4-Week Practice Plan to Master Alternate Picking

[ilyass-RR]

The best YouTuber, guitar teacher, gives you all the secrets and the important exercises, really a generous man. Thanks

[dvxlium]

Been doing this a few days, i already see results. Danke, dass du uns allen kostenlos weiterhilfst. Deine Arbeit wird den Menschen in 10 Jahren auch noch helfen, einfach danke.

[mathiasdfrost]

This is exactly the type of training drill I am looking for to recover from nerve damage. Thank you!

[cungtin]

After only the first exercise, my speed got way faster! and I am more confident playing throughout the fret now. Just started the second exercise, and dang! I feel like my fingers were about come off even at 50 BPM. Thanks bro! Your exercises work for sure.

[miguelferreira]

EX 1 1:49 BPM:90
EX 2 3:43 BPM:80
EX 3 6:25 BPM:65
EX 4 8:28 BPM: pegando a primeira parte (a que para na corda 4)
Lembrete: As notas devem soar bem, quando ficarem chiadas significa diminuir a velocidade um pouco
ver pelo menos 10 minutos por exercicio

[dennisrodman]

Very very good video! For beginners in shredding i´d add the following:
Well - I started to work on my shredding a few week s ago, playing guitar for 25 years with absolutely no structure and all self taught.. i just found out about Bernths vids 2 days ago and i must say - absolute blessing that he cares so much about technique - both hands, pick, pickgrip, stringskipping et al. I have not seen that in that extend in any instructional video and i´ve seen many 100s, maybe a few 1000 - SOOOO .... i am working on similar exercises atm for the last weeksm and after some of Bernths vids now i have changed my pickgrip, as well as on the frethand my position of the thumb (was awfully bad and never noticed) and most importantly i am switching my fretting technique to use the very tips of the fingers.... so wow - playing feels very beginnery again... and regarding that:

If you are just beginning to work on shredspeed and accuracy i´d recommend making it rather 5weeks than 4 and starting even slower at 30bpm - use a metronome and set it to 120 (one note per beat, 2 on the fast parts) and make it sound really clean. Only when you got that move up to 40 by starting the excercise. Here hold the startung note and only play the picking pattern (rhythm) and see up to how fast you can alternate pick really clean - it´s no use going higher in fretting when you cannot pick it cleanly!

Second as beginner i´d really suggest playing the 1st excercise starting on d-string, 7th fret - easier to get the pinky to know his task and also the wound string let´s you know way clearer how light you only have to press to make it sound. I personally go for 2 runs from 7 on D, and then 2 runs on 2nd G (and repeat) always. And i start my practice with picking only to see if i´m up to the whole exercise picking-speedwise.


Main focus shall be to make it sound clean rather than somehow manage to cope with the speed!
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[themeganenosan]

This is your best video so far regarding to speed improvement! thank you so much

[ivanjarmanovic]

start ex 1 01:49
start ex 2 03:42
start ex 3 06:25
start ex 4 08:27

[hb]

@BERNTHGuitarAcademy I thank you for posting this video and many of your recent tutorials. I am learning more from you than a course I purchased.

[wattanadulyachai]

This is good for Practice playing guitar faster and better. I like that part Speed-Building Workout #4 (8:30).

Thank you for making the teaching clip.

[juanguinea]

my God !!!
this juast what i am looking for
thanks alot !! the best techer !!! thanks again brother.

[mrpresident]

5-9-25
1 - 90 bpm
2 - 100 bpm
3 - 80 bpm
4 - 5th repeat

5-10-25
1 - 120 bpm
2 - 110 bpm
3 - 80 pbm
4- 11:20

[sergiomota]

Big gay, fantastic
We have great you tube musicians in Brazil too. In my time there was nothing like that.
im amazed. Enjoy it Kids...
This is rock roll.

[dickrichards]

Man... I am just plain terrible at exercise one!... I am far better at 2, 3, and 4. I believe I have found my pain point. a New Year (2025) and a new routine to get better at picking. Will do this everyday 10-15 minutes each exercise... for a month and see what happens. Been doing some of your other video exercises as well. Great stuff here much appreciated!

[Carlitos_way]

Good alternate picking workout! Thanks for sharing ...

[Idkmang]

On week 3, I work my way from week 1 to week 3 workouts, 3 rounds a night, holy crap when I play other songs, I'm flying through solos I never thought id be able to do with ease

[carlogatti]

thanks Man a lot for this video. I'm going to start now with the first one. I'll be back in one with my feed back.

[Nick-vbl]

exercises like this make realize a couple of things. My picking sucks, and I can't descend for shit.

[akaraoglu]

All other practices are good but in practice #3 my little finger makes my hand get cramped. I mean the playing hand not picking hand. Does anyone have any idea? 🤔
This is a great video. It made me question all of my techniques. It has changed my picking technique drastically. Now I can play cleaner and learned my limits so I can push my boundaries. 👍

[Metalord]

MOst difficult one was nr 3, because of the doubble notes. It's something I've never used in my playing style. Anyway this was a really good warm up :)