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Your views on practicing are completely flawed you should practice slowly and deliberately and slowly amp up the metronome not practice faster than you can play it and mess up a thousand times.
@@shinninglightministry7050I assume its the fast twitch muscles in your hands and fingers and the muscle memory of landing on the strings accurately enough to hit a clean note while switching to anything more than one string away. But I'm guessing, I just watched the video and haven't even tried the exercise.
Guitarists... he meant that your hands should be sore from fatigue, not that you should be playing anything that is painful to play. There are a ton of tiny muscles, ligaments, tendons, and bones in your hands that you can injure if you play without warming up or if you are trying to play something painful to play. Be smart about taking good care of your hands!!! I strained a ligament in my fret hand about 20 years ago and it took a couple of months of physical therapy before I was finally able to perform again, all because I wasn't warmed up and I was trying to play a song that I had been writing with a wide stretch and I felt pain in my wrist, but I kept playing... that was a difficult lesson to learn. Please don't make that same mistake. Thoroughly warm-up every time you play, stretch, and massage your forearm, wrist, hand, fingers, and thumb. Play your warm-ups slowly and gradually build up speed, and then you can do the more difficult stretches, but if something is painful, don't do it!!! Keep practicing... I wish you the very best.
yeah this dude sucks if u look at his videos they're all just trashcan click bait minimal effort videos... he's not even doing the exercise correctly. this is for finger independence and you're not supposed to put pressure on the G string while doing it, only rest your fingers lightly on it which is much harder and makes very clear which fingers need the most work. the way he's doing you're better off learning some scales and use them to warm up instead...
I’ve always noticed that my ring finger doesn’t move well unless my pinky is moved with it. It annoying when playing guitar cause I can never move my ring finger around.
@@hudsonoakes5225it’s completely normal to have this issue because our ring finger nerves are intertwined with our pinkies and so moving one often involves moving both
usually when I see these exercises they're still too advanced for me, this looks like something I can realistically do while still being an absolute pain
ive been playing forever i consider myself pretty good (my channel for proof). i expected to be able to do this but the third finger was sooo difficult i was surprised.
Imagine waiting in line at a fast food joint telling your uncle how you broke your G-string earlier. It's an innocent enough statement until you realize most people don't play a stringed instrument lol
Ok, do not do it this fast. here's how to actually do it. - practice slowly - stay on your tips of your fingers (not just the one you're alternating) - try not to move your wrist, you wanna focus on the finger only - the point is to be accurate, have good tone, and stay relaxed it's a good excercise, but do it right🤠
I love this guy’s channel. It’s nice to be randomly scrolling through videos and then landing on one that actually TEACHES you something valuable. Keep up the good work!
i love this exercise and the feeling in your hands afterwards! for me it's also important to keep the wrist in one position and not to move it around :l
Just learn your frets and keys so you can tell which notes in between chords will work, or just start by using the notes that make up the chords since those obviously work. Best of luck mate
Very late to this, but as an almost complete beginner, I highly recommend this exercise. My ring finger in my left hand had so little control before doing this. The first time I did this on the ring finger, it legitimately hurt. The tendon would burn as I did it. Cut to around a week later, it’s become rather simple and my control over my ring finger in fretting chords has improved a lot.
I started doing this a little while back as a warm up. I've only been playing for about a year, but I noticed a big difference in dexterity in my fretting hand after doing this for a few weeks.
I got my guitar yesterday and using this i saw immediate improvement with being able to stretch out my fingers and not have them feel locked together, so thank you 😂 i have never been able to move my pinkie well but now i can move it allot better
Gonna try this out tomorrow! I only began a couple months ago and I’m getting better, but I need to put some more repetitive work in to really get my chops
I forgot that I was playing with my 8 string and started trying to do this. You can imagine my initial reaction given the distance my fingers had to reach 😂
This is a popular classical guitar workout for finger independence. If you want to get better at electric guitar, start doing classical fretting workouts.
Something i dont see mentioned enough is, trying playing a 8/9 string guitar, or a 6 string bass for a few days. Play it by doing your normal routine, but start on them big frets. Play it for a week without playing your normal guitar. When you come back to it, you'll be shocked at how small it feels, and you'll be surprised when you play it. You'll be faster, and more agile to changes, etc. Sometimes working harder, makes things easier.
I recommend to my students that they avoid painful exercises that aren't musical ideas they wish to play. I think inert information is harmful on its own but inert fine motor skills is just gonna make playing the instrument harder. I realized it myself by my own practice regimes making me play worse, causing hand pain, and not improving my dexterity. My #1 tip for practicing guitar is to practice music you enjoy playing. If you really like a section you could loop it in order to fine tune it. Do not do "spider" exercises or any kind of weird stretching though. Just don't.
