How To Play Much Faster | Alternate Picking Exercise

[@Bernthguitar]

In this lesson I show you an exercise to increase your tempo, we introduce short bursts of speed picking (16th note triplets) in the context of 16th notes at a tempo that you're already comfortable with. Working on this exercise will push your tempo and clearly seperate those 2 techniques of mid-tempo and super fast alternate picking!

[@pkz001]

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[@robotman7945]

Thankyou so much for this lesson Bernth🤘🏻😬

[@rikoneto7094]

Druntrack please 🙏

[@Bernthguitar]

@@rikoneto7094 The backing track for practicing this exercise is online at www.patreon.con/bernth - along with the tab PDF sheets and Guitar Pro files :)

[@tasartir86]

A couple of points here. You'll be working on more than just speed with this exercise: you'll be working on accuracy and stamina too. If at some point you find you can do those 16th note triplets for longer, push yourself and do them for 2 beats instead of just one, and then go back to straight 16th notes and repeat. This exercise is so extremely effective that Bernth recommends it, but also Martin Miller, Ben Eller and even John Petrucci in his Rock Discipline video. Just remember to start slow (if you need to, go down to 8th notes instead of 16th notes) and build from there in short bursts. Since I started this exercise I have increased my speed by about 20bpm in a week or so, and I can play for longer at faster speeds than before.

[@AlexanderHallMusic_]

Bernth, I recently came back to guitar playing after 4 years, and quickly regained my chops to the point where I stopped playing. The issue was, I had reached a wall with my speed and technique that wasn't obvious before. Your training videos and co cents are helping me to break that wall and move forward. Thanks brother.

[@tas9158]

Thank you so much for this!! Shredding seemed so far out of reach for me but this exercise has really helped me , getting a little faster each day!

[@erichalsted7316]

The walking to running analogy really resonated with me.

[@arnoldzifflebluesguitar]

Bernth... just discovered your channel love what i see

[@DerektheGuitarist]

Wanna give you a sincere thank you. You’re really helping me out in a big way. God Bless brother ~

[@furryz666]

Love that Ibanez! Regarding alternate picking always consult Paul Gilberts first instructional vid either REH or Star Licks don’t remember but it’s the father of alternative picking lessons adding the string change it’s only 4 notes when you can play that up to speed your on your way

[@PaulKingMetal]

I saw a similar guitar exercise from Ben Eller. Anyway you have a great channel here. 😉👍Subscribed!

[@Rock-N-Roll-618]

I am always looking for more knowledge, no matter what it is ty for helping in a way you do.

[@knoflookmetui]

hello I really like your excercises because most of them are also melodic I try to get a little bit better at alternate und Tremelo picking every day and keep on trying! thank you for your content!

[@gunterundesser-seidner2397]

Hallo Bernth, tolle Videos und vor allem gewaltige Technik!! Macht Spaß dir zuzusehen. Schönen Dank und schöne Grüße aus OÖ

[@ferociouspterodactyl520]

This was very good for pushing limits. Also, back in the warm up bag

[@FabioPeruchi]

Thanks for this amazing lesson again. You rock Bernth! Cheers.

[@Bernthguitar]

Thanks for watching Fabio, glad you enjoyed!

[@rogermaakestad6430]

You are an awesome player, but a stellar teacher...hard to find. Thanks.

[@williamgreer6613]

Lot of great stuff thanks for sharing, already getting faster. Tks

[@gurubhai_7]

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[@Bernthguitar]

Huge inspiration, what an amazing player! :) Welcome to the channel!

[@gurubhai_7]

@@Bernthguitar Kiko is life!! So humble teacher, so much to learn from him...once in a while you find some guitar tutorials randomly on youtube and connect at the same level...i think i found this yours...

[@sergeysavchenko9046]

Thanks a lot for your excellent video! Please keep going to make more lessons!

[@fuchsia4090]

I did not watch a sing video of your s but i just subscribed, because it seems thaat it will be a good lesson channel just by seeing the interface and the interaction

[@Bernthguitar]

Welcome to the channel :)

[@mrhappe6253]

Im really happy to find your channel, much interesting stuff explained simple and understandably.. thanks!

