The EASY FIX To Increase Your Picking Speed And Endurance

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

I didn't expect you to come back with a video like this. I strongly approve what your intentions are for the next videos and if they're not too technical and complicated I'll watch them for sure, because I'm a similar situation. The difference is that I've been only starting for a little while to try to pick up speed, at the moment I'm at 90 bpms downpicking and 140-150 alternate picking (I know it's slow but I'm just starting out). Hopefully your videos will apply to my needs as well!

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

YOOOoooo, Cthulhu bro!! Yeah, I've known him for years and he's a honest bro dude, he's got a good idea here and a positive perspective that nobody is limited!! /w\CHUG/w\

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS Hey man! I'm not worried about Karri, rather about me sometimes not being up to some of the "instructional" videos I watch. It happened with a lot of videos (say Rick Beato, but I could go on for a while...) that I lacked the essential tools or the knowledge to properly understand what the creator was talking about. Sometimes the title was a bit on the clickbait-y side but hey, if you type "how to warm up on guitar" and then you're starting to play patterns and repetitions that sound like they come from a jazz course, well how do you expect my simple metalhead brain to compute all of that? Long story short: I'm a little slower in terms of speed compared to the guys Karri has mentioned in the video, but I trust him. After all there are almost none of videos like he intends to make in the future.

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

@@Cthulhu_Awaken Abso-MuthaFuggin'-LUTELY!! Just start by playing For Whom the Bell Tolls repeatedly as much as you can several times a day in small bites! When it's good, pick the next harder or song you think is just beyond ur reach, etc... don't worry so much about theory yet, Rick blows ALL our minds unless ur college degree music nerd! The theory is much easier to understand with the more songs you learn to play you'll recognize the patterns, then someone tells you a TINY bit of the theory and SOME will "click" each time. Guitar is a balance of 3 things, Ear, Technique, Theory. Like a race car need to balance Speed, Braking , Traction to not crash & stay on the track, every driver will have different levels of each and the goal in the long game is just to get to the "end"! None of us has the same Ear, Technique or Theory but we just pick up little bits of all 3 along the way and play what you can with what you got I hope! {;o)

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS I do have some knowledge of theory, of course it's incomplete and I've learned to avoid videos too complicated for me. But that's not the point. When talking about techniques there's still some I can't manage yet or I don't get and some videos having the title hinting at something accessible also for me, they turn out to be not instead. The example I've made was about patterns of a scale that to me sounded the farthest I've ever heard from a warmup. You just can't have that kind of title and then do that in your video. You're just being a careless clickbait-y swindler. I really wonder what an unsophisticated beginner thinks when stumbling upon that stuff thinking they are watching some sort of tutorials... Anyway as for me, I'm already beginning with the Black Album, I consider it being the ultimate compromise between Metallica's furious thrash attitude and the Loads' spontaneity. I'll think about your advice after being done with it (now that I think of it, TBA features some pretty fast songs like Holier, Never and Struggle). Thank you for your kind words!

[@charycourt]

how did you go?

[@MuraSP2004]

Glad to see you again

[@Jaakkima7X]

Can' t wait to see more. Keep those vids coming 💪🏻

[@azharkhan8796]

Can't wait. Been struggling on this for decades actually.

[@finnishboy45]

Holy shit the legend is back!

[@KarriHanninen]

Hey legit kirk! :)

[@finnishboy45]

@@KarriHanninen How you doin?

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

/w\LEGIT/w\

[@kevinwhite6172]

Just learn every Sylosis riff. Problem solved.

[@andriydanyltsiv6287]

but how? if you can't play fast in the first place :D

[@antomustaine]

Yeah Karri!!! Happy to see you, missed you so much man! Hope life is going good to you and your family my friend.

[@outerheaven4082]

it`s been a while, welcome back! Cheers from Russia!

[@krokonuts9092]

Welcome back, man! We missed you

[@Nein1no]

ELITE strat that nobody ever talks about for playing faster songs when songwriting!: increase the tempo in Guitar Pro. (lol Great video as always, Karri!)

[@dennisdas]

Facts of practice! Thank you. I needed to hear this. Getting back into chord tremolos after 10 years had me really bummed out. But now I know what must be done. 🤘

[@pharris125]

Hey Karri, good to see you. Great video as always!

[@George_K.]

I think what you're trying to say is that it's like a left foot right foot when walking kind of thing - left foot being playing/execution and right foot being technique. If you focus only on 1 aspect, you're limping.

[@martin.official]

Welcome back Karri :)

[@KarriHanninen]

Thanks man! :)

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Whoa Karri, awesome to see you, MAN you even starting to look like a professor!! I agree with with ur perspective on this approach and realizing how negative "group think" mentalities can have an impact on the community. We only need to look at examples like the mighty Jeff Hanneman vs. Marty Friedman vs. JAmes Hetfield to look upon and wonder in amazement how they seem to be completely "wrong" and look weird or it shouldn't work but they absolutely DO IT to IT!! The key is that they practiced everyday to some kind of regime and took breaks until their hands or fingers only hurt a little less, then practiced and jammed together some more. Always try to play that next song that just barely too fast and repeat it till it's EASY, like ur title says! You ROCK Karri bro, I remember ur mom bringing you noodles and birthday guitar cake and kids playing learning games and just glad to see you. */w\TMFR/w\*

[@SarcasmIsMyGame_]

Hi Karri, I have injured myself last year trying to improve my speed. I was learning a bunch of TBDM songs and naively thought that I could just power through and endurance would come eventually. I was wrong. Anyways, I could definitely use your tips. Cheers!

