Boost Your Picking Speed NOW: The Secret I Wish I'd Known Earlier!🎸🔥

Faster Alternate Picking In 2024?

#alternatepicking #speedpicking #guitartechnique

[BenEller]

Yes! Speed bursts are absolutely the key. It's the ONLY way I warm up anymore, wish I would have started doing them earlier!

[ubatooba]

I discovered this on my own in the mid 1990's. It's the only way to fix things. You are deconstructing things and then rebuilding them better. You are deconstructing the riff vs. your mechanics and building a better nervous system response to when it's time to fire the shooting for muscle memory (one day) and at that point you think very little about executing the riff and just think of "here comes that riff" and it just happens. This is the kind of self diagnostic you need to go thru to work around your problems. Another one that goes hand in hand with this (as it's almost the same thing) it putting a premuim on note I mean each and every slurred or cheated. Don't worry about speed, keep playing things with quality (typically 1/2 speed, or even less) and the ability for speed will be added in relative short order, I promise. Bravo on teaching the mechanics of shredding!

[philjones]

Holy shit! I just tried this and the bursts really can go a lot faster than I thought. Going straight into my practice routine. Thanks mate!

[Soloist]

Good video, I found my way through doing rest-strokes and 2-way pickslanting. I used to pick "at" the strings, rather than the push-through/twist motion of a rest-stroke. No matter how hard I tried, and I spent 3-4hrs a day for YEARS, maybe even 6 years with my old method, and I just never got there. Turns out I was doing a slight "lift-off", almost hovering over the string plane, diving-in, and jumping-out, this is INCORRECT. It's a push through, like a rest-stroke, it's straight-lines basically, no arcing in and out slivers of a millimeter above the string plane. There should be NO lift-off, NO hop, only straight-line movements, which absolutely requires pickslanting. I never found synchronization the hard part, it's the picking mechanic itself that seems to trip up most people. I hope this helps, don't lose years like I did, Get the mechanic down right, from that point, you shouldn't need insane amounts of hours per week, just consistent practice, maybe an hour a day.

[migueldemaria]

You're a great teacher, Jon. Hope your channel takes off.

[Comoguitargeek]

Keep making videos like this. I love this style of video. Watched it all the way through.

[thaighaudio]

Glad to see this technique excerpted from Alternate Picking Mastery.. it's a really powerful lesson because that "glimpse into the future" provides much needed motivation that you CAN increase your speed. It's like being allowed to blip the throttle of the Lamborghini 🙂

[paulbaglio]

Yeah this is REALLY helping build alternate picking speed, thanks so much for this Jon

[benikifle]

Thank you mannn... you're always like my ambulance of my guitar journey love ya....

[KRayxKodessA]

Great video, as always. I did find the captions a bit distracting though.

[commanderc.l.i.t]

I have said it a million times now, I wish there was youtube like 30 years ago when I was a teenager so I could of got all this help. I never would of quit

[siennagarcia]

Michael Romeo is a Monster guitarist so underrated!!!! He only moves his wrist not his elbow when he plays compared to the other guitarists!

[chrisking]

This is so helpful! I’m just like you were. I’m changing from Jeff Loomis style to Brandon Ellis to Andy James to Teemu from Wintersun and back. I cycle through these. And what I notice is that I seem to pick more like Jeff when I get faster BUT here’s the issue: I can’t cross strings with his technique. If I do the speed bursts I seem to want to pick away from the body. But that’s an issue for even note patterns started on a downstroke. Just try picking away from the body and do a simple pentatonic run started on a downstroke. You’ll notice you’ll get stuck quick. In order to fix that you have to change the angle of the pick and pick into the body (upward escape stroke). But that slows me down because I lose stability in my wrist. And I also have extra string noise from my knuckles dragging along the string (because every down pick goes toward the body and thus brings my knuckles closer to the strings which forces me to fan my band to avoid that which slows me down).

[satchrules]

Good lesson! I been watching ur lessons past few, weeks! Very helpful.

[timothyleard]

Absolutely, speed bursts helped me immensely 😊

[AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

Great playing mate! A lot of people can play fast, but not everyone has great feel, sense of dynamics, and vibrato like you do!


Cheers from cloudy old England!

[kgsvvglai]

Great video. I have the same exact experience with banging my head against the wall with straight 16th note workouts. Speed bursts make so much more sense and it's obvious why.

You can draw endless comparisons from sports. Let's say you practice tennis and you know that backhand is your weak point, the bottleneck, so to speak. What do you do? Just play more tennis? No. You grind the damn backhander until it's no longer your weakness.

Learning to shred with the traditional straight-16th-notes approach is like trying to increase your bench press by doing more push-ups. It works but only to a certain point, which probably isn't very high.

[andersoncesario]

Just what I needed to feed my hanger for speed. Also the most patient and clear explanation I've seen. Thanks mate🤘

[joemusicman]

I saw another video that discussed a simular method. I haven't been using this burst method and I'm going to try it. Makes a lot of sense.

[larryd]

Thanks Jon
Yeah, I've tried to just keep increasing the metronome and hit the wall. The speed bursts seem obvious now. Why didn't I think of that? I'm definitely going to incorporate this in.
Also I like the captions. I usually put them on anyways, but the CC on YouTube usually has wrong words or puts them in the way. So I appreciate the extra work on your part.