Play Guitar Insanely FAST By Practicing CROSS-STRING TRILLS

In today's fingerstyle / classical guitar technique lesson, you're going to learn how to play cross-string trills and how to incorporate them in your practice to play blazing fast scales and arpeggios. Download the free tabs/sheet music below!
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[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Download the Cross-String Trill Study free tabs/sheet music here! beyondtheguitar.com/trill

[@kayfel27]

This is the best educational classical/fingerstyle guitar content on KZbin

[@nickowen1480]

Thanks Nathan- and telling us about planting the fingers to increase accuracy in particular . Cheers Nick

[@JoshGUITARofolo]

Nice! Very inspiring and well put together tutorial; I was TRILLed to see it. 😁 Going to give this a try.

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Badum-tssss 🥁 haha thanks Josh!

[@ruslannikolenko9469]

I love the cross-string trills, and now I want to learn this super-fancy study...

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Ruslan! Yes, they're perfect for that classic "bard in a tavern" vibe 😎

[@hugoheintz]

I’ve really missed videos on this channel! Would you mind doing a video of how to practice an arrangement from beginning to end in the most productive way? I would really like to hear your tips

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

That means a lot Hugo. I've been missing making them too. Another video already coming next week! And I'll definitely keep that idea in mind

[@marquitalawson68]

Thanks!!! This technique came quickly. I have played bluegrass music and was taught a pattern quite like this to speed up my playing but only used 3 fingers. I like this technique to help me along my classical endeavors... thanks again.

[@thomaskeithlutheir]

Great teaching. All new technique to me, so can’t wait to try and develop it into my playing despite my ageing fingers. Thank you for this gift.🎶🎶

[@alexandretorturela2938]

Invaluable lesson, because this plucking pattern is anything but obvious and it is very effective for those trills. Thank you for composing and sharing this cool study!

[@michaelryan3541]

I'd never thought of approaching trills like this, I look forward to trying it out. Thanks! 👍

[@rollinOnCode]

this is AMAZING! it is opening up so many avenues for sound and playing.... omg!

[@spoders92]

I didn’t know about this concept. Thanks for teaching me something new!!

[@AaronWillmon]

That little composition study was nice.

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Thanks Aaron!

[@richardambrose3642]

Hi, thank you for this! I have been using cross- string trills for a transcription of Chopin's Nocturne, no.20 using exactly the sequence that you describe. I hadn't thought about the wider possibilies regarding scales and arpeggios, brilliant idea.

[@Karen-ve6ds]

Thank you!

[@davidcook3795]

Definitely planning on using this for practice.

[@petrosarvanitis7830]

I am super excited to try this technique out and see for myself how much difference it can make. Thanks for the great content 👌

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

You're welcome, Petros! Let me know how it goes

[@AlexSeewald]

I forgot those existed. I’ll try them this week. Thanks Nathan! 👍

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Yeah boiiii, let me know how it goes, Alex!

[@elijahdellis]

This is super helpful!! Thank you. I have learned so much 😁

[@nicolajdam]

Hey Nathan! Thankyou for making this video! I have been wondering for a Long Time How people made this kind of thrill. So for me this video is extremely helpful.

[@TokyoShizu]

I think I first picked up this r.h. finger pattern for trills from David Russell; it's a great technique. I do recommend getting used to other r.h. finger patterns for cross-string trills as well, even if you do end up favoring one particular pattern. Also it's definitely good to keep working on same-string trills. Keep the tool box full. :)

[@Moji_Ghasemi]

Thanks Nathan

[@masterbuilder3166]

Practice Carcassi op 60 lesson 4. Perfect for this type of playing. Great video 👍 subbed

[@metronommie]

dude! nice video, thanks for the tips!

[@jeanclarke9957]

Thanks Aaron. This is very helpful. One of the things on my musica; to-do list was to learn cross-string trills. In your tab/music sheet I downloaded, the first bar shows a trill on the 1st and 2nd string a-g-a-g played with a-i-m-p. However under the final g, there is an A in the bass played on the 5th string open. In the 2nd bar you have a similar situation but with the trill ending on 3rd string a, while simultaneiously there is a 6th string F to be played in the bass. It doens't seem practical to play a high g on the 2nd string with p simultaneously with playing the low A on the 5th string also with p (or any other finger). If such a situation were to occur in a musical piece, I assume it would be OK to substitue i or a for the final note and play the bass with the p, as per usual.

