Same here man, people get that Squire first guitar + mini amp combo when they start. I bought an uncomfortable V, a Boss Katana and watch tremolo picking videos, as if I was playing for years XD Keep it METAL lads \m/
@@TidusfromZanarkand lmao I went straight for Metallica when I got my guitar. For anyone who’s just starting learn the basics and then move forward, and if you can afford it take lessons
He talks about "what some people say" and then shows "How I do it" (the carpal tunnel method). Teaching bad techniques that cause injury shouldn't be titled "Lesson"? Did you study at Berklee or MIT? I'm seriously not just being a dick... I mean, what qualifications do you have that give you the expertise to know that you are not giving bad advice that will cause injury? "With great power comes great responsibility". - Spider Man
StratMatt777 He’s using wrist deviation, the same method advocated by Troy Grady and used by countless professional guitarists. If you have a better method for tremolo picking that’s easier on the wrist, please share it.
Thanks for the video. It's the second day I've been practicing the Enslaved riff. And this time I'm actually putting effort and patience into it. I feel like today it's a bit easier to play it than it was yesterday
I just came across your channel and I like it 👍 Love all of the tutorials. I'm learning a bit more just by watching you show how to play different songs + riffs. Cool vids. ✌️
all i had to do was lock the guitar, and now i can play the fast parts in deathcrush twice as fast, i’m so dumb for not knowing this sooner but such a good teacher
Great technique and great tips! I feel sometimes telling yourself to relax your arm and practising releasing pressure from as many muscles as possible can help to be relaxed. I still have bad form, my wrist flops over trying to unlearn it though hahaha
yep wrist is the way to go, can switch between string so much easier and smoother with wrist than using full arm, i just need to get used to using wrist. for me it seems like Ea Lord Of The Depths by burzum is good song to practice this stuff on
Loving the solo phrases towards the end. Holding the pick at certain angles and moving your wrist only are important things I should consider, especially if I'm aiming to learn to play rock/metal tracks.
The thin pick sounds so much more evil. I'm glad I didn't waste any time during this new fat pick phase everyone is having. I still use my old .73mm Dunlop nylon picks.
Hey, perhaps a bit late but.. on the higher strings I feel like I could go on all day and it sounds great, but when I get to the lower strings they feel way more loose and I keep getting my pick stuck. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Maybe I can try another set of strings that are ”stiffer”? I have been playing for years but I am by no means an advanced player. This has been bugging me for a very long time. Thanks!
I've been playing for a little over a year and I literally have the same problem. I've been training tremolo picking almost everyday for the past 3 - 5 months. I found that smaller picks (0.71 and lower) make it easier for me to tremolo pick. you gotta just find what works best for you.
Many thanks for this information. I really enjoyed to see and hear practice tips. Starting to learn black metal. And achieving good feedback. I still want to become more and more efficient and techical. First the speed of marduk. Than the classical influence from thy light. Both for example. Greetings to you as a solid teacher
@@WalterClements.official something to try - don’t tremolo pick the notes on the low e string. That string is the hardest to control, and if you listen closely to the record, Jon may not have been tremolo picking the low string on most of the riffs
When tremolo picking, do you slightly palm mute the strings you are not playing to avoid noise? Or maybe even the one(s) you are playing? When I switch strings it is very noisy :(
I was wondering, is it okay if your index finger brushes the next string over? My amp is sorta broken so I can never get good sound out of it, so I end up practicing unplugged which I'm sure makes for horrible habits. I am not sure if played though a good system if that will create excess noise.
As long as I stay on the same string I can play 150bmp no sweat. Its the moving bewteen strings that kills the cat ;) Great vid, thanks alot for sharing your insight mate.
@simon smith I've been tremolo for about 2 years now and I have improved a little bit, but for whatever reason i feel like my progress has been rather stagnant. I'm not seeing any improvement and my pick is still getting caught in the strings, I've tried holding it in different positions and what not but it doesn't seem to work. Some days are better than others with tremolo picking. If you have any ideas or advice on what i should do that would awesome, cheers dude.
you need to start slowly. do it very slowly and you should get it no prob. then get just a bit faster, and stay there til you get it right. then a bit faster. then a bit faster.
