Economy Picking Lesson | World's Fastest Guitar Technique?

Today we check out economy picking - is it really the world's fastest guitar technique or just a cheap trick or shortcut to speed? I show you a cool pentatonic scale lick and we directly compare economy picking to alternate picking. As always we check out the biggest benefits, advantages and disadvantages and after this video you can decide if you want to use this technique yourself.

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[Bernthguitar]

Today we check out economy picking - is it really the world's fastest guitar technique or just a cheap trick or shortcut to speed? As always we check out the biggest benefits, advantages and disadvantages and after this video you can decide if you want to use this technique yourself. :)

[CrisKRA]

As my teacher said, economy and alternate picking are just two different techniques with different feeling and sound. Alternate picking sounds more articulate and economy can sound like a flow

[stratocaster]

And just when I thought I was going to have a mellow, lazy comes Bernth with something new and practical to learn.

As always, thank you sir.

[tairyhestical]

Economy picking isn't a cheat! It's another useful skill to have in your arsenal to create more type of music. Thanks for the lesson! \m/

[Liteg]

As a self though guitarist I learned economy picking without knowing it just because it was more natural for me to play like that. All these years later I still can't do alternate picking, which in a lot of cases is pretty limiting.

[PaulKingMetal]

Economy picking just feels so natural to me.

[HmHmKlonck]

Learning economy picking not only helped me to release stress from my right hand, but also improved my sweeping a lot. Even if you dont always use it(it might sound a bit different compared to alternate), I strongly recomend trying it out! Great tutorial btw :)

[RichLunaMusic]

Everyone should have their own way of doing things.
That’s what makes the world so special.
There is no right or wrong way.
I quite fancy this technique.

[MrTombledore]

Thanks for this lesson! Economy picking has been my go to for a year now since its way more flued technique than alternating everything. Btw short review on your shredding course. Im currently on arpeggios part and its so well put down. I highly recommend your course to anyone from beginner to more advanced since you have covered it all. Personally cause i'm mainly rhythm player and singer i loved the first parts, so i understood how to divide hard sections for smaller parts in certain songs. And now im in time with our drummer! Your course has concepts that you can spend years to practise and still with your explaining get the basics quite easily. I can finally PLAY atleast some of the music that I have listened and sang for my life. Thanks Bernth!

[avenged_markus]

Awesome timing. I was beginnig to learn this technique just a few days ago and BOOM here you come with a lesson. THX

[Bleachdemon]

Really great video, I have been playing 12 years myself and have never used economy picking, just alternate and legato. Recently began learning a Born of Osiris solo and some parts are just so fast it does not seem like a good investment of time keep alternate picking some sections when I have started messing around with economy picking at super high speeds and it feels much better and more fluid when you have fractions of a second to play the notes. I do agree that it does seem a bit awkward at slow speeds and alternate or legato is probably better but at least for me, economy picking makes sense to do at high speeds. It certainly is not cheating, if anything economy picking should be standard knowledge since the carry over to sweep picking is very beneficial and after learning economy picking I would imagine sweep picking would not be such a huge jump. Learning sweep picking was tough for me since it felt so disjointed from all other techniques, just my opinion.

[xy]

I know its late, but maybe theres still somebody who sees it,
question: for sometime i´ve heard some of you guys in that community saying something like:"
While you´re playing sweep-picking, it maybe comfortable to change the angle of the pick." So you´re hand
is hold to the direction in which you want to play (hope you understand what I mean xD).
Would you also recomment it for economy-picking, or isn´t there just enough time for it?

Good day out to everyone

Btw, imo these are the best videos on youtube, if it comes down to that topic, thumbs up

[tonypowell]

Funny how some people think a technique is cheating.

[swavekbu]

Probably the best lesson on economy picking available on Youtube. Very clear and excellent pace. Great job, thank you.

[happyson]

Thank you so much bernth for your lesson

[MrX-tvmh]

I wish I'd found this channel years ago. Excellent, In-depth teaching from a virtuoso. Many thanks Bernth.

[rubenayala]

Saludos desde tigre bs as !! Sigo todas las clases !! SOS un crack !!

[brunofilipedbrito]

Thank you @BERNTH for sharing all this important knowledge with us! Greetings from Portugal 🙏🎸🤘

[maximejerjise]

You keep saving my life, thank you so much

[toddplymale]

Hi Bernth, As always I love your lesson, there is always something new to learn for me! It's great to see how you breakdown and dissect each lesson in a way that's easier to understand, just what is really going on!
Just from watching your channel over the past five months, I already can see improvement in my playing! Plus I've been trying to extending my practicing time, because I have so much new material to memorize, between you and other guitar lesson channel that I watch! Like Uptempo Lessons, Steve Stine, and some others.! I'm sorry that I haven't been totally faithful to you but I'm trying to learn as much as I can, because time is of the essence for me!
Thank you for a great lesson !
I'll see you next time.
Todd P./USA