When I started playing drums I used to play rhythm with my hands/fingers all the time and it had a humongous impact on my playing. The idea of using your thumb as a fretboard is just brilliant. Will definitely try it out. Thanks!
Claus, i want to thank you for all of your lessons. You have the best teaching method i have come across. I learn so much valuable information from you. My playing and practice sessions have never been better. Thank you..thank you! You are awesome!!
That is by far the greatest and most simple form of technique lesson I've seen! Totally makes sense and I know it will work. Impulses from the brain to fingers. Way easier than lugging a guitar around! Thanks you! Clause Levin.
Awesome advise and techniques! I really appreciate the way you teach and the experience you have. I save the time I used to waste practicing the wrong way and now I get results so fast that it stays fun which keeps me excited to practice every day. I'm actually getting better! THANKS!
After 35 years of playing I am not quite as good as you but decent. This is the best guitar training method I have ever heard. In a few years of this I may be able to take a step closer to your playing. Thank You!! 🤘😁👍
Of all the courses i have a love yours the best, I wish I had found you 5 years ago. I’m doing fretboard mastery now and I’ve increased to where I can see the notes at a glance, although above the 12th fret I’m still working on. Thanks... I not only learn but you make me laugh, with you!!! Merrill
Great lesson to remember that playing guitar is not just the headbanging and guitar position, but playing for real with my fingers, even when not having a guitar!!! thanks man! greetings from Chile!!!
Claus, you truly are awesome for everything you share with us all. You're amazing at it as well, so I don't know how anyone wouldn't take your advice seriously. I thank you sir! The guitar was just a hobby until I saw your videos, and now it truly is an obsession!! Lol
The kind of advise you get from most CZcams guitar teachers: "You should really get know where your notes are on the neck." The kind of advice you get from Claus: "Listen to your chords, now play your scale. Does it sound good? Yes? Great! If not, move up 1 fret or down 1 fret and you'll be closer to the note you want." This is why I love Claus' videos and I can't wait to actually watch this one! XD
This is an outstanding tip. I have used this type of "muscle memory" in other types of training. No idea why it never occurred to me to apply this to the guitar fingerboard. I go through these types of exercises in my head, visualizing the board. Adding this is like adding nitrous to my "virtual practice". Claus your a genius. Thanks for another excellent video.
This never occurred to me either and it should have after learning to type in high school and walking around typing in thin air for years! It worked then. I'm sure this is going to help now.
@@calibjames9809 It helped some but I'm 54 and have neuropathy in my hands. I've been playing since I was 8 years old but mostly rhythm stuff. After 8 months I'm a lot faster but still nowhere near this guy. I'd say maybe from 120bpm before to 180bpm after 8 months. I do play every day. If I had started something like this when I was younger I'll bet the difference would be much greater. Have a good day brother and God bless.
Claus, Thanks so much for sharing this. I've been following you for a while and you've really helped me. I really mean this when I say that you have my kind of OCD! I loved your discussion about obsessively practicing the same idea until you master a small piece than move on to build on the mastered piece. A couple more tips for taking this idea to the next level: You can build your groove / time while listening to music in the car. Take a page from drummers and practice heel toe with your left foot in time with the music. Heel on downbeat, toe on backbeat. This has the added benefit of teaching you how the part you are listening to fits with the time. You'll quickly see where the pattern is on the beat or off it. A huge deal! You'll probably end up with better time than your drummer! Another tip is for heavy computer users (me), reverse the buttons on your mouse and learn to mouse left (weak) handed. It builds all kinds of fine motor skills and seems to unstick a part of your brain. Finally, if you are a bass player, do this with your right hand fingers all the time (should work for finger picking or hybrid picking too). Start with a steady stream of 16th notes. Lead with a different finger and tap your foot in time. First one to 10 million reps gets to start over! For added fun, put accents on different parts of the 16th note patterns while keeping time with your feet. This is the perfect solution to boring meetings! Thanks Claus!
Wow I can vouche for this now. I did this for only 5 minutes and already my fingers aren’t flying off the fretboard like they used to. Amazing tip! I feel way more efficient already, will keep this habit up
Claus definitely appears to have that eccentric genius quality. Lots of idiosyncratic information that is very, very useful and highly motivating. Bravo.
everytime i get impatient with alternate speed picking i watch another video of yours and i get the same advice that i need to hear......MORE PRACTISE!!!! lol i continue to watch your video to keep me reminded!
