How to build picking speed FAST (just do THIS!)

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  • čas přidán 9. 11. 2023
  • Download your play-along videos, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and 20 other courses here: / bernth - happy practicing my friends! :)
    Techniques in this workout: alternate picking, finger exercises, picking exercises, and much more!
    #guitar #guitarlesson #guitarlessons
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Komentáře • 123

  • @BERNTHGuitarAcademy
    @BERNTHGuitarAcademy  Před 7 měsíci +14

    Download your play-along videos, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and 20 other courses here: www.patreon.com/bernth - happy practicing my friends! :)

    • @satchrules101
      @satchrules101 Před 4 měsíci

      Hey Bernth I was wondering if u have any lessons on how not to swipe 3note per string picking ? Thanks

    • @tiberiuspit9050
      @tiberiuspit9050 Před 4 měsíci

      Hello, I also want to buy that Guitarist practice set, I'm from Romania, is it possible to get these products too?

    • @simonr6643
      @simonr6643 Před měsícem

      I know what I doing wrong thanks Tensing up my arm my whole arm. So I have to retain myself and say relax and that is what my problem has been for many years thanks

  • @Crambo2
    @Crambo2 Před 6 měsíci +69

    I’ve spent 30 hrs over the past 48 playing 15 min bernth videos over and over and over. I feel truly alive

  • @iBoss818
    @iBoss818 Před 6 měsíci +157

    Here's a tip to make this workout even more fun: instead of just playing the exact same thing as Bernth, do what he's doing, but harmonize with 3rds. It sounds epic. Thanks for the vid, Bernth!

    • @AbbieGreenMusic
      @AbbieGreenMusic Před 6 měsíci +3

      Thanks! i might try this today! 🤘🎸

    • @KingNuma.k82
      @KingNuma.k82 Před 6 měsíci

      Great idea!

    • @rmcf3972
      @rmcf3972 Před 6 měsíci +6

      I am a beginner. How to do, harmonize the 3rds?

    • @zombieteenager007
      @zombieteenager007 Před 6 měsíci +24

      ​@@rmcf3972 - you need to play the note that's a third away from the original. For example, in G major, the third of G is B (a major third), the third of A is C (a minor third), and the third of B is D (a minor third).
      Bear in mind that a major scale has the following pattern: major third, minor third, minor third, major third, major third, minor third, and minor third. I hope this helps.

    • @Lennyplays234
      @Lennyplays234 Před 5 měsíci +27

      ​@@zombieteenager007i don't think a beginner will understand that 😂

  • @clueless12345
    @clueless12345 Před 6 měsíci +11

    I was so desperate for something like this! Danke Bernth, du bist unser aller Held!

  • @trashmai
    @trashmai Před 2 měsíci +11

    I practiced this about 20 minutes every day of the past few weeks and I got so much improvement of my picking speed (120 => 150bpm and still going) and my left- and right-hand synchronization. Thank you very much!

  • @rickclick8359
    @rickclick8359 Před 6 měsíci +9

    Bernth thanks for releasing these fresh lessons, it keeps my practice sessions fresh. I managed to get through it first time but cheated on the strick down strokes only at the higher tempos lol.

  • @Lassef3k
    @Lassef3k Před 5 měsíci +4

    Thank you so much. This is what I needed. I‘m just on the first day of the workout but even after 20 minutes I can see slight improvements. Love from Frankfurt

  • @supcharecords9054
    @supcharecords9054 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Before start practicing, this video already help me getting more understanding on 5/4 time signature. Many Thanks!!!

  • @trevorlynn1021
    @trevorlynn1021 Před 4 měsíci +1

    took a 20 year hiatus from playing! found you and this video and has alone helped me the most! thanks!