I pick from my fingers and wrist for the most part not the elbow. It's way more natural and comfortable for me although there is some elbow movement. Maybe it's a combo of both?
I'm just here to learn how to play some songs by Pavement but I'll stay for the black metal tutorial lol I've been meaning to learn some metal techniques so this'll be handy
I know it is kinda late but I REALLY want to know the name of the song the riff you played at 8:15 is from... if you don't mind telling me, of course! Thanks in advance
Do you have any tips for string skipping when tremolo picking? Or even for changing to an adjacent string. I can easily tremolo pick on one string, but I cannot change to other strings at all.
great lesson, actually the best I have seen on youtube for this subject. when you do "4s": do you put more emphasize on the first downstroke ( like playing iit louder, stronger downstroke ...) ? some are teaching this method, because so you know, when you do many 4s one after another (often the same note) , you always know, when a new 4s group starts. otherwise it is just a endless row of the same note, without any system. One time you play this part with 20 notes, next you play it with 23 notes ( if the song requires 5 x4s).counting your notes a tthe speed is impossible . Thanks !
+DragonBolo Hi, I understand what your saying and I've heard several guitarist reccomend this approach, including Mr Petrucci. However, I would not recommend approaching this thought as being the "correct" way to play tremolo. In genres like metal, especially a lot of modern metal, tremolo is sometimes used to create ambiance to create a base for harmonies and what not. In cases like this you actually *would* want a droney sound without structure instead of a highly structured sound that emphasising the 1st stroke of every beat would give. If your tremolo picking is at the forefront of the song structure, like in some death metal songs, then the more structured approach would make sense. Ultimately its all about what is correct to the ear, not what makes sense while practicing.
After many years of metal and a few years of playing in a black metal band here are my tips: - you need a guitar pick for tremolo picking - if you play only once every few months it will take forever to tremolo pick those nothes - play in a dark with a light up candle - family reunions are a bad time and place for tremolo picking - If you want to pick up some chicks with your mad tremolo skills leave an electric guitar and black metal and pick up a mandoline - Tremolo picking for us metalheads is what twerking is for female dancers in a pop culture
Also at 11:45 you do the same thing. You show how you can quickly rotate your wrist and then use a completely different technique when you actually pick the strings.
Thanks very much for the video. I wanted to ask something and please believe this isn't a criticism but it seems like you are actually picking a BIT with your elbow but predominantly the wrist. Am I off-base on this? Or is the movement I see in your elbow just residual movement from your wrist finding its way to your elbow?
How should one practice tremolo picking to get faster on the open E string? Will practicing the pattern at 3:10 help improve my tremolo picking overall? I taught myself to tremolo by playing black metal but I've been at the same speed for years.
Hi. Yes it will. Also, try using a metronome, and also check out Troy Grady's channel. He has some amazing stuff on speed picking, especially pick slanting which I've only just discovered.
Great lesson! dropped my like and favourite, must have it in my list! It really does help to understand black metal tremolo picking! Could you please tell me how much time should I practice this per day in my routine? thank you!
Greetings! I have been watching your tutorials AND they área very Very good. I am doing a black metal band AND when i was looking for best muy technique i found this video AND my question Is Do you pick with the hand in the air? Or do you rest some parte of the hand/wirst on the guitar? Maybe with the same thumb or a finger? I have this doubt.