He is on to something here-I grew up playing drums and I always find myself practicing keeping rhythm on my teeth, feet, hands, whatever I can bang on etc. It’s the same thing just translated to your individual fingers.
I've used a hickory tool handle. Like the kind you mount a sledgehammer on. What i do is, I hold it like a guitar and i drum my left hand fingers on it and i go up and down the "neck." If you've never done this, you will be amazed at how quickly you can't do it anymore. I drive a tractor quite a lot and i will do this all day sometimes. You cannot develop this with something like a "grip master"- those are great at developing your hand for playing chords, but if you watch a guitarist like Paul Gilbert, particularly what he does with his left hand, you'll see the motion you have to do, and it isn't playing with your thumb squarely on the back of the neck or with the string centered on the very end of your fingers. Your fingers have to hit that fretboard like drumsticks. Think legato. That's where its at. I liked the finger trick. I'm glad I'm not the only one to do things like this.
I am glad that this tick I picked up for my strumming hand right when i started playing guitar two years ago. didn’t think to do the same with my left. literally hundreds of thousands of reps in the past two years alone for my strumming hand doing nothing but fidgeting along with songs pretending i’m playing or trying to come up with a rhythm. Thanks brotha! Great advice and going to see if I can (rough estimate) break 500,000 reps before the end of the year
The finger exercises described here are very helpful advice. You can work on developing your left hand dexterity anywhere at any time, without a guitar; just using your fingers and thumb - or any handy solid surface like a tabletop, steering wheel, your kid brother's head... As with all practice techniques, of course, the key is repetition, repetition, countless repetition, until you can do it automatically without even thinking about it!
When I first learned to type back in high school, for years afterwards, I found my fingers typing my thoughts all the time. It was addicting. It made my typing much better. I never thought to apply it to guitar but I have no doubt it works. I'm in!
The way you develop it is not to use your left hand if your right handed but to use a left handed guitar and let your strong coordinated right hand do the fretting
Doing this finger exercise on a flat surface, like a table, is a lot more like a fretboard. I think this is better than finger to thumb tip. The dedicated left hand exercise is great because it focuses only one one hand. I found this gives me more gains than trying to do left+hand synchronization exercises on the actual guitar straight away. Results are best doing dedicated left hand on desk/surface all day, then next move to guitar while aiming to sync left+right on the real deal.
I actually sometimes did this, but with a picking motion with my right hand placed on my stomach and i used the sound that my shirt made as feedback of how many "picking strokes" i did. Kinda works for imitating the picking motion as well, but i never really did it for my fretting hand as imitation for fretting technique. Sounds interesting, will do both, thanks Claus, great vid ofc.
This actually does work. I've been doing it for years with my right hand and I've such dexterity on it but my left one is not able to keep up... I never really gave it a thought, it's just an obsession I have. Time to start doing it with the left hand.
1 hour per day 60 minutes 1 rep per second x 60 seconds = 3600 reps per day. x 356 days = 1,281,600 reps in 1 year. it would take 1000 years to do a billion reps at a rate of 1 hour a day 1 rep per second. Besides the exaggeration great lesson.
This is how I learned to thump on guitar. I made it a stim basically, I would use the seam of my jeans when sitting down and do it THOUSANDS of times and I got the finger coordination DOWN!
Ok, when I first watched this I was thinking, yeah right, this is BS. However, after trying it for a day and coming back the next day, wow, this stuff works! I have been struggling with an Erik Johnson pentatonic run and I can suddenly play it easily. Also timing myself daily with BPM's on runs I'm suddenly much faster. I stand corrected Sir!
I came out of interest. Some years ago I would agree with you, thank you for pointing it out. I increased my speed tremendously in last couple of weeks. In my case it wasn't the lack of practice that was holding me back, it was me doing it wrong. That's all. Despite all the years of piano training and such, it didn't help. One needs to do it right.
Great video! I do prefer to do the repetitions when I use the guitar without the tv and do a rhythm exercise. I change the starting point of my 6 note pattern every minute ...so the brain has a lot of trouble to do it right. I think that helps to get more out of the time of training the fingers...what do you think Claus?
