I’ll be honest with you:
For years, I struggled with my guitar technique.
So many of the classic charts and solos are at fast tempos, and my technique was reaching its limit.
And it wasn’t that I was being lazy in the practice room either.
In fact:
I was diligently practicing hours and hours, running through endless technical drills and guitar exercises that my teacher had recommended.
Over and over, my teacher kept telling me: “Sure, progress is slow, but that’s what it’s like for everyone. The only way to get better is to keep doing those hours and hours of practice – in a few years you’ll overcome those roadblocks, trust me”.
So I took his advice and kept lumbering my way through those endless drills. It was painfully boring, and hard on the hands too.
But:
All this work was futile – it did very little to increase my technical ability on the guitar. I was frustrated, and not making fast enough progress.
It was only years later that I realized:
What I was doing back then was not the way to get better at technique. It makes hardly a dent, in fact.
Why?
I realized I was spending too much time on similar exercises, rather than focusing on core exercises that are the most essential, and that cut out all the fluff.
That’s not all:
By learning how my mind was naturally wired and the way that the brain refines motor activity most efficiently, through the interplay of conscious and subconscious processes, I worked out how to drastically increase my technique – while, incredibly, halving the time I was spending on guitar exercises.
Once I studied in detail how high achievers in many fields gain success, it became crystal clear to me how I needed to structure my guitar practice, what exercises I needed to focus on, and what I needed to STOP doing in order to progress my guitar technique.
That’s when everything changed.
Once I knew the secrets to leverage the natural inborn abilities of the mind, my technique (and especially my speed on guitar) started improving incredibly quickly.
And it was there that I discovered:
The Technique Triangle.