Bluegrass Guitar Speed Test! How FAST Are You?

In this Bluegrass Guitar Lesson, I give you a quick and simple way to improve on the most important aspects of bluegrass guitar.

Rhythmic accuracy, consistency, and feel.

So grab your guitar, a flatpick, and a metronome. Pick one fretted note, and practice your alternate picking on that one note. Once you have that single note baseline, play along with the metronome.

Here are some additional tips that help with finger dexterity, picking speed, and muscle memory.

#1 Borrowing from the previous exercise, run through the scale using the metronome 10 times — non-stop. Then, increase the tempo on the metronome by five bpm. Play it 10 more times. Continue running through the exercise and increasing the tempo until you can’t play the scale anymore.

#2 This exercise is a derivation of the previous exercise. But this time, turn off the metronome and put it away — seriously, having it out of sight can take the edge off this exercise. From there, do the exact same exercise as before at a tempo you feel comfortable with.

#3 After doing the previous exercises for 10 minutes a day for one week, revisit the baseline exercise from the beginning of this lesson and see how faster your tempo is.

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