I'm 60 now and after playing Rockabilly, Country, Indie, Goth etc. I finally discovered how awesome Metal can be. And now I'm finding myself in a constant guitar progress competition with my 15 year old son...This video will help me to end this battle once and for all. Thank you, good Sir!
Speed picking power sets, I love it. Ive been inadvertently practicing my picking like this the last year and it definitely gets results. Thanks, Bean Hole, for showing me I'm not a complete failure. Take that, Dad!
I'm adding this to my practice routine. It's like this lesson was made just for me or something. I hit my speed plateau a few years ago. I struggled to get past it. And then just accepted it. "That's just as fast as I can play so, I'll just accept it." I'm totally not accepting it anymore. I'm going to do this every day. Thank you again for giving these lessons away for free. I've learned _so much_ from this channel.
Love the video, man you’re quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. How do you like the Ibanez prestige? 99% sure that’s the guitar you’re using and it’s on my radar to purchase
i remember a video of shawn lane talking about this and he talked about starting fast and cleaning up instead of building up. building up to higher speed can put mental limits on your movements and you likely need to change your posture or technique at different paces so building up doesnt really do the job too well.
Reminds me of singing high. "You just sing lower and eventually you'll sing high!" I never followed this, and it was a little late when I first heard this. It might have been an advantage. I did have to get it corrected later, but actually singing high works better for people like me. And wow. This is a fantastic lesson
I really dig this. Learned this "burst" technique from some lesson I don't recall. I also like the philosophy you are employing here by making music while you practice. Excellent techniques that will help so many. Thank you!
@@gamingwithrandom6982 I think you're right actually. That's what I was thinking of. For some reason I was initially thinking old VHS lessons, but it was Bernth.
100% 🔥 In my humble opinion, the whole ‘build-up-from-slow’ isn’t the most effective way for anything above 180-ish Bpm (16ths). Personally, fragmenting has worked every time. Simply making those fragments bigger when you’ve mastered the smaller ones makes it way more manageable, and easier to track progress. Like MAB said many years ago, you’re only as fast as your potential speed, and this method is an excellent way to push through the barrier into uncharted territory.
I found that playing with a 1 or 2 ounce "fishing" weight that's held loosely in my right hand builds good hand strength and speed... Just play with the weight in your hand for 5 minutes or so, put the weight down and continue practicing... Your right hand suddenly feels like it's a jet engine!
I go back and forth between playing a lick too slow, and then playing it WAY to fast when practicing. You got to tell those little digits whose the boss, and you want them faster! Give them a break play slow, then push them a little again
Remember you don't have to play these exact notes its just an example of what to do. You can make up your own sequences or patterns at different frets and strings. It would sound good on the 5th and 6th strings with a bit of crunch!
speed is all in hand technique...you need to see your arm hand and fingers as potential pivot points for movement...I can play fast with zero hand issues and the reason is i use the natural pivot points of my elbow...wrist ...and yes even my thumb and index finger cuz they can pick a string on their own for speed playing its about your wrist but if your getting to much discomfort its because your overworking your writst this is when you should incorporate your ability to manipulate a pick between your thumb and finger use them as a counter motion to your wrist so you wrist doesnt have to overwork itself i can play very fast with zero stress on my hand...and ive been able to play like this for years with almost no hand movement i dont curly my fingers cuz i extend them to counter balance my wrist for down motion and i pull up quickly with thumb and index finger after a while it feels so natural you wont even realize your doing it... that is my personal experience
Bradley, as far as I can see, you prefer alternate picking over economy. Would you please tell me why, apart from the obvious "mathematical counting when to do each up and down strokes"?
I have clinical depression. I only can get so much drive out of the day, especially after giving away my favorite RR24 X series guitar away for 2 beers and a cup of moonshine. The face twitches when I play complicated stuff, but I have tried this speed since 2014.
