Do THIS if you still want to be Shredding Guitar at 70!

Do THIS if you still want to be Shredding Guitar at 70!
Here's how my guitar skill is always there, no matter what. How I can ignore the guitar for weeks and pick it back up and still shred guitar. And ultimately, how I'll still be shredding guitar and play like I want when I'm 70 and beyond.
If you have functional capability with your fretting and picking hand, you'll be able to do the same:
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[@BenHigginsOfficial]

If you want the most direct, simple exercises that I used to dominate techniques like Picking, Bending, Legato and Sweeping then check out the Mega Badass Bundle courses.benhigginsofficial.com/mega-badass-bundle

[@jfo3000]

Hey Ben, love the thought process behind your movement. I'm 60 and still shredding. I can take a few days off and still be able to shred. Callouses might start to thin, but aggressive bending while playing thickens them back up in a few days. Mindful conditioning is important, and should be part of our daily guitar "playing". Techniques that I've struggled with the most: Inside picking when required with alternative picking 3NPS across 3 or more strings. As a stand-alone inside pick riff on 2 strings, no problem. But injecting it into a 3 or more string run took years to get down. Also, sweep arps across more than 3 strings...not the picking, but good left hand...proper muting and steady tempo with left hand.

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

@@jfo3000 Thanks for sharing, Jimmy... more people need to hear stories like yours... it IS real and it IS possible!

[@franciscopimenta9089]

Lord Higgy! What an honor to have my name pronounced in one of your videos! What your courses made for my guitar playing is priceless! I had an insane passion for electric guitar when I was a kid and around my early 20s I stupidly convinced my self that for some reason I wasn’t good enough and life went on although all that pain! I have no words to thank you for reignite the fire between me and my 22 years old Ibanez RG 470! ⚔️🛡

[@franciscopimenta9089]

Obrigado!

[@davidatyson]

Economy picking. I bought your badass bundle an the zakk Wylde course. Hands down best teacher out there.

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

Cheers David - enjoy the ZW course - he's an animal!

[@powerswish]

One of the things I dread coming back from a long layoff is calluses. Or the lack of them. Having to get back to that stage when the skin on my fingers don't feel tender or tear from bends and stuff.

[@ImYourHuckleberry-co6gi]

Great stuff once again, Lord Higgy! Thank you for the shout out! To answer Mrs. Higgy's question, my biggest technique issue has been my left hand, especially my pinky. The Legato Gym course has helped me out a lot, and I'm now able to play the first 3 exercises consistently, accurately and in time. The last two exercises I'm still at 100 BPM, but I know that with the proper intent along with focusing and applying myself, I'll get those up to speed as well. I want to say that I got the Tao, and have read it and really can't recommend it enough. It has definitely inspired me and helped me make up my mind to get past the negative or defeatist mindset that I had about my playing.

[@blakegilliam8223]

Ben , after 2 yrs of not applying legato gym, I finally said fuck it I'll try it and it improved my playing tremendously. My left hand strength is not there yet but it's getting better and better and I've moved on to other legato exercises that are more complex but I threw myself hard into that legato gym. Anyway if you can answer any questions why is descending legato harder or why do I grip harder when I'm trying to do that I'm getting better at it

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

Well done for applying it. Regarding ascending or descending, one of them is always going to be harder by default and for a lot of people it's descending. Just keep honing it so it sounds as good as the ascending ones do!

[@blakegilliam8223]

Biggest issue here is hand synchronization and as I just mentioned descending legato. So if the answer is more legato gym and more "simple" exercises, I'm going to get right on top of that because it works.

[@brettshawver2983]

The Mega Bad-Ass Bundle has really improved my legato playing. I always alternate picked everything! There's a place for that, but now I have an extra tool to help me express parts in a totally different way. I'm still working my way through the bundle, but I'm taking my time to really get things tuned up. I've busted out of a rut and I'm playing at a level that always seemed just out of my reach. This has completely overhauled my playing and I can't wait to apply the next phase to my playing! Keep doing the good stuff!!! 🤘😁🤘

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

That's amazing, Brett - well done for putting in the work!

[@blakegilliam8223]

Hey Brett I'm going through the same rapid major gain thing lately, have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming. Then I'll have a day that i can't get it quite up to speed. This used to push me back to self doubt negative attitudes, but now the down days are less and less. Thanks for listening

[@brettshawver2983]

@@blakegilliam8223 right on! My mantra used to be "Perfection" - now I make sure to practice EVERY DAY - and my mantra is "Progress will yield perfection". I take those rough patches in-stride, chip away at problem areas by making little "etudes" to practice the movement that's currently giving me issues, and practice with the sound advice offered through the current Bad-Ass Course - and you can't help but continue to grow beyond your current limitations! Right on man!

[@davidatyson]

My hardest thing to conquer is economy picking. I can do it segregated but mixed in w a real life solo were there are a whole bunch of techniques running into each other....it's rough 💀💀💀💀

[@davidatyson]

Mrs. Higgy is the best cheerleader!!!💪💪💪💪

[@franciscopimenta9089]

Re to Mrs Higgy question: I thought my main problem was picking hand technique but then after taking some Lord Higgy courses/KZbin lessons I realised I had just as a starting point an issue on my fretting hand!