A slightly harder variation that I was taught was to go B, A, high E, low E strings. Especially on the B, it can be tough to get the note to ring out. Then you can do 2 fingers at a time, then 3.
Just make sure to keep your stationary fingers relaxed. Touching the strings but not pressing down. The point is to isolate your movement and pressure to only the finger making the jumps
People obsess thinking that learning another bit of theory is going to unlock something for them on the fret board… but THIS is the type of thing that utterly transforms your playing !!! THaNK YoU!!
I’ve been doing this for about two months after seeing this, It has absolutely improved my speed. Along with some other exercises and applying it of course.
I’ve got Trigger Finger tendinitis in both hands (not that it affects my strumming hand much) so it makes this exercise excruciating for me but I can definitely see the benefits of practicing it.
As someone who wants to learn guitar but has no experience (or a guitar) and had an injury on my left pinky that took away some range of motion this exercise terrifies me
Omg this is a revelation to me! I saw this exercise from another youtuber, but I am unable to move my pinky independently. I asked her advice, and she just said do your best. Here I see that you also cannot really move your pinky, you move your whole hand and arm instead. This is so good to know! Thank you!!
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Your views on practicing are completely flawed you should practice slowly and deliberately and slowly amp up the metronome not practice faster than you can play it and mess up a thousand times.
But what benefit does this exercise bring?
@@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168It also doesn't help that he has super long fingers that make an exercise like this stupidly easy
@@Xman1020 yeh ig but if your really want to play fast practice starting at a whole note at 60 bpm and ramp your way up to sixteenths at 120
@@shinninglightministry7050I assume its the fast twitch muscles in your hands and fingers and the muscle memory of landing on the strings accurately enough to hit a clean note while switching to anything more than one string away. But I'm guessing, I just watched the video and haven't even tried the exercise.
It seems like a total pain in the ass. I'm gonna love it.
Bros a masochist 💀
@@moonwalkerkop4479 No pain no gain
I’ve been doing this since I saw a video about it a month ago and my fingers are completely independent and flexible, very worth.
@@Korrow I noticed a similar effect after just 10 minutes or so. I'm scared to think how good I'll be after w month haha
Carpal tunnel waiting to happen.....
So the spongebob song is a guitar exercise
I was looking for this comment😂
@@joeymelaniesame
That was the first thing that came to mind😅
thats what i thought.
i've been searching for this
Guitarists... he meant that your hands should be sore from fatigue, not that you should be playing anything that is painful to play. There are a ton of tiny muscles, ligaments, tendons, and bones in your hands that you can injure if you play without warming up or if you are trying to play something painful to play. Be smart about taking good care of your hands!!!
I strained a ligament in my fret hand about 20 years ago and it took a couple of months of physical therapy before I was finally able to perform again, all because I wasn't warmed up and I was trying to play a song that I had been writing with a wide stretch and I felt pain in my wrist, but I kept playing... that was a difficult lesson to learn. Please don't make that same mistake.
Thoroughly warm-up every time you play, stretch, and massage your forearm, wrist, hand, fingers, and thumb. Play your warm-ups slowly and gradually build up speed, and then you can do the more difficult stretches, but if something is painful, don't do it!!!
Keep practicing...
I wish you the very best.
This Was very helpful. Never took stretching serious enough. I would hate too strain a ligament from playing.
Golden advice, thank you!!
Thank you.
I was thinking that very same thing.
yeah this dude sucks if u look at his videos they're all just trashcan click bait minimal effort videos... he's not even doing the exercise correctly. this is for finger independence and you're not supposed to put pressure on the G string while doing it, only rest your fingers lightly on it which is much harder and makes very clear which fingers need the most work. the way he's doing you're better off learning some scales and use them to warm up instead...
I now have tendonitis. Thanks man!
The 3rd finger was the hardest.
100% took me 3 times as long and 3 times as much pain for the 3rd
For me it's the ring finger😭😭😭🙏it can't move on its own. Anything I can do abt it?
Im just learning guitar and i could move all my fingers relatively fine. The problem is its sounds horrible 😂
@@sophieangsings6398give your ring finger a helping hand with your other hand until you can do it freely. It helped me.
@@sophieangsings6398 Try on smaller guitar first (like guitarlele). This will help you increase the range of your ring finger movement.
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Found out through this exercise, that my ring finger is pretty much immobile
Same, means we must practice more!
same with my pinky a while ago but like Gal said, means practice is needed because your finger(s) isn't used to it just yet
I’ve always noticed that my ring finger doesn’t move well unless my pinky is moved with it. It annoying when playing guitar cause I can never move my ring finger around.
