Best 5 MIN Alternate Picking WORKOUT! (Hand Synchronization, Speed, Endurance)

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00:00 Exercise Tutorial
01:51 Hand Synchronization Workout
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[@chasingtrailproductions3689]

Finally 8 months and I was able to achieve 140 bpm. The exercise that really complimented this alternate workout is the 5 min morning routine. Thanks Bernth, these really do work if you stick to them.

[@ProdAsh]

On month two pretty stuck at 100 just went looking for a comment like this to make sure i didn’t suck lol

[@adaptercrash]

Wow man I wouldnt even bother I had it right away

[@ProdAsh]

@@adaptercrash lol okay post a vid on your yt buddy

[@adaptercrash]

@@ProdAsh it's easy i did you have to pay for views I was just sweep picking haven't played guitar in 12 years, alternate picking is the first thing you should which I did on my own guitar

[@ProdAsh]

@@adaptercrash bro I’m dead thanks for brightening up my morning

[@tunayoer9905]

17 august - 100 bpm 14 september - 110 bpm 20 january - 120 bpm

[@mikepollack8277]

Bernth I love how your exercises actually sound good and are not just boring/annoying chromatic stuff. You obviously put a lot of time into the quality of your content. Well done as always and thanks for another great exercise!🤘🏻💪

[@spencerharding5919]

It’s crazy it’s like you know my next steps in what I’m trying to do. I’ve been getting really good and going back and forth between any 4 close notes on one string. Then moving up to the next and back down, alternate picking as well as different sub divisions when picking. It helps, but this will help me way more! Thank you Bernth. Been enjoying playing and learning!

[@dmitryWeirdo]

What I like about your channel Bernth is that it offers real exercises that you can actually play along, instead of long talking an explanation. What makes perfect is practicing!

[@chasingtrailproductions3689]

I signed up to Bernth Patreon today. I ran across the channel today and saw workouts and realized this is exactly what I am looking for to improve. I'm in a rut and was cruising KZbin and ran across this channel. I usually don't ever do Patreon, but I realized Bernth instruction is excellent, and I going to give it a 90 day commitment to these workouts. Really talented guitarist.

[@gregclagett4312]

I love the way your exercises have melody, and how you build speed slowly so when you reach faster speeds, you already have muscle memory and improved synchronization. Thank You Sir !! GC

[@yanisjeanne650]

Thank you so much Bernth, I've been playing the acoustic guitar for years now and never had the motivation toi develop my fingers' speed and technique on electric guitar. You sir motivated me to overcome this and now I really take pleasure working on electric and actually seeing progress Keep up, you truely are an inspiration❤️

[@CoffinZ12]

Hey Bernth so I just tried this workout and boy was it tough I managed to get all the way up to level 5 on the first day but I plan on going ever further throughout the week. Thank you so much brother and keep up the great work as always

[@Green-night1]

Great exercise! I was amazed at how much the first session of practicing it has improved my synchronization. THANK YOU!

[@palakchopra9381]

September 19: Learning the pattern September 20: 70 bpm (I end up skipping parts) September 21: Crossed 80 after like a dozen tries September 25: Rusty 90 after 3 day break October 10: break due to exams so back at 80 October 21: I'm mad at myself for not keeping up but started again and at 90, also realized how much goo posture helps. October 22: I don't think I'm mentally ready for 100.

[@lotusjuice3834]

Same lel. Just played 90bpm perfectly Now I have no idea how to do 100

[@palakchopra9381]

@@lotusjuice3834 Crossed 100 in the new speed exercise video!

[@lotusjuice3834]

That's nice lol. Gotta check that one out

[@radeksima2608]

Lol, same. Still not able to get over 100. I'm totally losing control in my fretting hand.

[@berserk4o59]

Man u have some big breaks

[@jasonvoorhees1316]

Great content as always. It's a pleasure to learn from you. My playing has improved greatly since I started following you on youtube.

[@souravranjansohala9368]

You are such a nice person man, your methods have brought me quite far, I am self learning following couple of youtubers, but your encouragement and play along thing just works perfect for me. Love your videos 💖

[@sonalscreativelife9471]

Thanks bernth for all these fantastic exercises , they r so fun to play and also helps in improving my playing a lot... 🤘

[@anthonypulido8999]

Too underrated this guy deserves so much more credit his vids are very helpful

[@JustinNogle]

You're on fire sir! Justin time for me with this alternate picking workout. 😎 Been using you warm up and practice routines - great stuff. Many thanks Bernth!