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Good question. You'll notice in those scenarios those preceding notes are notated as "grace notes" (indicated by smaller numbers in the tab, or smaller notes in the notation). It's common to play the bass note at the same time as the grace note, or in this case - the first grace note. So in both those cases, you actually play the bass note at the beginning of the cross-string trill. The notation makes it look confusing, but you can hear that in my performance. Does that make sense? BTW it's Nathan 😅

[@jeanclarke9957]

@@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy Yes, makes complete sense. Thanks Nathan

[@abelperez1827]

You are the best dude, thanks for these videos

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

You're very welcome

[@bernardogarcia1814]

Wow amazing lesson 👏🍻

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Thanks Bernardo. Enjoy!

[@tomrunge5232]

Awesome video :)

[@albinodino5050]

Fantastic video, very helpful! If done well, cross string trills in baroque music sounds so fucking cool

[@avihay941]

Amazing video tnx!

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Enjoy!

[@allan2098]

I used to play them AIMP as well, but after seeing Stanley yates in concert, I learned the MIAM. The thumb used on a trill also creates an uneven sound. Also worth mentioning is the IM pattern when each finger is dragged across two strings. Students should be encouraged to use trills very sparingly and tastefully.

[@dinerissoup]

thank you, now i can play scarlatti

[@BryanParnala]

i do this when I play jesu and bouree but not that good. thanks for this study.

[@darkcorner8605]

how about a demo on Dowland trills, I'd love to see that.

[@kaiming8485]

很棒的视频 很棒的视频 很棒的视频

[@richardleveson6467]

Until this moment I've always used imim and have been dissatisfied with the effect - I now see there's a major benefit using aimp. Musicians have long pointed to weak trills as a common shortcoming for classical guitarists.

[@ezcawi]

Time to make an arrangement of Thriller using only cross string trills?

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Haha YES

[@AcousticOST]

Love cross string trills and that little study you wrote is beautiful! I do my cross string trills like a tremolo (a m i p) but it works for me🤷‍♂️

[@alikarzari8378]

niceeeeeeeee😍😍

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

What's something you've incorporated in your practice to improve your speed? Leave a comment!

[@AcousticOST]

Speed bursts!! As you mentioned, planting is really the trick for speed for scales, arpeggios, and pretty much everything we do

[@elijahdellis]

Mashed different songs together has improved my speed

[@GuitarSVD]

I'm lazy. Anything that save energy and effort is great XD

[@BiscuitZombies]

Wow great tutorial! This AIMP pattern is hard to get used to, after doing PAMI for tremolo for so long. Tremolo or cross string trills, which do you reckon is harder? I can do each individual AIMP very quickly, but I find it hard to string a bunch of AIMP's together.

[@scotthanson6684]

Great video! Does cross-string trill have a special annotation?

[@floatingdisembodiedhead8975]

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[@seankasabuske1986]

Since most trills involve only going up and down a half step, I don't get how cross-string trills even work. For example, when playing Greensleeves in A Minor, I play a trill that goes from G# to A, played on the third string. Since an A on the fourth string is on the 7th fret, yet the G# on the third string is on the first fret, it's literally impossible to finger so that the trill could be executed cross string.

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Play A on 2nd fret of the 3rd string and G# on the 6th fret of the 4th string

[@seankasabuske1986]

@@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy LOL, well, I guess that was rather obvious! Probably why it didn't occur to me, as I only infer subtleties;-) That you.

[@mahdimohamadi9344]

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[@michaelmckinney7240]

This presentation is more of a commercial than a guitar lesson.

[@organicmusicspace]

Nothing wrong being good at marketing as well as teaching guitar.

[@kuzvankuz2763]

Ногтевое извлечение звука утрачивает мягкость звучания струны и теряет её голосовую округлость, напоминая более лютневый тембр, теряя глубину в низком регистре, а именно этим гитара и отличается от лютни, своей глубиной и певучестью.

[@Alan-Byrne1987]

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