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"Proven Lead Guitar Speed Drills: Guitar Finger Exercises For Blazing Through Any Guitar Solo You Want!"

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Here are the top lead guitar speed drills for becoming a faster, more impressive lead guitarist!

These hand-picked guitar exercises will teach you to effortlessly blaze through any guitar solo you want, having the strength and speed to pull it off like the pros!

Lead Guitar Speed Drills have one goal: making you faster, better, and cleaner!

Are you ready to start building your finger strength and maxing out your speed? With daily practice, you will be shredding faster, and with more confidence!

Why Should You Learn Lead Guitar Speed Drills?

Practice makes perfect...but so does finger strength!

If you put the practice, patience, and perseverance into learning these guitar drills, you WILL become your fastest ever!

When you practice guitar scales, start slow. Increase your tempo only when you have mastered it slowly!

Repetition is the secret to building the muscle memory that you need in order to play guitar fast!

Practice these guitar picking exercises slowly, patiently, and repetitively, and you will see vast improvements!

Guitar Practice Scales

The Major Scale and The Minor Scale in "Thirds"

This next guitar exercise is perfect for warming up your fingers for optimal performance!

To really master this guitar finger drill, You should know the major scale on guitar and the minor scale on guitar.

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"Linear" Lead Guitar Speed Drills

This next guitar drill will help you get locked on to your fretboard...get to know this one well!

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Guitar Scale Waterfalls

The following guitar scale drill "flows" down the frets in a waterfall pattern. It sounds melodic and is great to use in guitar solos.

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Lead Guitar Speed Drills: Chromatic Drills

The "Famous" Four Finger Exercise

Among all lead guitar speed drills and guitar exercises, the four finger exercise is one of the most effective and easy to learn!

This guitar drill is a basic finger pattern that implements all four of your fingers one at a time using all possible combinations and spans four adjacent frets. Refer to the table below to learn the various finger combinations, then traverse through each string using each pattern separately.

For example, the tablature below shows the combination in the first box (top-left in the table), starting at the first fret using your first finger. For variety, you should go down through all six strings, move up a fret, then use the same combination going UP the strings. Continue the pattern all the way up the neck, then choose a new combination from the table and start over.

All finger number combinations (numbers represent finger numbers, not fret numbers):

1234	1243	1324	1342	1423	1432
2134	2143	2314	2341	2413	2431
3124	3142	3214	3241	3412	3421
4123	4132	4213	4231	4312	4321

Example 4:

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Three Finger Legato Runs

Three finger legato runs are simple three-note patterns. The patterns are facilitated using hammer ons and pull offs.

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And there you have it! Top Lead Guitar Speed Drills to make you better, faster, and more accurate in your adventures across the fretboard frontier. Now get creative and invent some of your own exercises. Then share them with your friends! And remember: Burned CDs and STDs don't have to be the only thing going around these days!

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