Fretting Hand Technique: Control Flying Fingers with this Exercise!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- 👉More Fretting Hand Technique: www.justinguitar.com/modules/... The 'flying finger' can be a big problem for guitar players. In this lesson, we'll learn an effective exercise to help you control your fingers and play better. This exercise transformed my skills - and it'll transform yours too! #justinguitar #guitar #guitartechnique
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Video Chapters
00:00 Fretting Hand Technique - Minimal Movement Exercise
00:30 Minimal Movement Exercise - Before vs after
00:59 Minimal Movement Exercise - Exercise requisites
01:22 Minimal Movement Exercise - Step by step
04:30 Minimal Movement Exercise - Get it right
05:02 Minimal Movement Exercise - Practice routine
05:34 Minimal Movement Exercise - Uncontrollable pinky?
06:22 Improving your Fretting Hand Technique
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I think this is one of the most important exercises when starting on guitar. It's incredibly difficult to fix flying fingers 👋
Just takes more time to unlearn the bad habits if you've been playing for long. Also: quality over quantity. If you really focus during this exercise your brain regions will be more engaged, thus you'll learn faster.
@@acidtears Good advice 👌
@@acidtears I been flying my fingers for YEARS!. but they getting better now.. so it is correctable.. but I never really did scales Before so Justin has been great help with all that..
He's the bloody man I tell ya!!.
Pardon my french.. lol..😜
@@acidtears all my scales when I practice now. I do slow first. Painfully slow and instead of getting frustrated I use the 60/80 BPM to keep my fingers close practice.. I love it..
I only just started these scales things last few months.. I love them..
Not sure if my neighbours do though. Lol!!.
Rock on !. 🎸
Ive only started to address this after 19 years of playing; that is irrelavent though as I am only now (starting 3 months ago) taking it seriously. I havent improved noticably since i was 16 and I am now 30. I have refined my playing so much in the last 3 months, i am now regretting ignoring my guitars for such a long time; that cannot be changed though, I have learnt that playing is one of the things that actually brings me true happiness and I will never ignore it again.
Fixing bad habits isnt as hard as I thought it would be, I just play incredibly slowly compared to when I was using my poor technique. I am getting faster with good form at a rate I am happy with.
As a new person I seriously am impressed at this dudes dedication to teaching people the guitair. I mean all that success and popularity and years and he's still replying to comments with 5 likes. Thats passion right there. Something to aspire to.
Aren't you supposed to be out annexing other countries instead of playing the guitar ?
@@promethazine39 lol
@@promethazine39 Even Putin loves Justin. No end to the man's talents.
@@Mustaine1ify he has talent for wearing a hat. You can’t teach it.
@@promethazine39 that'd be uncle Sam with his coups, political interference, regime change, psy ops, invasions, oil looting and military encirclement
I'm amazed how my fingers seem to have a mind of their own, I'd never even noticed till now!!
Mine too... They also order expensive guitar gear on their own even though I have plenty and cant even play.
Mine Pinky has its own mind 🤣🤣🤣
I just tried this exercise. I took up the guitar at 70 when I retired, so my fingers have a lifetime of non-musical use.Thank you so much for this tip. It will help tame my wild fingers. You have given us many useful tips that bring music back to our lives. I always wanted to play guitar.
How are those wild fingers doing?
Incredibly descriptive and never wanting the right word. A joy to listen to.
Excellent as always, Justin, and exactly the training I needed that would not have occurred to me. Thank you in perpetuity.
I saw an old video of you teaching this technique since then I have tried to fix my flying fingers, great video.
Great!
Just last night I was looking into exercises for correcting this, it's like you read my mind! Haha
It's a great exercise, but certainly pretty difficult, just gotta keep at it and I'm sure I'll improve. Thank you so much for this lesson!
After watching 50 other "Solving flying pinky" videos your one is effective and made sense. Thank you
God, Justin you deserve so much more praise. Thank you so much for all you do for the beginner guitar players and the community as a whole.
Hi Justin, just want to say that I just love your guitar lessons.
I only came across your channel two weeks ago, and I must say it is just superb.
It is nice to find someone that understands how to teach a beginner. You flow through each lesson at a nice steady gentle pace, allowing a viewer to easy follow and understand what you are doing.
I have learned more from you in the last two weeks than what I have learned over the past two years. I have even signed up to your web site. Many thanks for all that you are doing, in making learning easier and fun. - Fletch -
Lol I didn’t even realise this was a thing until I filmed myself playing and noticed my fingers flying around all over the place I was like wtf!!
ahah i feel you!!
I started doing this exercise years ago after watching one of your videos. I think you called it the spider exercise? But it has helped me immensely. I wouldn't be the player I am today without your lessons so thank you brother!!
