Downpicking Faster And Longer Plus 15 Min Routine

[@CannaToker420]

I never paid attention to my breathing while playing before. That’s great advice, man.

[@TimHolman]

Yes, it's an often overlooked part of the process but very important. Cheers! 🍻

[@maxlawrence6981]

Best lesson I’ve seen on down picking.

[@TimHolman]

Thanks Max!

[@A9_Chord]

finally someone mention about building power and not just speed and stamina, nice lesson

[@TimHolman]

Thank you!

[@kylejackson9065]

Found this channel searching for help with my downpicking. Your Metallica vids and other lessons are next level. I'm jumping on this ride.

[@TimHolman]

Thanks Kyle! 🍻🤘

[@chaosmoenger8651]

Essential tips...See some faults in my playing...but, slowly it works😄...Always start slowly...😉...

[@TimHolman]

Yes, patience is necessary. Fast downpicking takes time to develop.

[@pavolpalaj3382]

thanks master Tim

[@TimHolman]

You're very welcome! 👍

[@AlcatraZJGroup]

Thank you so much for tips. I am struggle of playing fast (downstroke) and keeping on time.

[@TimHolman]

You're welcome! Best of luck developing your technique.

[@back4onemore]

Will definitely be doing this! Thanks!

[@TimHolman]

You're welcome! Glad to help out. 👍

[@wobbyworble4277]

At last a real and proper exercise on downpicking. Thank you sir. I have subbed and look forward to learning from your other lessons.

[@TimHolman]

Thanks! I appreciate your viewership. 🍻👍

[@Tyt130]

Just what I needed 🥰

[@TimHolman]

Great to hear!

[@hubertgunpowder]

Awesome lesson, Tim !! ♫

[@TimHolman]

Thanks a lot Hubert!

[@RJsCave]

Great tips and exercises!

[@TimHolman]

Thanks for watching buddy!

[@RJsCave]

@@TimHolman Always

[@bobbywiseman9832]

Kickass lesson. I subscribed.

[@TimHolman]

Thanks Bobby! Great to meet you. 🍻

[@hwy2hell161]

Subscribed! Thanks 🤘

[@TimHolman]

Thank you! 🍻🤘

[@krnwhitlow]

This is the lesson I need to restart my playing I hurt my left hand tendons and it's time to practice something to work on..more Seether plzz

[@TimHolman]

Perfect! I'm hoping to get to more Seether soon. It's been awhile since the last one.

[@Methuselach]

Awesome lesson, Tim !!

[@TimHolman]

Thanks a lot! 🍻

[@kraighawkins2919]

Great workout analogy. I've watched a lot of instructional videos, and this is the first one to break it down to sets, reps and time under tension. Nice! I'm going to start the routine today. Can't wait to build that Het-like speed.

[@GnRmike]

Best down picking lesson out there. Glad I found this…and I’ve been trying to get all those same riffs up to speed for a while now…what a huge help this will be! \../

[@TimHolman]

Thanks, awesome to hear man! Cheers! 🍻

[@zrstopa]

Best Canadian guy next door thrasher ever. Keep it up! Liked and subscribed!

[@TimHolman]

Thanks man! Glad you found the channel. 🍻🤘

[@TimHolman]

Don't forget to grab the free worksheet to track your progress! Tight and strong downpicking will take dedication but stay consistent in the routine that you decide on and you'll have a machine gun picking hand before you know it. Thanks for watching! Remember to subscribe for more content like this: kzbin.info I have a few spots open for new students right now. Head over to my website to check out rates: timholmanofficial.com/private-lessons or get in touch by email: [e-mail]

[@lcezermf]

During the last 30 days, I have been using this routine every other day and I can already see an improvement, great tips!

[@edwardglyons]

This lesson is absolutely brilliant. Thank you!

[@TimHolman]

Thanks Edward! You're welcome. 🍻

[@pissymissy9565]

Wow! How good is this. I can’t wait to get cracking on these exercises.