[@hmmm9422]

Your alternate picking workout helps me a lot. Thank you so much!

[@emilianonobile7588]

August 11/2023 got some trouble learning the pattern once I got it I achieved 70 bpm clean, almost 80 August 13 already improved stuck at 90 almost 100. Thank you Bernth ❤

[@dakkotalang-church1649]

Man, there's a sweet riff in this exercise. Well done, definitely gonna try it out.

[@seanthegreatish106]

I turned 45 in February. I’ve been playing the guitar since I was eleven years old and due to being poor, I was completely self taught. I’ve picked up many things along the way, you can’t help but to I guess, but I’ve felt plateaued for a long time. I have to tell you how quickly things are coming together after finding this video and the hand synchronization exercise. I haven’t made it to the end of either one yet, it’s only been two days, but I’m nothing short of blown away at how things are falling into place already. I won’t look at any other lessons until I master the first two I came upon. I have a feeling I’ll hit beast mode eventually. I have to be honest, I don’t think I’ll apply what I’m learning to songwriting. I will become nothing but a better guitarist. I can’t thank you enough ☮️

[@bkmeahan]

3 weeks on and I just managed to do 70 bpm cleanly. :) Finally gave up on 80 and made a drum track at a slower tempo. Managed to get to 72.5 today. 2 months from getting to 70 and I was finally able to make it to 80 although still a bit rough.

[@nicreven]

What about now?

[@cianharold6696]

Sep 8th, 16th day, I actually got 120bpm fairly fluidly for the first time and pushed onto 130, and while it was rough, I got parts of it, very happy, need to keep pushing

[@aadykarkee4859]

Thanks bernth ❤️ This exercise is so effective. I will be following you forever ❤️ Lots of love from Sydney ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥

[@prithwirajbhattacharya3965]

Thanks a lot..I enjoy your lesson and practicing and really I got good result in 15days..My hand synchronizing much better than previous...Respect man..Love from🇮🇳

[@arnaudthavenet7289]

Thank you so much for this exercise! Learnt so much from it in terms of posture, picking technique and self-confidence. Works as a charm with the 5 minutes warm-up. Used it regularly and impressed at how it changed the efficiency on the upcoming exercises. Thank you so much! 30/07: 80 (going onto 90). Lot of time spent getting the pattern to roll on efficiently 31/07: 100 01/08: 100 (going onto 110) 02/08: 110 (going onto 120) 04/08: after a one day break, 110 really clean, still trying to reach 120 05/08: feel quite at ease at 120, trying to perform it at 130 bpm in a clean way, but still complicated 06/08: Tired, hard to concentrate, going back to 110, difficult to get past 120. Hope it will be better tomorrow 07/08: 120 ok / 130 ok and finally managed to push it to 140. Tried it a few times to be shure it wasn't just luck, but passed it each time. Still some work to do on it, but what a surge of self-confidence. Thanks for this, I'll continue working upon it in the upcoming days. Far more efficient than everything I had tried until now. Really cool to practice!

[@matthieukabaradjian9297]

Listen me Bernth, it was THE problem I had to solve and THE exercices I needed. So thank you so so much. Hope its gonna help me

[@pattysmusic524]

You have a good workout for like every single guitar technique! Gonna be very helpful for me as I try to become more serious with my practicing. Thanks!

[@derekkennedy7346]

You're so awesome and you've taught me so much I'm privileged to be able to watch your videos I hope you're out for a long time to come because you are my new teacher I can't afford to pay for your lessons necessarily but when I watch your videos and the teach videos you put on KZbin they've made me a way better guitar player so thank you very much and you keep doing what you do you're awesome

[@macewindex]

This is an extremely helpful exercise, thanks man. If anyone struggled to get the hang of it while starting at 40bpm like I did, set the playback speed to .75

[@yosoyjorge]

I can only say to you, thank you! I feel great! Only one week and i start to see changes in the synchronization of both hands!! In the early days, i could only play well until 80bpm. Today, i can play all the notes at 110bpm. The goal: 140bpm.

