How To Build Guitar Speed FAST (Just Practice THIS!) 

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December 08 : 0bpm. Just memorizing the pattern is a challenge 🙂.

I don't play metal and I don't play progressive rock, but I stumbled onto this channel months ago and decided for fun to see if I could learn a little about shredding. I play primarily Blues and Classic Rock (I am all about those Boomer Bends) and I was shocked last night when I went to go learn some new solo's at how much I have improved. Staggering! how easy somethings were, that would have given me a hard time 6 months ago. I just walk over them without even thinking. Older solo's I know sound cleaner and I am adding in new flourishes with these techniques Improved picking technique, improved finger discipline, not having to play at what would have been my max speed, and more. These workouts really improve every style, and your playing in general. Can't wait to rock this one for the next 30 days and see what happens. Keep up the great training and great videos, Cheers

Started on 19/12/21 Day 1: Started today at 50 bpm Day 2: Reached 100 bpm but my left hand stopped cooperating Day 3: I can now play 100bpm with much more ease, I struggle a bit at 110bpm Day 4: I can play 110 bpm (not very cleanly tho) but my hands stop working at 120bpm Day 5: Still stuck at 120 bpm, I can now play 110 more easily tho Day 6: Almost no change since last time, still stuck at 120 Day 7: I went on vacation without my guitar and I haven't practised in over a week so I am back at 100bpm Day 8: 110bpm comes off pretty easily but still not able to go up to 120 Day 9: Almost able to do 120, still not completely tho Day 10: At 120bpm, 130 seems impossible Day 11: My hands felt tired today, I only got to 110 Day 12: Back at 120bpm, still not clean Day 13: Fell back to 110 again Day 14: Still can't get 120 clean Day 15: I stopped practising this for a while to focus more on improv but I am back to finish it this time. Currently at 110bpm Day 16: Pulled off 120 bpm and close to reaching 130bpm. I aim to finish the challenge by day 30 Day 17: I can now play 130 bpm but it sounds kinda sloppy Day 18: Still at 130bpm although now it sounds cleaner Day 19: No improvements since yesterday, still can't reach 140 Day 20: Getting closer to 140 Day 21: I can kind of play 140, although I miss a few notes Day 22 : No major improvements since yesterday, although I feel more comfortable playing at that tempo Day 23: I can finally play 140 without missing any notes, but I still gotta work on playing it cleaner Day 24: Still at 140, 150 is too fast Day 25: Reached 150, but I miss a few notes now and then Day 26: Haven't made any major improvements since last time Day 27: Didn't have the best practise session today, my timing seemed off Day 28: I missed a few sessions as I was really busy this week, I barely reached 150 today Day 29: I've been pretty busy lately so I didn't have that much time to practise. I am still at 150 Day 30: I can keep up with 150 although it sounds awful

My hands and fingers seems to be talking to me for the first time

1:55 50 bpms 2:34 60 bpms 3:10 70 bpms 3:41 80 bpms 4:08 90 bpms

Finally.. after half year I'm able to complete the entire exercise! Thank You Bernth so much for your work :)

After two hours non stop practicing, I'm finally stuck at 100 BPM. I'll try to do better tomorrow! Thanks for this exercise Bernth :)

Day 1: 70 bpm Day 2: 70 bpm consistently Day 3: - Day 4: 75 bpm Day 5: 75 bpm Day 6: 80 bpm (barely) Day 7: 80 bpm Day 8: 85 bpm Day 9: - Day 10: - Day 11: 80 bpm After 3 months: 100 bpm

Im able to manage 120 bpm but Ive noticed that I cant play other patterns ( already known) at the same speed. Is this because of the muscle memory developed for this particular exercise? Looking for some advice folks

December 30, 110 bpm. I'll be stuck here for a loooong time 😂

Starting 15/06/22 10-20 mins a day Day 1: 80 bpm Day 2: 85 bpm Day 3: 95 bpm Day 4: 95 bpm Day 5: 95 bpm Day 6: 85 bpm (slowed down so I can play it clean, I was forcing too much through mistakes and not improving) I had to travel, so I didn't play guitar for 5 days Day 7: 85 bpm Day 8: 90 bpm Day 9: 90 bpm Day 10: 100 bpm Day 11: 100 bpm Day 12: 100 bpm Day 13: 105 bpm Day 14: 110 bpm (Struggling to be consistent, i didn't practice for a few days, but today i practice over 40min to beat the speed, i started at 70 bpm and focused on keeping both hands very relaxed and getting clean sound) Day 15: 110 bpm Day 16: 115 bpm Day 17: 120 bpm Day 18: 120 bpm

I did it! I made it all the way to the end of the video! Now let's start practicing!

