1 million repetitions will change everything - Guitar mastery lesson

[@jlblues4u]

You are spot on! At Musicians Institute they taught me to practice things only as fast as I could play them perfectly. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

[@jerryfletcher2384]

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times - Bruce Lee

[@nc1969]

I cannot thank you enough this is just great

[@jaykrao]

Hey Claus. I'm THE KZbin user you referenced in your opening and I wanted to thank you for taking time to read my question and answer it. These "million reps" are not stated by any other teach online (that I know of anyway) and it's been your trademark :) Of the nearly 900 videos you have I went back to 2009 and watched each one (excluding jam tracks) and have about 110 more to go (I religiously watch 5 of your videos / day EVERY monring). So I'm very familiar with your "million reps" mantra...LOL. Keep up your great work. I really, really appreciate you ! Thanks again !

[@samroyproductions3476]

Did you notice that he has upload this video already in his playlist I found this video one week ago or I don't know I should have time travelled to future and watch this video last week

[@hr936]

@@samroyproductions3476 Really!

[@hr936]

"... I religiously watch 5 of your videos / day EVERY morning..." your comments may assist somebody. Thank you.

[@TwistedMind86Chern]

Damm this is so "Me" All of my students who were psychopaths with practicing again and again with small musical phrases,they succeed and now they are musicians. Music needs patience ,persistence and devotion.

[@dwatsonjohnson]

I could not agree more. I have been following your lessons my improvement is impressive thank you so much for these videos!!!!!

[@Sparkey4646]

Claus you my friend are a legend. Thats exactly what i do great to have it reinforced thank you

[@angelmeyers1455]

Ok, I'm 51 and have been trying to learn to play using KZbin as my teacher for about a year now and yeah I've learned a lot of "things". I know open chords, a few bar chords, I know some scales and even a simple song or two, but to say I can play guitar is a far stretch for my or anyone else's imagination to say the very least, lol. I will take this lesson to heart and relentlessly reapeat a simple set of notes forward and backward a million times if that's what it takes for me to master just that one small part of the fretboard, I'll do it! Expect a future post from me updating my progress and thank you because without teachers like you my dream of playing guitar would indeed be hopeless!😀

[@rocksteady5200]

Do it!

[@briancraig1684]

Good morning Angel I am 49 years old and I am trying this as well God Bless and I hope both of us can stick with it👍😎

[@VirtualPracticeLoops]

I can attest to this! After my first million it was night and day difference! Awesome video!

[@hr936]

Please let us know more about your experience. Thanks

[@eyalmagen663]

Claus thank you very much Im following you since you have been the wizard of shred. Everything you say is amazingly true. I am a proffesional guitar player at my country and it all thank to you. Repeating something 1-2 million times is so affective and gives you a great starting point. Appriciate you very much.

[@rayramirez6464]

Amazing! Everything Claus just stated is 100% truthful! Science has established the everything he just said! No one has talent for anything. Science has proven over and over again that practice is the key to success!

[@YEM_]

Claus, I'm a paying student in many of your courses... and I still love videos like this to remind me of the basic premise of focusing on one thing. It makes me want to go back to Open String Blues King and play more licks as good as you can.

[@YEM_]

I have gotten to about 150K plus reps on a 2-1-2 sequence shown in Flow Control. It is a core part of a lot of what I play but so easy to change up and impro with

[@jaymeeboer2886]

In the last 10 days I've been practicing new licks over and over again because I want to play them automatically when I improvise. What this is doing is dramatically improving my technique like nothing else has, Wow! ...Then I watch this video and I know I'm doing this lick learning right, Thank you Claus!

[@ToneD5150]

Hey Claus, You are absolutely right repetition is the Mother of Success...!!! Rock til you Drop ✌

[@nicolofasoglio5296]

Your advices are just GOLD!

[@rsi2493]

Enter Math Nerd. I understand it may not be exactly 1 million but I bet it's close to approach your level! Claus you are easily the best teacher on the web. Here's my calculations for someone starting out with your triplet exercise. For this calculation I assumed you meant 1 million sets of triplets or 3 million beats. If you start at a reasonable 70bpm metronome speed with 1 triplet per beat and get to 120bpm at an overall average rate of 100 bpm, this would take 166.67 hours practicing triplets to get to 1 million triplets or 55.56 hrs to get to 1 million beats. Of course each exercise after this would be exponentially faster since you will have developed the chops. This first one may be brutal but I am in!

[@Harribald]

i should have had this infos 30 Years earlier :-)

[@guitarfixerluthier]

This video made my brain explode! I gave up all inhibitions and started thinking the other way. It is so true it is all true. 🤩🤩🤩

[@BrunenG_YT]

I liked that vid for the passion.

[@rocksteady5200]

You're the best Claus!