[@KarriHanninen]

Hey man! Be careful when pushing the speeds to avoid injuries. If you want, you can send me an email and I can give some more tips 🤘

[@nickcrane8329]

How? Their songs aren't even that fast, besides the solos. They just use a lot a string skipping

[@brinepacer]

This was really interesting. I feel like when I've tried to increase my speed the thing that stops me is I'm like "hah I'm not relaxed enough I should slow down", so what you're saying makes total sense. Also welcome back! Where's the other videos!!?!

[@KarriHanninen]

Thanks man! Hopefully more on the way :)

[@stormrider923]

I really hope you gonna follow up on this video. I'll hope you do a video on focussing and practicing (exercise) on 1: muted downpicking and 2: (muted) alternate picking, and after that 3: how to switch between those effortless. Keep it up.

[@welderguitarfishingman]

When approching Speed i like to go over my speedlimit when i feel confident that the timing is right....

[@teardownthesun]

Still waiting eagerly on an update for your course or more videos 👌

[@NikolajChristensen]

Subscribed for sure. Looking forward to this.

[@steveareton697]

I just felt that I should add a rare comment (for me) after watching THIS video - I'm someone who watches a TON of YT videos across dozens and dozens of various genres outside of music and guitar, and I subscribe to less than 10 channels. Watching this video got me to subscribe(!) I like and really appreciate your honestly and "realness' and look forward to getting past watching your impressive playing (which, as you know, it's quite easy for anyone to find and watch 100s of YT video of very impressive guitar playing), but also to see some actual content that might actually inspire me directly to improve my own personal playing. Anyway, you've impressed me beyond the "normal" stuff and I thought I could, at the very least, let you know that you are on the right track here with where this video is headed. Well, to me, I mean, ...can't and won't speak for all the others of course :) Rock on good sir! \m/ \m/

[@danmenez]

MIssed you buddy! Let's rock!

[@stolbtch3468]

Cant wait for your right picking hand speed and endurance videos.

[@USMC0332]

I look forward to seeing more! You must be in Finland.

[@gonariorocca2421]

Hi Karri! Do you think that if I improve my downpicking speed, I have benefits on my alt picking speed too? Hope the best for your mission for 2022, I'm definitely your target!

[@KarriHanninen]

Yeah, its a bit different technique-wise, but you will definitely benefit from improving down picking 👍

[@ohforfootssake]

Prof Karri is pretty much like ALWAYS AAAAAALWAYS right! No joke!!! 😃

[@KarriHanninen]

Hah thanks Nikki! Nice to hear from you 🤘

[@ZornheymOfficial]

Interesting! Following the channel now and will check out more videos.

[@paulbaglio6295]

Somehow a while back I lost you from my youtube feed... I love that you are teaching because there's no better teacher than one who excels at what YOU want to be able to play... thank you and resubscribed🤘

[@Wyldwulf]

I'm stuck on Creeping Death at about 190 and have been...for months. Talking with a coworker about this (he can play it through at album tempo) he says "just practice." One thing I have noted though is that Kirk can't keep up with James after all these years. He's put in the string time...on stage an off. The question I have: why?

[@skippertheeyechild6621]

Yeah, I never really understood when people placed such an emphasis on being relaxed. For me personally, its about finding the spot between relaxed and tension. Also, guitar string tension and the types of picks you are using is of paramount importance. Speed burst training works for me personally.

[@Guitarist19887]

I don’t know if I’ve been doing that without knowing. I sometimes just sit there and really dig into a tough riff maybe play it a little fast without knowing then repeat after a break. I get tired but I guess it’s like working out, getting stronger and fitter in a way.

[@aethereal9032]

Also it's simply impossible or ultra hard to be completely relaxed when tremelo picking fast for example. You cannot tell me that you are able to play songs from bands like Intestine Baalism or Portal with your wrist completely relaxed

[@Guitarist19887]

@@aethereal9032 the best right handed guys I’ve seen play on live sets definitely not relaxed like you said. I’m discovering it’s a balance of tension and stamina the more I get better. All my videos I look a bit tense I cannot completely relax that would be inhuman for me 😂

[@aethereal9032]

​@@Guitarist19887yes. I know this gym example is used a lot but Imagine someone asking "how can I lift heavy weights" and someone says "bro just be relaxed". You can train your hand/wrist/arm to get used to playing at fast speeds but a bit of tension will always be there and that's normal and okay. Problem is when you can't control it.

