The EASY FIX To Increase Your Picking Speed And Endurance 

Can' t wait to see more. Keep those vids coming 💪🏻

Yeah Karri!!! Happy to see you, missed you so much man! Hope life is going good to you and your family my friend.

Hey Karri, good to see you. Great video as always!

Glad to see you again

Subscribed for sure. Looking forward to this.

I didn't expect you to come back with a video like this. I strongly approve what your intentions are for the next videos and if they're not too technical and complicated I'll watch them for sure, because I'm a similar situation. The difference is that I've been only starting for a little while to try to pick up speed, at the moment I'm at 90 bpms downpicking and 140-150 alternate picking (I know it's slow but I'm just starting out). Hopefully your videos will apply to my needs as well!

Facts of practice! Thank you. I needed to hear this. Getting back into chord tremolos after 10 years had me really bummed out. But now I know what must be done. 🤘

Welcome back, man! We missed you

Can't wait. Been struggling on this for decades actually.

Just learn every Sylosis riff. Problem solved.

Interesting! Following the channel now and will check out more videos.

Somehow a while back I lost you from my youtube feed... I love that you are teaching because there's no better teacher than one who excels at what YOU want to be able to play... thank you and resubscribed🤘

it`s been a while, welcome back! Cheers from Russia!

Holy shit the legend is back!

Whoa Karri, awesome to see you, MAN you even starting to look like a professor!! I agree with with ur perspective on this approach and realizing how negative "group think" mentalities can have an impact on the community. We only need to look at examples like the mighty Jeff Hanneman vs. Marty Friedman vs. JAmes Hetfield to look upon and wonder in amazement how they seem to be completely "wrong" and look weird or it shouldn't work but they absolutely DO IT to IT!! The key is that they practiced everyday to some kind of regime and took breaks until their hands or fingers only hurt a little less, then practiced and jammed together some more. Always try to play that next song that just barely too fast and repeat it till it's EASY, like ur title says! You ROCK Karri bro, I remember ur mom bringing you noodles and birthday guitar cake and kids playing learning games and just glad to see you. */w\TMFR/w\*

Thanks for the advice

I really hope you gonna follow up on this video. I'll hope you do a video on focussing and practicing (exercise) on 1: muted downpicking and 2: (muted) alternate picking, and after that 3: how to switch between those effortless. Keep it up.

I look forward to seeing more! You must be in Finland.

Hi Karri, I have injured myself last year trying to improve my speed. I was learning a bunch of TBDM songs and naively thought that I could just power through and endurance would come eventually. I was wrong. Anyways, I could definitely use your tips. Cheers!

I just felt that I should add a rare comment (for me) after watching THIS video - I'm someone who watches a TON of YT videos across dozens and dozens of various genres outside of music and guitar, and I subscribe to less than 10 channels. Watching this video got me to subscribe(!) I like and really appreciate your honestly and "realness' and look forward to getting past watching your impressive playing (which, as you know, it's quite easy for anyone to find and watch 100s of YT video of very impressive guitar playing), but also to see some actual content that might actually inspire me directly to improve my own personal playing. Anyway, you've impressed me beyond the "normal" stuff and I thought I could, at the very least, let you know that you are on the right track here with where this video is headed. Well, to me, I mean, ...can't and won't speak for all the others of course :) Rock on good sir! \m/ \m/

