Ways to Improve Guitar Playing

 Ways to Improve Your Guitar Playing

1. Know what is your genre. Knowing the type of music you want can help you to focus and to have a direction to your goal. Know if you want to play jazz, rock, metal, reggae etc. Choose the type of music that you are comfortable with, the type of music that you think you are the best when it comes to it.

2. Set a time of practice. Because some of us have responsibilities in life, choose a time which is yours, the time that you are not thinking about your works, problems, or other things. Just focus in practicing and focus in achieving your goal.

3.Focus.When practicing, do not waste your time in playing non-sense. Try to develop new skills and techniques.  It's also great to play some piece that can help you to develop more techniques. Try "My Sharona" for alternate picking. You can choose songs that have a different techniques into it according to your genre. 

4. Make a practice routine daily. Divide your time in practicing, for example.Warm up - 10 mins. Chords - 10 mins. Legato - 40 mins. Sweep Picking - 1 hr. Scales - 1 hr.

5. Always feel what you are playing. It's better to play slow with soul, than playing so fast without feeling it. Remember, "Speed is not always a measure for the best". Don't use expensive gears as a substitute for skills. To copy the tone of one guitar player, you must copy first the feel, accent, etc. Because everyone has different tone in our fingers. So copy and study first the way he/she play before buying their signature gears. 

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