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Alternate picking is a huge part of all players right hand technique and at the same time something that is very difficult to develop for a lot of students. In this lesson I am going to go over 3 exercises will help you develop your ability to deal with some of the more troublesome alt picking problems and make your right hand technique much more flexible and efficient.
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@personel02 4 года назад

Honestly, these are the best exercises ever. I've been applying them for couple months and I definitely can see a progress in my precision nad speed. Thank you Jens, hats off! 👏🏻

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you Piotr! They are also the ones that worked the best for me :)

@rishabhraj_ 7 лет назад

Wow... I am done with beginning 1234 picking lesson... I am gonna try this... Thanks for this lovely lesson 🎸

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

You're very welcome! I was never a fan of the 1234 type exercises. Scales and more musical things are way more efficient in the long run!

@GERONIMO-oz3fw 8 лет назад

Man, your a Bad Dude, Excellent musician bar none. I always learn something from you and enjoy your lessons. God Bless You Sir!

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

You're welcome and much too kind!

@rickymaina 3 года назад

Why 18 stupid people don’t like this?it’s also free!!In Italy we say:”It’s like giving pearls to pigs”

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

Thank you 🙂 Don't worry too much about it

@stephenreckguitar 5 лет назад

Thanks for your work Jens. For anyone that plays classical too I found Villa Lobos Etude 1 good practise for alternate picking.

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

You're very welcome! True, that Villa Lobos etude is a supreme string skipping exercise 👍👍

@DovidM 5 лет назад

Do you recommend practicing scales and arpeggios with a metronome? I was taught that you practice scales and arpeggios so that your timing with a pick becomes perfect. Are there any well known guitarists that you would say are weak in this area to the extent that it throws off their phrasing?

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

I would certainly recommend practicing anything that is in time with a metronome! Don't worry about other peoples phrasing, when you get better at it you will be able to hear how precise they are and can decide for yourself if you like it or not :)

@nacienlos70 7 лет назад

Fantastic lesson. Straight into my daily routine. You got a subscriber.

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

Thank you ! Glad you like it!

@ooDriveoo 5 лет назад

@@JensLarsen Same here!

@alexkobiconan 7 лет назад

2:02. 5:02. 7:05

@skayhitdalotto453 4 года назад

U sir are a legend

@birdybutch 3 года назад

alternate is all about right hand. and you show nothin` about it.

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

These exercises worked for me and I did not need to see any close up of the right hand. They also work for my students, but maybe they are not for you

@birdybutch 3 года назад

@@JensLarsen Please tell me how you play 3 notes per string (alternate picking) what is your right hand doin when you go from 6 to 5,from 5 to 4 string, etc. Pick slanting or something else? Thanx!

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

@@birdybutch I don't really know. I just play it, and these exercises made me a lot faster, be more precise, and have a better tone. And that is also what I see in my (real-life) students that are working on it. Are you sure that you are not getting lost in trying to find an easy formula instead of actually doing the work?

@birdybutch 3 года назад

@@JensLarsen Sure. After of 15 years of bad playing I just wanna know the most efficient ways

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

@@birdybutch I can't tell how or how much you practice, so that's difficult for me to comment on

@priteshugrankar6815 8 лет назад

awesome. Difficult exercise but awesome.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Thank you Pritesh!

@joaoalex 8 лет назад

Great exercises, thank you for providing such melodically rich drills.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

You're welcome Joao! Glad to hear you like them :)

@arkadiuszdec2493 4 года назад

Great lesson. In general I don't use arternate picking, because I play finger style. Exercieses you have shown are not so easy even for finger picking in this tempo. I mean to play separately each individual note.

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you 🙂 they are very difficult with alternate picking

@captainkoo 3 года назад

Which fingers do you use for fingerpicking ? Thumb and index?

@arkadiuszdec2493 3 года назад

@@captainkoo Usually for alternate picking I use index and middle, but sometimes even all fingers except pinkie :)

@merttalay9702 5 лет назад

You hold the pick more flat not edging like metal shredders right?I mean it s hard with flat picking.Playing with straight thumb is hard isn t it?

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

I don't know? That's just the way I do that :)

@merttalay9702 5 лет назад

@@JensLarsen ok.Your channel is so good for everyone every level.Rick beato and you.

