3 Picking Mistakes That Are Slowing You Down! 

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after watching this video I reached 666 speed level muhaha

I definitely have a lack of fast right-hand speed, and can definitely see that these exercises will address my issues! I do tend to suffer from all three mistakes. Thankfully, das Publikum cannot tell!

Another amazing lesson. The hand anchoring can cause problems while speed picking. i've been through that. It is one of those things that you either realise and improve, or can block your progress for a long time. I think your explanation was spot on and will help a lot of guitarists. Thank you for the amazing exercises. You deserve far more Publikum. :-) 🤘

I really appreciate the methods you come up with to isolate the problem areas. The 4 NPS stretch to separate the tension from the hands is one I don’t think I would have come up with on my own. The fact that you share this with the whole publikum is so unselfish. I love that you figure these things out so that I don’t have to. It’s great. I just find a video, watch it and then go practice it. One thing that has helped me a lot with tension is giving up on the slinging my guitar low. Several years ago I hiked up my guitar a lot and my hands and wrists began cooperating much more. My picking angles felt much better immediately too.

You're a brilliant teacher and i'll never have enough words to thank you for helping with breaking with that stupid cycle of frustration and never-not-going-anywhere-reaching-nothing with my skills. Nowadays after following your classes for a few years i can play loud and clear my favorite solos (i play mostly pantera, slayer...) and get the job done onstage feeling fun and confident. As good as going to therapy i would say haha! Thank you so much and i wish that your career may skyrocket, Tool is my favorite band ever and it was awesome to see you playing with them!

HEY BERNTH!! i started playing electric guitar in january 2020 ago, around november 2020 i found your channel and diligently practice what you share on youtube, and i'm grateful today i can play quite difficult songs like technical difficulty(paul gilbert)the best of time pretty well overall, in less than 2 years I'm proud to be able to quickly learn from you, yes even though I've been playing acoustic for about 1.5 years before playing electric guitar. Thank you very much for sharing everything to youtube. btw im 16 years old now, i've been waiting for my playing at 20-25years old....

You´re the most awesome teacher in this plataform, you have just helped me a lot with your lessons, and even more with this video, i had the same trouble of the picking motion in different strings, but with your video, I feel motivated to play those excersises and be better. Thank you so much! And also thank you for those words before the thirth ecxcersise, you just made my day!

To the publikum, this man is just a blessing. Trust him. It’s like you been watching me play guitar spiritually, and this was my problem and I was realizing this when transcending to the thicker lower pitch strings. Shared with my wife that I hope to get any patreon stuff for X-mas. She thinks this is cool cause I hit guitar ruts all the time as a new guitarist. This journey has been fun and I can’t wait to see where I’ll end up. Thank you Bernth. Much love from the Harding family (:

Awesome with the breakdown of un-anchoring the hand. I feel this is going to be a very beneficial tweak to hone in. I’m just having trouble with the publikum technique you went over.

Hi Bernth. I am from Russia and am just delighted with your amazing training videos. Thank you for everything you do, for the huge and informative material that you additionally post on Google disk and Patreon. People like you make it much easier to learn how to play the guitar, and in general they make the world a better place! Hi Bernth. I am from Russia and am just delighted with your training videos. Thank you for everything you do, for the huge and informative material that you additionally post on Google disk and patreon. People like you make it much easier to learn how to play the guitar, and in general they make the world a better place!

I’ve been playing guitar for almost 30 years. Usually punk, blues, and rockabilly/surf. I feel like I’ve hit several walls in my life. After watching a few videos over the last couple of weeks, I really want to start over with videos to get a better technique. Your teaching style is easy to follow and I’ve already broken a few boundaries. I can’t wait to see where this takes me!

I have been practising for a very long time and at a point, I started to think that speed picking is like a physical disability. But then I found you and your videos helped me break through the walls. Simply Outclass.

Your humor and enthusiasm to really help other players move forward makes this channel great. May your Publikum become greatly enlarged!

Same picking angle for every string is the solution for my problem. Small detail like this does make a huge difference. Thank you teacher. 🙏🏼🙂

Publikum! I have always struggled with the size of the motion, very inconsistent. It's so obvious, but never thought about anchoring - although my issue is the less relaxed I am, the larger the motion becomes...this is going to help me a lot! Thanks Bernth!

Great advise, thanks Bernth for your work !!

I'm certainly not a "shred" guitar player, but I always find your videos extremely helpful (and fun to watch). I'm currently working (struggling) to increase my speed for fast runs during guitar solos and this vid was very timely. I've also been in the process of tweaking my picking technique over the past few months (and trying to get rid of old bad habits). Just wanted to say thanks again for the awesome content.