Renaissance Man tremolo is playing the same note very fast, typically on one string.. Sweeping is, as the word implies, is a sort of sweep across three or more strings
Its much easier to tremelo pick with a thin pick for me, such as 0.7mm (but not too thin where it flexes). Anything thicker than that seems much harder for me
And again thank you Simon for a great lesson, very useful practice routines. It would be just great to see Watain - Lawless Darkness lesson, I think there are many people out there who would like to learn this majestic masterpiece! \m/ Cheers! :)
Me: *can't even switch smoothly between basic chords*
Also me: *Tries to tremolo pick*
Look at me
Don't waste time on these chords
They are temporary
ignorant riffs and tremolo picking are eternal
Keep practicing till you perfect it. I went to that phase
Same here man, people get that Squire first guitar + mini amp combo when they start. I bought an uncomfortable V, a Boss Katana and watch tremolo picking videos, as if I was playing for years XD Keep it METAL lads \m/
@@TidusfromZanarkand lmao I went straight for Metallica when I got my guitar. For anyone who’s just starting learn the basics and then move forward, and if you can afford it take lessons
@@plushieoctopusonhead8415 dude what do you mean they are temporary /: please tell me and save me from this hell
Thumbs up for the image of our dark lord on the metronome. \m/
+subp123 Haha!!
fuck black metal all my homies hate black metal
I saw this comment before i started the video and when he pulled out the metronome i died 😆
i died when i saw the peppa pig sticker on the metronome.
Peppa is true black metal!!
yep.
TRVE KVLT
FUCK OFF PEPPA FUCK OFF PEPPA FUCK OFF PEPPA
Peppa what are you doing on my metronome
After watching this video and practicing a couple hours per day I can finally play Jesus Tod by Burzum. Thanks a lot man.
Chris S. :0)
lol I'm watching this because I want to play that song 😅
x18BritishBillx18 me too
Thats why im here lol
Lol exactly why I'm here... probably tons of other people too😂
Thanks dude that was helpful. It feels SO awkward when you're bad at it...and it looks SO easy when you're good at it.
This is the truest comment here
Once you get it your arm will relax itself when you're doing it and it'll be a muscle reflex
"How to get carpal tunnel syndrome, a beginner tutorial"
Ha funny
hey, carpal tunnel syndrome is my favourite black metal band
@@VosovioYTC Isnt it Carpathian Tunnel ?
He talks about "what some people say" and then shows "How I do it" (the carpal tunnel method).
Teaching bad techniques that cause injury shouldn't be titled "Lesson"?
Did you study at Berklee or MIT?
I'm seriously not just being a dick... I mean, what qualifications do you have that give you the expertise to know that you are not giving bad advice that will cause injury?
"With great power comes great responsibility". - Spider Man
StratMatt777 He’s using wrist deviation, the same method advocated by Troy Grady and used by countless professional guitarists.
If you have a better method for tremolo picking that’s easier on the wrist, please share it.
I love your channel, I'm pretty much guitar beginner and ofc since I'm here I'm into black metal, i really appreciate your lessons.
always find my self coming back to this lesson
Master of Timing
Thanks for the video. It's the second day I've been practicing the Enslaved riff. And this time I'm actually putting effort and patience into it. I feel like today it's a bit easier to play it than it was yesterday
I just came across your channel and I like it 👍 Love all of the tutorials.
I'm learning a bit more just by watching you show how to play different songs + riffs. Cool vids. ✌️
Graham Howard Thanks buddy!!
all i had to do was lock the guitar, and now i can play the fast parts in deathcrush twice as fast, i’m so dumb for not knowing this sooner but such a good teacher
Best channel ever.
🤘
Really good and comprehensive/easy to follow lesson. Will try to add this to my arsenal 🤪
Great technique and great tips!
I feel sometimes telling yourself to relax your arm and practising releasing pressure from as many muscles as possible can help to be relaxed. I still have bad form, my wrist flops over trying to unlearn it though hahaha
That riff is sick.
Great video sir. Needed advice on wrist movement/position, your video helped immensely.
\m/
Your video has helped me a lot!! Thank you very much Simon, they are the best videos in the world for me.
When some people trem picking on a riff it's repellant. For me it's just another wonderful flavor to incorporate into dynamic writing
You are a really good teacher i think this lession will help a lot of people!
mitternachtsfilm Thanks my friend!!
I wish you would put this one out before the other black metal picking video!!
I feel like having a stroke when I try to play 5fths :p
Me: doesn’t have an electric guitar, pick, skills, experience and snow, but has an acoustic and sad mood
Also me: lets try tremolo picking
Yamaha 611...awesome model!
