Pentatonic Picking Exercises - Guitar Lesson For Building Speed 

For this being 2009 that’s one good quality camera

This works! I've struggled with this and finally found someone on RU-vid that did a great job on showing how to practice speed picking that works! Thank you!

Your videos are so helpful! I know this was put out a long time ago but I've watched many videos and I am always very appreciative of how much you want to help others learn guitar. Great work and thank you very much!

These are things that, regardless of implication by any instructor or not, they have learned this in the progress they make and will continue to make thoroughout their musical endeavors. Keep a record of this organizational skill for your efforts no matter what you choose to accomplish.

Thank you very much for all your lessons and efforts! 🙏I am starting now with learning how to play a guitar and I find them extremely useful! ❤

Add to this the relationship between the left and right hand, dependent upon which is the fret hand and which is the strum hand, and the slow first acquiring speed with familiarity of the objective goal. Learn to teach both the fretting hand and the pick hand the relationship between speed and accurate completion of the playing of the notes and you can, no matter your skill level initially, begin to understand more with your head and hands......it is truly a co ordinated effort between the eyes, the ears, the mind and the body....in relationship to learning new skills of any dexterity level. Begin with the speed that allows you to complete the objective perfectly, some 20 or 30 individual times and then add speed as you accurately complete your familiarization with the skill. Speed comes not from failed attemps, but from slow and gradual successful attempts, remember this in your progress through the rudimentary elements of learning a skill of any sort. but especially in an artistic skill, painting, poetry, and the finer arts come from the number of successes against the 0 failure ratio....... Always number of successes against the 0 failure ratio.......Your progress can truly be measured in this way....you can meter your efforts in this way as to say.....slow enough to succeed every time without failure as you go for progress. You will find this is much slower initially, but in the reality of this, you will learn a skill that most great musicians learn intuitively. Build your self reliant skills to prove that you are truly progressing in sight and sound.

FLOATING HAND!!!! :P Great lesson.

You are an excelent teacher. Regards!!!

@holleywierd Hey, I think you are referring to my interval videos. You can find all of them in my advanced playlist including videos for 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths and 7ths. Have fun!! Carl..

i had that same pickup config in my squire strat it sounded pretty good but the fast track 2 had a lot less distortion than i wanted,but the chopper was great for bubbley solos.

Nice thanks

Compare how he looks here back in 2009 to a new video from 2017... He hasn't aged one bit.. Must be a vampire...

nice strat with hot rails, sound very well

Thanks! I have a question...Where should our thumb be? I mean, if my thumb is visible when yours isn't, is it a mistake? Or a matter of personal preference?

Thank you so much!

I thought this was another video I have seen before. Which video did you make that talked about different ways to play the scales to where you used thirds I believe it was. Talking about playing in the box but playing only the root and third note and another was just going through it playing random notes from the position up and down? Can't seem to find this one, thanks!

Consideration should be introduced, in the way of the string size and dexterity is relative to the ease or difficulty of these new lessons for those who, by way of experience, are not adjusted to the dexterity of thick acoustic type strings. It is a far better understanding to realize that the 13 that is on your acoustic guitar is a bite more difficult than the 8 or 9 or 10 and even the 11 so beit that the thicker your strings are the more quick response twitch mode that was easily accomplished on the electric guitar, takes more focus and tap strength initially. It s best to resolve that thicker strings take a more focused effort and in the realm of twitch note efforts....beginning slowly with placement corrections and adaptable strength utilization until your able to twitch like the same as a acoustic/electric. There is, unless its realized first, the idea that you cant do what looks to be simple/easy in tube sight, but in actuality its a relationship between familiarity and the type of guitar your playing on. These are elemental to most experienced guitarists, and to you I nod in approval. Yet to let the novice come to understand some basic considerations may be the difference between who may stay with it and who may give up immediately or in short recourse to not understanding the relationship of one or another consideration that they come upon in the first generation effort towards learning the instrument of choice.

Thank you very much for the reply!

What's the advantage of changing strings with a down stroke as opposed to just doing two ups?

Thanks for the lessons! How much time a day should I do this? At my first go-around, my hand started cramping around 15 mins.

hey great Carl, but did you skip from A Pentatonic to G Major on the 3 and 5 note runs.? Thank you

Thank for lesson

look keanu reeves!!

Dat tone!

i've never heard of rolling except when you take the high e and bend it down off the fretboard,please explain!

what pickups are you using in this guitar?

My pinky just want to curl than to press string

what the point of the pentagonic? I like strumming relly hurd!

I LOL'd so hard at this comment i almost cried!

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oh my... i can't do it T_T

2 notes per string runs in theory should be similar to 4 notes per string but for me I feel so much faster doing 4 per string than 2 per. .

Can't use my pinky at all.

Good but too much talking

less talk please