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

@@merttalay9702 Thank you very much! :) Glad to hear it (and to be mentioned together with Rick)

@mijit.859 6 лет назад

Very good lesson Jens!, but where can I play really cool edgy melodic E Phrygian dominant scales or lead solo guitar 🎸 Tabs ?? 😨😰

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

+Bub7*7*7 T. On an E7? 😁

@mijit.859 6 лет назад

Jens Larsen Hmmm 🤔 perhaps so ? 😰

@Picker286 Год назад

These are great! Playing them slowly. Adding speed as I go. Thanks!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like them!

@BrianTruesby 6 лет назад

Hi Jens, why are the arpeggios in example 2 called "drop 2 voicings"? I thought drop 2s were inversions

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Drop2 voicings are of course really chords, but we can use them as arpeggios as well. Here's a video where I talk about that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xnNEwNgFZiw.html

@BrianTruesby 6 лет назад

Ah, Thanks Jens! I was mistakenly thinking that for a shape to be called a "drop 2 voicing" it could not be in root position.

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Ah ok. No problem 🙂

@radop2459 8 лет назад

Thanks! Very nice and interesting lesson and exercises. It's amazing because it's not so obvious to show something really usefull via RU-vid at all.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Thank you Rado! Glad you like the exercises!

@kwgm8578 Год назад

Great advice. This is what I need now! Thanks, My Man. My Main Man!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Go for it 🙂

@Faolain_ 8 лет назад

Ah, alternate picking. Luckily I picked this up pretty quickly, so I'm happy with my current skill level. But if I'm asked about it, I have no idea how to explain my technique, or how I got good, but this video is a good lesson that's worth a recommendation for those in trouble. I'm going to give these exercises a shot as well. However, if I try to play anything with speed while I'm standing, I'm still quite hopeless. I guess it's because I spent 99% of my 4 years of guitar playing sitting down

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Good to hear! Let me know how it works out. I think the exercises are good as builiding blocks of material for lines as well.

@benjaminbatten7245 8 лет назад

Jens, these videos are extremely helpful; have you ever considered publishing a book on technical studies in likes of Rich Cochrane or Martino for example? I would pay to see your name on the bookshelf!

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Thank you Benjamin! I have thought about it, but haven't really had the time to do something about it yet

@marcusfernandez8182 8 лет назад

what fingers go where?? Im lost with that.. Just starting, about 7 weeks in.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

+marcus fernandez If you are only playing guitar for 7 weeks you should find some other exercises that fit where you are now. You can always return to this later ☺️ Have fun on the guitar journey!

@jmounce50 7 лет назад

So glad I just discovered your channel! Fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

+jmounce50 You are very welcome! I hope you find something you can use! ☺️

@johnnordstrand7174 6 лет назад

Jens-I have just discovered your wonderful empire of lessons. You are filling in so many blanks in my guitar performance knowledge bank. Do you have anything like a chronological list of how to progress through your videos? In other words, a preferred order of how to view them. Thank you for your terrific contribution to the music community.

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Thank you John Nordstrand I am glad you found it useful! 👍 I don't really have an order of the lessons. They are not in that way thought of as a method, and no two students take the same path. The best I can offer is this playlist that you can browse and see if there is something you want to start working on: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PyHXN3Vxhz4.html And you can of course leave a comment if you want some suggestions! 🙂

@GKChandlerBooks 5 лет назад

You are my guru. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

Glad you find the videos useful, Graeme! 🙂

@GKChandlerBooks 5 лет назад

Indeed. After 45 years of playing classical guitar I’m finally making time to learn jazz guitar. Your videos are inspirational. Love your technique. Thanks, again.

@ytmember1 5 лет назад

Just excellent. Thanks for the very informative Video!

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

You are very welcome 🙂

@j.h.leonard587 8 месяцев назад

Hey Jens, thanks for these exercises. I'm just wondering how you think about the positioning of your right hand in relation to the strings and even the position of the pick between your fingers. I think I might have an issue there. You seem at times to have your pinky extended towards the guitar's body, which is familiar to me from some country and blues players. Is that deliberate?

