Extreme Guitar Speed in 5 EASY Steps (everybody can do this!)

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00:00​ Intro
01:09​ Step #1
01:49​ Step #2
03:08​ Step #3
04:30​ Step #4
06:49​ Step #5

[andyhinds]

"I was an impatient kid...". I'm an impatient 53 year old man. That's far worse.

[rodreyes]

Bernth, I don’t consider myself super fast, definitely not your level of speed, but- one thing that helped me was reducing my gain a lot. The tone wasn’t always what I wanted for the part, but I wasn’t hiding behind the distortion and I could find what needed fixing much more quickly. This is where I really understood your point about relaxing.
Keep up the good work, thank you for the video!

[jamesanthony]

I have previously made a recommendation for Bernth's Patreon. It is in some small way my attempt to thank Bernth for all of his help. From my perspective, his Patreon content is truly an amazing value. It is not an "after thought" of a busy working musician. Rather it is the product of a world class guitar teacher that puts time into his lessons. Clearly, he understands how to get where most of us want to be on the guitar. The content is well structured, professionally produced and quite honestly some of the best material I have obtained. Also, there is a lot of it! If you are at all thinking about joining, give it a try. You will not be disappointed. Thanks again Bernth!

[HollenFaust]

i feel like it was Steve Stine or someone that said that Running vs walking. speed bursts (even though they sound sloppy at first) was by the far the best way to learn to play fast for me.

[ElHeebarino]

The intro ways to increase speed is exactly what I've always been told. 🤣

[astralspaceinc]

For a long time, I stuck myself in the ceiling with 120 BPM 16s. And recently I came to work out 4-note patterns with short shots. Or alternate 8th and 16th at the same pace. Doing this exercise for 30-40 minutes, I raised the speed from 120 to 190 BPM.
After such a warm-up, multi-string passages were easily accelerated to 140-150 BPM. And some are even higher.

[JirafaWood]

Thanks for the help. I've been caught up with the Fade to Black intro solo for so long. I broke up the really fast part down into 3 sections and played it at a BPM closer to tempo with a pause in between. I eventually got it to tempo after 2 days from watching. Seriously, thanks! I can finally learn the rest of the song.

[giannispagonis]

This is without question your best and most helpful video so far. Thank you very much Bernth, keep up this amazing work

[ferociouspterodactyl]

Before watching this any further, I had a personal breakthrough the other night, I instantly gained 5 BPM to smash my threshold of 115 bpm 16th notes just by adjusting the way I grip my pick, got that from one of your older videos. Now I've also realised that by speeding up past my comfort zone playing sloppy, then turning the speed down again it becomes easy. My trouble is my fretting hand now can't keep up, gets tired soon, cubital tunnel isn't helping either. If it wasn't for your channel I wouldn't be trying these things. Thanks much brother\m/

[peroniki]

Bernth, you are a great teacher and very charismatic musician! Sehr gut, I must meet you when I come to Vienna to buy new guitars and I am inviting you to visit my hometown Weisse Kirche. Greetings from Serbia.

[Eric-vdne]

This video couldn't have come at a better time for me since I've been heavily focused on the speed barrier. Frustrating but I'll never give up. I've abandoned the metronome for about 2 weeks and have been playing fast to get the "running" feel which kind of works but I look forward to starting the 2 string exercise on this video today. Thanks Bernth

[alexmammoth]

I actually like your step 3 a lot! I purchased that magical copy of Reaper with the built in "can't play what you practiced" feature that is enabled when you press record, so I started practicing with a slower reminder tempo, what I want, and then faster than I can play and being okay with playing sloppy. My hope was to be able to play a little faster than I wanted so recording speeds felt slower. I found that it's helped me get in the mindset so it's not overwhelming when I speed up. Glad it has some validity and isn't a placebo. Cheers!

[ibanezguitars]

Bruh when that pyro and lights went off. Me: NUT*

Also this is one of my fav guitar channels. You have def helped me alot in the past 6 months! Much love. Hope i get to meet you in person in the states someday!

[EazyP_Z]

The production value of this channel is so good 👍

[fezmey]

This video just helped me regain some speed that I have lost over the years. I am still trying to get back to my old speed (clean 16th notes at 250bpm), and I have been stuck at trying to stay clean at half of that after years of neglect.

[nathandrew]

I need to do another speed train to see how fast i've gotten! thanks again for another awesome video.

[SatanicDoge]

Step 2 has been awesome for me - I call it "pushing the tempo" and I use it when I'm stuck at a particular tempo. I find that it helps break through tough parts because after pushing the tempo, your target tempo feels all the more easy! I remember first learning about it in John Petrucci's Rock Discipline video.

[rayme]

Love your video lessons Bernth, watching them fills me with confidence and makes me want to practice and play more often

[Ollivierx]

You know the line: if you can play slowly...

[Luke_Lumberjack_Music]

"... If I can do this - you can do it as well."

Okay - challenge accepted 😎 hold my Pina Colada