Interesting approach, Would something like this work for practicing the right hand for finger picking patterns, or do you have a better exercise for this?
You magnificent beast!!!! I've practiced this for a day and already I've increased my playing from 120 bpm 16th notes to 150 bpm 16th notes. an increase in 30 fucking bpm. In a single bloody day....! Witchcraft! If only I'd known this when I was younger.
Took me a while but repetitive training my fingers in front of the tv as long as I can even then it's going to take time I'm still working on it and slowly getting quicker and accurate.
I fractured my left hand pinky at the knuckle almost a year ago. I still can't really touch my thumb to the tip of my pinky. I can get to my last joint so far. It seems more of a thumb reach problem compared to my right hand. My hand was sprained when I fell. I can play guitar again for leisure, but really have to work on left hand speed and coordination with alternate picking faster without it falling apart. Doing this guitar pattern touching exercise while at work will be another challenge I'll put myself to.
🤘🎸🦅🤘🗣️ . We are what we tell ourselves and think about. Thank you for this reminder. There are no limits besides the ones we create in our minds.there are so many layers of manipulation in guitar variants . It's great .
Great advice. I practice patterns on the steering wheel when driving to the tempo of what's playing on the radio and that helped me make progress, I'll add this too. I'm also fairly certain you are Arnold Schwarzenegger's more intelligent young brother.
It's funny you mentioned driving a car. I've been racing cars and motorcycles since I was 4 years old. That said, for me, when I imagine shifting gears, I have to physically stop myself from actually moving my hand or foot from making a shifting movement. It's so deeply connected. I can only imagine for a master of guitar that it must be something like that when you hear a song and think of playing it perhaps.
Its very true...instead of using my thumb i use my right forearm to run scales on. I believe it was Adam Neely who turned me on to this but i have came a long way in the past 6 or 7 months of doing this
I think the finger thing actually has benifits. I started doing this while watching this video. Within few minutes my arm started cramping. So not only it is enhancing motor skills, i think i am also strengthening my arm muscles which can help during fast playing..
i'm a bassists and gutarist and i'm doing this for my right hand while walking streets. for years! i don't give a shit about what people would think abouyt me then. but my picking technique on guitar are constantly better, even when i don't practice guitara, and my picking fingers are stronger and faster too. after that it's just adjusting to strings and it's faster than sitting with instrument and practicing it for many hours, so full agree on this vid
It is much better for a left-handed player to play right handed guitar that way his left hand is doing the complex and strength needed for fretting and vice versa for right-handed need to play a left-handed guitar
I did the finger to thumb thing for 5 minutes one day and the next day woke up with extreme pain in the mcp joint (base of my thumb) of my left hand. Turns out that I have osteoarthritis in that joint and this exercise caused it to be painfully evident. No more of this exercise for me, but at least I can still play albeit with pain.
I was thinking i was alone while fretting i make myself think "Okay dont stop anda krep fretting" when i didnt think or "concentrate" i have failed..... lots of lots time. THIS VIDEO......
@@kokolox9913 Absolutely! I'm still not the best player ever, but im certainly faster. I can go through scales with ease now and play faster songs. It works great with other instruments too. it has helped me tremendously with piano and saxophone.
I'll give this a shot and try to report if it helped. I like this approach, because I also suggested that my brain isn't able to send signals to my fingers fast enough. Nothing else makes sense imo. Well, hope this will help and also thanks for pointing out not to close your eyes while driving, lol. I'll give feedback in a few weeks or months.
Did you really pluck all of those notes at 8:25 with your left hand fingers? It went by so fast I couldn't see clearly. I didn't know that was possible since it takes longer to pluck a string than to just press down on it.
Claus, i'm giving your off guitar speed skills a go, but i've noticed i can do more complicated patterns with my right hand, then my left hand, i play guitar right handed, should i play left handed? i mean could i play faster and with more dexterity with my right hand? just based on these off instrument hand exercises.
Hi. I don’t really understand the importance of this exercise. For me, I think the bigger problem is the accuracy and the coordination between left hand and right hand. The legato. While my right hand moves pretty accurate, my left hand is less accurate. Can you make a video of how to make my playing more legato and “clean”? Thanks!
