Best 5-Minute LEGATO WORKOUT! (For Intermediate Players)

This play-along legato workout will greatly improve your hammer-ons and pull-offs! You are switching between different note values and climb up the BPM ladder. Return to this daily and make sure to share your results :) You can get my new in-depth legato online course on Patreon if you need to learn more about this technique in order to complete this workout!

00:00 Intro
01:45 Workout START
07:00 Workout END

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[urdanoff]

Bit late to the party here!
Day 1: couldn't get 30bpm, fixed thumb position
Day 2: 30bpm, 40 but really struggled
Day 3: 50bpm
Day 4: 60bpm
Day 5: 60bpm clean, fumbled through 70.
Never been a legato player by any stretch of the imagination, but this is totally helping so far!

[Mateo_Romero]

110bpm was the limit to my comfort, barely made it to 120bpm, great exercise, you can feel the burn

[lawyerlawyer]

Pre disclaimer- been playing for 17 years, I’m currently 28, but always self taught, many of this “techniques” I notice that I’ve been sort of applying and or developing them instinctively in some sort of way here and there, when composing solos or learning covers.
Even tho I have never studied guitar in the way of : doing exercises.
I do have been playing around 4 hours a day for the last 17 years
And up to 7 hours a day on gigs season, wich here in Spain is from June to October.

My progres here was:

1st day: up to 100bpm
2nd day: same
3rd day: 110bpm
4th and 5th day also 110
6th day a solid 120
7th day, surprisingly 130
8th, 9th,10th day stuck at 130 too
11th day, a quite chunky 140
12th day a clean 140
Stayed there for 6 more days trying to jump to 150
18th day, a very dirty, but all the notes played 150
19th day similar
20th day very acceptable 150
21th day same
22th clean 150
6 days trying it on 5 different scales at 130
And rehearsing this same one at 150
Day 28, i can play 6 different scales at 140 and this one at 150, all across the guitar.
Day 29 same
Day 30 got the other ones up to 150, but a few of them need some cleaning up.
Day 31 just a little improvement
Day 32 got them all clean
Day 33 trying to use this techinique improvising over backing tracks, while recording me.
Ray 34: it’s amazing to hear the recordings and think it is me, but they need cleansing up.
Using it with taste is very different from scale up scale down
35, 36, 37 similar.
Day 38. I’m playing some pretty fast 150bpm legato solos while improvising, and it sounds clean, precise and smooth.
I’ll keep practicing, but I consider skill aquired.

-to all the guitarist out there, that have been playing for many years, self taught, and get depressed with, all this children, playing this techniques, like fats legato, sweep picking, hybrid picking, and make you think “you wasted so much time being lazy not practicing “
Not true, you have spent thousands of hours learning how to write tasteful music in the guitar, finding your sound, gaining experience, learning to play with other musicians, acquiring taste. But also developing a lot of strength in your hands, after so many years of playing.
It took me a bit over. A month to learn how to play legato at 150bpm (because it’s doubled, the real speed you are playing blacks at is 300)
Do you think a young guitar student, with 1 year of experience can achieve a 150bpm clean legato, in many different scales, all across the guitar neck, in just a little over a month?
Nope, his fingers and his wrist will hurt after each 10 minutes of practice

Go for it you older guitarists.
They’ve got nothing on us!

[PrinzDerSchatten]

Guten Morgen, Lehrer. It's me again, sorry for not having introduced myself before. My full name is Bryan Stephen Wilhelm, I'm a vocalist, guitarist and composer indigo, who performs gothic, technical death and progressive metal and wishes a band since child. I do many other things but this is our space to play magic in guitar. 🎸🎶🌌🤘🏻
Your exercises to solve my dancing pinkie finger are working and now it's behaving better! Can't wait to be really fast! ⚡
Greetings from Costa Rica... although I'm German-Costa Rican hihihi. 🇩🇪+🇨🇷

[ravens]

Enjoying these 30 day workouts uve been doing. Never seen myself improve so fast in my life lol.

