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If you want to learn some fast guitar picking you will find plenty of advice on the internet. Do a web search on "fast guitar picking" or "guitar shredding" and you will find exercises and advice on guitar forums and websites. Fast guitar picking comes with accurate guitar picking.
If you learn to play scales and riffs slowly, giving a good, clean sound, you will gradually be able to increase your speed and start to work specifically on your fast guitar picking. It's the most natural thing in the world to want to play the guitar fast, in terms of technical progress as well as picking, but if you don't work on the quality of your playing first, the speed will not develop.
Bad guitar playing, if it is practiced daily, can become a habit. We all know the guy who is always trying to play at lightning speed but whose playing is mostly the sound of fluffed notes. If you make it a habit of trying to play faster than your body is able to handle, you will develop the habit of playing badly.
The trouble is, it's human nature to overlook mistakes. If we stopped every time we make a mistake we'd never get anywhere. But if we make overlooking our mistakes a constant theme in our guitar practice, then our body will eventually accept that this is the way to play the guitar. To get into this kind of practice routine will put an end to any possibility of fast guitar picking becoming a reality for you.
Okay, because the way we learn to play guitar is based on repetition, we need to work in a way that makes sure we are not repeating our mistakes. Every time you make a mistake you need to go back and play the scale or exercise a little more slowly with the goal being to play more cleanly and accurately.
When you are practicing to increase your guitar picking speed, play for around fifteen minutes. By this time your picking hand will be starting to wish it was somewhere else, so give it some rest. The aim here is to give your picking hand a boost - to give it some kind of talent that it didn't have before. This kind of practice must be done every day without thinking about when you will be able to stop. When your guitar playing reaches a new level, you will know that you can ease off a little. This level of playing will sneak up on you as you suddenly realize that you are now a naturally fast guitar picker.
One important thing here is to remember to play exercises based on music that you enjoy playing. Whether you are a jazz, rock, pop or blues playing, orient your fast guitar picking practice to your favorite style.
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