How To Relax To Shred Fast With Control

Speed is a skill that guitarists feel is always out of reach. This makes sense when you realize the hard truth: the faster you can play, the harder it is to play faster.

The number one enemy getting in your way of being a total shredder is tension.

The worst part?

Since tension comes from within, it’s a roadblock that tears your playing apart from the inside out.

Whether you think you’re just a naturally tense person, you get anxious when recording or playing in front of others, or no matter how hard you try, you just feel more natural and controlled trying to shred by flexing your muscles, you’ll never reach your true potential if you don’t know how to relax.

Until you learn how to practice this criminally underrated aspect of musicianship, you’ll forever have your guitar controlling you as opposed to you controlling your guitar.

What you’re going to unlock in today’s episode is perhaps one of the most important and most neglected aspects of shred guitar.