottom line
I am a fan of Guitar Speed Trainer pro, it has done wonders for our students. The ability to design custom exercises in accordance with our courses, has been a real plus, as the student can take home a zipped folder of material that coincides with skill sets we are building. The program gradually increases on each iteration, and you can set your own graph chart of progression.
The tip that Polyal suggested above would be a great example of a similar workaround that could accomplish this also.
Instructor
definitely : i use speed trainer pro....its an excellent prog and very affordable.. a must for
any git player that wants to improve his speed and esp for students as pointed out by instructor
http://www.guitarspeed.com/
this type of incremental speed up training definitely works and the differences can
be experienced day by day
the cubase bit is for warmup before recording etc but still very useful
definitely : i use speed trainer pro....its an excellent prog and very affordable.. a must for
any git player that wants to improve his speed and esp for students as pointed out
http://www.guitarspeed.com/the cubase bit is for warmup before recording etc but still very useful
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Instructor
As a metronome tip you should try this method which i call 3 steps forward, 2 steps back.
Select a tempo (let's say 60 bpm) and play the passage you are practicing 3 times.
Then raise the bpm with 9 beats and play the passage only one time.
Then switch the tempo to 63 and play it 3 times again, then 72 n so on.
You get the idea you raise by 9 and play once and move back by 6 and play 3 times.
I recently discovered it and i am very satisfied with the results, just try and see.
Good luck,
Paul
it seems the message is USE A METRONOME♪♪♪♪
it seems the message is USE A METRONOME♪♪♪♪
http://www.metronomeonline.com/
Of course the message is to use a metronome... it is crucial for every musician, especially drummers, bass and guitar players.
Of course the message is to use a metronome... it is crucial for every musician, especially drummers, bass and guitar players.
Using a metronome is good and my playing always improves but why is it my brain tries to fight me every time I go near it? I bought a shiny black mechanical metronome last year and it stares at me when I enter the room, like a malovolent force whispering in my ear. 
Well, New Year is here and I shall make friends with it again as part of my resolutions....
Because a metronome exposes just how out of time we naturally are. And its human nature to resist anything that suggests that we might be wrong, or that seeks to constrain us. So we tend to avoid it for a time, until the message fully saturates past our pride and ego
Instructor
As a metronome tip you should try this method which i call 3 steps forward, 2 steps back.
Select a tempo (let's say 60 bpm) and play the passage you are practicing 3 times.
Then raise the bpm with 9 beats and play the passage only one time.
Then switch the tempo to 63 and play it 3 times again, then 72 n so on.
You get the idea you raise by 9 and play once and move back by 6 and play 3 times.
I recently discovered it and i am very satisfied with the results, just try and see.
Good luck,
Paul
+1
I think that just the act of changing speeds is beneficial. Once you perfect your technique you should be able to play at any speed (except maybe the speed of light... 
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