5 PAINFUL Exercises That Actually Work! 

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forget about shorts, this format is more informative and enjoyable to watch

I did all 5, they don't work. Cigarettes however did work.

I tried these exercises and now I can breathe underwater.

I gotta say I’m loving these longer videos. The longer explanation is very helpful!

Super helpful ! Now I'll just LEAVE...

Pain is your body's way of telling you to stop doing something.

Really happy to see you're back to long form. Feels like it's been forever

Hey Brandon, these are really impressive. As is your ability to demonstrate them. Now, I know most of you guys think we classical guitarists are all nerds, but hear me out on one point. You are young, and can ignore this for some time. But eventually, with your left wrist bent at such an acute angle, your left wrist is susceptible to tendinitis. Much better to hold the head of the guitar higher, with the neck at 45 degrees, half way between vertical and horizontal. (Your fans might check out how Scott Tennant angles the guitar neck.) This also gives you more mechanical advantage, with more potential strength and flexibility. You can dismiss this, but do think of all the players who are spending hours using your exercises, as some of them will be experiencing pain, either immediately or at some future time.

Loving the longer videos man, keep up the great work! JUST LEAV-ing now

The ring finger has that weird connected tendon. That’s probably why it’s the tough one

Good to see these back. Doing all those shorts has made your new longs sharper and better. Consider the shorts a learning exercise of your own!

I really like the long form videos! The longer video length gives each section of the video more time to breathe, and time to explain each excercise.

Great content, and even greater catchphrases

Straight to the point and all great exercises! Subbed

I do a couple of them already...3 to work on, last one im excited about for some reason...great info, thanks!

Great vid Brandon !!

Great video!

picked most of these exercises from a short before and included them in my routine, they are pretty nice a variation i like doing of the first exercise is including the g string in between each E, forces me to make sure the tension is appropiate on my other fingers, bonus if you can let it ring as you play the other notes, so: e - g - E - g - e - g -E and so on...

Guy freaking great. Thanks I have more exercises to do on my list

A new fan and Subscriber.

Great exercises❤

Love this video :)

Can we get a full metronome tutorial?

Finger independence is super helpful !

Oh hey, the last one is spider chords.

Good job 👏 👍 👌 🙌 😄 😀

I actually was looking for new exercises to do with my guitar. Excellent

The first exercise really helped me with my finger independence a few years ago and would highly recommend it but would add another step to it - after you feel comfortable doing as Brandon explained, do the same thing but with 2 fingers at the same time, opposite directions - for example, leave the middle finger and the pinky on the neck, than take the index finger and place it on the low e and your ring finger on the high e and switch between them (both fingers should press down on the exact same time). try doing it with all fingers combination possible.

Brandon, thanks for the video, the long form is great and gives much-needed context. Can you please tell about the modes you play during the fourth exercise - it sounds musical and everything seems fine, but I just can't seem to understand how they form past the ionian. Cheers!

If you want to make exercise one even harder, you can try using two fingers at a time, placing your second finger on the high E string and your first finger on the low E string, and hybrid picking the first string, alternating between the two. Adapted that from pumping nylon and it's superb for developing finger independence both on classical guitar and electric guitar

*YES*

Tomo Fujita has a version of the last exercise in which he does ‘fifths’ and ‘minor thirds’ using the same pair of fingers before moving on to the next set of strings, it’s a cool version of the one you showed there! 😅

How to do the first one?!?My ringfinger even can't move

i love you

great exercises! btw is your canadian Daphallia any different than others around the world?

MONSTER!!!!!!!!

I am not even past the first minute, and I already hate the exercise just by looking at it. My future evenings are going to be great ;-)

Arpeggios - with b-bop scale, cuz Im that jazz cat

Hi Brandon, thanks for this but . . . this video has confused me about modes (again). Can you do a video on odes, please and thanks.

Exercises for practicing vibrato please

God I needed this As a left handed player I need to exercise my hand as much as possible My ring finger has 0 strength and too poor and invested to buy a left handed guitar any day.

did bro just developed those nerves on his fingers

im watchin the entire 1:30 minute Yousician ad. They better pay u

Well, number 5 really drives me nuts. 😅

The first one has variation, where you move two fingers at once in oposite directions. You should practice all finger combinations. Try that one.

How to get newbies a tendonitis 101

I like that instead of saying in the thumbnail (this will make you better) or something like that he said: You will hate this. Maybe people do know that the stuff that is good for them is always going to be painful and difficult.

They do

Lorian Dorian what theeeefack

Judging by the thumbnail I thought it was going to be Matt Berry!

the first one was hard but alright, the second one tho... i need therapy, it was so bad that i cant write anymore, took me 10 yrs to write this

But have you tried not throwing your fingers away every time you move up the strings?

2:33 set speed to x2 for John Petrucci.

Isn't the thumbnail one of neons chord ?

Brandon keep uploading longer videos... Shorts are sucks....

Yo how you're doing

You don’t know painful exercises until your quadratus lumborum muscle is spasming so hard you can’t get off the floor and you’re supposed to “stretch” it. You develop sudden onset Tourette’s and start cursing in tongues. It’s like getting branded while Superman squeezes your bottom rib. Then when it finally releases you get back up and go back to light finger torture like this.

00:16 DUCK TALES oaoh! 🤣

I almost did it at 1 bpm 😂

Dave Mustaine approved number 3 and number 5

2:40 bring that pinky lower there fine sir.

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great, new exercises and video length, now I left

Man i really wanted to play some cigarettes after sex song but i cant now :((

7:06 Me who knows how 2 play wake up dead:

This reminds of SpongeBob theme I understand but how technically? Does notes match?

Brandon sir please help me how many hours should i practice in a day 3 hours 4 hours or 5 hours🤢🥵

These are all very helpful. Thank you. Also helpful - just stop shouting all the time.

I just realized you've gotta be Canadian..

No mention of laying off the cigarettes to be a better guitarist....

6:08 yeah, we know but metal is cooler 💅🏻

Ow😬

All

Throw you a fish

I hate small frets

Ranking system is trash at ranking, great at engagement though.

hmmm

I finished a whole cigarette during your three minute drill

Do you also have 5 non painful exercsies that don't work?😅

This infomercial sucks!! 😂😂

People who can't do these exercises then like here so we could know how many people are ther who can't do this........ Like here

Nuh uh no they don’t

4:15 you did the same string twice lol

Maybe it’s painful because your wrist technique is god awful, always so bent

Marry me pls

Please make exercise for specific purposes and add limited video (for Exercise) . Don't overload your channel with bunch of exercises with false claim such as "Do this and increase your speed to 5x".

I take exception to the use of distortion when playing drills of this sort, as your sense of dynamics and tone production are compromised. Dexterity and speed are certainly important, but sound quality should always be the first consideration.

Maybe you should consider skipping over the anchored string when it is in front of other notes or you may risk mind fucking yourself by picking the same note three times while fretting with the three fingers behind it. It'll probably cross wire your brain and cause disturbances in your playing.