can someone please help me out?

[alexmackinnon]

can someone give me some help? whenever i attempt to play a fast passage in a solo, my left hand fingers just cant keep up. Do i need to practise slowly and work up or any excersises? if anyone could please help me it would be greatly appreciated

[iiholly]

Practicing slow, and then progressively speeding it up as you get better at the solo is a good way to learn. Its the way I do it, and i'm sure you'll eventually get it with enough practice.

[Andrew Sa]

Man. Slow is the way, but excersizes are also great for building up strength and speed and more importantly-accuracy while playing at speed.
Check out some of the speed tricks and excersizes on this site, some of em rock.

Keep in there, soon you will be a quick guitarist, and you will be ready to face your next challenge, always pushing to become a better muso.

[Darren Liaho]

Here's a Steve Vai warm up Excercise and its really good for getting your speed up to date! BUT! don't try playing it as fast at first, take your time with it!


E:-----------------------------------------1-2-3-4/5
B:---------------------------------1-2-3-4----------
G:-------------------------1-2-3-4------------------
D:-----------------1-2-3-4--------------------------
A:---------1-2-3-4----------------------------------
E:-1-2-3-4------------------------------------------

E:-5-4-3-2------------------------------------------
B:---------5-4-3-2----------------------------------
G:-----------------5-4-3-2--------------------------
D:-------------------------5-4-3-2------------------
A:---------------------------------5-4-3-2----------
E:-----------------------------------------5-4-3-2--

After that keep on ascendng untill you get to the last note on the High E and then slide up one note and start descending. Do this for the whole fretboard! After a while it gets boring! BUT! It gets the job done!

Darren.

[aiwass]

That would be a Petrucci exercise, but...

Anyway, if your left hand is the problem, isolate that area. Practice legato, and get a metronome.

[Autark]

Practice!!! Play every exercise you find on the net! Work with a metronome. Start slowly, then increase the tempo. Legato will make your fingers really strong!

[Andrew Sa]

Yeah man...legato practice will help alot...how is it going so far?
felt any improvements yet?

[alexmackinnon]

thanks everyone, im really seeing an improvement. I have started playing trilogy suite op5 by yngwie malmsteen and i fell like im progressing and im not getting stressed that i cant pull it off.....because its coming together wit helpfull tips from you guys ....so thanks :)