[@frankpentimone1830]

Great lesson man, keep the lessons coming.

[@karangurung1139]

Exercise for right hand and heavy riffing

[@leonardocastilhone399]

I’ve been watching your videos for a couple of weeks now, and what amazes me is that you bring so much musical knowledge in just 12 minutes or so! It’s a blast to recall all this theory and practice from my “old” classes (I started playing the guitar since I was an 8 yr old boy, and now I’m 35... it feels like another life hahaha). By the way, what made me write a comment was your mentioning that you repeat a lot to work slowly on your metronome and to avoid speeding up unless you’ve perfected your technique; it made me remember my guitar teacher (a wonderful teacher and musician, by the way) who always had to calm me down and appease my anxiety, because I wanted to start playing like Slash while I didn’t even know all the Gregorian (Greek) modes...lol. Now it’s a breath of fresh air to watch all these things, your simple but deep insights and approach, even to “polish” my technique, since I’m not a professional musician and have not plenty of time to dedicate myself to it. Congratulations, and I’m sorry to write in English but my German is kind of rusty to write a message this long. Grüße aus Brasil! Wunderbar Arbeiten du machen da! Bis dann! (Tut mir Leid, aber jetzt mein Norwegisch ist besser als mein Deutsch hehehehe)

[@arnold.glennphillips9279]

Love your lessons, you're amazing!

[@elliotchaparro3186]

This is awesome!!! One of the the best lessons I’ve seen in a long time!

[@marcosrodrigues.9472]

Não falo inglês, mais o que importa e ouvir. E você explica com gráficos.

[@nataliariaatha688]

Glad i found this chanell, nice teaching and example...

[@alwilliams1997]

check out the classic video by Shawn Lane on speed - his ideas are truly unique. cheers

[@sampylae]

Whoa! I've been stuck at around 160bpm 16ths for .. forever, and this just made something click and now I can do 180bpm 16ths accurately over multiple strings. A bit of a revelation, thank you Bernth! PS. I love your 10 step program, do you by any chance plan to create more courses in the future?

[@Bernthguitar]

So great to hear, thanks for sharing Joonas! Also very happy you enjoy the course - I'm working on the next one since the beginning of the year, finished the script and will start recording this month :) Those projects take a crazy amount of time but I hope I can release later this year!

[@sampylae]

@@Bernthguitar Awesome! Count me in! :)

[@maconSTUFF]

Great lesson man... I really needed that... this seems very similar to something I saw in John Petrucci's "Rock Discipline" years ago, which I totally forgot about :-) I've been neglecting my guitar for a number of years now, but I'm trying to regain my long lost chops... Really enjoying your channel... I'll be purchasing your guitar course soon... 🤘

[@panuvithjuranalux5653]

Thank you for good lesson bro

[@Panchus07]

Wish I discovered this channel before, awesome class dude!! Time to practice

[@DillyDallyLove]

Thank you!

[@GouravKumar-pv6gv]

Sir,my name is gourav and I am from India. I want to ask that how to find notes for shreding in acoustic guitar ??? Plz make a video in this topic...your r the best teacher in the world

[@MineiroMoto]

Um dos melhores canais do KZbin para aprender técnicas difíceis!

[@alejandrogarza3822]

Great lesson..thanks for your time🤘🤘

[@nikosabado7597]

Thanks for this tutorial.

[@liammontez15]

Muy buen video ahora a practicar :)

[@WibisonoDanu]

Nice lesson mate. Can't wait for the next lesson.

[@Bernthguitar]

Thank you, next one will be online later today :)

[@aatisaa8037]

So helpful thank u so much

[@SUPrIYO0]

tq so much bernth you r the legend love from india

[@chandrakanthns1231]

Amazing video, sounds great!

[@DTem11]

Huge thanks for that. And, i guess I've got an idea. There is something that i really love, for example - song. And there are one few and more parts that hard to play. Is there any chance to explain that for people to develop right skill or etc. for playing that eventually. What do you think about that?

