How I Built A Strong Legato - 6-minute Daily Workout

I used this simple routine to greatly improve my legato technique in my late teens. Give it a try if you are a beginner or simply feel your left-hand technique is lagging.

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[hardbass_pro]

Very good excercise and explanation!!!! Somehow I figured out this exact excercise myself, now I'm sure I'm on the right track)) Thanks a lot!!!

[Dcba]

Legato is such a great topic!
A Satriani 3 nps style legato patterns would be a great lesson Jon ! 🙏🙏🙏

[ΓιωργοςΣταμπολιδης-θξ]

insane lesson !
Damn man that was a serious lesson my dude, you woke me up.
From time to time I understand this concept and then I forget it quickly.
Learn slow ...bit by bit

[nigeltufneljunior]

Great practice routine, will try it, thanks!

[Oenloveslife]

Thank you! I only have my acoustic but I'm thinking it will help with that as well.

[MattLi]

Hi, Jon! Could you make a video about playing on the upper frets of lower strings, like playing 10 - 15 frets on 5 or 6 string in the lick. I always find it very stretching and hard to keep the consistancy. I see what people do is they slowly change the left hand position. Is it how I should do it?

[dabiededoo]

i only cannot do this sweep picking, i suck even when i pick it.. because sweep pickung plus pullofs and hammer ons seems imppssoble fpr me

(except the 4th i think is possible to learn sweep picking for me)

[johannalvarsson]

Maybe stupid question, but isn`t the left-hand position dependent on how you hold the guitar? Because I could never really place the thumb the way all people tell you to. When I do it, it just instantly hurts, or I have to bend my wrist which is not great either... Now I just realized that i have the guitar between my legs, not on my pulled-up thigh. When I hold it like you I have no problem taking the "correct" position with the left hand. Might be a thing to point out, because I have actually not heard anyone mentioning this detail so far. (okay classical guitarists, but they have yet another position)

[guitardd]

A great lesson! I've been doing similar trill exercises for two months (30 minutes up to 2 hours a day) and I'm seeing some progress in terms of speed, but not as much as I'd like. I'm guessing that's due to my tendency to fret the string too hard with the static finger in certain areas of the neck. Any tips for relaxing the fretting hand finger that stays down?

[WhoDaFoksThatGuy]

I noticed my Legato was truly poor when I tried learning Murray’s first solo in Phantom of the Opera and Rick’s solo in Pull the Plug.

It was so poor that I couldn’t do the legato and was half assing it by picking each note on Murray’s solo and was relying on tapping for Rick Rozz’s solo, which was making the solos far more difficult.

[cpeplinski]

But I am doing my 5 min Interleaved practice……how can I do a 6 min exercise?

[shaanrana]

hey great video, should you do this for longer than 6 minutes or keep it as such