Improving guitar technique

If we try to work on our guitar playing technique regularly we naturally want to see some improvement in our playing. In fact for many of us out expectations of improvement go way beyond our capacity to learn. Working directly on guitar speed, for instance is futile if we are sitting down and trying to play fast. Focusing on accuracy is the key to lifting the quality of your guitar playing. If you do not heed this bit of advice your efforts to play the guitar with any degree of skill will be severely limited. The aquiring of new motor skills depends on repetition whether you consciously put this fact into practice or not. If you are practicing scales or riffs and chord changes without the required attention to relaxation of the muscles and slow, methodical practice, the resulting sloppiness will show in your playing. Instead of glossing over the mistakes you make during your practice, make your fluffs your friends. Every missed note is a message from your future guitar player telling you to pay more attention to the quality of the music you are bringing into the world. If you continue to ignore these messages your mistakes will become a feature of your guitar playing. Maybe even the main feature.

Here is a video guitar lesson from Justin Guitar dedicated to working on economy of movement.