Been looking for an exercise like this. Thanks!
Definitely gonna start practicing this tomorrow ,thanks Justin ❤️
Hey Justin thanks again for all the knowledge you share !
my little finger has a mind of its own it seems. going to take time to train that away. thanks for the lesson!
Will definitely work this exercise.
Thanks !
Had to consciously do this a while ago when playing the november rain solo. The runs towards the end of each solo were much easier to hit the notes on time when I reduced unnecessary finger movement. Brilliant exercise
Thank you Justin! Can’t wait to watch later!
Thanks! :)
Super exercise. I started doing this when I saw you doing it in an earlier video. It's rare to feel progress coming along in real time when you've been tinkering away with guitar for 20+ years as I have. Love it. Should be a cornerstone of any guitar tuition. ❤➕💪🏻
Great video. Efficiency of movement is something to master.
to me the hardest in this exercise is keeping my thumb in place. It seems to me that the fingers "stability" on the fretboard comes from a good thumb position
Started doing this myself a few weeks ago so perfect timing with the video lol I think at the end of the day this will lead to more conscious finger control - whether you're passionately improvising or strictly following tabs, there's gonna be a benefit one way or another.
Thank you for posting this it's one of the few videos I've found on the subject. I am eager to try your exercise as I had the flying finger and worked on it a long while and I'm curious if I will have as much difficulty as I might have a year ago. I finally got control of my flying pinky and found two things helped me immensely:
1) Trying to focus on keeping my fretting hand as relaxed as possible.
2) I practise facing a mirror so I can see both my hands and it's easier to recognize my faults as I work on them.
I started late in life, Benn playing 5 years and my fingers are still kinda stiff. 0:44 I can't do that. Thanks Justin for the lesson 👍🎶🎶🎶
You're welcome! Good luck ;)
Crazy good excercise! I've been having a hard time getting faster while playing. Been doing this for 2 weeks now and it helped me a lot, already! 🙂
Being a drummer first, my fret hand movement is like a drummer hitting the notes on the fretboard like drums, and know that this is wasted motion which fatigues your fret hand. This is a great lesson, my friend!!!
WOW !!! It looks amazing and incredibly difficult. I just started my guitar lessons with your app, (and is really great ). I'm not sure, if I ever reach the level to be able to do this things, but always can try. Looks like very long way though, especially without having guitar buddy who can help. Great video - Thanks Justin !!!
This is what I am working on right now, big improvement from even a week ago 👍
This type of exercise is so good. This is the 3rd day im doing it and i already feel/see alot of improvement (alot more than 5 minutes daily tho). Thanks
Man I am infinitely… INFINITELY thankful for every single video you make and your app. Thank you so much and keep on strumming!!!
Glad you like them! Cheers.
this is gold!
Just wanted to drop in and say that I appreciate your honesty here.
"Keep at it for three months and..."
So sick of people promising overnight improvement and captions like, "shred by night!" Or something corny like that hahaha.
Cool video!!
I appreciate that! Cheers 😊
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Psst, I did this for about 4 or 5 months, 5 minutes a day. I'm back to it, going every day with different scales doing 5 minutes of minimal with it. Yes, stick with it, I've gotten pretty low on my scales, not Justin low, probably in that 5mm range. If you watch Justin, Corey Congilio, and others doing scales you barely see their fingers move, that's what I'm trying to get to because I think that is the difference in the way my scales sound when going up & down in the box compared to those with 1mm to 2mm max movements. This was my least favorite exercise in 2019 & into 2021, but it was by far the 1 exercise that showed improvement way more than others. Gotta go practice, new version is good!
Your a great teacher Justin
I'm 50 years old it took me forever to get the forearm strength to play the major scale but I did it now just to work on the minimal movement
Good job, mate.
@@justinguitar thanks Justin you're the man 👍
I am 60 years old and it took me a long time as well. The good news is there is not much decline in forearm strength from 50 to 60 😉
Yeah man thanks!
I've been noodling with guitar for 10 years, the last 6 months have been excruciatingly difficult breaking bad habits but the results are absolutely incredible!
Bro same! Been playing for 14 years and i hate how I picked up bad habits. Really hard to fix since you're so used to it
Awesome information. This is something I’ve tried to make my fingers do. I feel this exercise will be a huge benefit.
Welllll, I see holding my mouth in the strange contortions it seems to be doing without my realizing it doesn’t improve my flying fingers. 😂🤣 I can tell over time, it will get better. My fingers will stop flailing about and my mouth will stop making strange contortions. Thanks for the lesson Justin. It’s on my list to start my daily practices.
It's very helpful 😊 thanks you
Glad it helped!
