Economy Picking & Synchronisation Exercises With Rob Chapman 

why u gettin down on urself loser?

Pfft. sure you can! It's just putting in the time.

just start slow and inch your way up with a metronone bud

@emreyimdir you had 1 year time now :D are you able to do this now ?

Dude it takes so much work

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You have to practice both hands individually then together, and push yourself! None of this SLOW shit. Yes, start slow, but don't do what everyone else does and stay there, build up speed by like five bpm, and make sure you watch both hands at all times while playing, to pick out flaws, and address them immediately, move the pick JUST past the strings, practice that alone too. Start at your head and all the way to your toes, relaxing each muscles every time you play. When playing ascending or descending licks like 3 note per string licks or something, always LIFT all fingers, never leave that index down as a crutch. Do not anchor your right hand either, keep it free flowing and relaxed, either with a clinched fist (not tight just enough to hold onto the pick) or fingers hanging loosely down. Learn the correct way to hold a pick for speed (plenty of vids). Just don't anchor anything like having your Pinky on the pick guard and pressing. It causes tension. Practice making all your fingers only lift up as much as they need to on your fretting hand, I had a problem with every finger except the index and middle, they would fly up between notes. It's a very hard thing to get past, especially when you start over after 14 years of playing and practicing wrong. Also with speed always keep your fretting hand thumb in the center or abouts on the back of fretboard. It will benefit you in the long run. Make sure every once in a while, even tho it will sound like shit, go all out, and try to play the licks at a speed you know you're not capable of right now. That way you get the feel for playing at that speed, I do it about 5 times every 20 minutes or so, during practice. Independent fingers are very beneficial too, which is part of not lifting your fingers too far off fretboard when lifting to change to a different string. Really focus on relaxing that Pinky and all other fingers, so they barely rise above the strings. My last advice as a player who started over, to someone I would like to see do it right, is make sure you change up your practice regime every day to keep from getting boring. If you have prioritized issues you want to work on, keep those in the regamine, but still rotate to different days. And make sure you are practicing the CORRECT things in order. Theory is like a book, that never ends, but it is in order nonetheless. You don't want to not know all the notes on the fretboard and start jumping into sheet music reading or crazy scales....learn your notes, then chords, then scales...ect. I hope this helped and isn't just a jumbled pile of scrap! Sorry it was so long. Enjoy, it's fun as hell once you start getting into the interesting stuff! Don't give up!

John Braucher Damn you're a hero my dude!

Video games suck.. It is fake.. For little kids. Men dont play video games.

@@johnbraucher1499 Post up some videos with tabs so we got something to actually use

+Jantes Inferno heavy picking isn't good unless you just want to chug metal or maybe plays blues. A heavy pick is not ideal for arpeggio playing or many other styles.

+Rusty Shackleford first time i watched a rob chapman tutorial i was like "wadafuck is wrong with my neck ??!!" ^^

+Didymostruespeak yeah, this really annoys me when they don't warn they are tuned down. "Students" usually learn in standard tuning... Nothing in the description, no caption...

does it matter? if thats a problem for u this video is not for u

For people saying that it does not matter, it's not that the patterns will change. The lower the tunning, the easier it is to play faster because there is less and less tension.

That doesnt even make any sense

@@evilbabaroga Matters when you have a locking trem.

Yes :) raising the 7th of the natural minor makes it harmonic minor and raising the 6th with the 7th makes it melodic minor.

moises salcido so melodic minor is basically like natural major but with a diminished 3rd right??

HECKproductions Yep, if you take a Major scale and flat the 3rd note it'll become the Melodic Minor scale for that key.

not a diminished 3rd, but a minor 3rd... (also, in a classical context, the melodic minor scale is the natural minor scale descending)

youll get there in the end dude!

The way I fixed this problem was to always practice with a metronome at half time, and I play so that each beat/tick was a downstroke and each off beat was an upstroke. Don't start this playing fast because you'll end up with some bad habits, but it works as a good starting point for economy picking.

+jblack57 How is it even possible to learn to play with just down strokes?

depends on the music. Theres NO REASON you cant just downstroke unless youre playing incredibly fast. And back in the day there was no youtube. Youd buy books. or more likely a book of tabs of a certain band and try to figure it out. Maybe you had a teacher and he learned the same way and gave you his bad habits. We are incredibly lucky and ill bet the existence of the internet quadrupled the number of guitarists

+Skeptic Gamer You don't, you use a down stroke (or upstroke) when the movement dictates you can use it. In other words you play an odd number of notes coming off a string which moves you to the next. Economy picking is incredibly difficult to master quickly, particularly if you have been playing for years and always used alternate. It's one of those things you need to persevere and be patient with. You can think of a single one direction strum across all six strings as a series of single economy picks!

he Always uses that godawful muddy distortion. and he picks fast i think to show off. Check out justinguitar etc. Anyone who's really trying to teach you isnt using fast fingerings you cant see and distortions to hide wtfever note or chord theyre playing