THIS Is Why You CAN'T Pick Faster #shorts

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THIS Is Why You CAN'T Pick Faster

Guitar lesson for increasing picking speed. Picking speed guitar lesson

Sort your Alternate Picking out once and for all:

[jackflicker]

right, there's only 2 things to worry about: how it sounds, and whether it hurts

[mrtablesawful]

I like the "just go for it" mentality, but the major difficulty in playing fast isn't necessarily in the picking hand - its in the coordination of the two hands. This aspect does require a lot of patience to build up speed...but still sometimes you just gotta go for it.

[jemball]

"How can I play fast ?" "Just play fast lol"

[The_roughhowlers]

“Hey man, you know you can just do stuff right? Like you don’t need anyone’s permission”

[stratdx]

“I don’t give a toss” is probably one of my favorite expressions in modern language

[mekyel]

And I notice the hand just naturally wants to tense up too. So making the conscious decision to relax the hand definitely helps me out

[rapid]

"get the job done" thats the most direct and right statement

[SamBrockmann]

This is some of the best advice ever. Guitar is an instrument of /sound/, not of visualizations. Who cares *how* it looks, as long as it /sounds/ good?!

[williammiller]

My wrist motion was very similar and I can now see how that dragged me down over the years but what is working for me now is pick on string - pushing through strings -accenting and breaking problem areas down to the smallest possible denominator - things I never thought of in the past until brought to light by Lord Higgy

[Soloist]

Very solid advice, there seems to be a culture of, if you don't spend 4hrs a day with a metronome it won't come, nope. Got to go for it sometimes. But string changes require intellectualizing the movement otherwise you'll end up with a technique that only works for certain runs and never get mastery of it. But even then, it's more about feeling it out rather than getting it to look right.

The only mechanical advice I can suggest is, picking is more a doorknob turning motion, not a side-to-side "casting a fishing line motion". You attack the string plane at an angle, sometimes alternating that angle during changes. When you speed up you will find that you can loosen your grip and allow the pick to "choose" that angle. I spent my entire teens doing the side-to-side (fishing-line casting motion) and it didn't matter how many hours I spent it NEVER came together. Breaking that habit took a solid year, but it finally all came together

[nikipalla]

“I don’t give a toss, ” I’ve never heard that phrase before and I love it

[JamieSlays]

I’m so glad you said this. I had a bit of a brain breaking moment a few years back due to how to held the pick etc and you’ve just helped me undo that

[lucismcgovern]

Talking from experience, this is the truth! Finally some honesty on the subject. Thank you for this!

[grannywalter]

this is true. almost everyone will tell you to practice slowly, then speed it up. but the reality is when you play slow and fast - different muscles are going to be working. so practicing something at a certain tempo will only make you good at playing it at that tempo.

[ricstormwolf]

I love the phrase "I don't give a toss." First heard it from Colin from CS Guitars. It's awesome. You are two of my favorite guitar YouTubers.

[akifhafie]

I found this exact advice by Ben around 4 of 5 years ago, from some of his older videos. I'm telling you Ben this advice was life changing. Remember how you said to wiggle your picking hand in a sort of like hand shaking motion, and then turn that motion on its side and just try to get it as loose and fast as possible? In less than a week I was already nailing the exercise that I was working on. These days I can just shred away any alt picking licks that I want. Thanks a lot Ben!

[CaffeinatedHiFi]

"Going for it" is something I learned on my own fairly recently and it was a GAME CHANGER. When you stop thinking about where your pick meets the string and literally just move your pick from point A to point B without thinking about the string, the rest takes care of itself. It still takes practice and you have to learn to feel it, but once you just turn your brain off and let your hand do the work, it's crazy how much better you play.

[Icy-]

My problem is that it gets stuck and delays it for a second, not really long but it’s noticeable.

[Meatwad.Baggins]

I am an overthinker and I over complicate everything but that has served me well in alot of ways. However, I fell in love with the guitar because of how free my mind feels while playing it. It was the first thing that I ever did that I just started doing it and stopped thinking about it. I don't know why my brain is wired that way but I'm glad that is. And yes you are correct.

[bruno-thof]

I tell my gf the same thing over and over
"I dont give a toss how it feels, I wanna do it faster"
She doesnt understand, tho. Smh