DESTROY tension and build speed by practicing this lick! Weekend Wankshop 230 

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@john cash MGTOW!!!

Wrong video portal, my friend :3

@@paytonthompsonDead And Lovely is the best fucking podcast ever.

@john cash isn't "bitchy women" redundant?

I like to destroy tension at the Asian massage parlor.

Guitar teachers hate him because of this one simple trick!

All I heard is Ben Eller DESTROYS PATIENCE and PRACTICE.

Hey bro it’s been a year, how much you improved? Let us know

How about them foot fingers?

@Fretboard Burner I'm no expert, but I don't think that's what a cuckold is at all.

@Fretboard Burner you're an absolute peanut lol

@@benjamin-papa you're being too generous...

@@benjamin-papa good job ben. How did this go from working on speed and possibly indentyfing where we might have areas wherecwe were being to tight? A little douche like fretburner alias "douche" creeps in. Cheers to you for slapping his hand.

Death By Stereo I'd say him and Robert Baker are the best at explaining in a way that gets you off to the races without having to spend time "hitting the books" before enjoying the fruits of progress.

He has a video where he talks about relaxation techniques. Next time you play, don't focus on playing so much. Focus on your body while you are playing. Make it a conscious effort to feel whats tight. Work from your toes and move up to your hair. Pay attention to what is noticeably tense and relax it. Spend some time listening to your body. Once you notice what is not relaxing and force yourself to let that tension go everything falls in line.

This. I'm starting to figure out why I cant break my plateau and how to fix it.

speed should never be the goal. consistency first, speed last. hitting every note is much more important than hitting all notes all the time, as fast as possible. that burn may be due to your posture too. don't press too hard on the strings with your fretting hand. you can cause damage to your Ulnar nerve as i learned a few months ago to my dismay. catching it early saved my hand and my arm. if you're pressing too hard, try getting lower gauge strings or if you can't do that, do everything you can to lower the action and keep tonality. ontop of that, fretting posture is most important. use all your fingers no matter how difficult it seems for your little finger, i promise it will catch up much faster than you think. it's easier to train that one finger. after nearly a year of constant little finger usage, it's almost comfortable to rest just above the strings instead of being curled up like a dead dog. also also. have an exercise prepared and do that for 10 minutes at least before you begin playing your session. more often than not, a scale will do. just mix up the order, probably on the fly, and just wait for 10 minutes to pass while you do that. also also also, don't care about tuning. fingering is what matters here. more often than not i watch/listen to something while doing these exercises. i don't think about them, i just let my hand do its thing. sure i know when i hit a bum fret, so i stop, stretch, refresh and go again. speed matters not. once you're warmed up, speed will find you. tension is brought on by not warming up and not being sure of what you're about to do. the rest of the variables i mentioned should be addressed when you pin point that as an issue.

@@swanclipper Hey! Great advice man. My tension actually comes from my picking. Like I said I can play fast and I can do it cleanly 99% of the time. Now that I think about it I never had any problems with fretting. Picking however is a pain in the ass. My tension comes from my arm, which doesn't make any to me because I am 100% sure I am not picking from the elbow and I don't grip the pick really hard. But I just realized that posture might be the problem. I'll try that.

He was trying to get the guitar to stop making that "shrill" sound, while I'm here thinking "that sounds cool, how is he making it do that?"

MetallicA AlabamA Completely mute the fretboard with your fret board hand so you can not hear any notes. While muting the strings with fretboard hand, just focus on the picking with your picking hand. You will quickly see why you are having trouble! Go slow and work up to the picking pattern until you can play that perfectly, then play with both hands! To many times we focus on the fingering and not the picking! You can apply this to any aspect of guitar playing including strum patterns, figer picking etc. John 😁

@@johnhunter3011 I will definetlty do this, and I want to tell you that I appreciate the information. I've always wanted to play the guitar, and play it well. This is not only for myself, but to show my kids that their dad is more than just a dad, and a home repair guy lol. Like in my comment before,playing power chords comes rather easy, but trying to speed pick, sweeping, and just flat out trying to shred is like kryptonite to me. Believe me I try every day, and yes sometimes I want to go fast at first, and I know that I need to start off slow and easy. Mabe I'm just extremely anxious to be able to shred lol. Sorry the response is so long, I really do appreciate the advice. Thank You!

It takes many hours and years! Any one givin song or riff you must get to a point where it becomes totally subconscious. Almost like you are listining to someone else playing it!...it just happens!

He's got my vote.

Your stepdad. He's jealous of your real dad Uncle Ben.

It also has the additional challenge of changing strings both after upstrokes and after downstrokes. Unless you do a little cheat and rearrange the fretting ;-)