Tips on playing cleaner

[Matt Wildman]

I keep hitting other strings

 

[Dylan Tower]

You just have to really work hard and slow down the tempo. The ability to shred comes much later. Set the metronome at a comfortable speed and practice whatever it is slow

 

[Vicente Ceballos]

Dylan is right. Be extremely patient and start off slow with the metronome. It could get very frustrating, but never give up.

 

[david ruiztagle]

You have to play slooooooow!! Then gradually build up on the pace. Every guitarist worth his salt uses a metronome (even expert players) to maintain and improve the tempo in their digits. It’s a CONSTANT struggle to maintain, like a bodybuilder trying to maintain his mass.

 

[Jake Young]

A lot of time and a little patience is key! Once you spend a lot of time with your instrument you tend to get a feel for it. Pretty soon it’ll just be natural to not hit the unwanted strings! Mistakes will still happen but not nearly as often! Practice practice practice! Then more practice never hurts haha

 

[Matt Wildman]

Sweet, thanks everyone

 

[Zé Marques]

Besides playing things slower, play them on tempo and try to be aware of your hands. See if the unwanted noise comes from your fingers touching strings accidentally and try to correct your hand placement.

 

[Dale Burroughs]

Speed and comfort are key, if you keep track of speed you shouldn’t have a problem. Another important thing is playing things that you are comfortable with, if you play something not in your skill set its not going to help make you any better. All shredders got to start somewhere bud. Good Luck!

 

[TheMighty Jambi]

I use a program called Best Practice. It is free open source. Should be able to find it with a google search.
It has helped me a lot. The program allows you to slow the song down without changing the pitch and you can also create loop points.
You even even change the pitch of the song to match the tuning your guitar is in.
It has helped me a lot for learning tough stuff and just trying to learn songs by ear.
Best advice I can give is slow it down till you can play it clean without even thinking about it. Then gradually increase the speed. Speed then just comes naturally.

 

[Danny Franco]

@dan Bunniss ….. Thank you!!! I will try to app when I get home.

 

[TheMighty Jambi]

No problem Danny. I believe it’s on source forge. It’s an older program but works just fine on all windows machines.
I use it on Win 10 and point it to my mp3’s.
Have fun!

 

[Tobi Schnau]

Before you start practicing make sure the way you want to play the pattern is played the most efficient and you don’t do unnecessary pickstrokes. Make sure u are muting (playing with high gain will make unwanted noises louder so u can make sure u are muting).watch your pickslanting. check out troy grady on youtube to leran about pickslanting.