Yeah but I think if I practice enough my brain will have more control of my ring finger and will let me individually move it more often
@@hudsonoakes5225it’s completely normal to have this issue because our ring finger nerves are intertwined with our pinkies and so moving one often involves moving both
usually when I see these exercises they're still too advanced for me, this looks like something I can realistically do while still being an absolute pain
without pain there is no progress be motivated king
@@Lorandoriginal real
What yo girl
We do not pray for easy lives we pray to be stronger men lmao
ive been playing forever i consider myself pretty good (my channel for proof). i expected to be able to do this but the third finger was sooo difficult i was surprised.
My tired ass thought he was playing spongebob theme💀💀
Same lol
"We're gonna take all our fingers, put them on the G-string, and anchor them there"
I came here looking for these comments 😂 too many mature people around 🤷🏼♀️
The g string is meant to be peeled off like a sticker on an apple
Imagine waiting in line at a fast food joint telling your uncle how you broke your G-string earlier. It's an innocent enough statement until you realize most people don't play a stringed instrument lol
I exercise this on the classical guitar, and it is really hard!
But if you start to play in a electric you will be much better
Folk for me, my tears are made of blood
But if you mastering it on the classical guitar, you will be the master on the electric guitar, and if you play bass guitar, do it as well.
Oof. That wider neck and wobbly nylon strings??!? Sadistic.
@@jaybay637what makes you think we like to play electric guitar that’s like driving a Kia after driving a rolls Royce
Ok, do not do it this fast. here's how to actually do it.
- practice slowly
- stay on your tips of your fingers (not just the one you're alternating)
- try not to move your wrist, you wanna focus on the finger only
- the point is to be accurate, have good tone, and stay relaxed
it's a good excercise, but do it right🤠
that's really helpful actually, thanks for the tips
Your comment deserves a lot more likes 🙂
It works my wife said it really improved my fingering.
Here's the deal. Stuff like this makes you a better player when it's time to roll. Never underestimate dull practice routines.
Do it on the 1st-4th frets on a bass guitar if you wanna hate yourself
on a 6-string bass guitar
I love this guy’s channel. It’s nice to be randomly scrolling through videos and then landing on one that actually TEACHES you something valuable. Keep up the good work!
i love this exercise and the feeling in your hands afterwards! for me it's also important to keep the wrist in one position and not to move it around :l
My ring finger doesn't even responded
Mine did the same.... It just went brrrr
Make a video on how to play notes in between chords easily. I mean I know it's just practice, but it's hard lol.
Just learn your frets and keys so you can tell which notes in between chords will work, or just start by using the notes that make up the chords since those obviously work. Best of luck mate
Might need Kirk Hammett for that one mate.
@@drpepperman2765 Its one thing to write it its another thing to be able to play it cleanly
I was looking for something new to add to training as i pick it back up, nice.
Finger independence exercises are great!
Very late to this, but as an almost complete beginner, I highly recommend this exercise. My ring finger in my left hand had so little control before doing this. The first time I did this on the ring finger, it legitimately hurt. The tendon would burn as I did it. Cut to around a week later, it’s become rather simple and my control over my ring finger in fretting chords has improved a lot.
He really IS a nice guy for giving us all these practice routines for free
I started doing this a little while back as a warm up. I've only been playing for about a year, but I noticed a big difference in dexterity in my fretting hand after doing this for a few weeks.
That's the first guitar exercise I've seen in a CZcams short that I might actually bother with
I got my guitar yesterday and using this i saw immediate improvement with being able to stretch out my fingers and not have them feel locked together, so thank you 😂 i have never been able to move my pinkie well but now i can move it allot better
I do this!!! I also try it with more than one finger variations, it really does work to improve finger mobility and independence
You had me at: "Put all your fingers on the g string."
Bros out here torturing thousands of people
Thank u now I can play through the fire and flames flawlessly
Gonna try this out tomorrow! I only began a couple months ago and I’m getting better, but I need to put some more repetitive work in to really get my chops
This seems like the exact thing I need right now.
I forgot that I was playing with my 8 string and started trying to do this. You can imagine my initial reaction given the distance my fingers had to reach 😂
As a classical guitarist I have played this about 20,000 times till now
Yes, it is easy. I actually do it with left fingers 2 at a time, of course with right hand fingers plucking.
This is a popular classical guitar workout for finger independence. If you want to get better at electric guitar, start doing classical fretting workouts.
Tried it it’s painful but gonna keep going 😂😂 I love his energy 😂😭😭❤️
Chromatic scale cheat code
My problem is getting the ring finger on the low E and the pinky on the high E. It's such a struggle.
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He rotates his entire hand for the pinky. Helped me.
@@Ulchie thanks ill give that a try!
Well thank for the exercise I will be adding it to my routine
Something i dont see mentioned enough is, trying playing a 8/9 string guitar, or a 6 string bass for a few days. Play it by doing your normal routine, but start on them big frets. Play it for a week without playing your normal guitar.