I like this guys work ethic based approach. No magic tricks or secrets, just real talk and useful instruction.
This has to be the most beautiful strat I have ever seen.
When I started playing drums I used to play rhythm with my hands/fingers all the time and it had a humongous impact on my playing. The idea of using your thumb as a fretboard is just brilliant. Will definitely try it out. Thanks!
Claus, i want to thank you for all of your lessons. You have the best teaching method i have come across. I learn so much valuable information from you. My playing and practice sessions have never been better. Thank you..thank you! You are awesome!!
That is by far the greatest and most simple form of technique lesson I've seen! Totally makes sense and I know it will work. Impulses from the brain to fingers. Way easier than lugging a guitar around! Thanks you! Clause Levin.
Awesome advise and techniques! I really appreciate the way you teach and the experience you have. I save the time I used to waste practicing the wrong way and now I get results so fast that it stays fun which keeps me excited to practice every day. I'm actually getting better! THANKS!
After 35 years of playing I am not quite as good as you but decent. This is the best guitar training method I have ever heard. In a few years of this I may be able to take a step closer to your playing. Thank You!! 🤘😁👍
I invented this 20 years ago. I'am not sure it helped me in playing but I'm definitely more crazy.
LOL!!!
I also invented this lmao
Dude your videos are great! Love that strat as well!
I love your unique approach. Thanks Claus
OK, so I am not crazy. Air guitar counts. Thank you Claus.
Of all the courses i have a love yours the best, I wish I had found you 5 years ago. I’m doing fretboard mastery now and I’ve increased to where I can see the notes at a glance, although above the 12th fret I’m still working on. Thanks... I not only learn but you make me laugh, with you!!! Merrill
Great lesson to remember that playing guitar is not just the headbanging and guitar position, but playing for real with my fingers, even when not having a guitar!!! thanks man! greetings from Chile!!!
Claus, you truly are awesome for everything you share with us all. You're amazing at it as well, so I don't know how anyone wouldn't take your advice seriously. I thank you sir! The guitar was just a hobby until I saw your videos, and now it truly is an obsession!! Lol
I will begin using this immediately. Thank you for this .
One of the nicest Fenders I've ever seen. One of the nicest clean sounds I've ever seen. And one of the best guitar teachers I've ever seen.
The kind of advise you get from most CZcams guitar teachers: "You should really get know where your notes are on the neck."
The kind of advice you get from Claus: "Listen to your chords, now play your scale. Does it sound good? Yes? Great! If not, move up 1 fret or down 1 fret and you'll be closer to the note you want."
This is why I love Claus' videos and I can't wait to actually watch this one! XD
Brilliant Brit, left hand techniques, mind and body relationship, thank you for your knowledge !....
This is an outstanding tip. I have used this type of "muscle memory" in other types of training. No idea why it never occurred to me to apply this to the guitar fingerboard. I go through these types of exercises in my head, visualizing the board. Adding this is like adding nitrous to my "virtual practice". Claus your a genius. Thanks for another excellent video.
This never occurred to me either and it should have after learning to type in high school and walking around typing in thin air for years! It worked then. I'm sure this is going to help now.
@@The_Lord_has_it 8 months later, did it help you a lot?
@@calibjames9809 It helped some but I'm 54 and have neuropathy in my hands. I've been playing since I was 8 years old but mostly rhythm stuff. After 8 months I'm a lot faster but still nowhere near this guy. I'd say maybe from 120bpm before to 180bpm after 8 months. I do play every day. If I had started something like this when I was younger I'll bet the difference would be much greater. Have a good day brother and God bless.
Elon Musk?
If he hit the gym more.
Elon Muscle.
And when he does Stretches. Elongated Man.
Elon Busk
How does this man has do much time?
Claus, Thanks so much for sharing this. I've been following you for a while and you've really helped me. I really mean this when I say that you have my kind of OCD! I loved your discussion about obsessively practicing the same idea until you master a small piece than move on to build on the mastered piece.
A couple more tips for taking this idea to the next level:
You can build your groove / time while listening to music in the car. Take a page from drummers and practice heel toe with your left foot in time with the music. Heel on downbeat, toe on backbeat. This has the added benefit of teaching you how the part you are listening to fits with the time. You'll quickly see where the pattern is on the beat or off it. A huge deal! You'll probably end up with better time than your drummer!