[@TimHolman]

Awesome! Have fun and patience and you'll get there before you know it. Thanks for watching!

[@charliebaker3116]

Such a good lesson. Could please teach us how to play Metallica's One? The fast picking in that song always seems impossible.

[@TimHolman]

I'll be doing a tutorial on One relatively soon. I'll break the fast picking down for you. Thanks for the suggestion! 🍻🤘

[@charliebaker3116]

@@TimHolman Wicked! I can't wait to crack this song.

[@1manshtshowandautobodystuf891]

Played guitar for many years then life happened. Anyways. Picked it back up. My "personal" biggest issue. Sound. I believe if it doesn't "sound" at least close to the songs I get frustrated. It's not wrong notes. It's literally how it sounds to my ear.

[@umeshpatel3606]

Hi Tim your analogy of the gym i relate to as I lift weights,totally true about taking a break even for 5 minutes as muscle memory kicks in day after day

[@edgraham6502]

Fabulous approach. You rule. Could you please show us how to play Fcking Hostile by Pantera? The picking in that song is brutal.

[@TimHolman]

Thank you! Yeah, I think it's time for some Pantera. That would be a good one to do.

[@4cryingoutloud604]

Like 79. It just sounds so awesome! Also, thanks for the lesson!

[@malakaltrabolsiii]

I just discovered your channel, your lessons are the BEST!!!

[@TimHolman]

Thank you! Glad you found channel. 🍻

[@skunk2107]

Just found your lessons. Been playing for just over 4 years. Looking to always learn and freshen up the technique . Very helpful. Thanks

[@TimHolman]

You're very welcome!

[@markcameron2353]

Great video - this is just what I need. Thankyou.

[@ethancarden7848]

love the analogy to working out nice vid

[@aleksandrakirovska1556]

Fantastic job!

[@TimHolman]

Thank you!

[@stevebravo1422]

great lesson! Picked the guitar back up after a few years of mandolin/ukulele and sort of doing a back to basics thing. I appreciate you talking about things like breathing, posture and tension in the arms/hands. relaxing is so important and it's not always apparent how to do that.

[@TimHolman]

Thanks man, glad to help! I wanted to give a few clear pointers that a player can do to relax because without steps to take the statement to 'relax' is a bit too general.

[@edwardglyons]

I do not recall any guitar teacher anywhere telling me about the position of the thumb. Straightening out my thumb when down-picking made a very important difference for me. Thank you! I now notice many others doing the same thing when they're down-picking. Your channel is a goldmine. Thanks again!

[@TimHolman]

You're welcome! Great to hear it helped you. 🍻

[@Guitars_n_RCs]

Damn I want that guitar

[@satchrules101]

Gold teaching and great player ! 🙏

[@kennethmoran2119]

Love this video, now part of my routine. Would you consider doing one on gallop strumming?

[@TimHolman]

I can consider a video on that for sure. Thanks for the suggestion! 👍🍻

[@brutalslam8443]

Thank you for the excellent lesson and exercise routine! I could also see this approach working for other aspects of metal rhythm playing like Tremolo Picking and Gallops.

[@TimHolman]

Yes, it definitely can work for many skills. Cheers! 🤘

[@איןשם-ה5ב]

Thank you very much bro We will be happy if you upload more tutorial videos for beginners like this

[@amarokker]

I also often practice unplugged, plus my hearing is bad so I have to work harder to hear what I'm doing, but the result is palpable.Also great for practicing hammer-ons.

[@TimHolman]

Yes, legato playing unplugged is a really great technique builder.

[@dissonant_a]

Excellent work Tim, great tips in here. I’m going to start on the exercises today. You’re right about exercises that aren’t musical and won’t be used outside the practice space. Appreciate all the effort you put into your videos. Best lessons on KZbin by far.

[@markpommett5712]

This exactly the lesson I need. Great job!