  • @smallguitardude4672
    @smallguitardude4672 Před 3 měsíci +1

    For the past month i have been struggling with level 4. Then i came back to this video after a week or so to practice some more and found myself actually playing level 4 and struggling with level 5! I was so happy to see that my practice have paid off. Thank you so much for these types of videos! :D

  • @mattfairfield9007
    @mattfairfield9007 Před 2 měsíci

    this is the first BERNTH academy video I've watched and saw improvement in the first 3 sections of this workout. I am 32 an have been playing acoustic sparingly since i was 16. after playing a few open mics with my self taught style, i decided i wanted to get good at the electric guitar. just the first couple of tips about keeping fingers close to the fretboard and where to keep my hand on the bridge immediately made playing the fast section of seek and destroy(rhythm) easier. i had been practicing for a month with little progress and already saw improvements in 20 mins. my bad habit is i never learned o alternate pick! when learning riffs i have been breaking them down and forcing my brain to learn them alternate picking. this workout got my brain more ready than ever for alternate picking. thank you

  • @MGR_Songs
    @MGR_Songs Před 6 měsíci +1

    What a good exercise, bernth!!! I got the three first levels at first, i'm so happy with it lmao

  • @HalvyRiffs
    @HalvyRiffs Před 6 měsíci +3

    Made it about halfway through the second to last repeat. Was hard to keep up with those down picks! Thanks for providing this to work on!!

  • @insanityofgravity
    @insanityofgravity Před 6 měsíci

    will be added to my routine. thanks nice workout

  • @Lawrance_of_Albania
    @Lawrance_of_Albania Před 3 měsíci

    I am mounth and a half into practicing guitar. I satrted on a 1st of January this year, and i already feel some great results.

  • @bestrelaxationmusic5955
    @bestrelaxationmusic5955 Před 4 měsíci

    I see you do a really great job, so now i'm going to register on patreon to buy your courses someday, (cannot do this rn) but i wish you all the best alerady despite that fact i didn't learned anything yet from your courses 🙂

  • @stefandesouza6994
    @stefandesouza6994 Před 6 měsíci

    Amazing exercise love it.

  • @asra2729
    @asra2729 Před 6 měsíci

    This seems to be prettu good at helping with my horrid down-picking, def gonna include this in my technique practise

  • @rylanpowers1581
    @rylanpowers1581 Před 6 měsíci

    Hairs looking good man!

  • @fireberrytaco
    @fireberrytaco Před 7 dny

    This is my first day trying this out. I'm really hoping this can help me.

  • @stephenroger2144
    @stephenroger2144 Před 6 měsíci

    it’s very useful to me
    Thanks man

  • @angeloalcazar7355
    @angeloalcazar7355 Před měsícem

    i get the idea that practicing makes you speed specially on sweep picking. what we need to understand and to learn is what scales or mode you guys use. i saw sweep pickers never used pentatonic scale is too boring to use and im stucked at my own improvising.

  • @charles-davidcorbin3341
    @charles-davidcorbin3341 Před 6 měsíci

    Thanks by the way for the free lesson, its a great video.
    I was wondering when you work at higher tempo, do you put the metronome lower and play it at the half step or the whole or you still make your groove at lets say 300 bpm at your metronome. My friend told me its easier to get the groove on bpm between like 60 to 150 ihh and just change the note value to make it correspond the speed ( so if its 300 bpm at the quarter note, 150 at the half note should work too) , than grooving at 300 bpm from your meteonome.

  • @alexanderfamily
    @alexanderfamily Před 6 měsíci

    thx!

  • @Drumming_Monkey
    @Drumming_Monkey Před 5 měsíci +1

    Thank you for the video. I am really struggeling with it but I'm trying and slooooowly improving. Realized my picking might be pretty shitty while trying to learn One by One by the Foo Fighters and having a hard time with those fast 3 chugs on the E string in the Verse there. But Oh well...back to practicing I guess. Edit: That left hand stretch is equally difficult though xD I just don't have the flexibility to keep all fingers cloase to the fretboard.

  • @gohgeofferyampingut7820

    Nice❤

  • @greenpukeaudiolab7422
    @greenpukeaudiolab7422 Před 4 měsíci

    I found that when i tried to hold a second pick with my ring finger in my right hand, my right picking went more dynamic and precise it’s just like training wheels, I don’t expect to use it the rest of my life in that way. But it worked for me and may work for you too while you do this workout. Just a suggestion.