Publikum! Thank you and danke schön for the video! :) This was exactly what I needed atm

Thanks for sharing the news about your album, I'm listening to it on repeat while I'm working. 😎

Thanks Bernth! Great information. 🤘🏻

Your Publikum loves you. Awesome and helpful video as always! Thanks a lot!

Bernth and community, Your videos are great or awesome, you choose what ever you like to call it . Your approach to playing and teaching guitar plus refining is noticeably very helpful and improving my basics and guiding me towards places in guitar that I've always wanted to go. I've got my own style that you can check out later in the future. And I feel lucky and fortunate to have come across your channel. Keep shredding Keep healthy and safe Quick question....how to easily and more smoothly transition back and forth from chords and leads pr like throwing leads into chords in a way where the solo guitarist can back or accompany his leads, like basically taking the job of the rhythm and lead guitarist and merging them into one, or like eliminating the need for two guitars, let me know what that makes you like think in terms of improving that aspect or style of guitar playing. Shred on Bernth! Sincerely, Sifu Hero And Legend Harold (Hal) Churchill Hazeldine Founder and Chief Instructor of the Hero And Legend Northern Shaolin Kungfu Association ✌🤘🙏

The arch is particularly important for us seven string guitar players, especially for those of us who use massive gauge strings on an extended scale guitar, and down tuned. My low A string is a 74 lol.

Sonofa.. you managed to peg what my problem has been for years moving across more than a couple of strings, and I never knew it. Very nice. Hand was a boat anchor that wasn't moving and it changed the angle

300bpm! Dude! Some really great advice and help: thank you Bernth, I really enjoy being part of your publikum!!

Every video is a gold mine of information. Thanks Bernth

Dude absolutely killer examples of things that slow me down sometimes. Great video. Thanks.

Immediately after doing these exercises all my other exercises feel effortlessly clean and my right hand feels like it's floating now hahaha you're the best one day I'll join your patreon to support you for your helpful knowledge

I love the way you shred the light on good techniques.

Thanks a lot for these tutorials!!!! These Help A Lot!! Love from India

A real complete lesson. Thanks

I just found your channel I'm hoping all of this helps me out lol I'm musicly lost at the moment I play a seven string and just feel lost in general with it all thanks for the awesome video friend

Very helpful tip great!

Min 4:11 Mind = Blown! For real, thank you, dude! Will start working on correcting that ASAP :)

I need some motivation to learn guitar... this might just be it! This is a little bit too advanced for me at the moment, but I'm excited for the day that I can do all this at tempo. Wish me luck!

Yes 👍 thanks man!

PUBLIKUM!!! Thanks for this awesome video Bernth. And please explain us once, why do you practice routine at 4:30am? you know, I'm your big fan!

You're the man, thanks dude.

Great. I will try to little faster by these instructions. Publikum in Swedish is Publik. Almost the same. Cheers 👍

thanks you very much, and great work. I play since 31 years and you still learn me a lot

thx for this light bulb moment on the wrist anchoring trap! so interesting! Proud to be part of your PUBLIKUM

I was doing the same exercise, with three note per string as I was working on my personal improvement, I can do it fast, but I slow down for make it clean, I think is always better starts with very slow speed, so the hands and brain will eat everything without problems, what I find in this video, and I was working on this without knowing, is arching problem, I will fix it with this instruction, thanks man for your great job.

I love this channel so much.

Thanks for sharing your skills Bernth gratefull.....

Cool thanks. Linked in with this can you do a lesson based more specifically on where you anchor your right hand, and how the angle of the guitar and how you sit (or stand) affects that. Thanks

I absolutely love exercise #1❗ especially since I'm learning Mabel's fatal fable by Jason Becker

Thank you

That tremolo exercise is so important for your wrist muscle memory Tremolo picking clean in fast sextuplets at 120 bpm or 16ths at 160 bpm is a great goal for beginners, and how you divide the notes in that exercise is fantastic

Publikum moment. Seriously though, thanks for all the lessons from you, i feel like i made a lot more progress with my technique even though i started playing the guitar barely over a year ago.

Can I make a suggestion? It would be useful to know your picking slanting configuration for each pick stroke, upward or downward. Sometimes it's obviuos, but in some others there are different possible ways of doing it. I generally put a "D" over the first downward slanted picked note and the following notes are performed all the same, then a "U" for upward and all the following... you get the idea. Keep up the good work!