[@Mjuszko]

I too just stumbled upon this Channel and I'm really liking his tone a lot

[@blackmamba5659]

8:41 that could be true! I've been practicing downpicking everyday for months and I am stuck at the same performance. Now I decided to alternate a day of practice and a day of total rest for my downpicking and see what happens. I think to much fatigue accumulated on my forearm so my muscles can't adapt for this reason. I also did some research and found some studies that confirm that fatigue does accumulates on muscles when musicians practice difficult parts for to much time and this decreases their performance until they don't let that fatigue go down, exactly like in weightlifting. Super interesting stuff! I'll try it out for some weeks and I'll come back here to see how it worked.

[@JasonWeaver-p7d]

Hands down the best videos ever! I’m new to all this and you break it down to even where dummies like me are learning and improving.. thank you!

[@TimHolman]

You're welcome man!

[@MrRainmaker2011]

I have just watched your first video and liked it a lot. Subscribed and will watch more!

[@TimHolman]

Thanks a lot! Glad you found the channel!

[@BlackieTimex]

Cool! Thanks dude! I’m gonna use “White Limo” by da Foo Fighters!

[@kn5t]

I want to point out two tips: 1. Pick rotation - I unconsciously rotated pick when I try to play fast part with downpicking but I try to didn't do that. Now I see that I don't need to be bothered about this; 2. Breathing - simple but genius. I catched myself on holding breath during hard parts for me. Now time to fix that :)

[@mesaseany]

Love the videos. After taking a 6 year break my alternate palm muting picking has gone to crap. Mainly due to trying too many different pick gauges and I am not sure my technique is correct...... I feel like I am not using my wrist, but using my forearm. Any chance you can do a quick video on metal alternate speed palm muting? (Ala Fight fire with fire etc.) not galloped. I saw your gallop video and that did help. Cheers!

[@rigorhead01]

What a beautiful guitar! 😍

[@Forgiven156]

Subscribed! You’re channel is awesome. Between tips and song lessons I wish I had this years ago.

[@TimHolman]

Thank you! Glad you found the channel.

[@christianpaulyao4300]

Very fuckinnn helpful. The thumb angle really did the job for me. Thankssss

[@TimHolman]

You're welcome!

[@DoubleDR1234]

OMG, the pick holding! oO That was my problem >< After 13 years of asking myself why I can't downpick. Thank you so much! :)

[@chrisharris8619]

Tim, when will we get to see a Master of Puppets lesson and tutorial? Love your channel!

[@sams.4388]

Thank you. This is excellent, a superb lesson. When doing the first exercises, are we playing 16th notes?

[@TimHolman]

@@sams.4388 I am referring to 8th notes in the video but you can use 16ths if you prefer. Both note values will work fine for the exercise.

[@gerdez]

Selftaught here. Took me 3 years to realize what you are saying about downpicking… pick more straight and going outwards on tge downstroke. And I even thought I am not doing it right, but my body was saying, no, this is tge right way. Thanks for confirming!

[@martyjaay]

Great lesson Tim, I hit a wall with my downpicking a while back and trying everything to get past it. I have a question, are you warming up to the first exercise or going in cold? I couldn't downpick very fast for 30 seconds cold if that makes sense

[@TimHolman]

Hi Marty! I like to be warmed up first as well. I do that by downpicking for 2 sets of 30 secs at a relatively slow tempo if I'm coming at downpicking from cold. However, when possible I like to put the downpicking routine into a practice session when I'm already warm and then I just get going on the first exercise without any preliminary warm-up.