  • @user-te8yo9wo8m
    @user-te8yo9wo8m Před 4 měsíci

    Its great

  • @TheMLMRocker
    @TheMLMRocker Před 5 měsíci

    I practice this for 30 days. Today is Day 2. Your stuff is da shit bro. Fucking rock on.

  • @rjprivate
    @rjprivate Před 4 měsíci +1

    Respect to this guy. Although the beginning and end seem a bit sped up

  • @demonicon1
    @demonicon1 Před 4 měsíci

    Dudes opening speech for the first 35 seconds felt like he was talking directly to me

  • @SuperJohan64
    @SuperJohan64 Před 6 měsíci +11

    3:10 - Beginning of exercise
    5:08 - 2nd Pass
    6:29 - 3rd Pass
    7:34 - 4th Pass
    8:24 - 5th Pass
    9:08 - Final Pass

  • @UrzaTron707
    @UrzaTron707 Před 6 měsíci

    Good channel

  • @JamieCarter-wv8rp
    @JamieCarter-wv8rp Před 5 měsíci

    Very cool....

  • @Shredalist
    @Shredalist Před 5 měsíci +2

    What model Ibanez is that? Thank you for the video

  • @773Spair
    @773Spair Před 6 měsíci +1

    Besides the different positions your hands and fingers will be in, practicing on different strings will help with the varying picking techniques you have to use for the construction (usually only one or two on a given instrument) and gauges of the strings; which I'm guessing comes into play once you get to a certain speed. Playing on a .012" string will require a slightly different picking technique than playing on a .009" string. Picking a plain G3 vs. a wound D3 string will be more noticeable. Picking the highest notes of a D1 string (likely on a 9-string) at those speeds will require a greatly morphed technique relative to the first 2 strings on a set of 9s.

  • @performanceshootingacademy7647

    Ugh. The last speed is pushing my limits for sure. I’m almost there!

  • @monsterzero1965
    @monsterzero1965 Před 2 měsíci +1

    And now it is time on Shprokets when we dahnce!!

  • @EyesOpen369
    @EyesOpen369 Před 3 dny

    HOLY SHIT I DID IT MY FIRST TIME!!!! ❤❤❤OMG IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF!! 🙌🙌

  • @minkorrh
    @minkorrh Před 3 měsíci

    Hey. your metronome has a mind of its own. lol. Great strategy....don't always practice slow....I found this out and it was hobbling me until I started to just 'go for it' and realized that playing fast requires practicing fast. Ramp it up as soon as comfortable.

  • @JffreNongzz
    @JffreNongzz Před 4 měsíci

    Thank you sir love from India 😍🇮🇳❤️

  • @TheDeadpedal
    @TheDeadpedal Před 6 měsíci +1

    I'm so envious of those long alien fingers...

  • @lostinalbion4223
    @lostinalbion4223 Před 2 měsíci +2

    My daughter said it sounded like Hot Cross Buns.

  • @ds_on_strings
    @ds_on_strings Před 4 měsíci

    after playing along with it me be like - hell yeah , lets go man, oh yeahh 😎😎😎😎😎😎

  • @musisiPT
    @musisiPT Před 5 měsíci +1

    Sangat membantu kawan

  • @wolf30349
    @wolf30349 Před 4 měsíci

    this is good stuff, timings gonna be hard

  • @shhivanshh
    @shhivanshh Před měsícem +1

    Starts at 3:11
    22/4/2024 Day 1: 11:09 PM to 11:14 PM up to 7:00 D string
    26/4/2024 Day 2: 12:06 AM to 12:19 AM up to 7:32 3 rounds

    • @younggriff4703
      @younggriff4703 Před měsícem

      what about now

    • @shhivanshh
      @shhivanshh Před měsícem

      @@younggriff4703 Haven't practiced after that. Will start again in a week or two

  • @dnt7593
    @dnt7593 Před 4 měsíci

    Hello. What guitar do you Play on the video ?

  • @yotu9670
    @yotu9670 Před 4 měsíci

    3:12 Workout Start

  • @user-cx6dq9ie6l
    @user-cx6dq9ie6l Před 4 měsíci

    BTW does this exercise works for acoustic guiter?