Justin, great video. Economy of movement is the best description of this exercise. I want to suggest playing this in a higher register, say the seventh fret so your not dealing with finger stretches as well.
Excellent 😊.
Just started doing this exercise a couple of days ago, my little finger has a mind of its own.
Excellent exercise
It really is!
Thanks 🔥❤🔥
That is such a tough exercise and I’m going to have to give it some real practice time. But I can see the values. Thanks Justin.
You can do it! Good luck. ;)
Hi Justin....greetings from Ontario, Canada... dig your work! I learned NeilYoung's "Old Man" under your video tutelage... just want to say thank you =0)
I've done this on your site & you are right, the little finger was flying all over the place.
There is a certain UA-camr I have been watching, but after seeing this video I can’t take my eyes off his flying fingers.
Even if I’m beginner my fingers don’t fly that much, but I have taken this practice to my daily routine. I have to control my ring finger better.
My friend here Justin is cracked at guitar my guy
Thank you for the amazing lessons and tutorials! I have jumped around different apps, websites and UA-cam pages to learn guitar over the past year, and I can say without a doubt, your lessons are the best. Every time I want to learn something, I check your lessons first (and get disappointed if I can’t find it on your page and have to search elsewhere). The songs I play well were from YOUR lessons; you make everything much easier to understand for newbies.
I have a song request (sorry if you have specific link to send requests, I briefly looked and didn’t see one)... Can you please do a tutorial to play Scar on the Sky by Chris Cornell. All throughout this crazy year of being shut ins, I have only wanted to listen to (and play) my favorites from being a teenager; Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Plus Audioslave and Chris Cornell solo music :-)
Cool!
you have helped me so much so far, glad to see a fix for my flying fingers. Ill edit my comment in two months and let you and everyone the progress I've made. until then keep rocking and being an amazing teacher! Been 4 months and this exercise helped a ton fingers no longer fly all over the place especially my pinky.
Where's that edit, bruh?
@@ifensler shit you right
Finaly i have something to practice beside new song and vibarto, bending
The finger that flies on my hand(please don't laugh) is the middle finger. I look at old videos of me playing that wasn't an issue. I don't know when that started but it's more apparent to me then others. I play in church eventually somebody is going to notice and think I'm flipping them off. I really hope this exercise helps or eliminates it.
Wish I'd found this a while ago! As soon as I put any real pressure on my second or third finger on a fret, my pinkie goes straight and is very challenging to move independently! I assumed it was something innate in me / my hand but this gives me hope I can unlearn it! Just starting with scales, so now's the time to get it straight (or I guess not straight) if I can! :)
A+
had to laugh when you said "fingers desperately trying to spring up" cause that's exactly how it feels. Going slow is the key it seems and then doing this exercise over a long period of time. I'll combine it with the finger gym as part of my warm up!
This exercise got my heart racing.
I have a 'flicky' little finger. However this exercise is excellent for the other three.... so don't give up!
Another great lesson. BTW did Justin ever do a follow up to the 'cheapest guitar on Amazon' he bought a couple of years ago? Would be interesting to know if he made it beginner friendly.
Great advice. I am finding it easier to control my fingers if I bunch them together to start with that way I seem to be able to control them better. Hope this helps someone as it is doing for me
How is it 1yr later?
Thanks for the video but i took no lessins but have fun😁👌
Man, it's brutal
a better exercise is to actively press down with whichever finger flies. for example, at 5:41, if lifting finger 3 causes finger 4 to lift, then practice that finger movement up and down the strings, but keep finger 4 pressed down when you lift finger 3. you'll very quickly break the habit.
Thanks Justin, will be on this right away! Btw, what guitar is that??
Instead of following your advice for "Chord Perfect Practice" in my early days of learning chords I would finger the chord then quickly spread my fingers out wide letting go of the neck and finger the chord again and so on for a one minute exercise. I think I picked this "tip" up from another UA-camr, I don't remember. I've done this so much that I've trained myself to do it almost all the time, my fingers fly off the strings between changes of any kind causing extra noise (I think that's what's causing the noise) and wasted movement and time. It's taking some effort to unlearn this behaviour and tips like these help! Thank you!
Hey justin!! Why did the last vidéo about hand coordination disapeared??!!! I watched the first half yesterday and wanted to see the rest today!!??? Thanks mate!
I have this problem, plus poor thumb position. Working on fixing both now.
I really struggle with this. My pinky finger especially really wants to go flying, like you point out when climbing back up. Gonna really need a ton of practice, aren't I?
Yep - but it can improve fast! :) Good luck
If you make a tight loop in a wire coat hanger, cut it down then wear it on your middle finger like a knuckle duster, you can shape it to stop the pinky flying up. I have a copper one.
