3 bpm. That’s the smallest tempo variation the average person can detect. I agree with you. Horizontal practice is very important. It’s important for all the reasons you said. It’s also important for improving stamina/endurance. If you can play 1 or 2 bars of 16th notes at 220BPM only once before falling apart, then you’re going to have a real hard time playing a longer guitar solo without leaning on a lot of 8th and quarter notes to fill out the solo and make it easier to play. Granted, most great guitar solos use a variety of rhythmic patterns. My point is, you can hide your speed limitations by playing short bursts of 16th note at 220BPM. Or you can put in the hours to improve horizontally so you don’t have to hide your limitations and you can play longer phrases at those speeds. And you will be able to go in and out (start, stop, start, stop, etc.) of those fast phrases with more accuracy and consistency. Great video man!
Honestly, the absolute best advice is to relax everything. Pick slanting is a waste of time as you’ll do it naturally anyway. If you’re having issues with something you know you should be able to play take a minute, close your eyes, and focus on relaxing your entire body, especially your fingers, then try again.
i can play only so fast what i can imagine. however, when following the metronome, i can reach considerably higher speeds. to start hearing all the notes at superfast tempos, imagining it first or recording and playing it back faster helps as well. sure imagination defines ability growth as well.
That P-H-ICK SLANTING with a cough was so legendary😂😂😂 yeah people be obsessed with pick slanting not even having the sense to use directional picking not to mention neglecting all the other foundational things that are all more important then the ability to slant a guitar pick😂😂 Jesus
You are trying to form a new mind-body relationship with your hands moreso than you are trying to repair micro muscle tears in your hands. Its more like yoga than testing your limits. Doing it every day is going to be far more effective than deep dives every other day. If you are sore, then yes rest. But unlike muscle building you should not be looking to push your hands to failure.
Not for it’s own sake. You’re only really building new muscle early on. After that it’s mostly your calluses and your mind that will need a day off here and there.
I changed my picking completely two years ago (first corona year) i hold pick with thumb and index fingers but support by middle finger. Its kinda like gypsy technicue. My picking is loud even thou i pick lightly its because i pick deeper and picks are dunlop flow 1.00-2.00mm. Im better at rhythm guitar and i do pick slanting, downpicking, gallop etc without thinking 160bpm-210bpm are my speed limits. Problem is that my hands get really tired after practice session and next day it feels like i need to practice again to get speed like 160BPM->. Why is that years after playing i should not feel uncomfortable to play 210 bpm riff after good warm up
cough pickslanting made me achieve the biggest progress since I started playing the guitar (25 years ago)... I liked your video... but the cough pickslanting thing is quite childish
He's not saying pick slanting doesn't work he does pick slanting himself he said that in an other video, what he's saying is there are many people that have many manyyy technique problems that are keeping them from playing at the speed they desire but they are neglecting all of these things and obsessing over pick slanting.. that's the problem and that is very true if you look around you and that is why that "pick slanting cough" was not childish not one bit