[@radhasreeduttachoudhury2843]

bernth thanks for all these amazing exercises these surely help a lot in developing extraordinary skills

[@nicholasstambuck3539]

I've been practicing this along with several other of your excersizes for a week now, and my speed has increased from 110 bpm to 140 bpm in just that amount of time, I can't say enough how awesome I think your channel is. I've been playing 14 years, yet I am so behind on things like hand synchronization, and others. If only I had discovered your channel a few years ago. I plan on subscribing to the Patreon next week, and officiating you as my personal Mr. Myagi to take me the legend status I strive to be. Thank you Bernth

[@alex-ellsworth]

Totally relate to this -- been playing for 15 years!

[@hriatanaulak2064]

Sir thanks for the workout it is really helpful to my playing😁

[@user-cq6yh9zd6s]

this works. literally. if you cant altenate pick do bernths exercises. I thought i would never learn. Then i decided to check bernths videos that i skipped for years. he is a beast coach. it works. it works. i can alternate pick now. thanks to bernth i did the impossible.

[@chasingtrailproductions3689]

Did 30 days straight without missing a single day for 10-15 mins. Finally I am able to get 110 consistently most of the time. I even started getting a little 120 starting to to come together. I'm going to keep at it for another 30 and see what I can achieve. I need to focus on better economy with fret hand for sure. Thanks for the tip on no angle to fret hand, that really helped out.

[@Mustis1524]

How did it go?

[@chasingtrailproductions3689]

@@Mustis1524 Good, I'm now pretty consistent on 120 and starting to get parts of 130. I am still incorporating every evening in guitar warmups. This exercise really works, my hand coordination for a Rand Rhoads solo Believer is really coming together. I'm at 95%speed when before I could only get to 75%

[@LordDucky9]

@@chasingtrailproductions3689how’s it going now lol

[@tarkrtr8335]

Very Useful for Me. Thanks Bernth!

[@ironx1142]

Good exercises! I really start to practice this!👊

[@maley8521]

Thank you Bernth! This is such a cool exercise to work on. I basically started my guitar journey with this exercise after learning how to pick properly and play some open chords lol. Month 1: clean 80 bpm. dirty 90 bpm. Month 2: clean 120 bpm Month 3: clean 130 bpm Month 4: clean 140 bpm Month 6: clean 150 bpm. pushing 160 bpm but yeah. It definitely works. 6 months with around 3 weeks of down time in total where I did not play thanks to vacations/sick days etc. (Not consecutively) Take your time and enjob the process, people I can NOT reach 160 bpm at one-go btw. I take a 2 min break after 120 bpm or my hand gets too tensed up to play. I cant imagine how people can play gigs without much of a pause. I wish the 5 min morning routine was progressing as fast as this one, but that one is a totally different beast imo

[@TruthGuitar]

This is so productive! WOW!

[@juandavidmorcote3265]

Excellent exercise,thanks a lot for sharing it!

[@marosmolnar2749]

What an amazing patern. Around 100-110 bpm it started sounding like an actual part of a song. I really like this exercise.

[@Bernthguitar]

It's practice time!! Get the FULL 30-day synchronization workout & practice plan here: www.patreon.com/bernth 🤘 Happy shredding 🙂

[@ridlorinaldi9014]

Please give subtitle for Indonesian language

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

Thanks, great work out. Just got my guitar back after 6 months and these exercises are just what I need. Any chance you can show us what your right hand is doing exactly? Are you resting it on the strings or resting your wrist on the guitar? I'm looking to get faster and read that resting your wrist/ arm on the guitar is better for speed. I have always rested on the strings but will change if it gets me more speed.... cheers.

[@durhamviking1809]

Probably me being blind....but where on the patreon link is the option to buy the 30 day practice plan?

[@wroomwroomkadonka3017]

@@durhamviking1809 I think it's available if you sign Up or pledge whatever it's called for All members

[@Bruddermane]

After 32 Days (Not consistent) of Practicing this specifically with other days of practice working on other technique things, I'd say I can get to 140 bpm!!! It's a little sloppy but I did it and I can only get better from here! I am adding this to my list of technique practicing things so I keep up this speed and hopefully get faster! If you are still reading this and think this is hard, then you are right! It is hard but keep practicing and playing fun things on guitar and you can make it! That's what I did!

