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 Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:22 pm
How do you train your fingers to move faster like in most rock solos...?
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 3:24 pm
Time spent practicing. Seriously, there's no other way to get better and faster and build up finger strength than simply to play and learn. The one thing you want to do, above all else, is try to learn songs that you think are too fast for you. If your fingers move too slow, then it's because you have to learn the frets down and let your fingers memorize them. You'll speed up as you learn the song.... But don't go off learning freakin' John 5 or Bodom right off the bat, you gotta', of course, build your way up to it. There's no way you can get fast just by learning the song, that's simply familiarization.
Practice, practice, practice, is all you need.
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To build finger strength quicker, I'd suggest playing an acoustic guitar. I got an acoustic guitar made out of Oak wood, so the strings are really tight so I need to hold the strings down extra hard. It helps to build up finger strength a LOT. If your fingers feel stiff, and like they're slowing down, then that only means it's working and that you gotta' keep going.
Another thing I did, this was a year and a half ago, is I taped nickles and pennies to my fingers. It was actually meant to be a finger-trainign exersize for a typing competition I was supposed to, but never did, enter for my school. Typing-wise, I went from 108-128WPM in a mont. I implimented it as a finger-exersize with my guitar, too, and found it worked a little. Not a lot, but it works.
Another thing is to tap your fingers of your left hand(Or right, if you're left-handed) back and forth, as if you were fretting each string one-by-one, as fast as you can. And when I say back-and-forth I mean starting with your pinky-finger, ending on your pointer-finger, then going backwards again to the pinky, and back-and-forth like that. Better yet, you can just go up and down the strings and neck of the guitar like that.
BUT!!!
There's no such thing as a trick or a quick-and-easy way to go fast on the guitar. You gotta' practice. Whether it take a year or two, or three, you gotta' practice it and learn. There's a saying, not sure who first said it, but I read it on a shirt(lol?) It goes "Playing guitar gets better with age". Of course 'Age' was spelled in chord-shapes though >.> And it's true. It doesn't mean you're gonna' be old when you get good, it just means it takes time, is all.
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:11 am
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:49 am
There's only one way to do anything on a musical instrument:
Practice, practice, practice.
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