When you come back to it, you'll be shocked at how small it feels, and you'll be surprised when you play it. You'll be faster, and more agile to changes, etc. Sometimes working harder, makes things easier.
Are we gonna ignore that he flipped us off repeatedly?
😂😂😂
I recommend to my students that they avoid painful exercises that aren't musical ideas they wish to play. I think inert information is harmful on its own but inert fine motor skills is just gonna make playing the instrument harder. I realized it myself by my own practice regimes making me play worse, causing hand pain, and not improving my dexterity.
My #1 tip for practicing guitar is to practice music you enjoy playing. If you really like a section you could loop it in order to fine tune it. Do not do "spider" exercises or any kind of weird stretching though. Just don't.
Thank you so much I always have trouble switching to different frets acurately this will help so much
I am going to do this. Looks like a cool exercise.
Does anyone else SPECIFICALLY stay to the end just to get yelled at to leave? Lol I fricken love it every time 😂😂😂
I put my hand on my g string, but kinda got lost from there on.
I dont have a guitar
Finally something from you that doesnt just seem to apply to single note rock playing :)
A slightly harder variation that I was taught was to go B, A, high E, low E strings. Especially on the B, it can be tough to get the note to ring out. Then you can do 2 fingers at a time, then 3.
Just make sure to keep your stationary fingers relaxed. Touching the strings but not pressing down. The point is to isolate your movement and pressure to only the finger making the jumps
Put fingers on the g-string 😏 sounds like a great exercise to me
Been doing this exercise for one month every day. Great progress!
love the energy
No pain no gain
I did a variation of this exercise and its really helpful for finger independence..its now a regular part of my warm up exercises
Damn this suck, I love it. It's really helping me with getting my fingers into position for chords and transitions.
People obsess thinking that learning another bit of theory is going to unlock something for them on the fret board… but THIS is the type of thing that utterly transforms your playing !!! THaNK YoU!!
I’ve been doing this for about two months after seeing this,
It has absolutely improved my speed. Along with some other exercises and applying it of course.
I’ve got Trigger Finger tendinitis in both hands (not that it affects my strumming hand much) so it makes this exercise excruciating for me but I can definitely see the benefits of practicing it.
This will give me carpel tunnel
these types of stretching exercises always did wonders for my playing.
Oh nice tip, thx man
That pinky is really killer on this one.
fr, my pinky trying to reach the top chord ✋🫨
It actually looks very promising, thank you so much for sharing!!
As someone who wants to learn guitar but has no experience (or a guitar) and had an injury on my left pinky that took away some range of motion this exercise terrifies me
Third finger is the hardest one but I was surprised in noticing I could do this excercise easily after 19 years of playing 😅
We used to do this in my intro to classical guitar class for warmups. Not sure if it helped, but we did it lol
I love this exercise, great way to get use to finger movements across the strings.
ooo that seems really helpful actually
I love these excursions. Gives me more to practice with
finally, a beneficial, painful exercise
Cool I shall try that today nice one thanx bro 🙏😎😊
I have never thought about this exercise. Thanks, man.
My ring finger can't even touch the e string 😂😂
You can also do the same fingerings but barring each finger if you struggle with bar chords
Omg this is a revelation to me! I saw this exercise from another youtuber, but I am unable to move my pinky independently. I asked her advice, and she just said do your best. Here I see that you also cannot really move your pinky, you move your whole hand and arm instead. This is so good to know! Thank you!!
Gonna try it now! Seems like a wonderful exercise to help me get from chord to chord
i’m gonna try this!! (i’ve been playing guitar for like a month but i’m crap-)
Wow love this 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
I didn’t need this video but the “now just leave” part was hilarious 😂
Excited to do it later lol
Thanks, that’s hard but perfect
THANK YOU SO MUCH BRO
Thank you. Very helpful
Thankyou I will try it I need to strengthen my fingers.😊
This is a really helpful exercise for improving dexterity. I like it
Love your stuff. Ty. Subscribed.
This made me want to cry
Thanks for that!
Thanks gonna try it in a bit
Love your content, tThank-you
I come from playing bass, im gonna try this but probably im gonna nailed it so ill been waiting for the next one
thanks for the exercise
This is for exercising your hand tendons! The objective is to maintain the other fingers in the string, while moving each finger 20x
Even watching thatbwas painful. Can't wait to try it later
Thanks bruh🎉🎉
I like how you shout at me at the end. Must take my life seriously after that 😂
Damn, I love This
NOW JUST LEAVE (at the end) made me subscribe 😁
My hand cramped just watching this
As an apprentice kid who is masochistic, this is going to be heavenly for me
Siriusly guys do this its an awesome exercise