Reached 180bpm on the second day. Then realized that it’s quarter notes, and four notes per beat 🤣 so I’m actually not even playing at 50bpm. I’m still proud of the progress I made as I am a new guitarist and can feel my hands grow stronger and more coordinated. I will continue practicing and see where I get lol 😂 4 Days: I’ve finally reached 50 bpm but I can’t play it perfectly every time. Enjoying this exercise as it’s making my finger strong and coordinated

Day 1: 50 bpm Day 2: 60 bpm Day 3: 70 bpm Day 4: 80 bpm Day 5: 85 bpm Day 6: 90 bpm Day 7: 92 bpm Day 8: 95 bpm Day 9: 96 bpm Day 10: 96 bpm Day 11: 94 bpm Day 12: 97 bpm Day 13: 98 bpm Day 14: 94 bpm Day 15: 97 bpm Day 16: 97 bpm Day 17: 98 bpm Day 18: 99 bpm (really glad I practiced instead of skipping!) Day 19: 98 bpm Day 20: 99 bpm Day 21: 100 bpm (woohoo!) Day 22: 98 bpm Day 23: 98 bpm Day 24: 99 bpm and 108 bpm bursts Day 25: 99 bpm and 108 bpm bursts Day 26: 100 bpm and 112 bpm bursts Day 27: 101 bpm and 112 bpm bursts Day 28: 101 bpm and 110 bpm bursts Day 29: 100 bpm

day 1: 90 bpm, struggling to get clean with this bpm Day 2: 100 bpm not clean tho Day 3: 100 bpm but cleaner than day 2 not perfect tho Day 4: struggling to get 90 clean weird Day 5: 100 bpm 99% clean just a few kinks with my picking hand and fretting hand i need to work through Day 6: Took yesterday off cause my wrist was hurting Day 7: 100 bpm clean Day 8: 100 bpm Day 9 110 bpm baby FUCK YEAH (edit: it's not 100% clean) Day 10: 100bpm Day 11: took an off cause my arms hurt Day 12 110 bpm more clean Day 13: 110 bpm Day 14: 110 CLEAN! lets go!!! Day 15: 110 Day 16: 110 but there are moments where my hand are not in sync

Day one: Just started learning the chromatic for this exercise (50) Day two: learned to play 60 bpm cleanly, can just get to 70 bpm Day three: went to a friends so nothing Day four: did 60 and 70 cleanly, can do 80 semi cleanly. Day five: practiced polishing skills up and BARELY got to 90 after non stop practicing for 1.25 hours twice. Already feeling the improvement thanks Bernth! Day 6: 100 bpm (sloppy) Day 7: took in person lessons and wasn’t able to practice this exercise Day 8: tried to slow it down and improve my playing quality (90) Day 9: can play 90 cleanly, working on 100 Days 10-11: unable to practice Day 12: can cleanly do 100, 110 is manageable but could be better Day 13: cleaning up 110, 120 unclean Day 14: still cleaning 110 Day 15: satisfied with 110, picking cleanly at 120 is tough for me but like 110, I think I can get it with time Day 16: 120 is decent, gonna try 130 when my wrists aren’t dying 😅 bc I practiced a lot today Day 17: 130 is okay, 140 is choppy Day 18: decided to slow it down again at 130 Day 19: think I hit my first roadblock 140 still challenging Essentially days 20-23: kept practicing until I could get past 140 Day 24: 150 is manageable, could be better Day 24: improved 150 Day 26: 160 doesn’t sound terrible actually, just some minor adjustments may be needed Days 26-31: I’ve just been doing this exercise on and off, 160 sounds pretty good so I’d say I’d completed the challenge Some tips for new people: no need to hold the pick too tightly, being relatively relaxed but controlled is the sweet spot! Don’t reveal too much of the pick, this makes it harder to escape the strings and you will feel more resistance. Playing at a slightly slower tempo with quality is better than playing mediocrely at a faster tempo. If you are unsure of how something sounds, play with a clean tone to easily identify mistakes. This challenge is very doable! I’m an intermediate and this is just a special chromatic essentially

December 13: 50bpm May 5: 140bpmn (not perfect tho) May 6:150 bpm June 1: Perfected 140 bpm 150bpm almost sounds perfect, just started with 160bpm June 20:160 bpm (not perfect tho) September 1, 2023: Came to understand that my picking technique is ass, start over once again with the correct picking technique September 25: grinding 120 bpm atm October 28: 140 bpm sounds kinda okay, but not perfect

Once I finally made it past 100 I started ZOOMIN

We're so fortunate to have people that make videos like this for other guitarists. I wish I had this when I first started. It would've saves me a lot of time and mistakes I've had to fix. Thank you to you and anybody else that does this for others. Can't wait to practice this.

Day 01: Stuck on getting 140bpm clean, can do it sloppily.

I have been playing guitar for over 10 years, but I was self-taught from the beginning. I never really knew what to practice, and was honestly quite lax with myself lol. I spent a huge majority of that time basically learning songs that I liked, and this pretty much allowed me to play or learn whatever I wanted by ear (granted that it was within my boundaries technique-wise). When it came down to other things like picking fast, I found that I was extremely weak in those aspects. I had horrible picking and left+right hand coordination once the BPMs started rising. So now I'm spending a lot of my time playing catch-up. I stumbled across your channel and watched a few of your videos, and decided to go along with this one. I started about a week ago at Level 8 @ 120 bpm, and it was pretty comfortable to me. 130 bpm was where my coordination started to desync, so I took that as my starting point to grind. I practiced around this tempo, going up and down as needed. Fast forward to now and I just hit 140 bpm and both my hands are in sync. I love you Bernth lol you won me over 🤣I am sure I will hit 160bpm in the coming weeks. Please never stop making videos, you are truly amazing.