[dikaiosd]

Day 1: 60bpm
Day 2: 70bpm
Day 3: 80bpm
Day 4: 80 bpm
Day 5: 90 bpm
Day 6: 90 bpm
Day 7: 100bpm (pattern 1 only)
Day 8: 100bpm (pattern 1 only)
Day 9: 100bpm (both patterns)

[thomasberserk]

day 1: 50 (barely 60)
day 2: 70 (almost 80) (yeah, worked out 3 hours tday)
day 3: 80 clean
MONTH 10: 110bpm clean.

Can't thank bernth enough, this with other workouts as complements improved my skills a looot, can now shred solos I never thought I could. My guitar level is skyrocketing since I decided to work my guitar for real.

[mcshreddy]

Love this workout!! I've spent a lot of time with it. Here's something that really helped me: if you're stuck for a while at a certain level, it's probably the pull-offs. In this workout, you exercise hammer-ons and pull-offs equally, but most people find the pull-offs harder and more difficult to speed up. If that's you (it was me), then you might want to dedicate more practice time to just the pull-offs. Try this: set a metronome to just below the speed you are stuck at, and *only* practice the pull-off run from the exercise, over and over. Do this for five minutes, gradually pushing the speed up. Then come back to the video. Doing this really helped me break through plateaus.

[cxrmelo_]

I picked up my guitar after a few years of not playing or practicing and your videos had made me improve at a super fast rate! I appreciate every-single workout and lesson you post. I feel like I’m actually controlling my fingers like never before lol.
I will be subbing on your patreon soon too!

Lots of appreciation for the work you put!

[HimelHbkHimu]

Such an amazing workout this is! Thank you so much Bernth! I have started this exercise recently and started to see the difference on my playing! Thanks for being there and giving us these helpful exercises!

[madeline]

As with others that I see who've been in the same camp as I am, I haven't truly played guitar in over two years due to life and health stuff getting in the way, and I've only just, JUST recently started back into it. I'm so thankful for all the videos and workout challenges that you create, because I would honestly be lost without them. In only a week my playing and techniques have dramatically improved from where it was before, just by following your exercise routines. Your videos are some of the absolute best I've seen through hours of scouring YouTube for exercise clips. Thank you so very much for all the hard work and dedication you put into making these, they are truly blessings! ✌️

[jasonallen]

Dude your whole program is awesome. I enjoy how your metronomes sound like your still at band practice when you’re working on technique and it’s so reliving that practice doesn’t feel like practice.

[jsoye]

This is a nice benchmark to use. I have been working on my legato every day for 3 weeks in a way that I think works for me, about 15-30 mins per day. Previously I was getting to 70bpm, today I got to 90. I find that very encouraging!

[justsomeguy]

As someone who stopped playing for 5yrs due to life stuff getting in the way I'm VERY happy to have found your channel recently now that I wanna pick up where I left off on my guitar journey. Now your workout videos have become a regular part of my daily routines and I genuinely couldn't not be any more grateful for all the hard work you put into making these for us. Keep up the amazing videos man ❤️

[fernandostranogtr]

I've been doing this every day along with the ones from the video "3 exercises I wish I knew...", loving them. Thanks Bernth!! 🎸

[Eric-vdne]

Love this exercise. I like playing along in C Major for the harmony as well as A Minor an octave higher. Lots of fun

[rushikeshnene]

Thank you so much for this video. As an intermediate who's avoided legato for so long, this is a perfect kickstarter. Been doing it everyday for 5 days now and my fretting hand is already cleaner than before

[abhinabhnayak]

You are making me better and better every day in 🎸
Thank you so much ❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

[francescoasuni]

two months ago i've almost completed the "4min shred challenge", for the next month I'll switch all my daily routine with other challenges from this amazing channel

26/03: 90 bpm
27/03: 100 bpm
28/03: 100 bpm
29/03: 100-110 bpm
30/03: 100-110 bpm
31/03: 110 bpm
01/04: 110 bpm
02/04: 110 bpm
03/04: skipped
04/04: 110-120 bpm
05/04: 110-120 bpm
06/04: skipped
07/04: 110-120 bpm
08/04: 110-120 bpm
09-10-11: skipped
12/04: 110-120 bpm
13/04: skipped
14/04: 110-120 bpm

[vanlaatummusic]

I love it! Started playing guitar again after a 2 year break and using your 5 minute workout sessions to get fast again. Already at 110bmp again! :D You are the best!