[@AbbieGreenMusic]

After about 8 months, I finally made it to the end! I could barely do 90 bpm when I first started. Thanks bernth, for the awesome exercises!

[@enguunhoyor2431]

08.01 done 140 challenge nailed. Have pretty synced hands now. Thank you so much

[@francescoasuni8238]

two months ago i've almost completed the "4min shred challenge", for the next month I'll switch all my daily routine with other challenges from this amazing channel 26/03: 80 bpm 27/03: 90 bpm 28/03: 100 bpm 29/03: 100 bpm 30/03: 100-110 bpm 31/03: 110 bpm 01/04: 110 bpm 02/04: 110 bpm 03/04: skipped 04/04: 110-120 bpm 05/04: 120 bpm 06/04: skipped 07/04: 120 bpm 08/04: 120-130 bpm 09-10-11 skipped 12/04: 120 bpm 13/04: skipped 14/04: 120-130 bpm

[@blaze-the-Real]

2:45 50 bpm 3:28 60 bpm 4:04 70 bpm 4:35 80 bpm 5:02 90 bpm

[@barringtoncleaningservice9266]

Thanks

[@AadiGoyal]

I finally made it to the end!!! Started out with ~70 bpm...took me a week to achieve 140 bpm. I'm so happy 😀😀

[@hvig]

Another convert. Just for fun, I added the same pattern to the B string, and found I needed to move up one note to play along. Moved it to the low E string as well. I need to come up with a pattern modification for all six strings, unless you beat me to it, Bernth. It took three sessions to get it down, but man has it improved my fretting AND synchronization.

[@BikingVikingMTB]

Day one mate.! You are amazing 👊🏻

[@michaellewisjones-7894]

Excellent!!! I love watching your videos!!!

[@simonberglund2479]

Thx for great content!

[@ginjaninja6963]

Doing this on the low E string along with the video is good practice as well!

[@ifluve]

What an excellent lesson! Thank you very much :)

[@user-wj5ns2ls8m]

Sounds awesome actually I like the backing track so much

[@dmitrysemenov3013]

I do love your exercises!!!

[@CykaBlyat-yf7ed]

feeling better after seeing all these comments been practicing this for about 5 days everyday and pushing myself while also making sure to focus on technique and today i finally managed to hit 90Bpm somewhat consistently as long as i remember to stay relaxed theres still like 50bpm to go and its gonna get harder but im so proud of myself for nailing 90bpm🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

[@72_Seasons]

This one is awesome!!! I’m gonna need to work slowly on this because my picking hand/left hand synchronization SUUUUUUCKS… 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@bukan_ardy]

Thanks bernth

[@cesarmamede8261]

Hi, Bernth. Very interesting exercise, and great sounding as well. You could have written a song out of it!!! 🔥🎸🤘🏻

[@flexstarmedia6645]

Awesome workout! Thank u

[@PrinzDerSchatten]

You're the only person who encourages me to play, teacher! 🙂🎶

[@joshuagoudie2849]

Don't stop broski you'll only get better !

[@papamurf7653]

Thank you 🙏🤘🤘

[@Jaymzmiller]

Took me about 6 weeks to go from getting 90-100bpm down cleanly, up to 130 cleanly and 140 kinda bleh. Amazing progress, thanks for the workout.

[@danielsuarez8914]

Fantastic exercise

[@jmacc9876]

Well I totally watched it all the way to the end, that was hella hard.

[@scottstone1475]

Your the best and my favorite..ive come along way since watching you and your playing..ill never be as good but at 55 I just want to smile when I'm playing at home with confidence..not there yet bernth but I'll get there with your help. Thank you partner

[@dakkotalang-church1649]

Just keep playing, my friend. You'll come into your own and then it won't be about comparing yourself to anybody; you'll be yourself as the best player you can be.

[@scottstone1475]

Thanks Dakota

[@nefalem_garai666]

September 18 - learnt the sequence I didn't note the days October 2 - clean 110 BPM, struggling with 120... It is a really fun and efficient picking practice. I'm playing for 16 years, but never too well and always bored to death with different lessons BUT THIS, holy-moly... I'm gonna buy the shit out of this 30 day course after my payment. F*ck if I had this back then in my teenager years I would probably a f*ckin rock star by now. Thanks Bernth!