Starting 6/20/23 Day 1: 60 bpm down, 70 a bit sloppy Day 2: 70 bpm, 80 bit sloppy Day 3: 90 bpm clean, 100 bpm very sloppy Day 4: still stuck at 90 bpm, i’m starting to think this will be impossible Day 5: 100 bpm! 110 sounds a bit terrible though 😅 Day 6: 100 bpm very clean. Can keep up with 110 but it doesn’t sound great. Day 7: 110 sounds a bit better.

Started at 50 bpm. Up to 90 bpm after memorizing the pattern and practicing for 15 minutes. Going to keep practicing because the faster I pushed, the more I started noticing picking deficiencies. Thank you for this exercise, Bernth. It's definitely helping me see my lazy habits, and forcing me to improve.

Day 1 6/4/24: got to about 80bpm without too many mistakes. got tricky at 90bpm. Day like 5-6 7/29/24 got to 90-100 bpm without too much difficulty. got hard at 110-120 Day 7 - 8/1/24 got through 50-100 again, 110 felt ok. 120 had a decent amount slip ups and 130 was a shit show Idk what day it is. got a really good run of 110 bpm until the end where i messed up a bit, 120 and 130 were rough but better.

I lost all my pics. I need to get more

2:34 60bpm 3:09 70bpm 3:40 80bpm 4:07 90bpm 4:32 100bpm

Day one: 70 bpm. I keep going back because my left hand is to uncontrolled. It seems like a very good workout though. Thanks man!

I will share my progress as well. Day 1: 40mins just to learn the progression, 50bpm is actually harder than 60bpm as i dont think as much in 60bpm, 70 is doable with some mistakes. 2 hours later 70 is easy, 80 is doable with mistakes. Day 2: 80 is easy. Weirdly i struggle with the direct ascends and descends after the 10th of 4th string. I always break the rythm and cannot return to it :(. 1 hour later 90 and 100 achieved. 110 is just ridiculous. Seems tmy left hand gave out :/ 1 more hour later 100 is normal, 110 is doable with some slip ups. Day 3: I found the issue, my pinky soar through the galaxy thus speed loss on my left hand denies me from gaining speed. working on pinky positioning. 110 is VERY HARD. 100 become somewhat doable. 120 is not fair. Day 4: Fixing my technique, 90 and 100 became easier while 110 is still very hard. 120 is impossible. 1 hour later first clean 100. Found out that resting my wrist on the bridge instead of not resting is much better and make me more relaxed. 110 is doable with slip ups at the end of day. Day 5: First cleanish 110, very few slip ups. My right hand is good now but my left hand feels very stiff especially if i do 3 of these loops back to back. Day 6: 110 is doable with slip ups. 2 hours later, Something weird happened, i just unlocked the ability i guess now 120 is doable? how? Day 7: 90 and below is just boring at this point, 120 is doable after warm up. 110 more clean. Guys... im an idiot. I just saw that my picking directions are all f ed up. It gave me huge clarity while playing. Day 8: 110 is very doable with warm up. 90 and 100 is easy. 120 is still a challenge but not impossible. 1 month later.... Day 1: 120 is doable. 130 is hard but not impossible.

Day 1: 50bpm (not polished) Day 2: did not practice Day 3: did not practice Day 4: 50bpm (clean) ; 60bpm (not clean) Day 5: 60 bpm (average) ; 70bpm (barely) Day 6-9: haven't touched the guitar Day 10: 60bpm (clean) ; 70bpm (has a lot of unwanted noise) Day 11: 70bpm (has unintentionally muted sounds) ; 80bpm (barely) Day 12-13: still the same Day 14: still stuck at 70 bpm Day 15: reached 80 bpm (has unwanted noises) Day 16: skipped Day 17: went back to 70 bpm

day 1: first 10 minutes just trying to learn all the notes at 30 bpm, preparing to start at 50 bpm now. it's been around 40 minutes now and i'm kinda able to do it at 50 bpm but it doesn't sound clean. 60 fucks me really hard, my brain cannot think that fast. brain doesn't work anymore, going to bed. day 2: after sleeping, it seems like I’m better. I can do 60 sometimes, and I even managed to get 70 working ok. Will focus on 60 tomorrow to be perfect. day 3: i got to 70. Sometimes I still miss but I'm much better than yesterday. I even started playing with 80 bpm, but the descending sections are hard at this point for me.

