Big thing is you have to pick in straight lines, the moment you lift your wrist up or have to swoop down to make the string change, it's over, you'll never get faster, no matter how many hours you put in. Some people got lucky early on and intuitively picked in straight lines with pickslanting. For the rest of us, "string-hopping" became the norm, using the wrist to hop during string changes. If you are a string-hopper, it's hopeless, you MUST change your technique. Do not waste hours and hours, once I stopped string-hopping my speed shot up drastically overnight.
No matter how crazy the guitarist is, it always comes back to the same thing. Practice slow and simple stuff. Over and over again. There's no short cut. The one thing that I do think people forget to mention more often than not, is that practicing things in order to play fast, is really a matter of reinforcing patterns and coordination into muscle memory. When you're playing fast, you're not thinking about where the next finger is going to go, because muscle memory has already told you where the next 20 finger placements are ahead of time
Ive been working on it, very difficult to sustain, i am old now at 58 but what the hell i love ozzy ac/dc. Ill keep trying. I gotta say ive learned alot from u tube. Its rediculous time commitment and practice to get this good, its hard
Excellent advice. Too many people worry about the subtleties of pick slanting, wrist motion whether it's a straight hinge motion or a wrist twisting motion etc before they have even learned to alternate pick slowly, cleanly with even tempo and accents. Learn the exercise he teaches with a metronome and don't start hyper analyzing ala Troy Grady cracking the code until you can simply alternate pick. That is fundamental. The speed will come and when you're ready for blazing then you can break it down further.
Not that Jordan is saying anything wrong here, but sometimes a lot of players think that all you need is sheer disciplined practice and a lot of it. Thing is a lot of people get stuck just playing 16ths at 100bpm early on and don't know why. Often they're using an inefficent motion that just plain won't work at speed. No amount of practice will fix this.
You've got that ultra relaxed Yngvie picknique
“Hey what’s up?”
“Mini lesson time!”
Big thing is you have to pick in straight lines, the moment you lift your wrist up or have to swoop down to make the string change, it's over, you'll never get faster, no matter how many hours you put in. Some people got lucky early on and intuitively picked in straight lines with pickslanting. For the rest of us, "string-hopping" became the norm, using the wrist to hop during string changes. If you are a string-hopper, it's hopeless, you MUST change your technique. Do not waste hours and hours, once I stopped string-hopping my speed shot up drastically overnight.
No matter how crazy the guitarist is, it always comes back to the same thing. Practice slow and simple stuff. Over and over again. There's no short cut. The one thing that I do think people forget to mention more often than not, is that practicing things in order to play fast, is really a matter of reinforcing patterns and coordination into muscle memory. When you're playing fast, you're not thinking about where the next finger is going to go, because muscle memory has already told you where the next 20 finger placements are ahead of time
Excellent job!👍👍💯💯
40years later im still at 1 2 3 4 😭😭😭😭
Great lesson....and a great sound from your LP and rig.🎶🎸👍
Ive been working on it, very difficult to sustain, i am old now at 58 but what the hell i love ozzy ac/dc. Ill keep trying. I gotta say ive learned alot from u tube. Its rediculous time commitment and practice to get this good, its hard
Thanks for the video Elvis!
You’re sick 🎉
That guitar looks and sounds great and so do you my man
Great tone.
thanks so much for this tip on spider walking though it was tough at first it’s really helped my alternate picking speed and accuracy! rock on!
Excellent advice. Too many people worry about the subtleties of pick slanting, wrist motion whether it's a straight hinge motion or a wrist twisting motion etc before they have even learned to alternate pick slowly, cleanly with even tempo and accents. Learn the exercise he teaches with a metronome and don't start hyper analyzing ala Troy Grady cracking the code until you can simply alternate pick. That is fundamental. The speed will come and when you're ready for blazing then you can break it down further.
i've heard a lot of people say this, i've been slacking. time to start practicing!
Lol that was my very first ever guitar lesson 18 years back. Niiice
The two notes per string at the end though? How to cross strings at that speed?
Excellent shredding 🤘 Rock on brother 🤘
Not that Jordan is saying anything wrong here, but sometimes a lot of players think that all you need is sheer disciplined practice and a lot of it. Thing is a lot of people get stuck just playing 16ths at 100bpm early on and don't know why. Often they're using an inefficent motion that just plain won't work at speed. No amount of practice will fix this.