The Secret To Staying Relaxed When You Play Guitar Fast 

Yea man totally agree! Shred lords in no time :)

Never trust a teacher who contradicts their own lessons. Its insulting to your intelligence and your wallet. This guy spends seven minutes telling you that in order to play fast you need to start slow and controlled. Then, with about 20 seconds left of the video, he tells you about his product and says that starting slow and building up to speed is boring and doesn't work well anyways. Which is it? This guy is just trying to sell his dime-a-dozen technique program to anyone dumb enough to not notice his grift. Rule #1 of selling snake oil, its a one-size-fits-all. Just practice your control. No youtube swindler can give you a shortcut past hundreds of hours of practice.

Happy birthday!:)

This!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know right haha! Guthrie is just ludicrous...

Guthrie is truly ludicrous... just an unreal player. Haha, it was a great line... so true!

The great Shawn Lane said he learned to play fast first, then worked on cleaning it up later. He also said he thought that playing something over and over at slow tempos could set up a mental block that he wouldn't have been able to do it quickly. Shawn was one of the quickest, and also most musical players ever, so his advice is paramount.

But also, he was.........Shawn Lane.......he was not human!

If your fingers are tripping up on a new note sequence you have to play it slowly, at a tempo that you don't trip up, until you can start to speed it up without stumbling. You might not even use a metronome at this point. Just focus on playing it correctly. This might take 10minutes, 1 hour, 3 wks of 20 minutes per day, whatever it takes to play it without stumbles as you attempt to raise the tempo. After the sequence is programmed in at low tempos try to play it at mid and fast tempos. To play fast you'll see that your mechanics HAVE TO change, they HAVE TO become more efficient. You can't allow extraneous motion at mid to high tempos, but you'll never encounter this fact if you only practice slowly. Now using your newly discovered "fast mechanics", practice them at slow and mid tempos. You may not get any sound out of the instrument because your pick stokes and finger legato moves will be shorter and not energizing the string. That's ok, don't go back to the large "slow practice" motions, keep up practicing the tight efficient motions at slower tempos even though little sound is emitted. Practice perfectly this way. In this manner you practice the fast mechanics slower and perfectly, without tripping up...you burn in these motions. That's what I interpret "try to play fast and clean it up later" to mean. I can back my ideas up, as shown here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SNkfkUD6TG0.html

It almost sounds like he’s playing the moonlight sonata but adding faster arpeggios at the end of each chord change

Looks like it was from a Guitar World Magazine piece called, Betcha Can't Play This. Tab and video in this link. www.guitarworld.com/magazine/betcha-cant-play-beethoven-speed-michael-romero-symphony-x

Agreed

It's Montana bro

Montoya is from The princess Bride lol def not the same thing

There is still time to delete this bro lol