[@mrpotato4441]

My recent strategy of building my right hand is to play/learn nothing but green day for the next month. Currently learning "Having a blast" and the beginning has some fast downstrokes that I'm not capable of playing. My thinking has been backwards. I need to give a day or so between and play something else, focus on my posture/breathing and going to give these exercises a go

[@saerdna87]

Thanks for this great lessons :)

[@mbessle5102]

Great advice. I'd add to practice just 2-6 notes at a time too. See how fast you can get that, and after each attempt, evaluate your approach, and make adjustments. Can you be more efficient? Can you reduce the tension? Can you reduce the range of motion. Change angles? Involve the thumb more? You'll speed up those 2-6 notes, and then you can expand it to half a bar, a whole bar, etc. Btw, did I see an upstroke at 0:22? ;^p

[@fretbuzz4983]

Awesome.. Love to know what amp n settings you use.. epic tone..

[@markolding2288]

Thanks for this! One possibly silly question. How do I know how fast I am playing?

[@TimHolman]

Playing to a metronome or a track that you know the tempo of are probably the best. You also need to keep in mind subdivisions of the beat. Most people are referring to downpicking 8th notes when referring to this kind of playing.

[@markolding2288]

@@TimHolman thank you

[@Fretboardmastermind]

Awesome content! Thank you

[@powerslaveproductions7202]

Master master Tim teaches us to downpick faster master master my arm aches and tires faster faster the speed precision and godliness after.

[@TimHolman]

Haha, nice man!

[@ozman6602]

I agree I practice unplugged all the time but only advice I can give playing unplugged is muting practice as if you're plugged in if not once you plug in your gonna have all kinds of string noise.

[@avix8987]

man the exact reason why i searched up this tutorial is to be able to play seek and destroy and master of puppepts with downstrokes... thanks

[@avix8987]

i guess im just impatient coz the way i hold my arm and pick etc is exactly the same already...i guess i will just have to train more

[@TimHolman]

​@@avix8987 yeah, over time your movements will become more efficient and you'll be able to play faster

[@AugmentedNick]

Great video bro! I started following this routine since 3 weeks now and can see huge improvements in my playing overall.. but just unable to control string noise in distorted tone.. any suggestions for that?

[@Dah_Kota]

Thanks for this! I;ll be implementing this "workout" routine. My left hand is dying on that "Master of Puppets" snippet more than my picking hand hahaha. Any tips for that?

[@TimHolman]

I hope your noticing progress already. As far as the fretting hand I recommend working on legato exercising. A lot of legato will really help your technique. Don't worry if you're not specifically practicing the riff. Everything spills over into everything.

[@carldubcats3385]

cool

[@SimpleKiid]

I realy like this exercises. Im struggling a bit with the first one i find it hard to just play to a metronome but im a hudge metallica fan and really love the last 2 riff parts. Sadly it feels like i'm getting worse at it thou iv been doing this sens the video came up and now it seams like im struggling mutch more on the last interwalls compared to when i started.

[@TimHolman]

If you've been practicing, you're not getting worse. It just seems that way because you're becoming more aware of what you're doing and your ear and musical awareness are increasing. However, if you're not working with a metronome then it will be hard to gauge the progress that you're making and it will get frustrating. I really recommend cracking that problem and working with a metronome, drum machine or backing tracks until your sense of time becomes more solid. Keep at it and you will be rewarded. All the best! 🤘🍻

[@gaetanmottin1703]

i start to learn in good way and I feel a tension in my right shoulder ...is it weakness or bad position ? because I am just slow and can accelerate because of this feeling of pain but it is just muscle weakness and I have to be patient ?

[@n3gr0black]

excellent tutorial, you can make a holy wars tutorial from megadeth

[@Ezper-2099]

I'm not sure if you still answer questions of an old vid but do the riffs in the routine have to be played full speed?

[@TimHolman]

No, not at all. The goal is to work them up to full speed but you'll need to find your starting point. It will be different for everyone but play with the tempo until you find the right spot to start. It should be challenging but not impossible.

[@codesdumb]

would here to stay by korn be a good example for the seek and destroy part?

[@TimHolman]

Anything that challenges your downpicking can be substituted in. I'm not familiar with the riffs in the Korn song but if it's downpicked and it's challenging for you then definitely use it.