[@mapetidye]

I FUCKING LOVE YOUR CONENT MANNNNNNNN THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS 😭😭😭🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@tsunayoshisawada6828]

It's been a while since I last watch your vids Bernth, but i don't i have thanked you yet though. For some reasons youtube recommended me to you, and honestly all your technique exercises help me polish my skills and for that, thank you very much. For now though, i think i'll focus on familiarizing the pattern first, then tomorrow i'll practice allong the vid :>>

[@shawnwarnke4860]

9/25 80bpm Love your tutorials brother. Been subbed for awhile and tell everyone about your awesomeness!

[@ivar6486]

Really fun exercise, got it all under the 30min mark but 130 - 140bpm did take some concentration.

[@trishbidweptomshkodeosterh3885]

5-25-22 day one. Learning the workout pattern.

[@svetibes993]

Thank you!

[@noel0004]

Day 2, 100 BPM, about a year of playing guitar in total. Thank you so much Bernth!

[@nitumonibaishya5012]

I love this lesson

[@Kurt9099]

Great exercise!

[@gaijinkuri684]

Day 1: 40 bpm, still trying to get my finger's to remember the notes. Getting older sucks, but once I got it I think I'll be able to bump the speed up a bit quicker. Day 2: 50 bpm is ok, but still trying to get my fingers to remember the notes. It's been good for keeping an eye on my left hand thumb position so far. Day 3: 70 is clean, start messing up at 80 and 90. Day 6: Been practicing off KZbin with a metronome but am up to 90 bpm clean 100 bpm start to mess up. Also starting to notice better picking technique and left hand thumb placement when messing around playing other things. Day 9: Missed a few days due to work so still at 90 clean and 100 bpm start to mess up Day 19: Hit a wall at 100 but can now do it cleanly, on to 110 with mistakes. Discovered that my picking technique was holding me back (too much unnecessary movement)

[@wimvanerge5210]

April 28: Struggling with 90bpm, got 80 done April 29: Got 90 done, working on 100 April 30: Got 100, still continuing May 2: Managed 110 and going still

[@pet173]

Your my guitar hero🤘

[@angelsoler5344]

DAY 1: Reached 90bpm once DAY 2: Reached 100bpm but struggled and my left hand was tense. DAY 3: Played it after another Bernth picking exercise but I didn't measure it. Focused on relaxing my fingers. DAY 4: Same as yesterday but Wasn't using the metronome. DAY 5: Breakthrough Today I put the video on 75% speed from slowest speed to limit - First playthrough I focused only on my left hand isolating the individual finger and relaxing the rest. made it to 120bpm at 75% speed. -second playthrough I focused only on my right hand picking; tensing the muscle slightly for each individual up and down with a fast and smooth flick motion with as little tensing as possible aiming to do it efficiently enough to get achieve the hand being relaxed and ready for the next up/down pick (trying to create more time of my hand being in a relaxed state of readiness.) -I managed to play through to true 105BPM with this approach!! :O I was VERY SURPRISED. (realised that by isolating my complete focus on the hand I'm working on instead of both, I can increase my depth of sensory awareness of my hand (picking in this case) and make small micro adjustments as I play through at a comfortable tempo. I found that the jump in 10bpm between stages was too great to allow me to carry my technique forward from the previous tempo, and my body would introduce a large number of tension and movement changes. I will use 75% video speed from now on or perhaps even slower for smaller controlled increments. Thanks Bernth for this video!

[@steffen6418]

Bernth Mega Videos. Hab ewig nicht an der Gitarre gesessen (selbst beigebracht war nie richtig gut) Aber großartig erklärt und demonstriert. Bei 100bpm ist Schluss. Bekomme fast einen Krampf in der Hand vor allem im Muskel der für den kleinen Finger zuständig ist. Den merkt man deutlich. Vielleicht hast du ja dazu noch Videos um den kleinen Kameraden etwas zu trainieren. Danke und mache weiter so.

