How long does it take to become a fast guitar player?
It depends: how hard are you willing to work? If you only play music that is easy for you, it will take many, many years. If you play technically challenging music, you will get much faster far more quickly. If you ask any shredder how they got as fast as they did, they will tell you one thing: practice your scales. To play quickly, you need to know instantly which note you’ll play next, where each finger will go and when it needs to be there in order to play whatever phrase you have in your head. All of this achieved by muscle memory, which can be gained only one way: repetition. So, here is a simple list of modes you need to learn to play quickly: Ionian (major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (minor), and Locrian. Each mode is relative to the next, find a good guitar teacher or book if you can’t get what you need to understand this online. You need to know you Major Pentatonic and Minor Pentatonic scales by heart as well as the “blue” note within them. These are the s