[@mijit.859]

Nice melodic riff !! 👍🏻

[@StevenRogers72]

Thanks for the kick ass lessons. - much appreciated.

[@davidiswarary1561]

Love you so much ❤️

[@EclecticEssentric]

Nicely done.

[@dougsteeleguitar]

Love it.

[@marcoantoniogarciagongora1222]

Awesome video!!!

[@HardbrasH1]

the fact you're reading from the screen is distracting, but this knowledge is much useful, thank you

[@allamreyes8918]

👏👏👏👏👏👏🎸💀 no se nada de ingles. Pero entiendo todo lo que ejecutas en la guitarra

[@niteeshkm8076]

Thank you Bernth

[@uchicha666]

Hey cool excercises, thanks!

[@Johnmannish]

Great excercise! Do you pick hard or light?

[@Lexus-Poxus]

That left hand pinky is going nuts! 😅

[@mikemiller6628]

I just discovered this Channel ,Great lessons.

[@pkz001]

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Sparkda]

this one is quite a workout, probably one of my favorite exercises though

[@dann9607]

Maybe a silly question, but what is a good tempo to start practicing at to start "playing fast". I've been doing this exercise at 80 bpm, 1/16th notes and was going to use "learn to run by walking fast" approach before I watched this video again. Is 120 fast enough? 160? I'm not even sure I could go that fast.

[@KRayxKodessA]

I used to have left hand technique like yours until I broke my radial in my elbow, and a part of my wrist... now I can't get that "straight on" anymore. I'm obsessively trying to get it back but it can be painful.

[@smith_1994s]

Kiko Loureiro 🇧🇷 Lei do Mínimo Esforço ✅

[@SingArt]

Superb Exercise 🙂

[@insmsarker9564]

Amazing video

[@rabibratadey6819]

Awesome

[@ChristianCMC]

Dude you have the coolest name.

[@ctmn124]

This exercise is so much harder an effective than it seems.

[@mitchell-612]

My brain keeps wanting to put the 1st 3 beats in 1/8th note triplets instead of 4 16th notes per beat. Does anyone have any advice for this?

[@burzvegal2846]

Hi Bernth, thank you for the lesson. As a beginner guitarist, I have 2 questions. First one is, do you recommend using metronome or guitar pro? I’ve noticed that I can’t keep the rhythm with metronome although I’m able to follow the same licks with guitarpro so I wonder should I force myself to work with metronome or it doesn’t matter. And secondly for picking hand, couple of people told me to roll your wrist like opening door knob, instead of moving it up and down. As far as I can see, you don’t roll your wrist. Does it can lead any problems/disadvantages? I found the up down motion more natural than the rolling but I don’t want to be injured either. I hope i can reach to a playing level where that I can be able to follow your 10 steps private course. Thank you.

[@Bernthguitar]

Hello and thanks for the comment! I worked a lot with Guitar Pro when I was learning songs when I was starting out since you can lower the tempo or repeat certain sections you want to work on - what a great tool! I still use it a lot for my transcriptions and the tabs you see on screen in the videos. So I recommend it for sure but nothing improves your timing more than working with the unforgiving metronome :) When you only play to Guitar Pro files your ears often focus more on the MIDI guitar than the metronome and that might cause some trouble when you have to record or play just to a click! I know it can be frustrating but it really pays off later. Concerning picking technique I also like to use my wrist but for super fast sections I tend to use more of my arm and get great results with it - the motion is still small/economic and I can control the articulation of my picking strokes quite well, string transitioning is also not a problem. You're never done working on your picking and I'm constantly trying out more and different approaches but this is the one that serves me great since a couple of years! Hope that helps

[@Ranger11413]

If there's anything that I've learned from trying to learn guitar and get to this level of playing is this : You can't have anything in your life, a job, a family to support or other obligations and every waking moment you must have a guitar in your hand. Sadly, I can't devote that kind of time to it. I wish I could.

[@seanmiller7889]

Thank you Bernth. Is the spider exercise just for finger independence? You don't normally play like that because you need to mute the higher strings correct?