Another tip is for heavy computer users (me), reverse the buttons on your mouse and learn to mouse left (weak) handed. It builds all kinds of fine motor skills and seems to unstick a part of your brain.
Finally, if you are a bass player, do this with your right hand fingers all the time (should work for finger picking or hybrid picking too). Start with a steady stream of 16th notes. Lead with a different finger and tap your foot in time. First one to 10 million reps gets to start over! For added fun, put accents on different parts of the 16th note patterns while keeping time with your feet. This is the perfect solution to boring meetings!
Thanks Claus!
Wow I can vouche for this now. I did this for only 5 minutes and already my fingers aren’t flying off the fretboard like they used to. Amazing tip! I feel way more efficient already, will keep this habit up
Claus definitely appears to have that eccentric genius quality. Lots of idiosyncratic information that is very, very useful and highly motivating. Bravo.
everytime i get impatient with alternate speed picking i watch another video of yours and i get the same advice that i need to hear......MORE PRACTISE!!!! lol i continue to watch your video to keep me reminded!
Excellent tip!
He is on to something here-I grew up playing drums and I always find myself practicing keeping rhythm on my teeth, feet, hands, whatever I can bang on etc. It’s the same thing just translated to your individual fingers.
I've used a hickory tool handle. Like the kind you mount a sledgehammer on.
What i do is, I hold it like a guitar and i drum my left hand fingers on it and i go up and down the "neck."
If you've never done this, you will be amazed at how quickly you can't do it anymore. I drive a tractor quite a lot and i will do this all day sometimes.
You cannot develop this with something like a "grip master"- those are great at developing your hand for playing chords, but if you watch a guitarist like Paul Gilbert, particularly what he does with his left hand, you'll see the motion you have to do, and it isn't playing with your thumb squarely on the back of the neck or with the string centered on the very end of your fingers. Your fingers have to hit that fretboard like drumsticks. Think legato. That's where its at.
I liked the finger trick. I'm glad I'm not the only one to do things like this.
Great lesson
Awesome. Great advice
Yes... I've found this channel.. Tnx man.. Sweet hobby..
That was hilarious and insightful at the same time!
Good thing Guitar Hero trained my left hand before i played real guitar.
Your right hand trained you for skin flute.
brilliant idea!
When you understand the pentatonic scale you can visualize the box that you should play in also called the BB King blues box.
I am glad that this tick I picked up for my strumming hand right when i started playing guitar two years ago. didn’t think to do the same with my left. literally hundreds of thousands of reps in the past two years alone for my strumming hand doing nothing but fidgeting along with songs pretending i’m playing or trying to come up with a rhythm.
Thanks brotha! Great advice and going to see if I can (rough estimate) break 500,000 reps before the end of the year
floating guitar
It's on a stand
It's the gravitational pull from all the finger wiggling
The finger tapping theory really does work bro. My accuracy and speed has doubled since I have been doing this. Thanks for your wisdom bro.
How many minutes at a time do practice this, and how long before you noticed an improvement in playing guitar?
Me only just realising that his guitar is on a stand: oh oHkE
Sean Scott, I didn’t even see lol
Omg! Lol
Wowwwwww
I think he levitates it with his mind powers.
Im a beginner, literally a beginner. My hands is as slow as my internet seriously. Hahaha.
Thanks for your words. :)
Going to do this.
Has this worked out for you after 2 years?
We need answers
Indeed we need answers
Answers
@@jphininzy9058 Ima do it too let us know if it's working for you mate
Funny that. The more you practice the better you get! Thanks for a very useful video - invaluable instruction.
Gonna try this!
Let me know how it goes
@@guitarmastery, Sure!
The finger exercises described here are very helpful advice. You can work on developing your left hand dexterity anywhere at any time, without a guitar; just using your fingers and thumb - or any handy solid surface like a tabletop, steering wheel, your kid brother's head...
As with all practice techniques, of course, the key is repetition, repetition, countless repetition, until you can do it automatically without even thinking about it!
When I first learned to type back in high school, for years afterwards, I found my fingers typing my thoughts all the time. It was addicting. It made my typing much better. I never thought to apply it to guitar but I have no doubt it works. I'm in!
