Originally Posted by: KasperowThanks to all of you for the advice. I'll try it out and hopefully slowly see results. I guess hoping to become faster in just a week might have been a bit overestimated... That said, I'm still gonna spend as much time as possible with a guitar and try to become just a bit more precise in my picking.

What may see happen is that you start doing these exercises and you don't see much improvement doing them. However, when you go to play something else that you may have been struggling with, you find you can play it much better - and that's where it really counts!

This is what happened with me.

You may also find you can use some of this in your improvisation. Ascending the pentatonic scale in 3rds can be played as triplets and gives you a lot of notes you can play as you slowly ascend the scale. You don't want to abuse it, but it can be handy in some cases.

It's probably easiest to start his with the pentatonic shapes since they only have 2 notes per string. The major scale gets tricky fast since it is a mix of 2 and 3 notes per string.