[@Bernthguitar]

Hey Sean! Workouts in the chromatic scale are always great for your finger independence, especially once you start pairing fingers that usually don't work work too much with each other (just training/playing with your ring- and pinky finger for example). This particular one has the main focus of improving your left hand technique in general, since you press down with all your fingers you are forced to maintain a good angle of your fretting hand and your fingers are not allowed to block any strings. Doing that for 5-10 minutes every day does wonders for your left hand :)

[@seanmiller7889]

@@Bernthguitar I've made a commitment to practice the spider exercise for 10 minutes everyday for a month to see how it goes.

[@dazzmetcoll3843]

Is the backing track for this lesson on your Patreon ?

[@Bernthguitar]

Hello Darren and thanks for asking! Yes, I export backing tracks, tabs and Guitar Pro files for all the lessons on there :)

[@TheBoglodite]

Great vid! Your stone walls are also very pretty!

[@arnoldhallatu1702]

Wunderbar !!

[@CeparSo]

geile Übung danke dafür

[@ermidosalati8493]

can you make videos in italian and also do them slowly? ... I really like the things you do. THANKS

[@marcosrodrigues.9472]

Muito bom o canal.

[@berthMvt07]

Very nice, i subscribe on your channel.By the way how can i get the baclkingtracks you use on your video? Hope you can share for us.Thank you 🙏😊

[@Bernthguitar]

Welcome, glad you enjoy :) I post backing tracks, tabs and guitar pro files for all videos at www.patreon.com/bernth

[@minminlove969]

Good

[@Exyrem]

Well, That sure boost my both finger speed and picking speed as well. Can anyone tell me with my finger my picking is faster than I press strings in the frets..

[@laajos300]

Thats the easy part, the real challenges begin when u need to alt pick on multiple strings.

[@JorvenYosafat]

Thanks for education bro , youre awesome. *indonesian*

[@ljgahol9739]

H.R. Giger Ibanez!!!

[@CRUISEWITHSPIRIT]

👌

[@oneguy9916]

It's okay to practice this very slow? I'm practicing with eight notes instead of sixteen

[@TheShahrum1985]

what does octave mean? sorry, newbie here

[@iagorocha9549]

aweasome

[@trasakas]

great video!what model ibanez is this ?

[@Bernthguitar]

It's the Ibanez SHRG1Z, designed by the amazing H.R. Giger - a very limited series from 2007 :)

[@davidiswarary1561]

Vry nyc

[@artreemusic2646]

Awesome guitar, whats the model ?

[@Bernthguitar]

Hey Artur, it's the Ibanez SHRG1Z! :)

[@jkzan534]

Ótimo video ! Parabéns Ganhou mais um inscrito!

[@TheEmre1979]

Thanks Berndt...may allah bless you for this efficient exercise

[@furyan82]

Great content as always thank you :) really wanna get your 10 steps course but I'm broke :/ haha

[@furyan82]

How much u charge for Skype lessons ?

[@libertyfreedom380]

🤘

[@JEL5150]

If anyone out there is having as much trouble as I am with playing this pattern with the metronome correctly it really helps to count your 16th notes "ONE e & ah TWO e & ah THREE e & ah - ta ka ta ta ka ta"

[@Bernthguitar]

Great input Jon! As for counting out loud or in your head I can really recommend the Konnakol system, when it gets more complicated with different subdivisions the percussive words are even more efficient than working with numbers :)

[@JEL5150]

@@Bernthguitar Can you recommend any resources on learning this?

[@albin5150]

great channe

[@claudiomonteda8716]

Solo quuero tocar a 2000 bpm :,(

[@WingZX1103]

So that’s how they do that.

[@rtomas47]

Glad I'm mostly only downpicking, it's easier :D

[@tonyjones1560]

That's a beautiful instrument. Shame that you'll probably cause it to catch on fire and explode before long. Subscribing....

[@riffaz28]

Need a year to practise maybe more 😭😭

[@DTem11]

No, you don't. Just do it.