Best guitar lesson channel on youtube hands down 💯💯

Amazing lesson speed picking

salamat! 👌

A good right hand tip is about the thickness of the plecturm (I only use orage tortex) and where the pick is held. The smaller the "exposed tip", the faster. In otherwords, hold the pick towards its base. This will take time to adopt to and the muscle in the thumb has to build strength to cope. But it is more than a marignal improvement once mastered, because the arc for each picking motion above the *selected string* is smaller in consequence

Not only the biomechanics and ergonomics of picking, which you did an excellent job of covering- but stamina! If you practice getting your picking longevity up at lower speeds, it will up your maximum speed. The trick is to practice in that comfort pocket. 80 bpm I’ve found is a magical number because you can go super slow, mid tempo, or blazing fast because in a sense it’s also 160 bpm double timed. If you manage to build that endurance, your max speed will boost like nuts 🥜 And you’ll get squirrel 🐿 fingers

Thanks to YOU !!! Realy dig those exercise, they realy are helpful, my only problem is when i try to go fast when i am skipping strings, from the small e string to the middle one or the A string and jump on the B string, kind of a alternate skipping scales !! Any helpfull exercise on that ? Thank you so much for everything !! Salute !!🤘🤘

Very informative video..✌️👍

Awesome!

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Hello from Turkey you are the best teacher

that arch thing, I thought I know it all.. thank you:)

Das Publikum ist für deiner Hilfe sehr dankbar und ist von deinen Videis äußerst amüsiert

🙌 thank you!!!! Publikum!!!

Servus Bernth. Awsome lecture. For me its hard to pick consistent when i switch from fretted to open strings or even worse from palm muted to regular alt pick. Maybe some ideas for part 2. 😉

You are awesome👏✊👍 Mr . Brenth love❤ from India🇮🇳

really nice video publikum

@BERNTH you're right on so much levels, locking the hand in any position will cramp the hand. Then, all go harder, and less accurate...

The teacher doesn't know i'm one of his student who doesn't pay a dime but learning still. You rock as a teacher and a guitarist.....

Thanks for your videos! I'm no wiz, but I'm glad you're pointing out all the things I'm doing wrong. \m/

Thank u brother, Now I'm working on separating intensity. That's where I'm stuck

P U B L I K U M !!! The third exercise definitely made me go "Ooooohhhh!"

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Thanks for sharing very good information. My hobby is to play heavy metal and It helps a lot. I am thinking making music compusing a way of income in the middle term, I love to compouse. Keep going, you are a great player. Good Day!!!

I have also found what helps me keep control of my picking hand is to minimize The contact of my pic with the string just grazing the pic across the very top of the string giving the desired sound that you want and greatly reduces the sound of my pic going across the strings so that the sound of my guitar is more clearer and cleaner because you don’t hear the sound of the pic going across the strings nearly as much thus making The sound Of my guitar more exclusive and with better control by just rolling my pick across the top of the string

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You've answered one question for me that I've never seen an answer to in 30 years. That being arching the hand vs moving the whole hand. Thank you for that. I do have a question about economy of motion in both hands, actually. For the picking hand, doesn't a tiny picking motion make the jumps from string to string seem MASSIVE? How do you overcome that? For the pressing hand, doesn't focusing on not letting the fingers move too far cause huge tension in the hand? (It does for me) Please help!

Great video. Thank you. Publikum

What is the white thick pick you are using? And good video to correct habits ty for the exercices

This really helped thanks. *Publikum*

And the publikum goes wild!

Welcome this great Publikum.

The publikum rocks!

So to mute you have to slide your hand forward with this technis.vs lifting up and down to mute and unmute using traditional technic .unless you can rest on your hand back more and roll forward to mute the string..how would that work ?

I noticed that I also have another problem with alternate picking. If I place my fretting hand in a start position and play form there, then it works out fine. But when I have to move my hand from one position to another along the fretboard, my alternate picked runs get very unsynchronised. For example you have a vibrato on 14th fret and then jump to alternate picked run from 8th fret. I guess the problem is in the jump from one position to another.

May I ask which software are you using for your video editing? They look quite promising!

There is maybe one more!!! play sitting and standing makes a huge difference of all angles ;) What kind of Pick you use is also very important !!!

You deserve a much bigger Publikum

hey bernth can you do the lesson for canon rock sweep plz

Ohh these exercises are pretty challenging to me, I cant play fast clearly because my right hand and left hand doesn't match . Thanks always

Could you please reply my question Can we use from economy picking from start or do we have to use alternate at first then only economy?

Hello publikum!!! Cheers Bernth!!

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Any tips for string transitions with tremolo motion?

I'm new to lead 🎸. Normally which pick size is recommended for a beginner?

I think currently my biggest problem is my fretting hand technique. I can do a pretty fast motion with my right hand, but my fretting hand can't keep up. I should work on more of my hand synchronization

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Micheal Angelo Batio is also an insanely talented shred-head . You should check out his chops

I struggle to pick consistently on the same string depending where it's fretted :(