How To Start Playing Insane Shred Guitar

Playing shred guitar at a high level requires many things. As a guitar player you need to be able to use the smallest amount of pressure possible to get the notes to sound in your fretting hand. Your picking hand, although it too needs to conserve as much motion as possible, must also be able to pick with great force when needed. Once you can effectively integrate these ideas into your overall shred guitar technique, you will start to see much faster progress.

There are many mistakes you can make when learning how to play guitar fast. One of the most common bad habits of guitar players is always leaving their index finger (in the fretting hand) down while playing single string licks. This limiting approach will not help your play guitar fast..in fact, it will actually slow you down. Watch this video on how to play shred guitar where I show one of my students how to correctly approach this situation.