George Benson how to play fast 

I must add to your statement. When he plays your jaw drops, and when he sings you can't believe it, but when he sings what he is playing YOU hit the floor. The man is a treasure.

Yeah, but if you can get it (and you can), it is GOLD. I’m sittin’ about 50%, and feeling pretty good about it.

Not necessarily. I honestly have come to believe over my years of studying Jazz that the first step to becoming a monster player is to stop treating lessons like they are for specific levels, and start trying to pick out any musings that register with your level of playing. If you watch an hour long clinic, and "just" two minutes of that clinic transform your approach to any degree, the other 58 minutes were worth the watch, and even moreso worth a revisit in the future.

Word.

Thank God I’m a MONSTER guitarist then

I wouldn't call this a lesson, more of a demonstration with a bit of vague explanation and some wonderful story telling. Great artists rarely make the best teachers, mostly because they have advanced to where they're at by focusing on their playing in the moment, and so it becomes very difficult to remember and articulate the steps by which they got there. Teachers make the effort to go back, recall those steps, and break them down in a fashion designed for students to absorb them one at a time. The greatest players are too busy playing to invest time in that, so they just show some flash and tell awesome stories, and maybe the audience can pick up a tip or two along the way. It's still time well spent.

I suggest using a rubber band, having it outside your fingers, so you can do flex exercises in public. You can wave your hands underwater hard, so the density pushes your fingers, trying to move faster. If you put your hand down on a flat surface, holding it flat, you can pick up a finger and bend it back to see how far it goes, and try to increase the range. You can take your hand and let it rest on a surface. Tap your two outer fingers, tap the next fingers, and then tap the middle finger. You can get that going as a repetitious thing. That creates nerve memory so when you are using those fingers on your guitar they have the pattern embedded already. And if you are a player it's just an exercise to stay in shape. I see you as talking more about having confidence in what you play. Are you also singing along?

Yes 100 % agree

Off the cuff? he said that he had studied it.

Yes, it would have been great if he’d talked more about his own approach, but the gist seemed to be what his father said about taking the pick, dropping his arm then bringing his hand up to the strings. It seems to fall more naturally into the “under the string” position, the hand is more relaxed and you can vary the pick angle so it almost slices across the strings, which helps with his “bee picking” technique. Now watch the other guy try it, as he brings his arm back up he kinks his wrist so his hand angles down and it looks a little unnatural and awkward. If you’d like to find out more about his picking technique take a look at Peter Farrell’s channel, here he talks about George’s bee picking technique… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KTFVvLBtMIY.html

if you check out Isaiah Sharkey He has some heavy Benson influence in his playing and he even picks a lot like him and goes into a little detail in some videos, hope that helps!

Many years ago Tuck Andress posted a lengthy analysis of Benson's picking and why and how he adopted it. It's no longer on his website but a guy named Josh Frets wrote a deep dive about it, adding insights from Sheryl Bailey and the Cracking the Code guy, and those posts are still up on Frets' site and googleable.

@@SRB3llunfortunately the video you listed is not viewable , shows as private. 😢

Rodney Jones too and Miles Okazaki. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--2Ot5F6ifc8.htmlfeature=shared

You say smooth jazz, Mister George Benson created a new blend of jazz, funk and pop, and after doing that he became the best-selling musical artist around the world for a year and a half. It's not smooth jazz if you try to play and sing like Mister Benson, while all those audience women are dancing all around..

Tal Farlow

2008 Ibanez George Benson GB30th Anniversary

Your problem is with the editor, not the two cameras.