Thank you, this is a really good practice for me, I'm good with downpicking but I haven't practiced my alternate so I really suck, I guess now it's time to start with it
Thank you for this! There aren’t that many tech death type alt picking its almost always solo stuff. I wish you also did a vid on 8 string patterns, specially drop EA since I also use that tuning 😊
Thanks for doing these Dean, you have the vibe of a supportive yoga instructor lol. I'm wondering if using your pinky as an anchor point helps consistancy with the further string skips.
I am playing guitar for 16 years and I have no problems with other techniques, except fast alternate picking. My left hand is fast, I can do fast legato runs with it, but my right hand (wrist) can't go fast. I TRIED EVERYTHING. I played FOR HOURS for a lot of time, my right hand is not getting any faster. I know how to practice, how to play etc. But no matter how much I practiced on my sync and right hand, the wrist can't go fast. HELP!
I feel ya! I've been playing for about 20 years now and it didn't come easily to me either. It's easy to cheat the metronome with legato. If you want to be able to alt pick at speed, you need to spend time practicing at the awkward BPMs and clean it up - dial in the exact BPM and phrases where the sync between left and right fails. I could pick fast on the low strings but my technique would fall apart on the middle and higher strings. It was fine below ~140bpm, but above that the technique needed refining. I had to spend a long time (years, even) practicing at speeds that I felt uncomfortable doing. Another thing - don't practice slow! It's fine to learn the patterns at 10% speed, but then you've gotta kick it up to 70-80% and refine it. The technique is different when it's slow! I wish I'd realised that earlier.
Perfect. Any chance you can go over some techniques the Grateful Dead use? I notice your Jerry influence frequently, so it would be great to dive deeper into this approach.
Definitely for me, it's about my picking hand, because I'm like a hybrid picker and really need help with the ups and downs. 🤘 🎸 What tuning are you in -George
Truly the Bob Ross of death metal.
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God this riff at full speed is the bane of my existence
Same bro... Same
I was about to send you the vid
I've been practicing your sweep picking routine and it's working wonders, thank you. Can't wait to sit down and learn this exercise.
Hi brother .. I gotta find that video 😅😅🎸 thanks
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This is awesome content - trying to get my bass playing to Jared’s level, so these technical exercises are great practice!
Thank you, this is a really good practice for me, I'm good with downpicking but I haven't practiced my alternate so I really suck, I guess now it's time to start with it
This is what i need rn
Thanks, Dean! I love this workout.
Definitely going to have try this out today 😮. Thanks Dean!
Always appreciate exercises that sound musical and interesting. Definitely running this today
This is great, I'll be practicing this.
Thank you for this! There aren’t that many tech death type alt picking its almost always solo stuff. I wish you also did a vid on 8 string patterns, specially drop EA since I also use that tuning 😊
Thanks for doing these Dean, you have the vibe of a supportive yoga instructor lol. I'm wondering if using your pinky as an anchor point helps consistancy with the further string skips.
Who's gonna grab their guitar and try this today 😅🎸!!! Join me 🤘🤘🤘 true guitar practicers
A Dark Horizontal
oh this my type of shit... keep em coming Dean!
This is awesome - would be nice to see the 7th and 8th strings incorporated as well
perfect workout for almost all skill levels!!!!!!
This melody really reminds me of the ending of Stratosphere Serenade by Diablo Swing Orchestra!
Cool exercise, but does it make sense to have an alternate picking workout with only even numbers of notes per string?
God it took some serious focus to not economy pick that last phrase
Going to do it RIGHT NOW! ❤
Finally a fun workout ❤
It's 6am and I'm skipping yoga for this workout.
That background really screams "Im in a tech death band"
I am playing guitar for 16 years and I have no problems with other techniques, except fast alternate picking.
My left hand is fast, I can do fast legato runs with it, but my right hand (wrist) can't go fast. I TRIED EVERYTHING. I played FOR HOURS for a lot of time, my right hand is not getting any faster. I know how to practice, how to play etc. But no matter how much I practiced on my sync and right hand, the wrist can't go fast. HELP!
I feel ya! I've been playing for about 20 years now and it didn't come easily to me either.
It's easy to cheat the metronome with legato. If you want to be able to alt pick at speed, you need to spend time practicing at the awkward BPMs and clean it up - dial in the exact BPM and phrases where the sync between left and right fails.
I could pick fast on the low strings but my technique would fall apart on the middle and higher strings. It was fine below ~140bpm, but above that the technique needed refining. I had to spend a long time (years, even) practicing at speeds that I felt uncomfortable doing.
Another thing - don't practice slow! It's fine to learn the patterns at 10% speed, but then you've gotta kick it up to 70-80% and refine it. The technique is different when it's slow! I wish I'd realised that earlier.
Perfect. Any chance you can go over some techniques the Grateful Dead use? I notice your Jerry influence frequently, so it would be great to dive deeper into this approach.
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It's kind of like a tran-Siberian sounding scale haha
Silly question here, does tuning matter here? Or are we working on shape?
Definitely for me, it's about my picking hand, because I'm like a hybrid picker and really need help with the ups and downs. 🤘 🎸 What tuning are you in -George
Tuning shouldn’t matter as long as you aren’t in a drop tuning.
Any standard tuning should work
Thanks for the replies
First: Sick workout too :)
F# standard?
E standard works, it's only 6th string up
He only plays the top 6 so any standard tuning is fine
Thanks