Trying to practice upstrokes on every run of alternate picking has turned my world upside down and totally broken my brain.
the only rhythm needed for a guitarist
yep wrist is the way to go, can switch between string so much easier and smoother with wrist than using full arm, i just need to get used to using wrist. for me it seems like Ea Lord Of The Depths by burzum is good song to practice this stuff on
Sounds so fecking beautiful
Good choice of guitar for black metal.
Very good and educative video! Thank you! Nice to learn from you.
Loving the solo phrases towards the end.
Holding the pick at certain angles and moving your wrist only are important things I should consider, especially if I'm aiming to learn to play rock/metal tracks.
Thank you for this video!
I am going to need it to finally play 'somewhat cleanly' Enslaved's Heimdallr!
My issue is that the pick always gets caught on the upstroke and I don’t know what to do to fix it.
Channel your hidden rage to your picking hand and punish your string with all the power inside you
I am the danger that’s so metal and I love it.
@@slovak4life1991 XD \m/
Try using less of the pick (just the tip), or experiment with the pick angle.
Awesome, but when i practice i feel my arm "burning" is that normal to build up muscles so i can develop stamina?
Moysés Radé yes. keep going but don't hurt yourself of course. eventually you won't feel the burning anymore
Moysés Radé don't get carpel tunnel though
That burning is the dark metal lord beallzebub telling you your not worthy
@@publichazardalternative LOL.
Thanks for the video brethren!!!
9:20 kinda reminds me of the bass riff from "life eternal - mayhem"
Well done.
exactly what I was looking for, lucky me it was the first video I clicked on after searching
The thin pick sounds so much more evil. I'm glad I didn't waste any time during this new fat pick phase everyone is having. I still use my old .73mm Dunlop nylon picks.
This video is so helpful. Thanks man
I do the Van Halen thing where I wave my wrist like the queen of England and hold the pick with my middle and thumb.
It was funny to me to have a Jazz III referred to as a thin pick.
Hey, perhaps a bit late but.. on the higher strings I feel like I could go on all day and it sounds great, but when I get to the lower strings they feel way more loose and I keep getting my pick stuck.
Any ideas on how I can fix this? Maybe I can try another set of strings that are ”stiffer”? I have been playing for years but I am by no means an advanced player. This has been bugging me for a very long time. Thanks!
Try different wrist/forearm positions. Also, try different pick angles, so 45 degrees for example
I've been playing for a little over a year and I literally have the same problem. I've been training tremolo picking almost everyday for the past 3 - 5 months. I found that smaller picks (0.71 and lower) make it easier for me to tremolo pick. you gotta just find what works best for you.
Awesome Face Great! Still working on it :)
@@joh1948 also, using less pressure and moving my pick slightly more helps me with the lower strings (forgot to mention this earlier)
Get heavier gauge strings. This will give you that heavy tone but also keep the strings taught to play nice and fast! Stay metal
thanks man, good tutorial:)
What is the enslaved song you're playing for the string skipping exercise @ 8:05? A lesson for the future, maybe?
+Timothy White Vetrarnott - good shout
Simon Smith awesome, man. Not as familiar with pre-Blodhemn era enslaved as I should be.
Love your work...
Epic Song! Good video :9
I have been playing guitar for over 2 years, i can sweep, play weird jazzy chords and and play some nice solos but i can't tremolo pick :(
Jari The Sauna Lover lol, I can tremolo pretty fast but can’t properly change chords XD, played for 3 years
@@AliJr_MetalGames_MetalGuitar cheers man, i thought i was the only person like that
I think i win when i say im a beginner
@@AliJr_MetalGames_MetalGuitar chord is temporal, tremolo pick is eternal
Thank you for your lessons! You helped me to improve my skills :)
***** :0)
THANKS SO MUCH !!! Great lesson.
No joke I have that exact same guitar!
It's a small world eh!
do you hold the pick loosely in your hand? or firmly?
firmly enough that you aren't gonna lose it lol
dark dancer Firmly grasp it!
make sure you're holding it tight enough not to drop it but try not to choke the fucker bc I've broken picks that way
that skeleton witch riff sounds good
great tutorial! thanks!👍👍👍👍
Many thanks for this information. I really enjoyed to see and hear practice tips. Starting to learn black metal. And achieving good feedback. I still want to become more and more efficient and techical. First the speed of marduk. Than the classical influence from thy light. Both for example.