The way you develop it is not to use your left hand if your right handed but to use a left handed guitar and let your strong coordinated right hand do the fretting
Doing this finger exercise on a flat surface, like a table, is a lot more like a fretboard. I think this is better than finger to thumb tip. The dedicated left hand exercise is great because it focuses only one one hand. I found this gives me more gains than trying to do left+hand synchronization exercises on the actual guitar straight away. Results are best doing dedicated left hand on desk/surface all day, then next move to guitar while aiming to sync left+right on the real deal.
I remember doing this in high school during class. I would also do the same thing on my desk😁
I actually sometimes did this, but with a picking motion with my right hand placed on my stomach and i used the sound that my shirt made as feedback of how many "picking strokes" i did. Kinda works for imitating the picking motion as well, but i never really did it for my fretting hand as imitation for fretting technique. Sounds interesting, will do both, thanks Claus, great vid ofc.
You say. I do. That is all.
This actually does work. I've been doing it for years with my right hand and I've such dexterity on it but my left one is not able to keep up... I never really gave it a thought, it's just an obsession I have. Time to start doing it with the left hand.
1 hour per day 60 minutes 1 rep per second x 60 seconds = 3600 reps per day. x 356 days = 1,281,600 reps in 1 year. it would take 1000 years to do a billion reps at a rate of 1 hour a day 1 rep per second. Besides the exaggeration great lesson.
This is how I learned to thump on guitar. I made it a stim basically, I would use the seam of my jeans when sitting down and do it THOUSANDS of times and I got the finger coordination DOWN!
This is good idea!
dude you are turning into DETERMINATOR !
i have just practice it a while, i can now feel that fingers jumping on my fretboard
you are a genius
Ok, when I first watched this I was thinking, yeah right, this is BS. However, after trying it for a day and coming back the next day, wow, this stuff works! I have been struggling with an Erik Johnson pentatonic run and I can suddenly play it easily. Also timing myself daily with BPM's on runs I'm suddenly much faster. I stand corrected Sir!
I came out of interest. Some years ago I would agree with you, thank you for pointing it out.
I increased my speed tremendously in last couple of weeks. In my case it wasn't the lack of practice that was holding me back, it was me doing it wrong. That's all. Despite all the years of piano training and such, it didn't help. One needs to do it right.
I want that guitar!!!
I think you should write books on ways to develop skills or something
Perfect sirrrr.Hearty Respect fron india
thank you sir! this will be my new addiction hehehe
I started doing this years ago. I always thought I was the only one who did it haha. It's quite helpful actually. Do this people 🙂
Great video!
I do prefer to do the repetitions when I use the guitar without the tv and do a rhythm exercise. I change the starting point of my 6 note pattern every minute ...so the brain has a lot of trouble to do it right. I think that helps to get more out of the time of training the fingers...what do you think Claus?
Yes we train our brain not the fingers.
Interesting approach, Would something like this work for practicing the right hand for finger picking patterns, or do you have a better exercise for this?
Mind blowing 🤯
You magnificent beast!!!! I've practiced this for a day and already I've increased my playing from 120 bpm 16th notes to 150 bpm 16th notes. an increase in 30 fucking bpm. In a single bloody day....! Witchcraft! If only I'd known this when I was younger.
Geez and im stuck at 90 bpm at 16th notes
Took me a while but repetitive training my fingers in front of the tv as long as I can even then it's going to take time I'm still working on it and slowly getting quicker and accurate.
woww,,thank you,,
really..
It's like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elon Musk had a child that plays guitar.
More like Brad Pitt and Musk.....
😂 lmao dude I thought the same exact thing the first time I found his lessons 😂.
"Get to dah Chopper X, it'z Tiem to pump you up for zhredding"
I fractured my left hand pinky at the knuckle almost a year ago. I still can't really touch my thumb to the tip of my pinky. I can get to my last joint so far. It seems more of a thumb reach problem compared to my right hand. My hand was sprained when I fell. I can play guitar again for leisure, but really have to work on left hand speed and coordination with alternate picking faster without it falling apart. Doing this guitar pattern touching exercise while at work will be another challenge I'll put myself to.
🤘🎸🦅🤘🗣️ . We are what we tell ourselves and think about. Thank you for this reminder. There are no limits besides the ones we create in our minds.there are so many layers of manipulation in guitar variants . It's great .
thanks!
