5 Gallop Picking Exercises for Guitar - Played Slow to Fast

Here's a selection of 5 gallop picking exercises for guitar played slow, medium and fast. It you want to changed the speed you can use the youtube video speed setting to speed up or slow down the video even more - click the cog icon in the bottom right of the video!
Hopefully this is helpful to some people. If you have any questions ask below!
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[@Tomb743]

I really like that you don't waste 10 minutes telling us what you're going to do and begging for likes and subscriptions, great lesson. 🤘

[@Rude1911]

Best comment ever..I don’t see enough people complaining about this.. cheers

[@hibro2596]

Gallop Picking: Exists Gojira: *YES*

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Iron Maiden: Well done my children

[@Yasmuraz]

@@ShadowMantraSteve Run to the Hills!! ITS GOJIRRRAA

[@Agte1234]

Iced Earth-Slayer-Metallica-Lamb of God: Hello and goodnight

[@ronaldothomejunior3702]

Heart and Judas Priest: what a pride of our descendence:)

[@thalesdus9078]

Finally found a good exercise for galloping. Thanks man and keep up the good work!🤘🏻

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

You're welcome!

[@KroisikLP]

2:50 Gojira - Backbone! :D

[@HAbarneyWK]

Wanted to comment this 😄

[@jacobwells3538]

Fantastic warm up for me there, cheers Steve

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

You're welcome 🤘

[@al6377]

1:52 is the exact same gallop pattern as In Flames - Trigger.. thanks a lot for that, I struggled for a long time to learn this

[@zlecram]

Well, today 16/06/2024, after 15 days of literally giving blood from fingers, im able to play at "stage 2" haha. I´m a 41 years old and learning to play. Thank you for the best video of how to fking gallop without bullshit. Expect me to reply in a couple of years when I´ll be able do reach stage3 hehehe.

[@bigmoneychris9627]

Finally got it through the whole way, thanks for this amazing exercise it really works.

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Glad it's helped!

[@GunterSchnitzel]

Dude thank you for this. Putting these to practice from now on. I’d love to see more technique videos from you! I’m sure anything that you practice a lot like this would make for some great KZbin content in addition to the covers

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

More to come for sure 🤘

[@satchrules101]

Thanks for this lesson! Was wondering how do you keep track in ur mind of each variation?

[@slingshotcrazy]

Just wanted to say that this is awesome and, despite having a long way to go to hit the 185bpm gallops consistently, I’ve saved this as a favourite video as I’m determined to be able to gallop consistently on the bottom string which is currently tuned to D and sounds awesome!!! Thanks so much for this video!!!!!

[@TheLoneBelisarius]

Dude this has been so helpful, really appreciate it!

[@Skibalicious]

this is my favorite video of anything on youtube! thx

[@njsteere]

I can only do medium but I’ll keep at it. Thanks for the exercises!

[@BrodyMiester120]

Can you do the hard one yet?

[@njsteere]

@@BrodyMiester120 I can! 💪

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

@njsteere 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@BrodyMiester120]

@njsteere awsome dude🤙

[@njsteere]

@@BrodyMiester120 cheers boys let’s keep getting better

[@HereForTheMusic-h5o]

Nearly got it. Had to spend a lot of time changing everything about how I was playing. How I hold my pick, how to play without anchoring, how to pick with my wrist instead of my elbow, how to pick without forcing it and trying too hard...

[@ThatEvilProduction]

Anymore advice

[@parksoo-kim6908]

2 bar gallop really gets the head bobbing

[@Margarinethebutterlover]

Awesome! Just what I was looking for. Great work mate. 🤘

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Glad it helped!

[@admiralrng6506]

2:50 raining blood?

[@Keeping-It-Real-55]

Super impressive!!! This is a PITA. Crazy going into all the galloping styles back to back. I'm working on 1/8 1/8 triplet four horsemen

[@BrianAz]

Im late to the party and brand new to guitar. I just subscribed and send thanks and appreciation as the first part of your video, the 140 BPM 1/8 note gallops are just the exercise I need and I can follow along. It will be a LONG time before I can step it up but when you go to the 1/16 notes watching your picking got a little more challenging, but I got it (visually). The step up to 185 BPM was impossible to see your picking but I am guessing that by the time you master the exercise and reach the 185 BPM you should be able to figure it out. THanks!

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Glad it's helpful! Enjoy learning guitar 🤘

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

That went from “I can do this” to “Well… I suck at rhythm” real quick!😂

[@MikaTarkela]

I've always thought that the Reverse Gallop was the actual gallop, hahah! Thanks for the exericises, will definitely use them!

[@dubski.2k]

Fantastic! Would love to see more exercise/lessons!

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

More to come!

[@baceinyoface]

and 3 years later i'm coming back to finally learn this the right way 😂😅

[@andreitulvan4080]

1:17 medium begins (for practicing purposes)

[@TheDengozo]

Cool. Good Job. Thanks.

[@subhamdeytheknight]

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏

[@jleverette666]

Outstanding sir

[@kryptichands968]

Thanks, working on my bass techniques, good stuff.

[@iainmacdonald8099]

This is awesome thank you.