[@Funkrocker81]

Hey Claus, just finished my first week of my personal INGENIUM challenge. I just wanted to work on my picking, so I decided to spend one whole day just picking on one muted string with the accented triplet pattern starting on high E. Next day, next string... the whole last week. And I noticed how my comfort speed increased constantly while I whatched TV, talked to students, had breaks on gigs. Now is week 2. Back on the high E, accented triplets, this time with fretted notes... I am looking forward, where I am going to be, when I finished INGENIUM in a few weeks...🤘Love your channel. Greets from Germany

[@jtcconquer9532]

Get after it.-Jocko Willlink

[@hr936]

6,279 views (and 58 Comments). Feb 16, 2019 (Upload date!). Today is 7th November 2020. In comment section a gentleman ask it is Re-uploaded! I don't know what is the problem for sure! Anyway, After this long times this video should be viewed by over 60 millions! I wish it viewed by every guitarist at lest his/her primary time! Thank you, Claus.

[@alessandrovanzan5489]

Not all have your esplosive fingers Claus.

[@hanskung3278]

How do I stay awake while playing something a million times?

[@kevin.-iq7oh]

Mate, this was fandeme a good video. It's something i have been wondering about before, and usually people will say "youll get better with time" - yeah but how..? :D Thank you so much

[@guitarmastery]

That's great! Always happy to help. Thanks 😊

[@akinolaakinboyenle277]

What’s the name of the stand for your guitar

[@IAMTHATIAM-0]

Hello Claus, BIG QUESTION, if my goal is to play the guitar and sing (the ideal would then be to learn a single song and repeat it a million times? Or would I have to work on singing separately as a beginner and the chords separately? What would be your advice in that aspect? greetings and excellent day!

[@jduncan1000]

Thanks, Claus! I am really enjoying your course and have integrated the practice into my behavioral habits every day. My question is this: I am devoted to this method and am following your plan; however, I do play gigs and have to practice many other things to do that--what is your philosophy for managing a strong commitment to your alternate picking course and spending time on other things --e.g chord melodies, songs, etc.? Currently, I am like a monk with the picking work and then I use your cognitive behavioral approach to my other work as well. BTW, even after only 3 weeks of following your alternate picking method, my accuracy, control, fluidity, and ability to pick notes clearly and in time shows improvement. I can see the future of this kind of practice and you have my commitment to follow it it for at least the next year.

[@aryalogo6624]

GOD

[@zvonimirsarcevic7928]

does it mean that we have to practice only one one guitar?

[@claudeedgarruest6212]

Everyone do what he is saying ..i did that in the last year and a half and now my hands have increased in quality and everything falls in place. Chet Atkins became way easier and stuff like that. I still need another year or more but i know i wil play whetever i want. And i havent seen this video till today.

[@MiketheNerdRanger]

So if you master one thing on the guitar, you kinda master them all? (Kinda, more like it sets you up for unlocking the rest of the instrument)

[@mutantkoffee]

Yes thats how it works, like building a building

[@MiketheNerdRanger]

This *does* work. For months, I spent the most time practicing how to easily do this one weird chord, and once I started getting it, *LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE* started getting easier. Of course I'm still ass, but I can see it working.

[@TheMoka4]

So u don't push the metrenome for speed? I'm confused :/

[@mutantkoffee]

No, stay in the same speed/bpm at least 3 weeks or smth like that, muscle memory works slowly so patience and determination are key here... but the payment is awesome.

[@deanstrickler7127]

Hey Claus! Love your videos. IMPORTANT QUESTION: If you had to choose between putting in the one million reps focusing primarily on the right hand vs. the left head, which do you think would "float other boards" more effectively? Which hand is best suited to "lead the mastery charge"?

[@samroyproductions3476]

Please tell me this giving me brain fade I just got notification 3 hours ago but in your comment it says that you have commented one week ago what's going on

[@sourpatchkid20]

Just get the triplets down with open strings and accents once youve done it get comfortable and try to synchronize immediately

[@michaelcameron2292]

Really how do you learn the guitar How do you link scales to chords and master dynamics do all different techniques picking motion and control finger picking different styles blues rock jazz folk aaaa

[@Maltino_Music]

Well techniques are techniques after all, it takes a long long time to get it to a point of unconscienceness. But an important thing is to visualize the fretboard in a manner, where you know how the scale lays above a chord. Start learning triads of the major scale and know how and when to use which scale or which mode. Once you got that down (it takes a while), you should be able to identify the colortones (basically the notes that are charactaristic for a mode like the lydian #4). If you know those things, you should be able to chose the style you want to play, blues and rock mainly consist of the pentatonic scale, jazz is about mixing modes of the major scale and the melodic minor scale etc...

