When you observe somebody play fast on the guitar do you always wonder if you could learn to do that? Let us look at what resources we want to growth our own guitar playing speed on a regular basis. To get going on this, you need a metronome, which is available from the local music store, or you decide to convince your auntie to lend it to you, or you may quickly download it from the net. A stolen metronome may not be able to help you to play the guitar quick, as there are mostly no shortcuts to success in life. Most of us look for the quickest and most painless way to do things, and that is why most of us are not playing guitar at the speed of light.

All right, you now have found the metronome and you are ready to start. The next thing you want is something to practice, it can be a solo passage from a song or it can be an exercise, like a series of arpeggios or a picking exercise. Here you need to be careful in the selection of your material since you want to be certain about your speed of playing, and set the metronome accordingly. It is not mandatory to spend time trying to learn the musical passage as something new since you have to be familiar with the piece if you want to gauge your speed of playing. When you know the piece a little, it means that the muscles of your fingers, arms and hands support you as you play the piece and there is no point where you fumble.

So that is the next thing you need and in order to play the guitar quick you need to be able to play slowly. The part chosen by you for practicing speed should not be too easy, and at the same time, not too challenging either. That is why you are using an exercise or an isolated musical passage rather than a song or long solo.

Now that you are geared and all ready to start, you have to make certain to use the metronome to know your present speed. Then take the metronome to a level, which is not very high, and aim to reach that level. Let us now talk about something you do not want: muscular tautness. You want to practice playing guitar quick without building a level of tautness in the muscles that will work against your goal. To avoid any stress and tension, just forget the time you are taking to reach the metronome setting. The whole idea is not to hasten up the process to play the guitar quick, but to reach your goal by taking one step at a time.

Thus if you choose a specific musical passage to hasten your playing speed and practice it diligently every day, your playing speed is bound to growth. As soon as you find that you have developed the right kind of skills on a particular exercise, select another one, which is a higher level in terms of difficulty. But remember to begin again from the beginning by ascertaining where you are now and then deciding on a realistic goal for your next step.