[@stevevallance6326]

Cool video, nice warmup

[@josessuarezz]

Thank you! i'm going to practice this everyday

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

good stuff!

[@SHADMAN94690]

very intutive and fun

[@thecultivarcup]

Great and simple

[@realmichaeltian]

just made it thru for the first time lol, been almost a year since starting guitar

[@s.k.9987]

This is so useful. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

You're welcome!

[@pinx5976]

feel free to make more rhythm-part-demos for us....;)

[@mothragames3018]

such a killer lesson, is the guitar pro file available anywhere?

[@HereForTheMusic-h5o]

Thanks this is helpful as I'm trying to learn Triviums album, Ember to Inferno.

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Some tricky stuff on there, good luck!

[@HereForTheMusic-h5o]

@@ShadowMantraSteve There really is! Gallop picking is super hard at 220bpm and as much as I try I can't help incorporating my elbow.

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

I use my elbow a bit for fast gallops too

[@stephenchaulker5521]

2:50-3:00 the Fast Constant Gallop is the ''Battery'' Gallop it sounds like??

[@JDetralate]

Nice exercises dude, cant beat a good gallop.

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Still can't keep up with Bleed though as much as I try haha

[@brendanb2517]

I got all the way to constant gallop, me brain no comprehend reverse gallops😂

[@droft5567]

Its been 2 years you comprehend that reverse gallop yet 💀

[@deniskvasnevsky4221]

cool !

[@roberthiggins4611]

Dunna-Dunna-Dann-Dann is what I say with my mouth when alone with headphones on.....to a METAL AF guitar gallop

[@saifaddinright5036]

I watch and subscribe

[@kopekis]

salut . merci beaucoup

[@yashpandirkar4814]

What Gauge should use, I am using 9 ,and my string is moving too much at fast speed,making me unable to play 😰

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

I tend to use 10s for E standard, 11s for D standard and 12s for C Standard

[@yashpandirkar4814]

@@ShadowMantraSteve ok I will try 10s

[@andyano6081]

@@yashpandirkar4814 you can always use a heavier pick since it will be stronger at catching the string w/in control

[@WinterLovesCheese]

Your a god-

[@ThatEvilProduction]

level 1 = not bad level 2 = (140 bpm) wtf it took me a couple days but i finally got the first part of medium down. my brain was like wtf. it's literally just getting used to hand doing the picking instead of writst. look at the guy in the video for example, he's using mostly hand muscles to gallop pick

[@gabrielandrew6236]

1:19 2:37

[@nixongasmo5114]

Great lesson. The Lord Jesus loves you

[@ricstormwolf]

Keep it in church, jerk 🖕

[@jakemerrick7756]

What I wanna know is does the technique change when doing this on the A string?

[@vergil2067]

Should be the same on every string.

[@jleverette666]

Sickk af

[@blackseasea6754]

tuning A right?

[@shadownation992]

Nice... Tool part until 2.20 😅🤘

[@puteshestviyasseregoiianei]

Спасибо, супер! Я тоже сейчас тренирую технику ритма, правда на гитаре играть не умею, но пытаюсь))

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

удачи!

[@puteshestviyasseregoiianei]

@@ShadowMantraSteve спасибо!))

[@jeancarlosinisterra9725]

3:02

[@coolwaterdvr]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@whitewalker608]

Hey, one question. Isn't your notation incorrect for triplets? Your notation is basically "n" skipped from 16th notes "1 e n a". What you're playing sounds like triplets.

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

There aren't any triplets in the exercise. It's quite common to get gallops and triplets mixed up. Gallops are typically two 16th notes and an 8th note or two 32nd notes and a 16th note. The longer note can come before or after the two shorter notes. Triplets are 3 notes with equal duration played over the space of 2 notes. Normally notated with the number 3 above or underneath

[@whitewalker608]

@@ShadowMantraSteve Yeah! But to me, it sounded like all the notes were of the same length. Were you able to tell the difference? I didn't hear the gap between 8th and 16th note. That's why I got confused whether you're playing triplets or gallops.

[@sohamsengupta6470]

I also like horses! Jokes aside great exercise, now all I need to do is get good at this and soon I shall be the feared acoustic gallop demon

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

Thanks 🤘

[@fishing50when70]

This is kind of like a speed burst exercise, but at a lower degree

[@blakkvoyager6179]

Whats the name of your outro

[@ShadowMantraSteve]

It's just a small outro hook I wrote for my channel. It doesn't have a name at the moment.

[@richardjones2811]

Thought they are 2 eighth notes and a sixteenth?

[@n1ghtfusi0n]

moshpit album completed

[@Totentanz1524]

Pure honey

[@micheldolores5924]

Or you can just practice blood of the scribe by lamb of god (only down picking w gallop), it will give you a bionic arm.

[@Reject101Personal]

Could even get 2 exercises in at 140 bpm hahaha

[@Dr.Riffter]

🤌🏽

[@cedricarrieux1202]

Arm Breaker

[@mylerwilson4879]

This video is an equinophobe’s nightmare

[@origiinss6622]

why my shoulder is hurting 😭😭😭

[@chea4007]

Same 😂

[@firdauszainudin7118]

Next tutorial : How to sounds like a horse on steroid with whammy bar & pinch harmonic