@JensLarsen 8 месяцев назад

I don't really know, sorry. It certainly isn't deliberate.

@Racemark123 8 лет назад

Yes! I had actually come up with an idea for a tune recently that was an alternate picked drop 2 voicing, and noticed it would be pretty hard to play, and it would be good to just sit and practice alternate picking one not per string like that. I've spent alot of time working through my picking, changing techniques etc, and I think working on this kind of stuff would be a great next step for me. Great video man, Cheers!

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

You're very welcome Adam!Let me know how it works out! :)

@ncaresano 6 лет назад

great exercise! i've finished with another video about scales and i've started this one. thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Thank you nicolás caresano I am glad you found it useful! 👍

@RottenChapter 8 лет назад

THIS is exactly what I needed, thank you so much, best (online) teacher ever!

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

+E Funes Glad you can use it! Thanks for checking it out! ☺️

@shaunmcinnis1960 3 года назад

They put a "jazz guitar tutorial add" in front of your video. Doesn't seem right..

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

They know what you are looking for :)

@albertntambwe5207 3 года назад

Thank you

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

You're welcome

@cbolt4492 Год назад

I need this information 😎

@horacio_llegolamiel3758 2 года назад

Hi Jens, amazing video, great exercises! However I don't understand why for the first exercise, you say "do alternate picking for each voicing"? Isn't it better to just do downstroke on the 5th string everytime? Could you explain please?

@JensLarsen 2 года назад

No, it isn't better if you want to develop your ability to play alternate picking freely for anything you want to play. I would think that was fairly obvious?

@horacio_llegolamiel3758 2 года назад

Yes, I'm laughing at myself because it was quite obvious. Thanks for your reply!

@peterandrews7434 Год назад

No tension at all in your right hand Jens. Beautiful!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you 🙂

@tommy-dm2lf4mf6w 4 года назад

Thank you, this are some great exercises. Very well explained :)

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

You're so welcome!

@rogierasselt4972 4 года назад

Hi jens. I have been playing guitar for 20 years and I guess I have intermediate level. I have been using economy picking but now I am trying to learn alternate picking. It feels like I have to learn how to walk all over again. I am unable to do anything with it besides go super slow and when I speed up I revert to my old way fast and then I get very frustrated and start swearing like a sailor. What amount of time do you advice to learn this and incorporate it in my daily practise routine? Thanks a lot for all your lessons, everything is really helpfull...kind regards Rogier

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thanks Rogier! That is difficult to say. I would start with more basic scale and diatonic 3rds and triad exercises, and then just be patient. Work on it in a tempo where you have control and then it will eventually become more natural and a lot easier to do. From there it will probably make it into your playing by itself.

@rogierasselt4972 4 года назад

@@JensLarsen thanks for the advice, I think I will start with some basic scales . I can really see the advantage from alternate picking once you get it down. Thanks again man, I really appreciate..:)

@lizzietheheretic7831 7 лет назад

It is the first time I've seen one of your lessons and I did subscribed😊

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

Thank you! Glad you like the videos!

@dominiquedoeslife 6 лет назад

I've always played loud during practice and soft during shows to build strength. I have fibromyalgia and arthritis and if I don't go a little harder than usual during practice, I tend to freeze up a bit (not nerves, physical pain).

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

That sounds like a good way to compensate! Great that you find a way to manage, it sounds quite serious!

@dominiquedoeslife 6 лет назад

Jens Larsen Thank you! I can’t not manage it. Music means so much to me.

@keshabbose5447 7 лет назад

sir,your lessons is very good,but tab is not clear

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

Do you mean hard to read? Because that sounds like you are not watching in HD?

@RowanGroen Год назад

Any picking exercise helps. What i discovered on how to really grow in playing fast is to practice without using the left hand, just let it mute the strings, and do the picking patterns with the right hand. I was practicing alternate picking on 2 strings, for example b string down e string up b string down e string up on one click with the metronome at 130 bpm at fastest using the left and right hand, but i couldn't play much faster as 110 bpm without the left hand at first. Thus i think it is important to make the left and right hand independent off each other, by only practicing with the right hand. An other thing i found out is to practice only down strokes and only up strokes, with for example 3 string arpeggio's. You will see the up strokes are much weaker and without good coordination feel as opposed to the down strokes. With solely excersising alternate picking you do not develop a good upstroke. Developing a good upstroke is like training your left and right arm in the gym to get equally big muscles. Are these 2 things common knowledge or am i making things up?

