How to deal with a plateau - Guitar Mastery lesson

[@guitarmastery]

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[@cactusjackhausen8508]

Claus Levin is the Tony Robbins of the guitar world. I feel so inspired to pick up my guitar after every video of his I watch and that in itself has helped my playing because it's discouraged me from giving up and there have been plenty of times where i've wanted to. I Absolutely love the passion and enthusiasm that Claus exudes for guitar. it's incredibly infectious. One of my favourite KZbin channels overall

[@thomasdaughenbaugh1997]

Your teaching has excelled my playing so much in such a little time.. Thank you so much Claus

[@jergola]

thanks for the pep talk, coach, good stuff

[@richardanderson4037]

Well explained mate

[@Alex-ll4xm]

Thanks Claus!

[@neildrachlen9149]

Thank you 😊

[@nikkizander2224]

Are you ever going to show your appreciation and make a collage of guitar mastery students and their skills on their soloing and riffs. so the rest of us and see how excited they are to show off their skills I'm sure a lot of them are pretty good guitar players it'd be nice to hear what they had to offer the new up-and-comer musicians of the future.

[@artilerypheonix]

ive been researching learning procedural skills in general, and your methods are similar except for 1 contradiction. i think we need stress in order for us to learn a skill. since we have been animals for most of our existence, everything we learn to the point of automation, is in theory for the purpose of survival. guitar is not a survival skill, but our brains treat it in that way. when ever we do something for the first time it is mostly performed by the working memory. if the task is too difficult we experience working memory overload, and we fail. i think at this point is where the brain decides that it needs to be part of the procedural memory, and will assign lots of resources to make that happen. lets say we start learning a task that is extremely easy, like triplets at something stupid slow like 30 bpm. our brain may never decide to make the skill a procedural task because there is no reason to do so, as in the working memory has no problem performing that task. but, practising only during working memory overload will lead to bad habits so that is not the answer either. so i think the fastest way to learn is to have a balance between going from comfortable working memory stimulation to working memory overload for short periods of time. for example i would practice triplet alternate picking at a good starting speed, then increase speed every rep until it falls apart. from there i have a reference point of when my working memory was overloaded, i then start again, find the speed right before i fell apart and practice that speed with a metronome for about 2 minutes, i then repeat the process of increasing speed until failure. i found this method works extremely well, and could also help somebody trying to break a plateau.

[@solapidesihombing9975]

1:27 'God's not build in a straight line' ive heard that words bfore..

[@balu.92]

Probably from the movie, Prometheus.

[@solapidesihombing9975]

@@balu.92 😂😂👍 "elephants can remember"

[@doncaviness7961]

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[@dominicbarravecchio2723]

Not your best video. I feel like I haven't improved since the age of 19. I disagree with the theory of learning more theory, and or try other things will improve you overall. When you get stuck at 180bpm doing 3 finger diatonic scales - and you don't know how to improve, and to suggest repetition over repetitions when you make the same mistakes over and over gets you down - It's at speed that you fail at. So you have to practice at speed, to go slow at first and built up is like telling a 100-metre runner that you start slow and eventually, you will get to under 10 seconds. I have done 175pm perfectly effortlessly. And I reckon I've done a million reps over 30 years as well. How does learning a new scale shape or a new mode help you improve you on something you haven't mastered yet? I too stopped playing to Claus (a reference to your previous video) I lost the drive, but after oicking it up again I'm still not very good, just a bit wiser. I'll keep watching for inspiration, but please understand that "Plateau" is very real in my world, and this video is the first in a while that I haven't gotten much out of. When you are in plateau you are looking for 1 to 2 % improvement. Something different to help you get out of somewhere you have been for 20 years. And to suggest to just to persist doesn't cut it. What's the definition of insanity? When you have studied inward and outward picking, forward and backward pick slanting, economy picking, to mention a few strategies to get over plateau this video was actually de-motivating. This is not a dig, but just a vent, and I hope something for you to think about, for your next video. Your videos have been very motivating.

[@MrThinless]

yeah here comes the master of Words! you could be a great political leader.

[@oneeyemonster3262]

Get back to me when you at least get the dominant pentatonic scale under you fingers.Then we might consider letting you in the 1st grade :-P

[@MrThinless]

You sound like you invented the guitar. So keep your mouth shut

[@aeksinsang932]

You could be the leader of the troll kingdom

[@MrThinless]

@@aeksinsang932 yeah starting by you ofcourse

[@oneeyemonster3262]

@@MrThinless god damn it...I said finger the fretboard..not your band members. :-P