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Lead Guitar Tips To Help Improve Your Playing

The most important part of my guitar sound comes from my fingers, and more specifically from the way I hold the plectrum.

Some players hold the plectrum too far from their fingers. What I mean by that they have too much of the plectrum sticking out through their fingers. When I used to play 5-6 nights a week, I have a S remains charged to my index finger nails. The reason for that because I only let a small part of the plectrum striking out his thumb and index finger.

What happens when you do this is that with your hand tilted slightly forward, your nail hits the string split second before the plectrum not. This changed the tone and give more harmonic content.

There are times when other guitarists would come to do a guest, and sounds completely different.

I remember at one time to think “Hey, my guitar rig sounds much better than that”. Just hit the strings with a plectrum gives a very mediocre. Distortion guitar has a lot of potential to really bring the harmonic content in your guitar sound. When you hold the plectrum really deep in your fingers, it makes much easier for a lead guitar solo to pick the perfect harmonic without putting too much thought into it

A lead guitar tips to increase your picking speed

The first thing to remember is to pick up and down, not just down like some

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people just starting out it is possible to do. What I am talking about is down up down up, or vice versa. Once upon a time, I want to improve my picking speed, so I developed a small-scale patterns to practice on that does not require too much movement of my hand denouncing. Here is the pattern I use, you can start it in position on the fretboard.
Let’s start this at the fifth fret. I’ll give the number string, and then frets to press.

• 6 string (the thickest one) – fret 5, 7 and 8

• 5 string – fret 5, 6 and 7
• 4th string – fret 5, 6 and 7
• 3rd string – fret 5, 6 and 7
• 2nd string – fret 5, 7 and 8
• 1 string – fret 5, 7 and 8

Start slowly and gradually speed up using alternate picking and back and forth, so when you get to the 8th fret on the first string then do a run down, too.
It is important to remember that one takes the speed picking with your wrist rather than wriggling your fingers back and forth. Eddie Van Halen Fan call this pick.
Some people may want to use a metronome, but that’s not entirely necessary.
When you’ve got to pick your speed, then you can see the worry about the left hand notes, although this pattern fits well in a large scale at higher speeds. Having fun (very important)