Picking

Guitar exercises for precision and accuracy

Guitar exercises for precision and accuracy
  1. How can I improve my guitar accuracy?
  2. How can I improve my hand picking accuracy?

How can I improve my guitar accuracy?

For those of you looking to improve your playing speed, the following are important insights to help get you where you want to go that much faster.

  1. Loosen Up. ...
  2. Practice regularly. ...
  3. Practice slowly. ...
  4. Practice fast. ...
  5. Synchronize Your Fretting and Picking Hands. ...
  6. Use Alternate Picking. ...
  7. Use Sweep Picking. ...
  8. Use Economy Picking.

How can I improve my hand picking accuracy?

6 Answers

  1. Start by picking slow and intentional and then get increasingly faster.
  2. Do string skipping drills. Lots of string skipping drills.
  3. Make sure to practice consistency on your picking. Try to always pick down/up/down/up for subsequent notes on scales and solos.

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How to tell an accented from an unaccented auxiliary note?
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Minor Should I learn a new minor scale pattern, or
Should I learn a new minor scale pattern, or
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Chord What roman numerals to use for chords borrowed from parallal minor?
What roman numerals to use for chords borrowed from parallal minor?
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