Best 5 MIN Alternate Picking WORKOUT! (Hand Synchronization, Speed, Endurance)

This play-along picking- and hand synchronization workout will greatly improve your technique! By adding open strings to scale patterns, you will instantly control the number of notes you are playing and if your hands are really in sync. You can get my new in-depth hand synchronization online course on Patreon if you need to learn more in order to complete this workout!

00:00 Exercise Tutorial
01:51 Hand Synchronization Workout

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[tunayoer]

17 august - 100 bpm
14 september - 110 bpm
20 january - 120 bpm

[chasingtrailproductions]

Finally 8 months and I was able to achieve 140 bpm. The exercise that really complimented this alternate workout is the 5 min morning routine. Thanks Bernth, these really do work if you stick to them.

[mikepollack]

Bernth I love how your exercises actually sound good and are not just boring/annoying chromatic stuff. You obviously put a lot of time into the quality of your content. Well done as always and thanks for another great exercise!🤘🏻💪

[blaze-the-Real]

2:45 50 bpm
3:28 60 bpm
4:04 70 bpm
4:35 80 bpm
5:02 90 bpm

[bkmeahan]

3 weeks on and I just managed to do 70 bpm cleanly. :)

Finally gave up on 80 and made a drum track at a slower tempo. Managed to get to 72.5 today.

2 months from getting to 70 and I was finally able to make it to 80 although still a bit rough.

[nicholasstambuck]

I've been practicing this along with several other of your excersizes for a week now, and my speed has increased from 110 bpm to 140 bpm in just that amount of time, I can't say enough how awesome I think your channel is. I've been playing 14 years, yet I am so behind on things like hand synchronization, and others. If only I had discovered your channel a few years ago. I plan on subscribing to the Patreon next week, and officiating you as my personal Mr. Myagi to take me the legend status I strive to be. Thank you Bernth

[spencerharding]

It’s crazy it’s like you know my next steps in what I’m trying to do. I’ve been getting really good and going back and forth between any 4 close notes on one string. Then moving up to the next and back down, alternate picking as well as different sub divisions when picking. It helps, but this will help me way more! Thank you Bernth. Been enjoying playing and learning!

[chasingtrailproductions]

I signed up to Bernth Patreon today. I ran across the channel today and saw workouts and realized this is exactly what I am looking for to improve. I'm in a rut and was cruising Youtube and ran across this channel. I usually don't ever do Patreon, but I realized Bernth instruction is excellent, and I going to give it a 90 day commitment to these workouts.
Really talented guitarist.

[palakchopra]

September 19: Learning the pattern
September 20: 70 bpm (I end up skipping parts)
September 21: Crossed 80 after like a dozen tries
September 25: Rusty 90 after 3 day break
October 10: break due to exams so back at 80
October 21: I'm mad at myself for not keeping up but started again and at 90, also realized how much goo posture helps.
October 22: I don't think I'm mentally ready for 100.

[chasingtrailproductions]

Did 30 days straight without missing a single day for 10-15 mins. Finally I am able to get 110 consistently most of the time. I even started getting a little 120 starting to to come together. I'm going to keep at it for another 30 and see what I can achieve. I need to focus on better economy with fret hand for sure. Thanks for the tip on no angle to fret hand, that really helped out.

[FrankyFeedler]

Day 1 jun 18: 110 barely
Day 2 jun 19: 120, played 130 for a bit, I'm calling it a 120 for today :)
Day 3 (revisiting) jan 01: 110, 120 barely
May 29 having revisited this for the last week or so along with other exercises
Reached 140, cleanly, quite easily in fact.
It was super hard to cross over into a different realm where you learn to discern the notes at 140bpm in an entirely different way than you would slowly.
I read this in many comments that it's hard and I can relate.
Do other exercises where you can play stuff at that speed. Learn to 'get' 140bpm! Then it becomes easier here.
Your hands can already do it. It's your brain that's lagging. Practice practice practice and always mix it up.
Thanks Bernth!

[srdesck]

1:51 - 40 bpm

2:45 - 50 bpm

3:29 - 60 bpm

4:05 - 70 bpm

4:35 - 80 bpm

[PrinzDerSchatten]

You're the only person who encourages me to play, teacher! 🙂🎶

[gregclagett]

I love the way your exercises have melody, and how you build speed slowly so when you reach faster speeds, you already have muscle memory and improved synchronization.
Thank You Sir !!
GC

[dmitryWeirdo]

What I like about your channel Bernth is that it offers real exercises that you can actually play along, instead of long talking an explanation. What makes perfect is practicing!

[seanthegreatish]

I turned 45 in February. I’ve been playing the guitar since I was eleven years old and due to being poor, I was completely self taught. I’ve picked up many things along the way, you can’t help but to I guess, but I’ve felt plateaued for a long time. I have to tell you how quickly things are coming together after finding this video and the hand synchronization exercise. I haven’t made it to the end of either one yet, it’s only been two days, but I’m nothing short of blown away at how things are falling into place already. I won’t look at any other lessons until I master the first two I came upon. I have a feeling I’ll hit beast mode eventually. I have to be honest, I don’t think I’ll apply what I’m learning to songwriting. I will become nothing but a better guitarist. I can’t thank you enough ☮️

[yanisjeanne]

Thank you so much Bernth, I've been playing the acoustic guitar for years now and never had the motivation toi develop my fingers' speed and technique on electric guitar. You sir motivated me to overcome this and now I really take pleasure working on electric and actually seeing progress
Keep up, you truely are an inspiration❤️

[alex-ellsworth]

Played the riff on and off a few weeks ago. Was quite difficult for me then. Been practicing Through the Fire and Flames like mad the last few weeks. So this feels better now.

December 6: 120BPM
December 7: 140BPM, trying to tidy up 130BPM
December 8: 140BPM inconsistent, 130BPM cleaner
December 9: 140 BPM inconsistent, 130BPM clean
December 10: 140BPM inconsistent.
December 11: 130BPM pretty good, 140bpm inconsistent, 120BPM easy.
December 12: 140BPM clean up. 130BPM.
December 13: 140BPM most of the time.
December 14: Complete.
December 26: 155BPM
December 27: 170BPM

Day 1 Thoughts: Hoping to complete this in a week!
Day 2 Thoughts: Making good progress.
Day 3 Thoughts: Took a slight step back at first integrating better thumb placement.
Day 4 Thoughts: Feels so much better with new thumb placement after much practice. Cleaner takes now.
Day 20 Thoughts: Practicing this one a lot for tricky, fast runs. Hope to get to 200BPM one day!

[emilianonobile]

August 11/2023 got some trouble learning the pattern once I got it I achieved 70 bpm clean, almost 80
August 13 already improved stuck at 90 almost 100.
Thank you Bernth ❤

[maley]

Thank you Bernth! This is such a cool exercise to work on. I basically started my guitar journey with this exercise after learning how to pick properly and play some open chords lol.

Month 1: clean 80 bpm. dirty 90 bpm.
Month 2: clean 120 bpm
Month 3: clean 130 bpm
Month 4: clean 140 bpm
Month 6: clean 150 bpm. pushing 160 bpm but yeah. It definitely works. 6 months with around 3 weeks of down time in total where I did not play thanks to vacations/sick days etc. (Not consecutively)

Take your time and enjob the process, people

I can NOT reach 160 bpm at one-go btw. I take a 2 min break after 120 bpm or my hand gets too tensed up to play. I cant imagine how people can play gigs without much of a pause.

I wish the 5 min morning routine was progressing as fast as this one, but that one is a totally different beast imo