3:10 - 70BPM 3:41 - 80BPM 4:07 - 90BPM 4:32 - 100BPM 4:53 - 110BPM 5:13 - 120BPM 5:31 - 130BPM 5:48 - 140BPM 6:03 - 150BPM 6:17 - 160BPM

Day 1: 50 BPM, trying to memorize the pattern. Day 2: 60 BPM, almost consistent. 2 days away from guitar. Day 3: Somehow got to 70 BPM, almost consistent. Came back after 7 months. It's the 6th of August 2024 and I'm starting the challenge again. Hope I'll continue. Day 1: 80 bpm consistently, 90 bpm sloppy. Day 2: Stuck at 90 bpm, a bit sloppy, but gaining confidence. Day 3: I am now comfortable with 90 bpm, although it's still sloppy. I tried 100 bpm, I need more speed in the left hand. I'll try my best to get there. Day 4 (after 2 days break): 90bpm very sloppy and difficult after the break Day 5: I'm confident with the speed for 90bpm, but it's still very sloppy. Gotta work on that. I tried 100 bpm and it didn't turn that bad. Day 6: There were many days I couldn't play the guitar. Today I tried a little bit and reached 90 bpm. It was sloppy, but there's some progress.

Started Sep 4th, 2023 Day 1: Having trouble with the pattern, memorized about half of it Day 2: Memorized most of the pattern Day 3: Finally got the pattern down, consistent enough with 50bpm Day 4: I can keep up with 60bpm with occasional mistakes. Don’t have much time to play today so I’ll attempt 70bpm tomorrow Day 5: I can keep up with 70, 80 is very difficult Day Day 8: It has been a few days. Something I realized is that I need to work on my picking technique. I’ll update again when I make more progress Day 9: With my new picking technique I can keep up with 70, the problem I’m facing is I can’t seem to get any speed ‘perfect’. Day 10: Been making less mistakes and am more motivated now. I’m able to do 70 relatively consistently, but 80 is still a struggle. Day 11: I can keep up with 80, but it is not easy Day ??: It's been about a month since I last tried this. I am able to do 90 and keep up with 100 after having applied alternate picking to what I already know. Gonna continue my long break from this challenge to focus on other things but I may return one day.

28.12.23 - barely 130 and stuck at 140 14.01.24 - stuck at 150 23.02 - easily doing 130, almost 140

i got into this video and forgot i lost my pick

I consider myself a slow learner so this will be interesting Day 1 : Can barely do the 50bpm version, it's not really because of the speed but because I need to memorize the notes well Day 2 : Could do the 50bpm as soon as I woke up, managed to do 70 bpm after 40 minutes of practice Day 3 : Cleaned up 70 bpm and can do 80 bpm pretty sloppy

This exercise rules…I’m at 100bpm after a day of trying (5/29/2023) and actually think I’m gonna be able to get to the end. I have the finger speed already to get to the end, but not the timing or coordination. I’m more of a Hendrix style player but always wanted to learn to shred for real and I think you’re gonna be a great asset. Will be joining Patreon, thanks so much!

I'm late to the party, but I'm trying this exercise now. I'm not much of a speed demon, but I want to improve my alternate picking speed and accuracy. At the moment I am stuck at 90 BMP. I can ALMOST get 100, but it's a little fast for me. I'm 62 years old so I'm trying to unlearn some old habits. I tend to move my index finger and thumb rather than my wrist. I'm trying to unlearn and relearn but it's tough teaching an old dog new tricks.

Day 1 140 bpm(barely) Day 2 140 bpm(consitently) Day 3 150 bpm(barely) Day 4 150 bpm(consitently)

Day 1: memorising the pattern Day 2: 50bpm is sometimes messy but overall ok Day 3: 60bpm Day4: 60bpm sometimes 70bpm Day 5: - Day 6: 60bpm sounds good and 70bpm is mostly ok Day 7: - Day 8: - Day 9: 70bpm sounds good, 80bpm is very sloppy

Day 0: Thinking about starting tomorrow 🤔 Day 1: 50 BPM with a bit of discomfort. Day 2: 80 BPM inconsistently Day 3: 80 BPM Still difficult Day 4: 80 BPM Starting to feel comfortable Day 5: 90 BPM feels impossible Day 6: 90 BPM Felt doable today Day 7: 100 BPM can't play all the notes yet. Day 8: 90 BPM Still needs work Day 9: 90 BPM I'm starting to blame my cheap guitar and picks 😑 Day 10: 90 BPM Almost there Day 11: 90 BPM Still feels difficult Day 12: 90 BPM Fells doable Day 13: Missed almost 2 weeks( stuck at 90)

My diary c: 15.01 - comfortable 70bpm. The goal now is to automatize the pattern and focus on swift switches between notes - remove as much unnecessary movement as possible.

I appreciate all the efforts that a lot of you teachers make to help us increase our speed. Most of the time, the challenge is perceived as being a picking challenge that can be resolved by good control of the picking hand. In my case, picking hand is the easy part. Whichever exercise I try, I am always stuck at about 85 bpm for 16th Notes (or even less, and I've been playing for years!) because of my left hand! My pinky is pretty small (much smaller than yours, Bernth) and it forces me into a position that has a serious limit it seems. I was wondering: does your Alternate Picking Masterclass take into account the left hand? I don't know what to do anymore and I practice hard!