[@metodiinikolov1095]

20.11.24 - 80 bpm

[@tyrons1974]

Wie lange wird es dauern das Original Tempo zu erreichen, wenn ich jeden Tag deine Übungen mache?

[@marcelotamayo8484]

Might be a silly question, but when you talk about the E chug exercise and mention 160/190 bpm, would one be hitting the note 2x per beat? 4x? Certainly not just once per beat b/c that seems really slow to me. I'm just curious what is considered decent speed...I was setting a metronome to 80 and hitting the note 4x/beat and when I hear you talk about 190 bpm, I'm like dear lord, I'll never get there!

[@TimHolman]

Thanks for asking! I'm talking about 8th notes which is two notes a beat. Yes, 4 notes per beat would be absolutely impossible at those speeds.

[@benjaminlecter]

are you in drop D? because the first power chord of "seek and destroy" sounds strange in standard tuning

[@blaspheriongoatcommander54]

There was a time when I was able to play MOP at 230bpm downpicking. Then I got lazy and didn't practice anymore.. Got to go at it again

[@DiegoDellaV]

4:43 I noticed you don't use the same technique when playing fast and slow.

[@Cris-ib6bq]

Master of puppets tutorial would be greatly appreciated! 🤘

[@rupe82]

I keep tensing up in my forearm around 70 bpm 16th notes. Can't go faster because of it. It's so frustrating.

[@gaetanmottin1703]

hi , you keep your pick parallel to the strings ?

[@TimHolman]

Yes, for fast downpicking my pick is much more parallel then when alternate picking.

[@gaetanmottin1703]

@@TimHolman ok thanks a lot it makes sense !

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Please help! I tried this but my Master of Puppets came out with NO downpicking like it was SLAYER?! What do I do now?!

[@deepakghalot4564]

The riff @2:51 is from which song?

[@TimHolman]

It's just something I played for the video. Lol. It's nothing. Just a riff from my mind.

[@deepakghalot4564]

@@TimHolman and it sounds great 👍. Could you play it a little bit slower in a KZbin Shorts?

[@benjaminlecter]

When you Play the downstrokes on the E , and we Talk About bpm- we Talk about eight notes?

[@TimHolman]

Yes, we're referring to 8th notes throughout the video.

[@איןשם-ה5ב]

👍👍

[@SumitChauhan92]

Do you recommend a protein shake after the exercises ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TimHolman]

Just take steroids. It's easier. 🤘

[@nishantrathee6881]

Bro, not everyone is funny, don't try to be cause u r not. Be urself & people would accept you.

[@adammadtin8451]

I just hold my breath for all of master of puppets.

[@strelnikovpercussion]

👍

[@Gameup2332]

how do i find my bpm

[@TimHolman]

We're referring to 8th notes. So with a metronome you'll have to see how fast you can play two notes to every click.

[@Pleusch]

Waking the Demon from Bullet for my Valentine is 25 BPM faster than the live version of Master of Puppets and Michael Paget and Matthew Tuck playing it while sleeping.

[@REIRBL]

👍👍👍👍

[@poep3997]

where you been all my life bruh

[@TimHolman]

Haha, cheers man! 🍻🤘

[@marsiogferra6704]

🤟🏾🙂

[@ILLRICARDO]

i can never get past 80bpm 😒

[@A9_Chord]

Practice it took me 2 years to be play at 180 bpm for 15 second

[@masonwhitham5104]

Am I the only one who holds the pick with their thumb and middle finger

[@antony71p]

the intro rif yoy play master of puppets isnt quite right , check papa Het

[@banjobjorn1]

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY REALLY 😀 & LIGHT MUSIC.. UP PICK EVERY NOTE ! PICK ME UP PLEASE.

[@Alzermull]

Love Ur guitar,, right cool and Ur less😢

[@Alzermull]

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