Hello Karri i really enjoying your bandpicks for the riff-videos you are doing got some great stuff there. I have been playing guitar for quite some while now and i started out with no teacher, never had one and probably never will... This caused me to use alot of tension trying to build speed and my hand would cramp and ache alot during my playing and i was focusing more on the classical guitar in which i had problems with tremor whilst plying cause id also tense up there, not very long ago i had a mental breakdown in which i quit my job and left my girlfriend so now i had a lot of sparetime. So i was thinking to my self now i can sit down and play like 4-6 hours a day and i will aproach the most relaxed picking techniques and start of slow and slowly build up speed and accuracy with both left and right hand, i honestly thought i perma-damaged my hand causing tendonitis so bad it was irreversable but after a few months going in with a different mindset and appreciating the sparetime and a calm mind and just focusing of getting it to the best i can... I can really say that i habe improved alot now i am able to play pretty fast (holy wars) some fast Death songs and still feeling relaxed and not totaally exhausted after a couple of minutes, this has really made me enjoy practicing guitar a whole lot theese days im as iam typing done with the whole cemetary gates solo and feel like im near to be able to do tornado of souls aswell (been an enemy of mine for years that one 😆) What i wanted to say is i think its quite cool that one can take such an different aproach and due to a different mindset get in and work and correct so many longterm errors thats been dragging the progress down and in just a couple of months get on the right track and find out what works for me. Sorry bout the novel just wanted to type a little about my story in brutal misconception with hypertension. Anyways love you videos and i would love to se som uncle slam - riffs on your channel thats of course if i dont do em my self 👍😎🤘 have a great day my Finnish neigbour. Cheers from Sweden.

Welcome back Karri :)

Still waiting eagerly on an update for your course or more videos 👌

ELITE strat that nobody ever talks about for playing faster songs when songwriting!: increase the tempo in Guitar Pro. (lol Great video as always, Karri!)

This was really interesting. I feel like when I've tried to increase my speed the thing that stops me is I'm like "hah I'm not relaxed enough I should slow down", so what you're saying makes total sense. Also welcome back! Where's the other videos!!?!

MIssed you buddy! Let's rock!

Cant wait for your right picking hand speed and endurance videos.

I think what you're trying to say is that it's like a left foot right foot when walking kind of thing - left foot being playing/execution and right foot being technique. If you focus only on 1 aspect, you're limping.

Prof Karri is pretty much like ALWAYS AAAAAALWAYS right! No joke!!! 😃

Hi Karri! Do you think that if I improve my downpicking speed, I have benefits on my alt picking speed too? Hope the best for your mission for 2022, I'm definitely your target!

When approching Speed i like to go over my speedlimit when i feel confident that the timing is right....

I'm stuck on Creeping Death at about 190 and have been...for months. Talking with a coworker about this (he can play it through at album tempo) he says "just practice." One thing I have noted though is that Kirk can't keep up with James after all these years. He's put in the string time...on stage an off. The question I have: why?

Thank you, Karri, for this relieving first hand insight. I just recently discovered that the focus should lie on a fast motion that feels like it can be repeated into infinity, regardless of "tension". Also a "colleague" of yours here in YT also helped by emphasizing on picking mechanics based on wrist rotation (which doesn't look like that). But he also talked about holding the pick in a relaxed manner. I was happy to get much better results from this wrist motion while at the same time was hesitant to speed up because of increasing pick holding tension. But now we know: Don't be ashamed of tension! 😅 Would you agree with my idea of focusing on cyclicality and not relaxedness? Thank you very much for your insights!

Wondering where you were

Yeah, I never really understood when people placed such an emphasis on being relaxed. For me personally, its about finding the spot between relaxed and tension. Also, guitar string tension and the types of picks you are using is of paramount importance. Speed burst training works for me personally.

I wonder if James did care about technique back in the day. Guess he just had a lot of fun.

I just have to say 👍

What do you think is your maximum speed you can achieve?

Confusing advice to me, but basically to push bpm you have to push yourself and it really hearts bothers mentally and physically that’s why people choose to stay in comfort bpms 🤭

ummm, so what's the 'easy fix'?

Where is the ez fix????

Shame you never followed up on your promise to make more videos on this topic.

So when exactly in 2022 are the videos coming?

I'm not a young man, and I've seen more mindless echo-chamber advice in guitar playing than I have in anything else. We can all think of one example after the other. There's so much brain-dead stupid shit that refuses to die, like "Don't cut all your strings at once, or you'll hurt the guitar neck!" or "You need a thick pick to play fast!" Drives me crazy.

please, legend english

So much was said without nothing of actual matter being said

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so when are you going to upload the new videos regarding "speed picking" stuffs? it's been a year now. i mean i get what you mean, but if i may, you're rambling too much on what we shouldn't do, and almost none about what we should do instead. so i don't find this video exactly as "beneficial".

I like how you didn’t teach anything at all in this video.