The Real Reason Why You Should Practice Slower

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@Kipperbob 6 жыл бұрын

I like this idea, I never did really enjoy "practice" , necessary as it is to develop techniques needed in order to play well, There is a very good reason why it's called "playing" music, what you are suggesting here is "playing" in a true sense of the word, I can see this being fun.

@Wargasm644 5 жыл бұрын

Good video. But I disagree that slowing things down won’t help your technique. The application of that technique, yes. But I’m in the process of refining my technique currently. And by slowing things down, it’s like killing two birds with one stone. You can unlearn bad technique as you relearn an improved one. I’ve had more success slowing down this last month than I have in the last 5 years of playing fast. Crucial . I always hated people telling me to “slow it down”. A: because I’m impatient. B: because the music I want to play is fast. And C: because I’m an asshole. But trust me . If you feel like you’re in a rut, play ridiculously slow but meticulously accurate for 30 days. Game changer. If only I’d have listened years ago.😑

@jfo3000 2 жыл бұрын

Slow and meticulously accurate. Well said. This is how my classical guitar teacher taught me for 3 years. It works.

@johnrackham8429 Жыл бұрын

Don't forget to use a metronome too. Start on lower BPMs and gradually speed it up as you "clear" each level, i.e. if you think your playing is clean in this BPM, then speed it up! If not, then keep practicing until it's pristine. That is also how you build speed and accuracy, by the way.

@billjordan1891 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you David, Always a pleasure, very good advice about using some sort of slowdown tech to practice over, plus as you did, in your download files, adding the differing tonalities too. also good advice on tempo increases over the track, I see another gentleman also had some advice on tempo and metronome use. Big fun leading to big rewards in technique and style and flow.

@MrBuzzzzz Жыл бұрын

Dude, I've been a guitar instructor for over 30 years and this one is simple. When a student practices something new at full speed, they pretty much always get to a point in the riff or lick that they can not go past right away. They will make the same mistake in the same place over and over again because they tried to go faster than they have ability for. Let a student go in this situation and he or she will keep playing that same lick over and over and even going faster and faster as they get frustrated. Basically, they will get very very good at making that mistake. It is a human's instinct to rush through everything and when they learn to play guitar, they certainly demonstrate this well. Muscle memory is developed at a slower speed even better than at a faster speed. The things to establish when learning the lick are things like, which finger plays which note, do I pick the note up or down, do I even use alternate picking, etc. These things will not be established well at full speed. It's that simple. At least 3000 students of mine have proven it.

@memorieseachmile6188 6 жыл бұрын

I've been watch your videos. And your voice really helps lol

@bfong4435 6 жыл бұрын

soooooooo good david keep it coming cant get stuff like this anywhere but here

@Wallimann 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

@DizzyKrissi 4 жыл бұрын

The face you are making when playing slow is different from playing fast - I love it :D

@MrMusicbook 6 жыл бұрын

Great lesson...Thanks, David.

@The1stMrJohn 6 жыл бұрын

Very very good ;●) Something about the tone and intervals you play here remind me of some very old Steve Hillage!

@NelsonBlakeII 6 жыл бұрын

David, I love your vids, but I think the message at the beginning is misleading. The biggest leap I experienced was practicing very slowly for four hours straight with a metronome, increasing it incrementally. John Petrucci's tutorial on this helped me tremendously and I highly recommend it. After you get a base of playing really clean with perfect technique, the next key to speed is blending in that practice of going too fast and working in bursts. I agree on what you're saying about slowing down helping improv, but for alternate picking and arpeggios and even legato, going slow is great for muscle memory.

@Wallimann 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man! Yeah, that also works great :)

@glennkimata3491 6 жыл бұрын

Great lesson...

@Nivenization 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@beaglegod1 3 жыл бұрын

I think one of the things that has me al little confused when it comes to really slowing things down, is it feels as if I'm not getting in the same amount of practice. What I mean by this is if I was practicing a song or page of exercises 5 or 6 times in a half hour, including focusing some time on tricky parts, and now I slow things down to say 60%. I'm only going to be going over that song or those exercises maybe 3 times in that half hour. Will this be effective.

@YankeeTexas 6 жыл бұрын

The section of "going outside" sounded like Jean Luc Belkadi!

@larrywoods5046 6 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by playing in Dorian? What is the chord progression or chords used to play in any mode? I can listen to your backing tracks and not understand what mode or want makes it a mode. Help me to understand.

@Wallimann 6 жыл бұрын

Good question! Take a look at this tutorial, it explains it all. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5qof5iYj9ljaZY