3:03 Excellent !
Great advice. I practice patterns on the steering wheel when driving to the tempo of what's playing on the radio and that helped me make progress, I'll add this too.
I'm also fairly certain you are Arnold Schwarzenegger's more intelligent young brother.
It's funny you mentioned driving a car. I've been racing cars and motorcycles since I was 4 years old. That said, for me, when I imagine shifting gears, I have to physically stop myself from actually moving my hand or foot from making a shifting movement. It's so deeply connected. I can only imagine for a master of guitar that it must be something like that when you hear a song and think of playing it perhaps.
Its very true...instead of using my thumb i use my right forearm to run scales on. I believe it was Adam Neely who turned me on to this but i have came a long way in the past 6 or 7 months of doing this
awesome!!!!!
Thanks for helping to fuel my obsession
I think the finger thing actually has benifits. I started doing this while watching this video. Within few minutes my arm started cramping. So not only it is enhancing motor skills, i think i am also strengthening my arm muscles which can help during fast playing..
The right hand exercise is usable for finger style:)
"Don't close your eyes" :D
thank you !!!!!!! :DDDDD
Dude your a fucking legend
i'm a bassists and gutarist and i'm doing this for my right hand while walking streets. for years! i don't give a shit about what people would think abouyt me then. but my picking technique on guitar are constantly better, even when i don't practice guitara, and my picking fingers are stronger and faster too. after that it's just adjusting to strings and it's faster than sitting with instrument and practicing it for many hours, so full agree on this vid
It is much better for a left-handed player to play right handed guitar that way his left hand is doing the complex and strength needed for fretting and vice versa for right-handed need to play a left-handed guitar
Interesting! Always wondered about that.
I did the finger to thumb thing for 5 minutes one day and the next day woke up with extreme pain in the mcp joint (base of my thumb) of my left hand. Turns out that I have osteoarthritis in that joint and this exercise caused it to be painfully evident. No more of this exercise for me, but at least I can still play albeit with pain.
I was thinking i was alone while fretting i make myself think "Okay dont stop anda krep fretting" when i didnt think or "concentrate" i have failed..... lots of lots time. THIS VIDEO......
Some people play guitar 'left handed' btw
I've been trying for years and anything over 90bpm just becomes a sloppy mess. I can't progress and it's a major drag.
There's a link to a free course on alternate picking in the description of the video.
I will start doing this. If you see this comment a year or so later, feel free to ask me if it works
So, does it work ? :D
@@kokolox9913 Absolutely! I'm still not the best player ever, but im certainly faster. I can go through scales with ease now and play faster songs. It works great with other instruments too. it has helped me tremendously with piano and saxophone.
@@ritualartist9427 Nice, I'm glad it works ! Thanks for the reply, wish you the best !
it will take you 31 years to do it a billion times if you do it 24/7.
Ha ha, I tried this and my fretboard (thumb) kept moving to my fingers as opposed to the other way around. 😂
I'll give this a shot and try to report if it helped. I like this approach, because I also suggested that my brain isn't able to send signals to my fingers fast enough. Nothing else makes sense imo. Well, hope this will help and also thanks for pointing out not to close your eyes while driving, lol. I'll give feedback in a few weeks or months.
Did you really pluck all of those notes at 8:25 with your left hand fingers? It went by so fast I couldn't see clearly. I didn't know that was possible since it takes longer to pluck a string than to just press down on it.
Claus, i'm giving your off guitar speed skills a go, but i've noticed i can do more complicated patterns with my right hand, then my left hand, i play guitar right handed, should i play left handed? i mean could i play faster and with more dexterity with my right hand? just based on these off instrument hand exercises.
So to sum up do this :) tnx
could you put links to all the videos in this series below the video?
Wow Brad pit plays guitar🤘🤘
My left hand is the drunken lazy brother in law of my right. This is a real stumbling block for me.😣
Practice with focus! You know what the problem is, now fix it.
Hi. I don’t really understand the importance of this exercise. For me, I think the bigger problem is the accuracy and the coordination between left hand and right hand. The legato. While my right hand moves pretty accurate, my left hand is less accurate. Can you make a video of how to make my playing more legato and “clean”? Thanks!