My Biggest Guitar Lesson Of 2024

[@justin.hombach]

Guitarchampion! Which Lesson was your favorite in 2024 (from me or from other Guitar KZbinrs). Let me know, in the comments :)

[@ironskater121]

We all want that fast, accurate, precise Anton oparin alternate picking.

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

he has some economy picking all over this though??????????? not sure what you mean here.

[@eagleeggs3862]

​@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw homie got kicked out of the Academy

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

@@eagleeggs3862 haaaaa lmao

[@CompleteProducer84]

I bought a year of Anton's Academy (which just expired). The amount of detail he uses to explain the right hand, left hand, and his mechanics of string crossing is insane! I am unfortunately a little bit too comfortable and happy with my personal picking method to totally re-learn his method (and I am also 40 years old!), BUT to anyone starting out, I would recommend at least checking it out, and at most totally implementing every little detail. The guy's picking chops and tone are one of a kind.

[@lukasgraesslin]

Do you know if he also still offers those pay once pre-recorded instruction videos or is this also the guitar academy stuff? I'd love to check his stuff out but I'm a bit heistant to get Telegram for that. Also, how does the payment part work these days, isn't it tricky because of the sanctions?

[@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII77]

7:56 this looks just great out of context!! Happy new year justin!

[@justin.hombach]

:D :D :D

[@Eblan85]

My biggest guitar lesson of 2024 was your video The Ultimate Guide for Speedpicking. Changed the way I play forever and the progress I had with my picking afterwards was insane, sounds like some infomercial but in less than a month I was already shredding!

[@phillipr.porter3109]

Happy New year Justin! Thank you for a great guitar shred year! Looking forward to 2025! Cheers!

[@justin.hombach]

Me too, thanks for the support :) Cheers

[@NCWEBM]

Immer wieder krass zu sehen, was Du an der Klampfe erreicht hast. Dabei warste ja schon zu Jugendclubzeiten schon auf einem nahezu unerreichbaren Level. Cool!

[@leandrofernandes5915]

Thank you my friend 🤘🏻 happy new year 🎉 greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@JJovanovich]

just wanna let you know youve changed my playing so much. please continue to bless us with great content in 2025! happy new year Justin!!

[@justin.hombach]

Thanks man :) You too, let‘s make 2025 a great guitar year :)

[@hephaistosss9598]

my biggest lesson in 2024 was that i decided to try and learn your stabwound lesson. I improved a lot very quickly with your good explanations! I really hope you can do another Necrophagist lesson some time soon :)

[@wilyamdein1359]

I also incorporating a concept called wuwei on guitar mechanics. Wu wei is a principle about strategic use of movement. It helped me by cutting phrases that's awkward on my fingers and change scale position that's more comfortable. The tricky part is the switching of positions but more easy on finger movements.

[@jimmccall8030]

Beautiful lick !! Please continue with analyzing Anton and bio mechanics. Thanks

[@zaidanp7258]

Will you make another video concerning right hand mechanics? TYSM for your work Justin and you gave it all for free :")

[@Sphereal]

Still can't believe you are playing with Rhapsody. Congrats again!

[@ThorsShadow]

Bro just dropped he's friends with Christian Münzner, played with Alkaloid and Rhapsody....and you informed me that Christian had left Alkaloid (I'm usually slow on these news). Incredible. Oh, und Frohes Neues. :)

[@spitefulwar]

Made it to the major leagues choom!

[@metalex1708]

Cool, your favorite lick is nearly the same that I am trying to learn for months, but it is part of the Hail to the king solo by Synyster Gates

[@justin.hombach]

Yes, Syn Gates is using that lick as well often :)

[@hahahadracula]

Man it sucks so much that Christian Münzner left Alkaloid. Though it's great that you had the opportunity to play with them because of that. I hope the band will survive his departure.

[@justin.hombach]

They will :)

[@justin.hombach]

Most of the stuff was written by Hannes and Florian

[@hahahadracula]

@@justin.hombach Very aware of that but you still need someone (like you) to play it. Have a good 2025 my man!