Greetings to you as a solid teacher
Really helpful video, thanks
Very helpful. Lits of tips. Thank you
This one is great for playing Black Horizons by Dissection.. it uses almost all of these concepts
I wanna play that song but i find it hard to switch strings when picking
@@WalterClements.official something to try - don’t tremolo pick the notes on the low e string. That string is the hardest to control, and if you listen closely to the record, Jon may not have been tremolo picking the low string on most of the riffs
veeeeeeetraarnoooooooooot. awesome enslaved song
Thank you for this! Very helpful!
When tremolo picking, do you slightly palm mute the strings you are not playing to avoid noise? Or maybe even the one(s) you are playing? When I switch strings it is very noisy :(
Man, and I thought I used thick picks (2.0mm), but you got me beat!
helpful man KEEP GOING🙌
xXmetalXx Thanks
More black metal videos Please!
I was wondering, is it okay if your index finger brushes the next string over? My amp is sorta broken so I can never get good sound out of it, so I end up practicing unplugged which I'm sure makes for horrible habits. I am not sure if played though a good system if that will create excess noise.
you've got a sexy tight open low string tone there!
Nice looking guitar, nice lesson.
+Ivory Raven thanks mate
May I ask what's the name of the thick white pick you're using?
Black metal with a p90
Sweet lol
this is really helpful thank you i was having trouble with this and this video has helped. :D
harjay bajwa Good stuff!
As long as I stay on the same string I can play 150bmp no sweat. Its the moving bewteen strings that kills the cat ;) Great vid, thanks alot for sharing your insight mate.
No worries mate. Glad you enjoyed it
The thin pick seems to produce a much sharper or higher pitched sound.
@simon smith
I've been tremolo for about 2 years now and I have improved a little bit, but for whatever reason i feel like my progress has been rather stagnant. I'm not seeing any improvement and my pick is still getting caught in the strings, I've tried holding it in different positions and what not but it doesn't seem to work. Some days are better than others with tremolo picking. If you have any ideas or advice on what i should do that would awesome, cheers dude.
you need to start slowly. do it very slowly and you should get it no prob. then get just a bit faster, and stay there til you get it right. then a bit faster. then a bit faster.
he protecc
he attacc
but most importantly
his picc is thicc as fucc
Rhymimg isn’t your strongest ability is it?
@@nem4255 and reading isn't yours
I pick from my fingers and wrist for the most part not the elbow. It's way more natural and comfortable for me although there is some elbow movement. Maybe it's a combo of both?
Browo my friend and thankful..
I'm just here to learn how to play some songs by Pavement but I'll stay for the black metal tutorial lol I've been meaning to learn some metal techniques so this'll be handy
I know it is kinda late but I REALLY want to know the name of the song the riff you played at 8:15 is from... if you don't mind telling me, of course! Thanks in advance
Enslaved - Vetranott
Do you have any tips for string skipping when tremolo picking? Or even for changing to an adjacent string. I can easily tremolo pick on one string, but I cannot change to other strings at all.
+Vlad Andrei I'll don some soon
Cool! Thank you!
THANK YOU! I think you just solved a problem I have with a song! Keep it up!
the 3 in a half mm pick you using which one is it I want to try it on my bass
great lesson, actually the best I have seen on youtube for this subject.
when you do "4s":
do you put more emphasize on the first downstroke ( like playing iit louder, stronger downstroke ...) ? some are teaching this method, because so you know, when you do many 4s one after another (often the same note) , you always know, when a new 4s group starts.
otherwise it is just a endless row of the same note, without any system. One time you play this part with 20 notes, next you play it with 23 notes ( if
the song requires 5 x4s).counting your notes a tthe speed is impossible .
Thanks !