[@Felker93]

01.01.22 -Pattern verinnerlicht -Level 5 (90 BPM) ziemlich solide geschafft. Für heute erstmal feierabend. Danke

[@RyanGuitarist01]

Done this since yesterday, The BPM that used to be my max was 110 BPM. As of now, Its 130BPM but its a little inconsistent. I'll work my way up! I'll keep updating too!

[@haydenrainbowweavers5178]

I really enjoyed this video and the play along helped me make great progress, do you reckon you could incorporate more play along elements into your exercise videos?

[@laterbeginnerguitarist]

Day 1 90bpm Was too lazy to post daily but i wasnt too lazy to practice:)) Day 45(approximately) challenge completed! What’s interesting is that even though i can now do 140bpm comfortably with this exercise, im stuck at around 110-120 with other exercises where there are also string transitions. I think my weakness could be a strong connection between pinky and ring finger, and also a floating pinky :)

[@crater2277]

Day1: 40 bpm (feels like a pulled a muscle in every single finger) sadly played way worse than my own expectations for playing for 2 years. But we’ll see how it is tomorrow. Day 2: 80 bpm is where I struggled. Hands are cold but it’s honestly progress. I think I struggled my first day because I didn’t have the notes memorized.

[@t.c.parsonsnolongerfallen6488]

2 words ,,THANK YOU🤘🤘

[@manassontakke3105]

Day 1: 12 Aug: 50bpm

[@andresespinosa6417]

START October 23: 90/100bpm October 24: 100bpm October 25: 100/110bpm (not clean enough) October 26: rest October 27: rest October 28: 110/115 bpm (not clean - I lost control while picking) In November and December, I stopped because of an injury and the rehabilitation stage. January 1: Managed to keep on 110bpm at the second try. January 21: 110 - 115bpm January 22: 115bpm January 25: 118-120bpm my own metronome February 2: 120 bpm with my own metronome

[@microsoftszabolcs1755]

Starting on June 05 2022 Day 1: 30bpm (50bpm) (practiced for bout 40 minutes, memorised the pattern) Day 2: 40bpm (60bpm) (did bout 10 minutes) Day 3: 60bpm (70bpm - actually managed to pull it off perffectly once) (over half an hour of practice) Day 4: x Day 5: x Day 6: 70bpm (even did with 80bpm a couple o times, but it lacked clarity) Day 7: 80bpm (sometimes gets really lost at 80 tho) Day 8: 80bpm (still not comfortable enough) Day 9: x (my electric arrived today) (I have been "playing" acoustic guitar for years, mainly fingerstyle, but never really took it seriously, (until now, hopefully). My greatest weakness is rythm, tho i struggre with left hand controll too, as my thumb (and sometimes my whole hand) hurts a lot. I figured out, that stretching my hand helps with this a LOT. I started practicing for this challange with my acoustic. The tempos are the ones i could play the exercise perfectly, and in the brackets the maximum possible tempo that i could almost handle at the time are shown. I started doing this exercise on my acoustic.

[@NotNibbelos]

day 1 : 80 bpm day 2 : 90 bpm day 3 : 90 bpm day 4 : 100 bpm day 5 : 100 bpm day 6 : 100 bpm day 7 : 110 bpm HOLY SHIT THAT WAS HARD day 8 : 100 yesterday I was more warmed up day 9 : 100 bpm

[@abelperez1827]

13/4/2 about 4 days ago i started the legato challenge and ofte tripped myself on the faster parts, im trying to not expect much from myself in terms of consistency but this and vibrato is something that i need to work on, i learned the pattern and got it up to 70

[@alex-ellsworth]

Played the riff on and off a few weeks ago. Was quite difficult for me then. Been practicing Through the Fire and Flames like mad the last few weeks. So this feels better now. December 6: 120BPM December 7: 140BPM, trying to tidy up 130BPM December 8: 140BPM inconsistent, 130BPM cleaner December 9: 140 BPM inconsistent, 130BPM clean December 10: 140BPM inconsistent. December 11: 130BPM pretty good, 140bpm inconsistent, 120BPM easy. December 12: 140BPM clean up. 130BPM. December 13: 140BPM most of the time. December 14: Complete. December 26: 155BPM December 27: 170BPM Day 1 Thoughts: Hoping to complete this in a week! Day 2 Thoughts: Making good progress. Day 3 Thoughts: Took a slight step back at first integrating better thumb placement. Day 4 Thoughts: Feels so much better with new thumb placement after much practice. Cleaner takes now. Day 20 Thoughts: Practicing this one a lot for tricky, fast runs. Hope to get to 200BPM one day!

