I absolutely love all these alternate picking videos. I'm a huge fan of people who have great alternate picking and have been practicing it for a while now. I think it'll be cool if you came up with some alternate picking runs for practice routines.
Nice ben. Tnx. I think that im stuck somewhere between those motions. But whenever i put a distance between my wforearm and the body and dont put the pick's tip, it is not too deep in between the strings. I guess my movement gets a lot smoother and faster.
I appreciate your advice but there seems to be a lot of contradction in the world of guitar around alternate picking. For example, I think this guy seems to disagree with you : czcams.com/video/w73dFDozPSg/video.html I'm not sure theres an absolute actual right or wrong with this kind of thing in relation to technique. Maybe much like how you hold a pick. Lots of great players have a different method but it works for them.
While you can get really good at using these extra motions, they are not going to do beginners and intermediates any favours. It’s easiest to learn the simplest technique with the least moving parts first - in this case pure wrist motion. That concept is not really up for debate - it’s a core principle of a lot of athletic disciplines as well as musical ones! If you are already shredding at 200bpm with not much trouble, by all means try to figure out how to optimise your technique by introducing thumb motion. If you are nowhere near that though, I would highly recommend simplifying the technique to as few component parts as possible.
I absolutely love all these alternate picking videos. I'm a huge fan of people who have great alternate picking and have been practicing it for a while now. I think it'll be cool if you came up with some alternate picking runs for practice routines.
please keep making videos Ben. You're the best teacher out there
Would love to see a video on hand synchronisation! I feel like I can get a decent tremolo going but very quickly my hands will go out of sync 😢
Nice ben. Tnx. I think that im stuck somewhere between those motions. But whenever i put a distance between my wforearm and the body and dont put the pick's tip, it is not too deep in between the strings. I guess my movement gets a lot smoother and faster.
Thanks!
Cheers man, glad it was useful!
I don't move my thumb, but I still can't get really fast LOL.
I appreciate your advice but there seems to be a lot of contradction in the world of guitar around alternate picking. For example, I think this guy seems to disagree with you : czcams.com/video/w73dFDozPSg/video.html
I'm not sure theres an absolute actual right or wrong with this kind of thing in relation to technique. Maybe much like how you hold a pick. Lots of great players have a different method but it works for them.
While you can get really good at using these extra motions, they are not going to do beginners and intermediates any favours. It’s easiest to learn the simplest technique with the least moving parts first - in this case pure wrist motion. That concept is not really up for debate - it’s a core principle of a lot of athletic disciplines as well as musical ones!
If you are already shredding at 200bpm with not much trouble, by all means try to figure out how to optimise your technique by introducing thumb motion. If you are nowhere near that though, I would highly recommend simplifying the technique to as few component parts as possible.