+DragonBolo Hi, I understand what your saying and I've heard several guitarist reccomend this approach, including Mr Petrucci. However, I would not recommend approaching this thought as being the "correct" way to play tremolo. In genres like metal, especially a lot of modern metal, tremolo is sometimes used to create ambiance to create a base for harmonies and what not. In cases like this you actually *would* want a droney sound without structure instead of a highly structured sound that emphasising the 1st stroke of every beat would give. If your tremolo picking is at the forefront of the song structure, like in some death metal songs, then the more structured approach would make sense. Ultimately its all about what is correct to the ear, not what makes sense while practicing.
different situations call for different strokes
get out
After many years of metal and a few years of playing in a black metal band here are my tips:
- you need a guitar pick for tremolo picking
- if you play only once every few months it will take forever to tremolo pick those nothes
- play in a dark with a light up candle
- family reunions are a bad time and place for tremolo picking
- If you want to pick up some chicks with your mad tremolo skills leave an electric guitar and black metal and pick up a mandoline
- Tremolo picking for us metalheads is what twerking is for female dancers in a pop culture
Nice explanation, thank you very much.
+QQmb3r :0)
Fvcking nice one mate.
+gngndthg jyhhf :0)
Also at 11:45 you do the same thing. You show how you can quickly rotate your wrist and then use a completely different technique when you actually pick the strings.
Thanks very much for the video. I wanted to ask something and please believe this isn't a criticism but it seems like you are actually picking a BIT with your elbow but predominantly the wrist. Am I off-base on this? Or is the movement I see in your elbow just residual movement from your wrist finding its way to your elbow?
How should one practice tremolo picking to get faster on the open E string? Will practicing the pattern at 3:10 help improve my tremolo picking overall? I taught myself to tremolo by playing black metal but I've been at the same speed for years.
Hi. Yes it will. Also, try using a metronome, and also check out Troy Grady's channel. He has some amazing stuff on speed picking, especially pick slanting which I've only just discovered.
Great lesson! dropped my like and favourite, must have it in my list! It really does help to understand black metal tremolo picking! Could you please tell me how much time should I practice this per day in my routine? thank you!
Glad you like it!! I'd say 30 minutes a day and you'll see great results
Simon Smith thank you very much for your response! Im going to practice right now!
Thank you very much.It is very helpful.
+deniz zorlu No problem
Awesome, where can I get that guitar pick?
Great video Simon! what kind of pick did you use for this? 3mm?
Many Thanks!
great video I'm having thumb tiredness pain whilst practicing these techniques is this normal? or am i holding pick wrong
Without seeing what you're doing, it's hard to say mate
Very Helpful Video Thank You.I play Electric bass.Black Metal.
Hi dude you're a master. If I wanna play string by string playing tremolo picking must I mute the other strings?
Unless you want unwanted noise, then yes
Greetings!
I have been watching your tutorials AND they área very Very good.
I am doing a black metal band AND when i was looking for best muy technique i found this video AND my question Is
Do you pick with the hand in the air? Or do you rest some parte of the hand/wirst on the guitar? Maybe with the same thumb or a finger? I have this doubt.
Hi. My forearm is on the guitar, but the hand is in the air. Thanks mate 👍
@@SimonSmithGuitar Very thank you for your teaching!!!
New to guitar, strumming is my main problem :/ somewhat helped tho
+NrG | Matt :0)
what are you tips when it comes to the strings? Im thinking of the size mostly.
How is tremolo picking different from sweep picking and which is better for playing speed metal shreds and why?
Renaissance Man tremolo is playing the same note very fast, typically on one string.. Sweeping is, as the word implies, is a sort of sweep across three or more strings
Renaissance Man Tremolo is easier to be faster with, but they both have a different sound to them
Is it easier to tremolo pick with a thick pick like he uses? or it`s the same with a thin pick?
Its much easier to tremelo pick with a thin pick for me, such as 0.7mm (but not too thin where it flexes). Anything thicker than that seems much harder for me
And again thank you Simon for a great lesson, very useful practice routines. It would be just great to see Watain - Lawless Darkness lesson, I think there are many people out there who would like to learn this majestic masterpiece! \m/
Cheers! :)
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