[@ajbs_alexo_713]

you are one of the lew ppl that goes *beyond* BERNTH's exercise limit (here it is 140 BPM) Good luck on that, I'm also working on pushing my comfort zone above 140BPM !

[@alex-ellsworth]

@@ajbs_alexo_713 Thanks man! Gotta keep pushing! Yeah, working on making each level very clean with good technique

[@ajbs_alexo_713]

@@alex-ellsworth exactly ! I also remember the time I first tried this exercise 100BPM, my hands literally collapsed. It took me 10 days to be able to play this somewhat right, and another 4 days to make it clean. Now I can play 125 clean, 140ish kinda good and 150 is a bit sloppy. But like BERNTH said, if you don(t push yourself, you won't progress Lastly, the fretting hand technique is *extremly* important in my opinion. While 110BPM and lower can be played fairly good with bad technique, it's just not possible above that threshold. Non-angled fretting hand and minimal movement is essential.

[@alex-ellsworth]

​@@ajbs_alexo_713 Yeah man, I think we're on a similar path here. I've gotten my picking hand much stronger than it was months ago through much practice. Now moving the focus back to more economical motions on the fretting hand, which definitely means fairly minimal, non-angled movement. Now I'm trying to get 140-150BPM very consistently clean and synchronized. I think I'm almost there, and then definitely looking at cleaning up higher bpms past that. I also find the other chromatic speed exercise pretty difficult compared to this one lol. At least in terms of making it clean and the mechanics involved.

[@ajbs_alexo_713]

@@alex-ellsworth glad to know I'm not the only one who thought "hey that's easy compared to that one chromatic exercise" Also, playing with a clean sound is very helpful when it comes to practising exercises like this, because it allows you to instantly hear if you missed a note, didn't move your hands fast enough...

[@DeoDoSoap]

Playable stat Day 1 : 60 bpm Day 2 : 70 bpm Day 3 : first part 80 bpm Day 4 : 80 bpm , 90 bpm (10%) Day 5 : 80 bpm Day 6 : 20% 90 bpm Day 7-8 :try to master 80 bpm , PB 90 bpm Day 9 : My wrist pain,still 80 to bpm Day 10 : 80 bpm, 90 bpm Day 11 : 100% 90 bpm Day 12 : 90 bpm grind for 100 Day 13 : mastering 90 bpm Day 14 : 90 bpm , can do 100 bpm but not enough endurance. Day 15 : 90 bpm , the sync feels better than evr. Say 16 : 100 bpm Day 18 : mastering 90 bpm again after rest for 2 days Day 19 : mastering 100 bpm Day 20 : 100 bpm my wrist hurt

[@luciantoro13]

Day one: 110 bpm Day two: 110 bpm Day three: almost 120 bpm Day four: 120 bpm Day five: 120 bpm Day six: 120 bpm Day seven: almost 130 bpm Day eight: almost 130 bpm Day nine: 130 bpm Day ten: 130 bpm Day eleven: 130 bpm Day twelve: 130 bpm Day thirteen: 130 bpm Day fourteen: almost 140 bpm

[@aarongriffin667]

I hadn't played through this one for a while. Last time a tried I was maxing out at 100. This time I didn't trip up until 140! I guess practice is (slowly) paying off :D

[@OlMoldy]

Stopped for a break at level 3 - 70bpm on sept 4 2022 to eat! I am going to move on to the next vid in my list now too

[@MaDmAzAy]

Thanks! Cool exsersise! Awesome for guitar players on the stage! Dear Bernth, is it hard for you make some lesson about how to correctly play guitar on the stage standing? When guitar set down?

[@SufiSakib]

Starting Jan 8 ~ Day 1 - 60/70 bpm Day 2 - 90 bpm ( I can also play on 100 today but I practiced more on 90 and tried switching back and forth ) Day 3 - 100 bpm Day 4 - 100 bpm ( broo I tried going 110 todaay but damn it's gonna take far more practice for that haha ) Day 8 - 90 bpm Day 9 - 90 bpm