[@justin.hombach]

That‘s true 🫣 you too

[@rockinvegan1765]

Vielen Dank für das sehr interessante Video! Ein tolles 2025 wünsche ich dir! Hast du auch vor Antons 8s Technik zu lernen? Würde mich mal interessieren. Ich bin ein USX Spieler und nutze Swiping wie es wohl auch PG macht. Bin seit 10 Monaten bei Antons Academy und habe lange überlegt ob ich seine Technik lernen soll. Es ist die beste Technik die ich kenne. Aber laut den Erfahrungen der anderen dauert es mehrere Jahre und täglich lange sehr langsam üben. Im Idealfall spielt man gar nicht mehr schnell bis man es raus hat. Nach über 30 Jahren die ich jetzt spiele habe ich mich dazu entschieden meine Technik nicht mehr so drastisch zu ändern, habe aber durch Antons Tipps viel lernen können und bin auch besser geworden. Gibt auch Wichtigeres woran man arbeiten kann als AP, obwohl es schon cool wäre das so drauf zu haben.

[@justin.hombach]

Ich fand den Kurs echt super, bis the 8s kam. Mit two way pickslanting holst du schon wahnsinnig viel aus deinem Spiel raus. The 8s ist ja im Prinzip auch nichts anderes nur noch deutlich detaillierter vom Bewegungsablauf. Ich denke für dich, du holst viel aus deinem spiel wenn du in deinem Übungsprogramm individuelle Downward und Upward Licks integrierst, sowie licks wo du beides kombiniert plus eventuell ein oder zwei Riffs (ala technical difficulties). Dann brauchst du keine Jahre und langsames üben um dich in deinem Spiel zu verbessern

[@rockinvegan1765]

@@justin.hombach Vielen Dank für deine Antwort! Haha, das sehe ich genauso. Die 8s sollte man vielleicht lernen wenn man noch am Anfang steht. Ich spiele aber schon zu lange um meine gesamte Technik zu ändern. Aber der Kurs ist super und er erklärt auch toll. Dank ihm weiß ich jetzt dass ich "hoppe". Werde den Kurs aber nicht weiter machen. Beide pickslanting zu kombinieren da befürchte ich dass das Hopping noch schlimmer wird. Irgendwie gefällt mir Swiping da besser.

[@justin.hombach]

Hoping hat per se ja erstmal nichts mit dem Pickslant zu tun. Da geht es ja um die generelle Bewegung beim alternate Picking. Ich benutze ja auch beides und habe eine Pendel Bewegung durch die ich immer mit der Spitze des Picks frei bin und somit komplexe Abläufe einfacher spielen kann. Was dir bei der Technik vom Gilbert mMn schon vorenthalten wird.

[@justin.hombach]

Schick mir ruhig mal Videos von dir an [e-mail] würde mir deine rechte Hand gerne mal anschauen :)

[@berndkiltz]

Awesome Lick!

[@shmida1991]

I must say that I don't think there is one best technique, we all built slightly different with different fingers and hand proportions. I think the best way is to try as many techniques as you can

[@ilmisxx2]

"play however it feels the best" is a perfectly valid advice as long as the person giving the advice shows you several possibilities. Every person is different in terms of biomechanics and has different bone length, joint flexibility and amount of different type muscle fibers. For me, I found that I get the best result with a completely different technique when compared to Anton. I have to hold the pick with 3 fingers, EVH/Hetfield/Steve Morse style, that way I have the best muting and control over the angle of the pick regardless of how low or high I hang my guitar. Also this way I get to use the "reverse dart thrower" movement pattern and I find that I am both faster and more accurate than when I use Anton's "unscrewing the mason jar" movement pattern. The wrist joint is very complex and there are multiple ways to alternate pick efficiently and sound good

[@ilmisxx2]

@lukasgraesslin no

[@lukasgraesslin]

(Sorry, I deleted my other comment, realized I was wrong with the "unscrew jar motion", it really is deviation only when I try it in real life) But on another topic: is Anton really doing that wrist deviation only movement in his playing? I mean yes he surely knows what he's doing but still asking. His right hand in his videos looks quite reverse dart thrower to me. I mean you don't need extremely obvious supination for the RDT movement, some slight amount and you already get that flexion/extension movement in there in addition to the deviation. (borrowing here from how Troy Grady usually explained it) That seems to be the reason the people over at the Cracking the Code forum think he's having a relatively similar setup to Andy Wood or Paul Gilbert (and many others) which are also doing RDT. Steve Morse seems more like a very extreme example for RDT with those large amounts of supination.

[@danielvizitiu461]

Lick has FF7 prelude vibes.

[@Cloudburzt]

Yup - it's a minor add 9 chord and not a min9 though, as was said in the video, but always a cool sound! That prelude will always have a special place in my heart.