Interesting video, can you do this method for 3nps major scale too?
I didn't realize that I really need to do this. Great video.
Game changer! Good luck.
Lol I found this exercise on your website a d have been worming with it for awhile... funny how difficult it can seem to be. I practice for at least 1hr at a time a couple times most every day and throw this practice in last because my muscles still get sore practicing the control.
Yep - but it's so worthy!
Flying fingers are my trademark! Like Joe Walsh with his goofy facial expressions, it helps me play better.
Hey Justin, I am one of those people with the "physiological" issues. My pinky bends a little too inwards. I struggle to play any note with my pinky because I cannot get it close enough to the fret on most notes/chords. Any advice?
I'm trying this out but as I leave the other fingers on the fret they keep muting whatever I'm playing and it seems I'm not able to press my fingers hard enough into the string to get the right sound...
Is the intermediate course out yet and where can I find it?
Minimum movement exercise helps me when Im trying to play my scales faster with the metronome.. the faster I go I notice those little movements help me move quicker than if I was all over the place .
So it does make a difference..
Hurts ; but great exercise.. just like any exercise.. I don't mean hurts in a bad waym. I mean just like exercise its a stretch , something new and the body has to adjust ( well the fingers in this case ...
awesome, mate...
I’ve never been so aware of my hands dow to each finger until I picked up the guitar
Nice Justin! Thanks! Hey! How about teaching us to play the astonishing "Heat Above" by Greta Van Fleet? I don't think it's too complicated. 😎
Hey, Justin. If I have flying fingers for a long period of time, should I fix it till I make it right and then restart the practice with a metronome?
I don't got flying fingers but my middle finger has a mind of its own. Its hard to explaine but say I was practicing scales or some intense legato, when I'm not using my middle finger to play it would be extremely far from he fretboard allllllllll the time like it would float away from it I'd that makes sense.
So to be clear, 5 mills is around 7 inches? lol This exercise is exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Hi Justin, I just watched your video on the Sissel SITFIT+ from 2017. Are you still using it? Any comments on it after a few years? Thanks!
Sir please do a lesson for Doug paisley's "at the end of a long long day"
My god. My pinky. Won’t stay down!!!!
I must succeed
I didn’t realise how difficult it is!!😅
I’m about to attempt this but I do have a question.
If I learn this exercise as Justin says, 5mins a day for a few months…
Does this mean that after I’ve gotten this down on this particular exercise that they’ll do this with everything that I play?
Or do I have to do this with everything that I know?
My pinky action is like a high-powered magnet if the fingerboard was made of iron. This is the first drill I've seen to address that issue. Yep it's tough.
Holy hell this is the hardest thing I"ve ever tried in years of playing. Be GREAT to learn it as a beginner. The benefits are obvious. STARTing this way should dramatically help the playing of any guitarist. Enjoy the challenge.
20 years of flying fingers is not easy to tame. But I will try my best.
What about on acoustic Justin?
Hey Justin could you do doctor doctor? originally UFO awesome cover by maiden too
This is a great exercise but I make one change when I do it: I leave all my fingers on the previous string while moving one finger at a time. This also ensures I'm playing on my fingertips because I try to avoid muting the strings as I play.
So I kill two birds with one stone.
My flying finger problem that I'm really struggling with involves the transition from an open chord, say a simple open C chord to a barre'ed B minor chord (think Travis-picking "Danny's Song" by Loggins and Messina). The flying finger that I'm experiencing is my barre'ing index finger. In the transition from the open C chord to the B minor barre chord, I'm able to get my three non-barre'ing fingers, my middle, ring and pinky fingers down quickly, but if I froze time, and took a photo at this point in time, you'd see that my barre'ing index finger has flown away from the finger board, and even worse, curled away. So, at this point, the only hope I have to complete the formation of the barre'ed B minor chord is to uncurl the index finger and slap it down in panic fashion. Wouldn't it be a lot better, as far as economy of movement and finger independence if I simply didn't fly my barre'ing index finger away from the finger board and curl it? And yet what seems so easy to write down in this comment, is impossible for me to actually perform.
Does it has to be finger tip contact? I saw it is not using the index finger tip.
Thanks for this exercise Justin. I'm just wondering whether I should continue practising solos whilst I'm trying to tame my flying fingers. I know that if I play a solo in any song that I'm learning at the correct tempo I'll be back to flying fingers again. What do you recommend?
Get your fingers tamed first, it doesn't take that long. If you're nearly there, you can gradually start that soloing. Going all out for soloing with flying fingers will mostly bring bad and inefficient habits | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
@@justinguitar Great advice! Thank u very much.
My fingers don't look as flat as yours against the fretboard. They're more curved. I hope that's OK. But I do love this exercise.