[@Guitarist19887]

@@aethereal9032 exactly

[@chaggasfernandes]

Thanks for the advice

[@KrilleCaveman]

Hello Karri i really enjoying your bandpicks for the riff-videos you are doing got some great stuff there. I have been playing guitar for quite some while now and i started out with no teacher, never had one and probably never will... This caused me to use alot of tension trying to build speed and my hand would cramp and ache alot during my playing and i was focusing more on the classical guitar in which i had problems with tremor whilst plying cause id also tense up there, not very long ago i had a mental breakdown in which i quit my job and left my girlfriend so now i had a lot of sparetime. So i was thinking to my self now i can sit down and play like 4-6 hours a day and i will aproach the most relaxed picking techniques and start of slow and slowly build up speed and accuracy with both left and right hand, i honestly thought i perma-damaged my hand causing tendonitis so bad it was irreversable but after a few months going in with a different mindset and appreciating the sparetime and a calm mind and just focusing of getting it to the best i can... I can really say that i habe improved alot now i am able to play pretty fast (holy wars) some fast Death songs and still feeling relaxed and not totaally exhausted after a couple of minutes, this has really made me enjoy practicing guitar a whole lot theese days im as iam typing done with the whole cemetary gates solo and feel like im near to be able to do tornado of souls aswell (been an enemy of mine for years that one 😆) What i wanted to say is i think its quite cool that one can take such an different aproach and due to a different mindset get in and work and correct so many longterm errors thats been dragging the progress down and in just a couple of months get on the right track and find out what works for me. Sorry bout the novel just wanted to type a little about my story in brutal misconception with hypertension. Anyways love you videos and i would love to se som uncle slam - riffs on your channel thats of course if i dont do em my self 👍😎🤘 have a great day my Finnish neigbour. Cheers from Sweden.

[@KarriHanninen]

Thanks for the comment and really glad to hear you got your guitar skills a fresh start with good success! :)

[@gansior4744]

So much was said without nothing of actual matter being said

[@tjm9565]

Where is the ez fix????

[@Theosis78]

Thank you, Karri, for this relieving first hand insight. I just recently discovered that the focus should lie on a fast motion that feels like it can be repeated into infinity, regardless of "tension". Also a "colleague" of yours here in YT also helped by emphasizing on picking mechanics based on wrist rotation (which doesn't look like that). But he also talked about holding the pick in a relaxed manner. I was happy to get much better results from this wrist motion while at the same time was hesitant to speed up because of increasing pick holding tension. But now we know: Don't be ashamed of tension! 😅 Would you agree with my idea of focusing on cyclicality and not relaxedness? Thank you very much for your insights!

[@KarriHanninen]

Exactly. Tension (too little or too much) is bad when you lose control because of it.

[@theDOOMSLAYER6666]

I wonder if James did care about technique back in the day. Guess he just had a lot of fun.

[@falricthesleeping9717]

WHERE ARE THEY? WHERE ARE THE VIDEOS?

[@brendanhayward7577]

Wondering where you were

[@guitarnoob4860]

I just have to say 👍

[@oulosvie]

What do you think is your maximum speed you can achieve?

[@KarriHanninen]

For me, Ive done 330bpm down picking for a burst

[@oulosvie]

Cool

[@geauxtime]

ummm, so what's the 'easy fix'?

[@T3STAM3NT11]

That’s what I thought as well.

[@A9_Chord]

Just do it and forget about what ppl say on internet about technique most people said dont tense up etc but lets be real if u going to gym and u dont get the fatigue and tension u dont make any progress this happend on guitar technique too, u have to feel the fatigue, tense, and litlle bit of paint because u pushing your self hard to build muscle

[@censored7881]

I'm not a young man, and I've seen more mindless echo-chamber advice in guitar playing than I have in anything else. We can all think of one example after the other. There's so much brain-dead stupid shit that refuses to die, like "Don't cut all your strings at once, or you'll hurt the guitar neck!" or "You need a thick pick to play fast!" Drives me crazy.

[@yogxoth1959]

Shame you never followed up on your promise to make more videos on this topic.

[@MsDavo123]

Confusing advice to me, but basically to push bpm you have to push yourself and it really hearts bothers mentally and physically that’s why people choose to stay in comfort bpms 🤭

[@gilangprasetyo7018]

so when are you going to upload the new videos regarding "speed picking" stuffs? it's been a year now. i mean i get what you mean, but if i may, you're rambling too much on what we shouldn't do, and almost none about what we should do instead. so i don't find this video exactly as "beneficial".

[@T3STAM3NT11]

So when exactly in 2022 are the videos coming?

[@romariosantos2049]

please, legend english

[@sozepanteonero3072]

I like how you didn’t teach anything at all in this video.

[@FinnPanzzer]

First

[@KarriHanninen]

That was faster than I could make it to KZbin studio to monitor comments. 😂

[@FinnPanzzer]

@@KarriHanninen I do youtube commenting faster than any picking on guitar!

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Hella Panzzer... you WIN man.. this like a school reunion today Karri!

[@vlado19651]

The title reads: The EASY FIX…and the 7min bla bla bla without to saying anything. Just waste of time

[@KarriHanninen]

Then you unfortunately missed the point 😐

[@64siskat96]

i can tell you why you're not making progress