Seeing this video after a year 😭 i just started a few months ago so im a beginner Day 1: 50 bpm ( had to learn the notes )

Day 1: I was unable to play to any of the levels but began learning the pattern. Day 2: still unable to play along but getting better at notes

Started several days ago. Bit of a backstory - can't shred to save my life and got horrible technique with years of bad habits that I'm now trying to correct, "flying pinky" being the biggest offender, so I'm also trying to do routines to fix those at the same time I'm working on this. Day 1: Trying to learn and get through the whole thing in free tempo without forgetting what note comes next xD Day 2: Starting to get the hang of 50 BPM without stumbling, pattern memorizing issues for now as opposed to techniques. Day 3: 50 BPM down, 60 BPM doable but not effortless, 70 BPM breaks down, complete noise past that. Got a looooong road ahead of me, it seems. Day 4: Managed to start being able to do 70 BPM throughout, but far from consistent. Couldn't get a single coherent run at 80 BPM. Day 5: Getting marginally better... I think? Still couldn't crack 80 BPM. 70 is more or less consistent now though. Day 6: 80 BPM down! Just need to make it feel less tense and forceful. 90 feels basically impossible at the moment, can't even get through the first bar. Day 7: Yesterday's progress might have been a fluke. Forget 90, I couldn't even do 80 BPM reliably today. Day 8: Although still extremely tense and forceful, 90 BPM is starting to sound... recognizable. Yeah, let's put it that way. Day 9: Still working on 90 BPM.

Day 1 21.9.22 - Took soooo long to even do 50BPM. Had a hard time getting the pattern. Got to 70BPM eventually. Day 2 22.9.22 - Finally memorised the pattern. Can get up to 90BPM sometimes. Day 3 23.9.22 - 90 Day 4 24.9.22 - Struggled to get to 90. Day 5 26.9.22 - 100! Day 6 27.9.22 - 100, didn't have much time to spend this day. Day 7 28.9.22 - 100 Day 8 29.9.22 - 110... can almost do 120. My hand, wrist and forearm have been sore all this time from this exercise. I feel like my playing is becoming more precise overall.. really quickly. Day 9 14.10.22 - Haven't been playing guitar everyday. I was probably overdoing it. 130 today!

80 bpm at day 4 - I´ve been playing guitar for about 1,5 years and this already helped a lot to improve my alternate picking technique, Thank you for your Tutorials ^^

FEB 14 - Day 1: learnt the notes through 50BPM > 80BPM after an hour can play 90 bpm normally and 100 bpm through burst, still trying to perfect 90BPM before progressing to 100bpm, my brain went numb.....imma sleep

Day 1: Can do 80 cleanly easily enough. 90 is a challenge. Left hand stops working and i skip a few notes. Day 2: 80 is a breeze now. I did 90 a lot cleaner today. Starting messing up a bit towards the end but still cleaner and overall an improvement Day 3: Skip Day 4: 90 is very clean now. Almost perfect other than a few errors here and there. Can sorta do 100 but I just lose coordination between the hands. Day 5: 90 is a breeze now. 100 is a bit cleaner but still room for improvement

August 17, 2023 - DAY 1: Currently at Level 6 100BPM (4:32) DAY 2: I can now play 110BPM (4:54), I'm gonna try to go 120BPM (5:13). Day 2.5: I can play 120BPM but it sounds so sloppy Day 3: Back to 80BPM, after listening to my recording, I realized how bad my technique was so I tried to make sure every plucked note is consistently good Day 4. Back to 120 with a slightly cleaner technique Day 5. Still stuck at 120, trying to improve my technique Day 6: Took a break and tried jamming to a backing track, I definitely saw a little improvement with my alternate picking. Day 7: I'm gonna try to get myself used to 130 BPM (5:31), then try to clean everything

Gonna spend about an hour a day practicing this, I’ll move up BPM when I can play it 7 times in a row without messing up Day 1 - Spent most of today getting familiar with the exercise. Struggling with the chromatics at the end and the pinkie reach to the 10th fret. Nonetheless, I got to 90 bpm today. Looking forward to this challenge!! Bookmark: 4:32

1/5/24- I could get pretty consistent at 90 bpm, but I struggle with synchronization and I am tensing my shoulder. I'll have to slow it down to work on form for a few minutes each session to help me in the long run. 1/7/24- Haven't played too much in the last 2 days, but I was able to get 100 easily and got a very close attempt at 110. I'll give it another 15 mins to clean up my movements and give 110 another try. 1/8/24- Just did a 45-60 minute session to practice this and some other things. Got several clean attempts of 110 and was able to get through 120 relatively smoothly twice. 130 was a little too fast still though. Will come back and get a rough attempt tomorrow for sure.

Two days just reached level 5 90 bpm, very difficult for a beginner like me 😢

Day:1 90 bpm

Day one, practiced at least 2 hours and stuck at 90bpm. Will try to beat this tomorrow. I’ve been playing a little over 2 years and just now getting serious about developing my skills and technique instead of just learning more songs. Thanks for the challenge Bernth!