  • @dannyurocks
    @dannyurocks Před 4 měsíci

    6:43 I’m currently out at this speed. But will try again everyday now.
    Seems difficult to me now. Definitely Very Challenging!!

  • @HwKSouviK
    @HwKSouviK Před 6 měsíci

    which ibanze guitar do you use plz tell i want to buy plz

  • @ok-hh4xz
    @ok-hh4xz Před 6 měsíci

    Surprisingly i did this first try

  • @tiberiuspit9050
    @tiberiuspit9050 Před 4 měsíci

    You can also translate videos for Romanian, I'm not that good at English and I'd like to learn from you

  • @dschannel573
    @dschannel573 Před 4 měsíci

    ❤❤

  • @khmerjamesgoodness8712
    @khmerjamesgoodness8712 Před 3 měsíci

    👍👍👍

  • @jonathansingh4230
    @jonathansingh4230 Před 3 měsíci

    Right hand was damn pain

  • @hierayku873
    @hierayku873 Před 6 měsíci

    I love the practice, but why do you have palm mutes in tabs if you don't use them?

  • @gaddam691
    @gaddam691 Před 5 měsíci

    3:08

  • @RuslanZhurbin
    @RuslanZhurbin Před 4 měsíci

    06:28

  • @ppang
    @ppang Před 5 měsíci

    If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly.
    - Bee

  • @user-pf3xi5yz3s
    @user-pf3xi5yz3s Před 4 měsíci

    Hi bernth

  • @pabloandres007
    @pabloandres007 Před 6 měsíci

    My arm is dead!!!!🤣

  • @Destroyer-jf3qz
    @Destroyer-jf3qz Před 2 měsíci

    the final speed broke my brain lol hands just can't do it haha. practice practice practice

    • @Destroyer-jf3qz
      @Destroyer-jf3qz Před 2 měsíci

      well 2 days later and I can consistently play final level to half before falling apart. progress feels nice

    • @Destroyer-jf3qz
      @Destroyer-jf3qz Před měsícem

      12 days into it after a day of skipping practice I can feel the difference in how I was and how I am quite clearly. Still getting better :D. Thx Bernth

    • @Destroyer-jf3qz
      @Destroyer-jf3qz Před měsícem

      3 weeks since this, final bpm high E string and B string are killing me haha. G also after trying for a while. but the rest is smooth

  • @matforsbon
    @matforsbon Před měsícem

    I hate stretching from fret 3 to 7, by the way it's very seldom used in actually riffs whether it's in Metal or Rock songs. So no I change the 7 fret to fret 2 on a string higher.

  • @cheesewonton7263
    @cheesewonton7263 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Me trying to black metal tremolo pick

  • @KingNuma.k82
    @KingNuma.k82 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Hello Bernth and fellow guitarist, I need some help. I need to build muscle i think or something. Had surgery on both wrists with years apart. The last one was this past sping on my picking hand. I need it to help with the pain after playing guitar. Most of my pain is in my fretting hand. Im a seasoned player so its not like im new and experiencing the usual pain a new player would. Ive even changed my posture for both hands thanks to Bernth 🙏 but im still facing pain after an hour or 2 of practice. Has anybody else faced this problem and overcame it? If so, please help a brother out.

    • @meljohnson5579
      @meljohnson5579 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Yep....left triceps tendon repair 30 yrs ago...bilateral L & R in the same year epicondyle tendon release surgery 8 yrs ago. Finally in the last 6 mths almost average every other day practice. I use ice packs etc...I know man it's a struggle. Played guitar since I was 12 yrs old. Let's not give up. We can do it!😊

    • @KingNuma.k82
      @KingNuma.k82 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@meljohnson5579 that's where I'm at lol it's a day to day struggle, physically and mentally. I will give the ice packs a try. Especially after the bar chord days. Thank you my friend.

  • @VLKV_loves_you
    @VLKV_loves_you Před 3 měsíci

    my downstrokes just aren't fast enough at the last level. does that mean i'm stuck?