[@garfieldfan3892]

It doesn't matter. You can leave out notes from arpeggios, e.g. Em11 arpeggio can only have the root, third, fourth and seventh. You can call it Emadd7add11 whatever but it's unnecessary complicated. Both are correct

[@Cloudburzt]

@garfieldfan3892 Minor add9 is a vastly different sound than min9. It couldn't be Em7add11. That would definitely exclude the 9th. If it's Em9 it includes the 7 (which this doesn't), and sure, some other instrument could be playing that 7, but it doesn't here. E G B F# isn't suddenly Em13(b5#11) or similiar just becasue you "can leave out notes" - and the Final Fantasy Prelude starts out on a major add9 arpeggio to a minor add9 arpeggio - again a vastly different sound than if it had included the 7th.

[@martinmorales3195]

Which hardcore guitar player was that lol? I need to watch that video

[@justin.hombach]

You can find it in the description box :) (Edit: Sorry I thought you were talking about Anton, with „hardcore“ meaning hardcore good 🫣 sorry my bad)

[@lukasgraesslin]

I assume he means Josh Middleton's video on instagram (July 22, 2024). My take away from that is more that most likely Josh and Justin actually both advocate for the same thing but maybe Josh didn't communicate it exactly enough. That's at least what I got from it tbh. If I learned anything over the past years then that the utmost most difficult thing in (guitar) teaching is how to communicate movements. Imho it's very hard to do that on video without any misunderstandings (especially if you might not understand your own movements well enough)

[@justin.hombach]

IMO He could have avoid it with just saying: „I do it like this“ and not „you should do it like… and all these people on the internet say“ When you do something like this, you should have done the research. I say it too, but I put a lot of work into my research and admit when I‘m wrong (like when I used to say, technique can be different playing fast compared to playing slow, I got called out by Anton and yeah he was right, I was wrong in that case) 😊 With that we can grow as a guitar educator community.

[@lukasgraesslin]

@@justin.hombach Yeah I get what you mean. As said I understood it that he basically meant not going for the pure deviation movement but put in the supination position as well to get more of the flexion/extension movement combined into it (I hope I used the right terms but I think so) which is of course not exactly the same extreme flexion/etension-only-movement he demonstrated without the guitar. That's what I meant with "it's hard to communicate". Especially when good guitar players with a big following try to teach stuff where they might not know the intricacies themselves and then a whole bunch of people who understand even less try it out the wrong way. Especially for the right hand, I think left hand is more straight forward.

[@ilmisxx2]

​@@justin.hombachtechnique playing fast is different from technique playing slow, Anton likes saying that it should be the same but his own technique varies from when he plays fast and slow

[@ascendtranscend3812]

This is such amazing advice, thanks! I'm totally gunna try and incorporate this in my study! for me I think the craziest thing I learned this year was that there is Afro Cuban metal coming out of Miami, it's freaking wild! lemme grab you a link in case you're curious kzbin.info/www/bejne/fl7Sm6CFnZZlm7Msi=fEeleUGRol9B18rI CC is English! Enjoy!

[@iloveitall]

Where are the new Ibanez guitars?

[@justin.hombach]

in 10 days they will be released :)

[@iloveitall]

@@justin.hombach Thanks mate! I'm in horror since midnight there might be none! Now that is good news! Wow!

[@olestef]

The reason I stopped listening to you is that you love to tell us how good you are, and your videos are more directed towards yourself, and not the audience. Yeah. You are good. I'll give you that.

[@dylansmith391]

Yet here you are watching this video… Now shut up and enjoy the free content. Or don’t, and just go elsewhere.

[@olestef]

@@dylansmith391 🤡

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

another creator who thinks we are here with all this time to listen to him. Dude.. we are here to steal licks. period. show up or stop talking.

[@justin.hombach]

Sorry, but: What is your problem? First I have chapter marks where you can see where I show the lick. Second, it‘s not like I told in the beginning to grab something to drink or to warm up during that video. If 10 minutes of talking is already your problem, you have some bigger issues to take care of and I hardly doubt, that you will achieve anything on the instrument with this impatience. You don‘t have to watch the video. Leave AND stop talking! And in the name of everybody who likes to create content, to share experience or just want to share the thing they love, I hope you will never comment something this rude under their videos.

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

@@justin.hombach thanks for the lick though .. sorry if I offended you. just here for the licks.

[@jordanrush1988]

Sometimes licks won’t help, but the right mentality and perspective on how to approach the guitar.

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

@@jordanrush1988 naaawwww I'm just here for the licks bro.

[@sigiligus]

Don’t pretend “you don’t have time,” we all know your day is divided into 5 hours of shitty online video games and onlyfans porn.