I think one of the challenges I’m having with something like this is, believe it or not, playing it at 50bpm. I guess my Brian’s and hands feel like they’re waiting eons for the one to come back around again. Lol Maybe it’s just me trying to sync with metronome when I begin practicing. Can I throw in a random German word here? How about Käsekuchen? 🙂

started yesterday, choppy at 60bpm, today 60 feels better 🤙🏽 thanks for the exercise!

day 6 27 sep 2024 complete 100 with ease btw i forgot to comment on day 5

29th of January 1st day: memorizing - 50 bpm 2nd day: 60 bpm 3rd day: 70 bpm 4th day: 80 bpm This already feels incredible fast for me and it is only half speed 😮 Update: 26th of February Day 8: 90 bpm Day 12: 100 bpm but not fluently as it should be

Nice workout! December 8th: Today I'm only learning the exercice, starting speed challenge tomorrow. December 10th: Struggling at 100 bpm.

Man thank you so so much. This exercise and the ones on patreon have done wonders for me. I can transition strings easily now and keep time so much better. My heartfelt thanks to you man! You have made me a better guitarist, and an even better one in the future. 🤟

Stuck at 120 bpm, that is my stuck tempo since pretty much, the beginning of times. Thanks for the teaching, you really rock

Day one: Memorizing pattern Day 2: 60 BPM, 70 sloppy Day 3: 70 BPM slightly sloppy Day 4: 70 BPM Good 80 BPM Slightly Sloppy Day 5: 80 BPM Good 90 sloppy Day 6: 90 Slightly sloppy Day 7: 90 Good 100 sloppy

2-4-2023 Day 1: im still stuck on 50 bpm cause i started at 10PM and is currently 10:53 PM. Will try again tmrw :) Day 2: 70 BPM Day 3: 80 BPM Day 4: 90 BPM

This was much more fun than I expected! Thanks Bernth! May 26, stuck at 100 bpm!

Day 1: 10/20/23 50 BPM Day 2: 10/22/23 100 BPM Day 3 10/23/23 130 BPM Day 4: 10/25/23 150 day 6 10/26/23 150 day 7/8 10/28 160 just need to clean it up. thanks bernth!

Day 1, 19 ago 70 bpm Day 2 90bpm im strugling with the seicnd part my pinky is not that fast Day 5 i think idk I got stuck at 100 bpm and I subscribed to your patreon to improve my technique

What an amazing speed run. I was kind of bored with the same alternative picking exersizes. This is really cool and i do love a challenge. :-). 120BPM for me so far. 🤘

Day 1: 60 BPM Day 2: 70 BPM (Kind of) Day 3: 70 BPM (Completed both sequences) Day 4: 70 BPM Day 5: 80 BPM (Almost) Day 6: Still at 80 BPM :( Day 7: 80 BPM COMPLETED! Day 8: Struggling at 90 Day 9: Still struggling Day 10: Kinda getting there Day 11: 90 BPM Day 12: 90 BPM Day 13: 90 BPM Day 14: 90 BPM Day 15: 90 BPM Day 16: I guess I’m just stuck at 90 Day 17: 90BPM Day 18: 90BPM Day 19: I took a pause Day 20: 90 BPM Day 21: I actually saw progress today, I think few more days and I will make it past 90 BPM Day 22: 90 BPM Day 23: 90 BPM Day 24: I think I’m gonna call it completed and move on to 100 BPM Day 25: Working on 100 BPM Day 26: Now I can actually do 90 without much difficulty, very proud of myself that I kept pushing Day 27: 100 BPM still a challenge Day 28: 100 BPM Day 29: 100 BPM Day 30: 100 BPM I completed the 30 day challenge, but I’m not stopping here, I’ll update my progress once every month until I’m satisfied. From other peoples comments I can see that I achieved less than most people did for 30 days, but that doesn’t discourage me from practicing even more. I’m glad I found this video and started practicing!

Day 1 Start (March 6, 2023) 110 bpm clean | 120 sloppy Day 4: Can hit 120 (sloppy and slightly tense) Day 11: I can finally hit 160 consistently and clean with no major issue. Took a while to adjust my picking form to accommodate for the speed/looseness needed. Day 25 (March 30): Still doing this daily. 160 is no problem for me after sufficient warm up. I'm doing this every morning right after waking up so sometimes the hands are extra tight. Also trying to utilize more thumb swivel to minimize wrist movement when alt picking to see if I can build up more speed that way.

I've played guitar consistently for 4 years (A month of total non playing days) Here's my progress -Day One: Barely Can do half speed let alone .25 speed and I can't remember any of the tabs. -Day Two: To be unknown

Day one 90 bpm, but dirty. 80 bpm clean. Day two much cleaner 90 bpm, still with mistakes. Day 3: decent bpm 80, almost perfect 90 bpm, managed to do first half of bpm 100 without mistakes. Day$ 4: 90 bpm with some mistakes, done 100 bpm almost perfectly ( maybe 1 mistake), first 2 phrases of 110 bpm (my brain cant keep up with hands lol xD) day 5: 100 bpm with somewhat more mistakes (second loop last phrase cucked) but easier to manage 110 bpm (at least it not feels impossible), even pushed myself to 120 bpm and got right some first phrases. day 6: cleaner 100 bpm, 110 bpm with some mistakes at the end of first and second loop, easier to handle 120 bpm, but still dirty. day 7: way worse 100 bpm, cant handle 110 bpm, thinking about slowing tempo to 50 maybe 40 BPM and work at this speed for a while. Day8 ^ practiced at 40.50.60 bpm. day 9 sweep picking practice. day 10 skipped practicing day 11. got to 100 bpm but dirty again day 12: skipped 1 day day13: kinda meh bpm 90, awful. barely handeble 100 bpm day 14 skipped this one day 15 skipped guitar practice day 16 cleanest 90 bpm so far, but 100 bpm barely handeble (slightly better than at day 13) Summary for 2 weeeks from dirty 90 bpm to perfect 90 bpm. Gonna update my progress weekly, not daily from now on.

