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Slow Down Music
When you're learning how to play a guitar, own up to something. Deep down inside, you're hoping you can play those great sounding guitar licks and riffs.
Blues,rock even country style guitar playing is much better when you include guitar licks. But how do you go about learning to play those really fast rock guitar licks and riffs?
Here are a few ideas to get you started.
1. Master Those Scales
I know it sound boring, but all good guitarists have to put in that grunt-work behind the scenes when they practice playing fast. It matters not whether you're playing the cello in a group or playing wailing blues guitar licks, learning how to play any instrument takes practice. Getting familiar with scales, keys, and even some musical reading will enable you to play like a pro. So learn everything you can about music.
2. Baby Steps
We can call this principle by other names, such as "baby steps" or "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!". If you will make an effort to practice the scales and tabs of your favorite piece of music if only just for a quarter of an hour a day, your fast guitar licks will improve before you know it. Persistence is the answer. You can only fail if you quit.
3. Get Some Help
A teacher can be a real help for learning to play guitar licks and riffs. However, taking private lessons can get very expensive. On top of this is the fact that your mentor may not be to happy to help when you want to hammer out your riffs at 2 o'clock in the morning! There's a great solution to these dilemmas, though. Download your guitar instruction via your PC, either through downloadable guitar instruction software or guitar websites.
4. Download Guitar Software To Your Computer
If you want to learn to play fast rock guitar riffs, guitar learning software provides several advantages. For one thing, you can see the lick, both as written music and as the more down to earth tabulature form. Even of greater benefit is that you can hear the lick, too. Try to find software that has infinite looping so that you can listen to it several times before you jump in and play along with it.
If the recording doesn't loop, you're sure to get frustrated because you'll just be getting ready to play when you'll have to click your mouse again. Perhaps most important of all is being able to vary the speed of the recording so you can learn how to play the guitar licks slowly and then increase your speed until your playing like a guitar god!
5. Slow Down Music
One of the difficulties of learning licks and riffs, is the speed that they're often played at. If you're trying to learn by ear by listening to a recorded track, the notes pass you by so quickly that you can't possibly remeber them all or get your fingures to the correct frets in time.
The answer to this problem is to slow down the recording of the riff or lick that you're trying to learn, and the way to do this, without loosing pitch or tempo, is to use one of the popular "slow down music" computer software programs that can be downloaded to your computer. A search on "Google" will pesent you with some good choices.
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