The 5 Big Mistakes Most Intermediate Guitar Players Make 

To anybody using Troy's method books, if you are thinking about joining his Patreon , don't put it off, just pick a tier and do it. Fantastic videos and lessons to accompany his books. Thanks again Troy for another great video.

Best teacher in the world..!

I'm proud of my last 6 years of guitar progress and Troy says things that hit the nail on the head. Every advice he gives is a bar of gold. Paying attention to annoying sounds you make. Or using boat loads of distortion to mask sloppy picking, making your tone very "hairy" ie. even your power chords on the low E sound like you are playing the high B and E strings. Nervous vibrato. Absence of vibrato. Technique that makes you hit the right notes but will never give you the right pocket. So much to listen for and adjust to. Overcoming speed barriers: huge topic, massive technique changes required to speed up certain licks, and "just bump the metronome 5 bpm slowly and you'll get there" is the biggest lie I've ever heard. "Being within striking distance" is another very important concept where you need to know that you should practice other things related to the thing you are trying to master, to put you in a spot where you would actually have a chance to master it. And to know what those adjacent things you must practice are, requires either a good coach, or great ability to "mechanically listen", an idea very close point 1. of Troy where you try to make yourself aware of what individual hand motions practiced separately and combined may be conducive to you breaking a speed barrier. Actually I'd recommend to try to develop "mechanical listening" AND get a coach. I would also highly recommend varying technique practice regimen because to master certain fast picking licks I had to discover muscle groups in my hand that were high lighted to my brain by strumming U2 riffs, and then refine and adjust their function to my low amplitude of motion fast picking stuff. Obsessing over one single technique can actually block you if you do not try to train your mechanical neural patterns by feeding them other sensory inputs. I really gotta say Troy is making all the important points here. The only thing unfortunately is that although he is very right about them, they are, for guitar students, very hard to grasp and sound like philosophical mumbo jumbo almost, and a lot of guitar instructors out there are peddling useless concepts out there and wasting your time, so it's hard to know who to give your trust to. But really, my journey in guitar has taught me pretty much exactly what Troy has been saying in this video, and I have rarely ever heard a video summarize so many important points in such a short amount of time.

Thank you for the advice Troy! Finish rhythm 2, heading to lead 1.

Mother of god, been intermediate all my life and I missed this guy;)

I've owned your book cd's and videos for 18 years. My favorite is Total Rock Guitar nice variety for aspiring players.

You make everything so clear and easy to understand. Thank you. All of your books are fantastic. I have all of them. Can’t wait for speed mechanics 2! Thanks again!

Troy’s Speed Mechanics changed my playing significantly. It opened a world to me of incorporating legato playing with my articulated playing. Classical studies reinforced all the points that he is talking about here. I still do Troy exercises on my classical with the obvious difference of 5 points of attack vs 1 point of attack on an electric. Long story short, Troy helped me immensely. Thanks Troy.

Troy, simply the best ever. I have identified my problem: The tension, which I try to release with breathing and exercises to relax the limbs. But this tension comes from postures that don't allow me to relax enough. An interesting topic to address is the right height of the instrument, and here it gets complicated, because we have limbs of different sizes, so there is no right standard height but we have to look for it. Some techniques work best with the guitar up but the right hand loses its relaxation. If I lower the guitar too much, the right hand relaxes but the left has more difficulty with the wrist more bent. This is currently my problem that I have identified.

Brilliant instructions. As an intermediate player I've realized I must improve my groove. Metal Rhythm 2 is helping me a lot with this goal. I also recommend viewers of this video to subscribe on Troy's Patreon. You'll have access to great videos explaining how to practice. It's simply great. All the best

Another great video from Troy .. hey Troy I leave the strings to early , and with alternate picking I wasn’t hearing all the notes at high speeds .. but now I’m hearing all the mistakes and fixing them ..

Awesome video as always! You officially became my guitar coach! 🎸🎸🤘🤘🤘

Thank you very much!

Awesome Troy 🎶🎶🎶☮️

Always to the point

Nice!

My issue is, I don't know how to make my students understand that 5 subjects you mentioned. Maybe their biggest problem is just the first: Failure to Listen, including any other advises. they're always not listening :(

All so Troy I know now I have a hard time knowing if I finished a bar of music when playing leads or rhythm.. say I’m playing fast licks I don’t know if it’s the G or A chord for example in the measure.. do you have any lessons on ur patron to help fixing this problem? Been A huge fan of urs for 25 years or more now ! Thanks you ?

Hello brother how are you doing have a great weekend 💯🎹⌚🙏❤️😎👋😁

Nice Kahler guitar

Guilty of all 5

At point 4: Knowing How, @ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E85fvgwQxmE.html the instructional tape/DVD "Speed Kills" by "Micheal Angelo Batio" at ~7:49 he says something like that too... ---- Mastering the tremolo is the single most important step you can take on your way to becoming lightning fast. You have to play fast the way you play slow and vice versa. That's the secret. It's very simple. If you change your technique when you slow down, and you start playing fast real rigid and move you pick like this... YOU'RE DED! YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SHRED! --- It's much like you always say at high speed there is no place for any wasted movement. So you need to practise it slow enough for the perfect motions.

I dont even know what im doing nothing is getting any better i feel like i wanna quit plyin .

i try to be like jasonbecker in one hour but find it out its not easy :=)