I first started playing guitar 17 years ago, but over the last 6 years, I lost my love and drive for the guitar. Recently I've found that passion again, using this exercise daily is a great challenge to regain some of my lost skills! Day 1: Failed. Couldn't get through the exercise Day 2: 50BPM - Pretty chuffed Day 3: 80BPM - This routine is even helping with my sightreading Day 4: Away from home, no chance of practice Day 5: Still Away from home Day 6: 90BPM - I keep catching myself slipping into open hand and not supporting my fretting hand with my thumb. Day 7: onto 100bpm Day 8 - 50(ish): This is still part of my daily warm-up routine. 110bpm has become the comfort spot for warming up. I've shifted my learning goals to more theory-based development, but will revisit this soon and push to improve my speed!

Can't believe how much progress I made. First time I tried it I had to take like an hour to internalize the pattern, then pretty quickly built up to 110 bpm in the following days. Now, like two months or so later, I'm at 140 bpm (albeit quite sloppy), which felt totally impossible when I first started. Slow but steady progress. Onward to the last level of the challenge! 12-12: Starting to try out 150 bpm, still quite some mistakes 13-12 140 bpm. Not a great day today 18-12 Have still been hanging around 140 bpm. Tried 150 bpm a couple times but it's really messy. 19-12 150 BPM starts to feel less elusive, albeit still very difficult. 21-12 140 BPM. Need to get rid of the flying pinky and learn 'economy of motion'. 03-01 130 BPM. Remember kids, we all have good and bad days. 07-01 150 BPM, but very sloppy. 22-02 150 BPM, 160 BPM finally seems to be in reach. 10-03 150 BPM, quite a bit cleaner than before. Trying to change the pick grip for more consistent results. 12-03 150 BPM, getting more solid by the day.

Started January 19. 2024 Day 1- learning the pattern Day 2 - 50 bpm, 60 with mistakes Day 3 - 60 bpm, 70 with mistakes Day 4 - 70 bpm, still some mistakes Day 5 - 70 bpm sounds good, 80 is very sloppy Day 6 - no real progress Day 7 - still stuck at 70 bpm Day 8 - 80 bpm is getting better Day 9 - 90 bpm is very sloppy but doable, did 80 without mistakes once Day 10 - Shit practice, made mistakes even at 50 bpm

No progress since the last time...actually went back to 120BPM with inconsistency around 130BPM....different days different results a bit like pumping iron. Some days are better than others... The faster the tempo the more thoughtful and precise the right hand must be and sync .So, the fingers position and the position of the pick become crucial at faster tempo.Each notes must have the same value throughout the entire exercise and it is not an easy task.

Started this exercise about a week ago, first time ever playing guitar consistently. I'm on my 12 week. I can cleanly play level 3. As soon as I miss a note on level 4 I get all messed up. I look forward to this exercise everyday because you can see your progress from day to day. Thank you!!

Day 1: 60 BPM without any problems Day 2: 70 BPM without any problems Day 3: 80 BPM with mistakes in the end Day 4: 80 BPM perfect Day 5: missed Day 6: 80 BPM with mistakes in the end Day 7: 80 BPM perfect, 90 BPM with mistakes in the end

DAY 1: 50 BPM DAY 2: 80 BPM DAY 3: 90 BPM DAY 4: Stuck at 90 DAY 5: Slighty 100 DAY 6: still 100 DAY 7: 110🎉

Sep 12, 2024 still at 90bpm but im likly getting to 100bpm wish me luck guys❤

Day 1: 50. Day 2: 60. Day 3: 70. Day 4: 70. Day 5: 80. Day 6: 80. Day 7: 80. Day 8: 90. Day 9: 90. Day 10: 80. Day 11: 100. Day 12: 110. Day 13: 100. Day 14: 100. Day 15: 110.

Level 4 3:40 Level 5 4:08 Level 6 4:32 Level 7 4:53 Level 8 5:12 Level 9 5:30 Started Aug 8 2022 d-1 80bpm / 90bpm abit sloppy

I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to shred guitar and guitar in general. Here's my practice journey: - Day 1: 90bpm safe, 100 possible but with a few mistakes - Day 2: 100bpm has become more fluent. [more to come (hopefully 😅)] Thank you so much Bernth for the amazing video content! Greetings from Germany 😃

January 22 - 100bpm after 5 playthroughs. I'll definitely be practicing this all day. it's amazing what a difference 10bpm makes. Been playing for 25 years but never learned how to play lead, only rhythm and singing. Thanks a ton, I feel like this is gonna help a lot.