[@EyesOpen369]

For me its i start working on the picking stroke sequences

[@solapidesihombing9975]

It's been 5yrs since i started playing guitar intensively.sometimes I feel worries about dexterity and my picking hand i trying to build up,bcoz i work as Welder.so everyday,,i try to keep touch my guitar n play some exercises.really i feel not easy to keep the functional capability of my both hands,but i have some encouragement by watching explanation like in this video.im 40yo,so i realize,im not going to expect too much at playing guitar.i really only need to learn how to love my process of playing guitar.trying to do it right.

[@blakegilliam8223]

Bro I'm 59 and I'm playing better and maybe I won't play just like Ben but i guarantee you'll eventually turn heads with your playing

[@solapidesihombing9975]

@@blakegilliam8223 thnk you,i promise i will not wasting ur wish to me

[@chrisgmurray3622]

The harsest thing I ever tried and failed at was just simple rapid (shreddy) picking and fretting over eighties style four fingered left hand rock feels which feel odd, or wrong to my mind and hand no matter how many years I work at them. Starting with the basics has never made any difference to my efforts and though I've not been afraid to work hard at these things nothing seems to work.I've heard you say that it's all in your defeatedt attitude, but I've tried every possible way of approaching the engineering required for this type of playing since the early nineties, and even bought VHS instructions from Eric Johnson, Frank Gambale, Yngvie Malmsteen, and Vinny Moore. Had a few private lessons from a guitarist I met at a shop(Sean Clancey) who gave me some exercises to practise. Having tried them up until the last two years(since 1992) I'm still unable to show any progress at all, though the guy who showed them to me had been playing guitar for only 5 years at that time. I forced myself to spend 2 hours a day for 2 years, but this had no effect. Obviously, one would automatically say I must be doing something wrong, but I'm out of ideas as to what that might be, and though every fibre of my being refuses to give up and say I'm just not the sort who can do this, after thirty years of banging my head against the wall, I'm quite tempted to adopt this as being my fate. I'm not especially into that shreddy type music, but want to derive some of the skills involved to apply to my own kind of playing style when occasion warrants it. Every thing I've learned has been revealed to me almost effortlessly during the seventies and early eighties, when I played in several local groups and easily learned hiw to bend, vibato, harmonics tone and touch- just by listening, but everything comes to a grinding halt when I try to string together even only moderate rapid cascades.In short- I'm not stupid, I'm not lazy, so why can't I make this kind of playing work for me?

[@williammiller6761]

Biggest tech issue here is getting the righthand to keep up with the left hand . Back in the day there was tons of legato playing and alternate pickers were far and few in between as far as the rock genre so it wasn’t needed . To keep up with todays tech guitarist tempos that right hand has to be there spot on and in sync with LH The BA courses alternate picking , legato gym and sync are the best ones in my opinion to start with . I think of them as templates that you can build off of . Even better the entire bundle is a great way to keep honing the skills and keep ‘em razor sharp - great simple application common sense courses - Mr and Mrs Higgy Keep those videos coming -

[@Grunfeld]

On a hand unit it's often "long finger" and "small finger" -- cos you wouldn't want the surgeon to amputate the "middle finger" cos she misheard you saying "liddle finger". Okay, that wouldn't happen but that's why "long" and "small" are used.

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

Takeaways I got were practice the basic stuff, it will make the complicated stuff easier to learn, and it wont fade with time. I'm 55 and wanted the encouragement. I can't say I'm struggling with a particular technique. Everything is getting better, slowly, and my ears hear problems with it all. I guess holding on to a groove once I've made a mistake is hard for me, but is that a basic technique or a mental thing?

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

It's mental for sure, it knocks your confidence.. but the more you experience the process of getting yourself back in the groove, it'll become nothing

[@EVEROSFP1]

If you are familiar with a playing style new stuff on this style become naturally easier to learn...

[@rowanshreds]

Thank you Tom Cruise for the great video

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

Thanks, man. Playing, talking about and teaching guitar is way more fun than filming my Mission Impossible movies

[@eyeguyeyeguy1]

Every time he says “functional capability” take a drink.

[@sinisterking6009]

Right now i'm into ben's economy picking course and struggling just with exercise 6 i think, i mean i can do it but not fast enough like ben does, speed doesn't come even i do the movement the right way. Should i be patient and train with the metronome or is there some other way i may miss?

[@RikJSmith]

I have the same exact problem and question. When I discovered Economy Picking a few years ago I decided to totally forget Alternate Picking because I'd been trying to get good at it for a decade and all it did was piss me off. So here I am trying to get better at Economy Picking.

[@blakegilliam8223]

For me lately it's THE METRONOME all the time. Now I've learned to tap for count triplets ect... can't tell you enough how much it helps, just start really slow and watch your picking hand, you'll see how to fix

[@BenHigginsOfficial]

Use THIS approach but just apply it to economy. Practice the first 6 notes only.. get it quicker and smoother. Then move to the next 6 and so on... then string them together. Much easier to get the speed and smoothness gains that way kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5DCkmlnocuWm7c

[@sinisterking6009]

@@BenHigginsOfficial ah of course, i totally forgot about this, haven't think about that i can use this in other techniques aswell. Thanks ben and thank you all for helping out or sharing your thoughts!

[@RecycledRocker2]

Pinky pinky pinky....lol

[@user-rg6fe1wx9z]

Theo’s

[@TheTimeProphet]

I still say little finger. I don't like Americanisms, but do whatever you want LOL.