No need for a half hour explanatory video! Just take this advice and PRACTICE instead of spending hours watching tutorials. This is all you need 🤘 More lessons on my website: www.polychuck.com
"Make everybody think you're the best guitarist in the world" haha great line! I have to say, this 2 minute video has been the way I have been practicing for over 15 years and it is very effective.
Great information, subscribed. Lots of talented guitarists on here, but I appreciate the straight-forward instruction/explanation. It's been a few days drilling this, and my alternate picking speed is already increasing.
@@zeroxcrusher certain patterns such as Bonamassa or Eric Johnson type pentatonic two note per string, as well as “fives” can’t be played by economy picking. Try sweeping a two note per string pentatonic scale and you’ll see what I mean.
@@lyricbread I started as an alternate picker, and can play the standard shred lines like this guy is doing, but I spent like a year mastering economy picking. You absolutely can economy pick Bonamassa and Eric Johnsons groupings whether they are even or odd. Eric Johnson is a die hard economy picker when he is ascending and will only change strings on an upstroke when descending, even if it means double upstrokes. Bonamassa is basically the same since his biggest influence was Eric Johnson.
Same here! I can alternate on intermediate speed, but on higher speed my hand switches to economy picking automatically. I know economy is a little bit faster (even Michael Angelo Batio agree on this) but it sounds different.
Also swiping, which I can see this guy do on descending runs. Basically the picks passes through the next string, touching it but in a way nobody can hear or feel while playing. It’s not up for argument, it happens and there is video proof of many virtuoso players doing it.
I play guitar for 16 years by now and only thing I suffer with is fast alternative picking with wrist. My left hand is fast, I can play fast legato runs no probs. But right hand is not improving in speed AT ALL. Been doing sychronization exercises for 2 years, repeating, repeating, with metronome - only like 5 BPM of improvement. No matter what I do, my wrist is slow. I tried EVERYTHING. Different angles, different picks, different exercises. It's only my left hand what is improving. Wtf.
You can, but it's a different technique. They each have their place and you should practice them both. There are runs that are much more comfortable if you alternate pick them, particularly when a lot of string changes are involved, or string skipping. Most of the time when I see someone using economy picking, it's generally reserved for simple straight up or down runs.
Although the information in this video is technically correct in terms of the results, this is not how you develop this skill. Or rather, this is how you develop this skill when you already have years of practicing other exercises already under your belt.
The advice quite literally starts with "learn 3 note per string scales" and "make sure you alternate pick". I honestly can't fathom what you could be suggesting that is more fundamental than that. If someone needs to be told how to hold a pick or how to hold their guitar, you'd hope they wouldn't be on this video for practice tips.
You cant run if you can't walk , if you can't alternate pick you can't be fast at alternate picking , stay humble search for videos on your skill level :)
@@leerobbo92 More fundamental than that: -Good strumming across all six strings -One note per string, string change exercises (eg. pedal tone solo) -Being comfortable playing on 2 pairs of adjacent strings (different groupings) and not all 6 -Basic legato for better left hand control -Tight palm muting and noise control -Assertive downpicking motion to sound off a clean note -Two note per string pentatonics And the list goes on. If you're working on 3 note per string scales, you already have a strong and wide range of mechanics that put you in the spot where such exercise is useful. If you try 3 note per string before you can strum, play power chords, and sound out a descent pentatonic solo, you're probably wasting your time. If you think otherwise: you're probably one of the delusional people who believe it's smart to start practicing scales before a few years of mastering the basics.
@@KingGrio Right. But if you're already watching a video explaining how to alternate pick, all of that is kind of a given to various degrees. That's not the point of the video?
Just gonna say it cuzbit needs to be said. You wannanokay fast? You gotta practice. You gotta pay the price with the boring repetitions until you get faster. All the greats did it that way Vai practiced hours a day Malmsteen same Satch same Gambale same Guthrie G same You gotta put in the work or it wont happen. No youtube "secret" will cause it to happen. Now go practice until your fingers bleed then practice more
@@kaliber150 I see, so he made a video for ADVANCED players huh? How do you define advanced player's, someone who cannot alternate pick fast? If so, what do you call someone who can alternate pick? So what level / demographic is this video for, someone who can already pick fast or someone who DOES NOT have a clue on how to pick fast?
@@kaliber150 who says he ones me anything? If you know How YT works, he grts the benefit of views and comments like this. I believe that this is a free platform to a. Certain extent so people like me can comment or criticize content creators as long as it is not violating policy.
@@ninkichan7209 It's not bad advice, though. It is missing info that would be useful for beginners, but he's not under any obligation to cater to beginners either. There are tons of videos out there for new guitar players that they can watch if they need a more thorough explanation of how this stuff works. You're being obnoxious.