day 1: confortable until 120 bpms, my right hand gets exhausted very quickly in 110-120, Limit: 120 day 2: started "runing" insted of "walking fast" on the right hand, very good results, can handle 120bpms but still doesnt sound clean, Limit 130 day 3: still struggling with 120 and perhaps 110, gotta keep practicing, limit 130 day 4: actually day 6 cuz i didnt play his days but yeah, feeling a lil bit slower but still can play at 120 but not that clean, Limit: 130 day 5: achieved 140 today, sounds pretty bad but i can play it and i dont get exhausted that quickly, but 130 is my new limit that doesnt sound that bad, Limit: 140

18/06/23 110 19/06/23 120 20/06/23 120 perfect, close to 130 21/06/23 120 close to perfect, working on 130 28/06/23 110 back from vacations, I'm a little bit sloppy 29/06/23 120 close to mastery 30/06/23 120 perfect, working on 130 01/06/23 skipped, focus on music theory 02/06/23 still workind hard af on 120 and 130 03/06/23 working on 120... 04/06/23 120 mastered, again. close to 130 05/07/23 130 close 06/07/23 one note away from mastering 130 07/07/23 still working on 130 08/07/23 still stuck at 130 09/07/23 touched several times 130 clean, started working on higher tempos 10/07/23 couldn't practice... 11/07/23 working on 140 12/07/23 close to 140, sometimes 130 isn't perfect 13/07/23 140 nailed for the first time.... still working on cleaning 130 14/07/23 cleaning 140, 130 is more and more stable 15-16-17-18/07/23 cleaning 130 and 140 02/08/23 came back from vacations.... now it's hard even 110....

hell yea dude I will suck no longer Day 1: I cannot use my pinky, but I can almost make 50 clean. Topped off at a sloppy 60. Played like 30m-1hr. Day 2: 60 almost sounds clean, can do an alright 80 and almost keep up with 90/100. Practriced like 1hr.

Day 1: learning the shape Day 2 morning: could keep up 💯% tight up to 80 BPM .. @ 100 BPM got sloppy. 5/May/2024: can play 100 clean.. can play 110 sloppy, can't keep up at 120 Guys I can't believe this actually works! Today - 4th July 2024 , i can keep up till 150 BPM and I was surprised I was also able to to partial justice to 160, only went off little bit here n there.... But I cannot believe, It was 160 BPM at which I felt little out of control! So by looking at my previous dates, I have been practicing at least from 5th May onwards. I have been practicing daily just once or some days twice - 5 to 10 mins a day everyday for 2 months and I've reached 150 BPM. 😊 Once I reach 160 BPM, I'll upload a cover. I hope whoever is reading this, gets to know the kind of time frame it requires. Just 5-10 mins (1x or 2x for 2 months should take you to 150 BPM!!! 🤘🏽🙏🏽) Thank you so much Bernth 🙌🏽

Jan - day 16: manage to push to 90bpm in the first day Jan - day 17: got to 100 bpm with almost no problem, but 110 bpm still not working Jan - day 18: still got to 100 bpm, a bit more dirty than yesterday tho, 110 bpm felt harder, might work a bit on my technique tomorrow Feb - day 10: got stuck in 2 songs and literally forgot about the training, will come back to it tomorrow.

Starting my practice today I got 100bmp and I stock there. And I challenge myself to reach 160 within 30 days if I can hehehe hopefully I can!

okay let's start it Day 1 - 30th June : 80 BPM, getting stuck when I reached 90 BPM, my pinky still can't did the nice way to pull off Day 2 - 1st July : 90 BPM, i feel better for my pinky, but for the 100 BPM i need to concentrate for this pinky and index legato, and i need to find the comfortable way to hold a pick and picking without some bad alternate

What you think about accent first note like petrucci teach? I'm doing this for every scale oro chromatic but it tires my wrist. Petrucci show that for only begining reference point for temlo or should the general playing be like this? I don't understand. Help please.

Day 1: 50 bpm Day 2: 37.5 bpm Day 3: 60 bpm Day 4: 60 bpm Day 5: 50 bpm Day 6: 60 bpm

2024-01-11 : Trying to learn the notes, its soo hard !! Got to put the video on 0.5 speed at 50 bpms 2024-01-12 : Played it at 70 bpm couple of time flawless, im still struggling with my memory. Sometime i forget notes or pattern 2024-01-13 : Crazy how 50 bpm is now sooo slow, my brain understand almost perfeclty the riffs and its way easier to find notes. i made up couple time at 90 bpm without missing a notes but its really fast for me right now. 2024-01-14 : 70 bpm is now reallly slow, but im still stuck at 90. the fact that i can now play without looking at the note help me a lots, 100 bpm seem possible but i cannot do it.

06/06/2024 Day 1 : 0BPM ; Just learning the workout first.

Day 1 : 50 BPM (0.75x speed) Day 2 : 50 BPM (getting used to this speed)

7/29/23 got it at 48 lol but not clean at 50 7/31/23 60 :^) 8/2/23 70 >:^) 8/3/23 80 but poorly

January 31, Day 1: 100bpm. At 100 and higher, I’m having issues with my fretting hand.