  • @waynegoldstein7653
    @waynegoldstein7653 Před 5 měsíci

    Es fácil. Progresión de tiempo y dificultad con ayuda del metrónomo. Y repetir y repetir. Solo eso

  • @zenkijoe9022
    @zenkijoe9022 Před 6 měsíci

    You have to like yngwie and whip yourself everytime you hit the wrong note

  • @vaudronphilippe5415
    @vaudronphilippe5415 Před 2 měsíci

    Tu peux aussi passer ton temps à bosser la musique tout simplement…
    Car quand tu écoutes dream theater y’a pas que la vitesse qui compte… et écouter toute sorte de musique 🎵

  • @fazefusion2220
    @fazefusion2220 Před měsícem

    My problem is not my picking speed it’s my left hand because my left hand is much slower but I can very easily tremolo pick

  • @markdawsonziglar9436
    @markdawsonziglar9436 Před 6 měsíci

    I must confess: I cheated. I alternate picked the entire last run😬…just can’t down pick that fast.🤷‍♂️Great exercise.

  • @aeksinsang932
    @aeksinsang932 Před 5 měsíci

    Bernth is the ultimate wankathon of notes without bending or doing any melodies lol

  • @michelepennisi230
    @michelepennisi230 Před 13 dny

    AAAh stuck on the penultimate level

  • @YiffsterXenn
    @YiffsterXenn Před 6 měsíci

    Hell I can't even stretch that far without hurting my wrist ._.

    • @YiffsterXenn
      @YiffsterXenn Před 6 měsíci

      @@TheKlaun9 I don't have guitar friends... I've been trying to make them but I'm flying solo unfortunately. And don't have the money for lessons.

    • @YiffsterXenn
      @YiffsterXenn Před 6 měsíci

      @@TheKlaun9 I meant I wouldn't want to go to a class and not go two or three times. And a few of the teachers I met generally tell you that they do monthly payments so I can come in once a week and those turn out to be like a hundred or so cuz it's 4 payments. There's the online teachers but I'm afraid of going to them because if they don't specialize in the thing I want to learn then I feel like I'll be setting myself backwards instead of forward.
      No, I've had my guitar for a few years. Got a little assassin and even took it to a guitar shop to get the action adjusted as well as the bridge fixed up. Since then I understood how to do that myself, so I can set up my own guitar at my own pace when I get a new one. I also know how to get rid of the fret scratching if the guitar was hit with humidity by sanding the edges, and a bunch of other maintenance.
      I don't have guitar friends. I could probably afford a lesson (now) since I just recently got a job. I just don't want to go switching teachers repeatedly tbh.

    • @YiffsterXenn
      @YiffsterXenn Před 6 měsíci

      @@TheKlaun9 I am recording a few practice sessions, I appreciate you talking to me about it. I'll see if I can't find some help with the technique issue soon.

  • @rubin_bass
    @rubin_bass Před 6 měsíci

    To all metal basists here: If You are pick user, You can practice that on bass as well!

  • @TSCBoySouviK
    @TSCBoySouviK Před 6 měsíci

    Plz recommend me an Ibanez electric guitar under 200 dollar plz plz bro😢😢

    • @NightwishArena
      @NightwishArena Před 6 měsíci

      It have to be used one on that budget. I wouldn't even consider to buy new one under 300 euros, probably not even under 500 euros. But for 200 you can find a good used one for sure.

  • @Dontaskhowiknow
    @Dontaskhowiknow Před 3 měsíci

    I have a easier tutorial
    Step 1
    Play for years
    All done 😃

  • @RJ-lf8ex
    @RJ-lf8ex Před 5 měsíci

    Can you start making videos with less empty space? You don't talk enough. Make it like where it sounds like you are stating the world's longest sentence without stopping.

  • @JoelDubay
    @JoelDubay Před 5 měsíci

    It's pretty presumptuous making piles of videos telling everyone that they do things wrong…

  • @maxpolansky3417
    @maxpolansky3417 Před 5 měsíci

    Никаких жирных результатов за 30 дней не достичь. Нужно сыграть миллион раз правильно, чтоб это сработало. Лучше используйте видео Michael Batio, а не этого школьника с гитарой, который и пальцы криво ставит.