@antreb15 7 лет назад

Thanks. Just what I need. Good teaching.

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

You are very welcome Anthony! I am glad you like it!

@nicolettenuss 8 лет назад

great lesson, I'll be giving these exercises a try

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Thank you Niki! Glad you like them :)

@captncoffee2056 Год назад

Jens, you are awesome. Thank you!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@kfr5018 6 лет назад

Is the picking in exercise 1: Down up down - down up down - etc Or Down up down - up down up - etc

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

It is alternate picking, so down up down up down up ☺️

@abdorodriguez460 6 лет назад

Hola Jens, the pick angle should be like perpendicular to the strings? And for you whats the best way to grab the pick? Thanks for the lesson (:

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Thank you Abdo! I don't think there is a best way, it depends on so many things!

@dominiquedoeslife 6 лет назад

That's true. It does depend, guitarist to guitarist. For me, I like to curl my index finger a bit, place the pick perpendicular to my first knuckle (from my fingertips). I try to grip hard because I go kind of hard on my strings and I don't want my pick to go flying in the middle of a show. That probably wouldn't be cute since I'm not slash from guns n roses ha. Hope the helps a bit. Let us all know what works for you.

@abdorodriguez460 6 лет назад

Dominique Does Life well, before enter to a jazz conservatory, I played like 3 years with the palm of my hand supported on the guitar bridge with my guitar pick almost paralel to the strings. Nowdays, a teacher explained me that I wasn't working some muscles with my technique. Now my pick Its almost perpendicular to the strings and I lean a little on my little finger. The movement of my wrist was like greeting, now It's like a circular movement. I feel fine right now but sometimes I wonder if there is a better way...

@dominiquedoeslife 6 лет назад

Abdo Rodríguez I lean a little on my little finger too. That’s okay! There are very talented musicians out there who do that. It sounds like you have lots of natural talent.

@sukitta2 6 лет назад

You can aways go Paul Gilbert level and learn how to play on different grips... But I sugest find one thats is confortable, and going with that. Meaning you dont feel strong disconfort after playing for too long.

@Franyamaguti 8 лет назад

Thanks for Sharing... sorry my bad english whats pattern you use on 9:20? best regards from brasil

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

You're welcome! C major scale in triads moving up a diatonic 4ths so Dm G C F

@Franyamaguti 8 лет назад

thanks my friend!!!! best regards

@kadourimdou43 5 лет назад

These are great exercises. I thought I would try them high to low string as well.

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

Thank you! 🙂

@lorenzosyquia4769 3 года назад

In Jazz, what do you end up using more often: economy picking or alternate picking? I want to focus on one type of picking first

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

Then focus on alternate picking, that is more flexible for phrasing

@lorenzosyquia4769 3 года назад

@@JensLarsen I appreciate your response! I naturally economy pick when I am not thinking. Should I unlearn that first?

@ozkancanbay4963 3 года назад

Very nice. Thx!

@nik8ivnv 6 лет назад

Cool right hand position and mechanics;)

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Thank you! Gald you find it useful! 👍

@geoffgurney88 4 года назад

You are a fantastic teacher . Thanks so much

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

You're very welcome, Geoff! I am glad you like it! 🙂

@rupertrau5578 3 года назад

Thanks for your great contribution to music education Jens..

@rodolfoamaralguitar 6 лет назад

do you angle or slant your pick?

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

+Rodolfo Amaral Not consequently in one direction as fat as I know ☺️

@rhoydotp 8 лет назад

Thanks for this exercises 👍

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

You're very welcome!

@Matt_Burns 8 лет назад

That was a drop 3 maj 7 not drop 2

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

+Matt Burns what are you referring to?

@danielchikhwaza 4 года назад

Thank you for this

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@MegaDuvaldo 8 лет назад

Awesome! Thanks a lot!!!!