Ok. I'm trying to remain strict with the down and up picking, I notice your thumb is all the way up towards the low E string. I've been taught to lower my thumb to the middle of the neck area in a more classical position- what is your take on thumb position? its hard for me to play with my thumb up there
I am honestly a new player still under 2 months but have felt like the slow build up will eventually see results just curious if most people agree to work on this at a much higher BPM rather then slow and work your way up? I know my actually picking technique is probably part of the problem but I am also still getting stuck like right under the speed to play songs I love at their tempo like Sweet child o mine and thunderstruck
Question about the picking. If I begin with an up pick and up pick the next not kind of like a sweep, does that work? It feels much more natural to do that, but I’m not sure if it will hinder my speed. I end with a down pick. Also I want to ask this too: I practice scales to a tempo and practice the circle of fifths. I play the blues, diatonic modes, and harmonic minor scales going up the circle of fifths while increasing the tempo by 5bpm. I’ll practice some scales at 130 go up to 145 then go down back to 130 and go up to 145 again about 3 times. Thoughts?
that would be economy picking and its essentially a technique of its own. me personally i prefer to use alternate picking (constant up and down motion) for fast/technical riffs and economy picking for smoother sounding leads and sweeping obviously. its mostly about preference but they both have their ups and downs. and as for the practice method i think as long as youre not hurting yourself you should push to the highest BPM you can go (it doesnt have to be clean), and slow it down about 10-15 bpm to get comfortable with it and gradually continue until youre comfortable playing that limit.
I also use economy picking, but apparently only when going down the strings, so I am trying to learn to alternate pick everything so my picking is more consistent in sound and rhythm.
I have a question - why don't you use your pinky? Is it better to not use it in this pattern? Or it's better to practice both - with and without pinky? Btw your exercises are great :-)
can someone help me with the theory behind this? is it in Amin starting on the 5th? And is that flat B (before the diminished sequence) not outside the diatonic?
The one thing I found that improved my speed was trying to play fast. Sooner or later your hands come into sync, and if you can find a way to make that happen, you will improve faster. I'm not telling you how I made my hands go faster and with much more sync as it's illegal and harmful (and mastered sweeping too!).
My method, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend this, stemmed from me being impatient. I would see a clip of Chris Impellitteri or Jason Becker playing at 14 notes per second, and even if I couldn't even reach twice that speed, I would try and learn that lick immediately. Of course it wasn't too clean at the start, but by doing this my progress was skyrocketing over a matter of months. Just last October, I was barely able to even play 3 note per string scales evenly. Now I'm aiming for 220 bpm.
I don get why start with an upstroke and do outside picking, it just... Bugs me. Normally I play this exact lick in alternate picking, but with inside picking.
Fast in short sharp burst…. I’ve been shredding for years. But only you and maybe one fourth of the instructionals I’ve read have suggested this. And it’s the method that I think works for the other half of players. But I’m suspicious how much more the up and coming shredders would actually develop out of this. I’ve been playing for 20 years and shredding for 13 of them. I could have done it faster with this though😅. Of course I still learned classic rock, punk and metal from 60’s to 80’s that was mostly shred less (but definitely had solos, cause proggers-ocd!)…😂
Good tips, but can we have a better angle on the fretboard before the 6 minute mark so we can see where you’re playing? Or you could verbalize what notes/frets you’re playing on? I’m actually serious and not trying to be snarky.
Is that your real voice, or are you doing an accent. I really can't tell. And if you are doing an accent, why a British one. Kinda gay. Any way great video. Peace.
I have clinical depression. I only can get so much drive out of the day, especially after giving away my favorite RR24 X series guitar away for 2 beers and a cup of moonshine. The face twitches when I play complicated stuff, but I have tried this speed since 2014.
I have clinical depression. I only can get so much drive out of the day, especially after giving away my favorite RR24 X series guitar away for 2 beers and a cup of moonshine. The face twitches when I play complicated stuff, but I have tried this speed since 2014.