[@Maltino_Music]

and visualizing the fretboard and knowing your chord harmony etc. is essential cuz the technique is just helping you to express your musical ideas after all!

[@richs4878]

I’m in.

[@llorenzo385]

omg light bulb moment

[@samroyproductions3476]

I think you have uploaded this video already some time ago I am I right or did I go to future and watching this video

[@capnstank278]

is this guy for real?

[@briancraig4058]

What about just taking one thing and practice it with a slow backing track like at 50 or 60 bpm created in Logic Pro or Any daw in stead of using a click track or metronome and do this 1 million times ?

[@mutantkoffee]

Also works, it well help you master a specific area, impro, rythm, etc

[@mrdan5943]

You are so funny claus

[@GLYDR]

Surely only 800,000 times would be sufficient

[@Warsawabruce]

No

[@rsi2493]

Lol. Nope... At 999,999 you still suck. But that next beat is transformational 😂

[@-.-Rob-.-XY]

900,000

[@kurtti1043]

hey claus. How should i practise your triplet picking excersise with only right hand, but with accents or without accents at first. should i get my picking depth down firstly by meaning playing without accents or should i add the accents straight away? please give me your opinion and i do appericiate that! Thanks!

[@samroyproductions3476]

I don't think he will reply to you but let me give my advice which I got from him you should apply the actions straight away because practicing without action is waste

[@sourpatchkid20]

@@samroyproductions3476 i told him that 2x but he thinks hes smarter than claus called me a dumbass im like dude accents make u good at depth thats how it works ....

[@kurtti1043]

@@sourpatchkid20 Some people never understand what they just readed. Sad but true and i dont think im smarter then Claus just popping up this "pitfall" or idea. I just want that explanation how making accents is going to magically make your picking depth correct? try picking 10minutes and using as little as possible of your pick and you will understand how important it really is. Yes, my project is on action.

[@sourpatchkid20]

@@kurtti1043 🤐

[@briancraig1684]

ok if I understand this you take one thing and do it a million times now let say pick finger picking idea so now do I do this million times first without a metronome and do another million times with metronome and do another million times with a backing track I am really trying to understand this please explain?

[@danciderhook]

Brian Craig not really. You start with a metronome. When you know it well you can watch tv and practice at the same time til you reach 1-2 mil perfect reps.

[@briancraig1684]

@@danciderhook ok Thanks for clearing that up : )

[@hanskung3278]

After you practice something a million times you will then become insane from repetitious boredom.

[@liamo3836]

Anybody else can say by own experience that this is true? because it really sounds counterintuitive.

[@danciderhook]

Yo Ape ya, been at it since november 2017. Go for it.

[@VirtualPracticeLoops]

I just did my first million. It really helps!

[@tommyrocker33]

Yep I'd second that, I've been at it about 4 months now and made more progress than the previous 12 months. Only been the last month I've seen a significant change though so stick with it even if it doesn't seem to work straight away.

[@ericwalker9897]

No need to question, just start putting inthe reps works like a charm.

[@TheDogPa]

I hope 40+ years of guitar, 2 years of College music, occasional guitar teaching and 35 years of post production supervising and training might give me some respectability? I emphatically agree with Claus and swear by his lessons and videos. I use many of them for my students...and I even have my son learning from them. The years I struggled to bring this all together have been condensed into the best lessons I've seen since Pat Thrall's Improvising Rock Guitar, which was all we had back in the dark ages! Watch Claus' stuff on pentatonic/dorian and save yourself years of struggles. As @jlblues4u says in their post, GIT teaches "...to practice things only as fast as I could play them perfectly. Only perfect practice makes perfect." Could not say it better! Good luck with your journey.

[@coolbluesman]

Is this guy turning into Eddie Izzard?

[@christopherjones6987]

Brad Pitt teaches guitar!

[@hanskung3278]

So do I have to count while I'm practicing a rift a million times? I will lose track.

[@stevenstahlberg5469]

No! Count how many reps you do per 10 secs. multiply this by 6 then you have a minute. Now you know how many reps you do in x minutes.

[@hanskung3278]

@@stevenstahlberg5469 Thanks, I was never good at math but I don't think I'll be counting how many times I do the riff, I'll practice it until I can play it, counting is a distraction.

[@stevenstahlberg5469]

@@hanskung3278 counting is showing you progress! Progress = Results. No Results = no progress and no progress = failure! It may sound dumb but that's the truth. Being able to visualize your progress makes you 10x more motivated. Trust me🤘

[@hanskung3278]

@@stevenstahlberg5469 Yes I understand counting how many times you play a riff in a minute, I'm sure keeping track helps you progress, however, everyone learns differently, I'm simply not going to do it, I know I'm making progress when I can play the riff any time any where, I practice till I do that....world ☮️

[@reinortega23]

It's practice not talent lol