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

+Duvaldo Frias You're welcome Duvaldo

@anthonyperales8600 6 лет назад

Awesome lesson I subscribed

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Thank you very much! I am glad you found it useful! If you have any suggestions for topics or things you are looking for the feel free to let me know 👍

@pycroft 7 лет назад

This is excellent , thanks .

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

You're very welcome!

@siglo2155 8 лет назад

super mas tecnica master

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Gracias!

@prizmwizard 3 года назад

Thank you Jens!

@JensLarsen 3 года назад

You're very welcome! I am glad you like it! 🙂

@meowtrox1234 6 лет назад

Jens , do you find it easier to improvise with your eyes closed?

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

No, but it doesn't really matter 🙂

@meowtrox1234 6 лет назад

I might be an intuitive musician since i can't play by structure, i know it sounds weird to others , but it is music for me . does this qualify as a bad mentality?

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

I have no idea what you are trying to say?

@bradleystroup1457 8 лет назад

really great lesson on the cross picking part of alt. picking. for me I start by warming my hand up with a metal riff like slayer or something. then I try picking trills and sequences that go back and forth between strings. then I saw Steve Morse and Albert Lee on Troy Grady's channel and cross picking is my far the hardest part. this is a really good video on that.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Thank you Bradley! I did check some Steve Morse stuff as well. His exercises are great!

@bradleystroup1457 8 лет назад

Paul Gilbert has a good one that changes different number of notes on a string and has a little string skip inbetween. it's a part of a song called the echo song and he does that dotted eighth note thing.

@bradleystroup1457 8 лет назад

with a delay

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Ok, I'll check that out some time :)

@bradleystroup1457 8 лет назад

it's at 1:49 in the video he plays a white ibanez sg. but he actually shows you how to play it in a lesson he does with Marty Friedman at 5:28 for young guitar in the second part of the video

@wormtownpaul 3 года назад

Does the blue material at the top of the neck perform any function, specifically muting of the strings, or is it purely decorative?

@Dang... 2 года назад

If he needs a hair tie, it's very handy.

@nestorfernandez6845 5 лет назад

Muy bueno maestro!

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

Gracias Nestor!

@axeofcreation 8 лет назад

Great tips! A trick I use to help develop speed is to use small bursts of speeds (mixing eighth and sixteenth notes), rather than blazing through 3 octaves.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

Thanks Gregory! That is indeed a good tip. It also helps you keep the original feel if you are working on double timing stuff :) You're btw sort of featured in my next Q&A :D

@axeofcreation 8 лет назад

Uh-oh!

@Benitohatausprobiert 4 года назад

Great lesson!

@JensLarsen 4 года назад

Thank you, Steven

@335gerard 8 лет назад

Merci Jens.

@JensLarsen 8 лет назад

+Gérard Létang De rien!

@sneakking101 6 лет назад

@7:20 Nick Valensi anyone ?

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

The strokes? Haha! That's a first! Thanks! 🙂

@sneakking101 6 лет назад

Jens Larsen Yeah😊 I said it because the exercise reminded me of his picking pattern or his way of doing solos in a few TheStrokes songs. Great lesson btw!

@LUig43 6 лет назад

good stuff!

@JensLarsen 6 лет назад

Thank you 🙂👍

@hafizjumat 7 лет назад

when john campbell teach about guitar technique...btw great lesson!!

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

Thank you! Would you rather I made lessons on Economics?!

@hafizjumat 7 лет назад

yess sir..i would like if u talk about it n show how its work..im working on it now..thanks!

@JensLarsen 7 лет назад

Ok, but I am a guitarist, not a Professor in Economy like John Campbell 😁 If I get a degree in that I will start a YT channel I promise!

@hafizjumat 7 лет назад

haha..okay..we'll waiting for that..keep it up for a great lesson video..😀

@IRevealTheMagic 5 лет назад

Do i see a srv inspired strat in the back!!???? That lefty gold trem niiiiiice

@JensLarsen 5 лет назад

Indeed! a '92 SRV strat :)

@kasperm.r.guldberg7354 7 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h7Vrhi8am_U.html - Does it seem to you that Joe picks each note separately here (at 0:53 in the clip) - or does some pulling-off and hammering-on help him out? I often play this little run - still slower than Joe...