Dream Guitars Lesson - Building Speed - Right Hand Exercise - Allen Shadd

Whatcha up to this weekend? Hanging out back in the shed with the old axe, trying to play faster!? Same! - Lucky for us our good friend and National Flatpicking Champion, Mr. Allen Shadd has some advice for developing speed, and an exercise for the right hand, to help us get there ..um...faster!
We all have physical limits and different abilities, but hopefully this little exercise will help us get up to speed & back up to the house in time for dinner!
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[kipmarchetti]

Allen ... great lesson appreciate it and a beautiful guitar.

[wesmanshaw]

Great player. Great guy. Great reasoning and presentation.

[BradleyMcTaggart]

Great lesson Allen, you’ve got a way with teaching. I’d love to see more videos like this in the future. Very helpful!

[bullhunter]

Thanks Allen. I admire your playing and this is a great tip!! God bless from Costa Rica

[DavidHaile_profile]

Good exercise. I’m working on it right now and will pull it into my regular practice routine. One thing I do that might help others is I spend most of my practice hours in almost complete darkness. It helps me play by feel. I practice my up/down neck shifts without being able to see the dots in the neck.

[alansure]

Watch out Mr Shadd! Sullivan Tuttle is working on these right now!😁

[brucelouden]

Thanks for the video. I kinda wish you would have talked a bit more about pick and hand placement. I held the pick in-correctly for so many years that it is taking way too long to relearn. Learning to just brush the pick also is important so that your not lunging with it. So many little factors play into this stuff. That's why not everyone can do it..

[webbphoto]

Nice lesson, slow and easy like a train pulling 100 cars it takes time to get up to full speed. Putting stuff into hand memory. My Dad always said to me growing up that everyone put so much interest into the left hand but don't forget that right hand it's a big concern. I found the metro hard at first but then it was like playing with a buddy after awhile. Kind of got to play around it. Pushed it and pulled it and really getting to feel it.

[shicks]

Great lesson Allen! Sounds like a measure of “ King Wilkies Run”.

[soaringeagle]

Can anyone recommend the best exercises for flat-picking accuracy and speed as a technical guitar skill not for a specific riff or song?

[blankn]

I appreciate Allen saying that you’ll reach a max speed that you won’t surpass because each of us have a physical limit. Not everyone can flatpick lighting quick

[Ekis]

I could watch this guy teach guitar all day.

[TheBladepolisher]

Allen, you know well enough not to worry about speed. You play fast enough for bluegrass music. Now endurance is another matter altogether. You play brilliantly. I like what you do. Well played my friend. Well taught my brother.