Ooo yaaa sure ✌✌✌ I'm a new subscriber and I've been practicing guitar with the help of some of ur exercises and it's really helping me ✌✌✌ thank you Mr. Bernth
Just joined your Patreon channel. This is just what I need for pinky control. Especially like doing it concurrently for timing and accountability. Thank you sir!
I followed the link but didn't see a July 14 posting for Your Left Hand Sucks? I just wanted to see what it was there before becoming a Patreon-- thanks for the great stuff!
My middle finger (dont laugh) is the finger that I have problems with. I play in church and honestly it looks like I'm flipping people off. Any suggestions?
58 Y/O learning again after 30 years .I accidentally found your videos .I subscribed and am learning a lot .I think after 6 months into it again i am doing great and learning so much .My fingers are getting a lot faster .I remember i couldn't even do scales .Now my speed has really picked up and i can see that i have made huge progress. Thanks for the help !! I guess im not too old to learn again ??!! :)))
Awesome help! Thanks. Here I thought I was the only one with a delinquent rogue pinky. It’s New Years Eve and I found out I’m not alone. Two years of learning guitar 🎸 on my own and this is an issue that will be dealt with in 2021.
I understand about what your speaking about lazy fingers, in my classical guitar classes my professor discribed unbrella fingers, your fingers hover above the fretboard ,and work at keeping your fingers closer to the strings and work on clarity, no fret noise! When moving across the fretboard, your exercises are awesome, thank you for sharing, I need more friends like you! Who have a passion for playing and understanding the fretboard, research is everything, once again thank you. .....
This exactly this is what I am going through. I started learning guitar 6 years ago and the 6 months into it, I fell and broke my left hand and now after 6 years I am picking it up again. I cannot thank you enough for your help. You keep me motivated.
My trouble is with my ring finger. I have no idea why but it tends to "lag". Coming here to this channel has surely helped by a factor of 10, though. Great lesson, Sensei!
Quit 3 years ago after 6 years of playing because I've hit a wall in terms of speed. Came back just yesterday and only realized that it's mostly my fretting hand that's problem. Had I just got back into playing without relearning, I probably would've quit again. These videos are a godsend!
You're an amazing teacher. I'm not making much progress, but I'm not really putting in that much effort; I play about 30 minutes a day, and much of that is just focusing on very basic things that I never learned properly since I just taught myself guitar by learning my favorite songs. I'm trying at the moment to fix basic flaws, like I was using your Hand Synchronization exercise and I noticed that strings were ringing when they shouldn't be, so I'm working on properly muffling them when leaving the string. I am trying to focus on a clean technique, and hope speed will come.
Hey my friend, I am relearning music theory after 10 yrs of not playing guitar I understand you completely, I'm pretty much doing the same thing, studying lagtos, and horizontal appreggios, with a metal influence, you mentioned your strings ring, maybe your action is to low, ?,anyway keep on doing what your doing, ,I've learned more on my own, with u tube videos ,than when I started classical guitar in college, it's crazy because I only practice an hour to two hours every other day, and noticed when I don't practice for week, I'm even better at what I'm studying, sometimes a mental break is needed for everything to sink in, good luck my friend. ......
I NEVER even paid attention to my pinky while I was fretting until watching this video. This is great man, I'm pairing this with your video on alternate picking and realizing I should've developed my technique when I started messing around on guitar like 6-7 years ago.
My biggest frustration stems from lifting my fretting fingers too much in between sequences.. it's like my hands belong to somebody else when it's time to run a little
I slowed down my licks and I could clearly see in what positions my pinky is flying off. With this exercise from the video it is close by, but when I pull off 4-2-1 as soon as I pull 4 off and engage with 2 pinky flies off like crazy, like there is some kind of connection btw 1&2 and 3 & 4. Doing this exercise where 1-3-4 is engaged my pinky stays put in nice close by position. The best advice from Bernth is watch what your fingers do and correct that. Becouse I belive for everybody is different. Good luck
Hi Bernth, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your insightful knowledge and how to achieve supreme dexterity. You are a great teacher! Frederick Rohrbacher, Phoenix Arizona
I consider myself a pretty experienced guitarist as I can hit high bends and play some but whenever I would try to get fast I just mess things up and I have to say these exercises are helping me so much. One of my biggest problems after 15 years is I simply was not keeping my left wrist upright enough and I don't curl my fingers well. Practicing both of those while also the other exercise on the speed video I actually have a sore wrist. I just hope it doesn't take too long to adjust
This is awesome. I already do the spider exercise and left hand sync exercise every day, adding this should get me even more control and help unbox me at the same time. Cheers
This is why i wish i had a seasoned guitarist to watch me cover a song to tell me things I'm doing wrong or things I need to work on, but i don't have any guitar friends and i never learned really any technical guitar stuff im more of a play by ear and just play it how it feels most comfortable to me but I know im seriously lacking in certain techniques especially when it comes to soloing
I really need to focus on my pinky, I've found ways of compensating and actually done OK for years with minimal issues, but now I'm getting faster, my tendency to either move my pinky away or for me to bend only the top joint and lock it due to my hypermobility is a pain, it is even worse because I am trying to learn the violin as well, and there is no way to compensate if I am above first position and can't use an open string, as trying to shift instead messes everything up! Probably help to do it on ukulele first, then move it to guitar and violin.
I feel you on the hypermobility. If I'm not careful, some awkward stretchy chords end up with my middle joint on my pinky hyperextending then my whole pinky "collapses" and everything goes to hell.
I don't have your flying pinky but I have a curling pinky, that curls way down when I fret with the ring finger. I think I see that you have it too @ 8:27 . Yours probably isn't as bad as mine, but it still feels like I dont have true independence between my pinky and ring finger. It hasn't ben much of an issue except on the fastest of runs. Should I correct this? Basically my question is that I don't have a "flying" pinky but a "curling" pinky, is this still also a problem? It feels like a very mild problem to me, and would take a long time to fix.
Good info. I personally like to use a finger excercise that doesn't even involve a guitar. Y'know the pink to index finger rapid tapping some people do when they are bored? Do THAT but in reverse. Thank me later
Bernth, I have a problem. Five years ago I broke my left pinky and I had to go to therapy just to be able to move it. Luckily therapy worked, I got the mobility back and I can even stretch it a lot. The problem comes when I do trills or just hammer ons and pull offs, if I try to do it fast it really starts to hurt and I'm worried if that is something that only happens to me or if it happens to everyone, because the pain generally comes from the joint I damaged years ago
You rock, man! For some reason, to me, a lot of the other UA-cam guitar teachers can get quite annoying and often unhelpful. Love your practice videos. Better than just average "spider" chromatic stuff all the time that most teach. After practicing along with your videos I'm really seeing improvements! Love the channel!
Thank you very much for your awesome content... I’ve been having this struggle for a long time.. you really know what it‘s all about Griaß di aus Österreich ;)
Greetings from Colombia Mr. Guitar God! During the pandemic I started playing again after 20+ years only to find out I did everything wrong. Hopefully won't take other 20+ years yo correct my Bad habits. Considering chopping my f** flying Pinky. Thanks for your valuable lessons
Lol. it took me 8 years to get that pinky finger to work. It didn't have the strength and independence since I started out a 3-finger legato player, so I really had to work hard to get it to work independently for that wider stretch runs....
I'll tell you what turned my pinky into a superpinky finger was to play bass in a band for awhile. Now I have other guitarists tell me they wish their pinky was that strong.
You will likely see the fastest players keep their left-hand thumb behind the neck like classical guitar. The answer for most of us is to keep the left-hand thumb in a position that is comfortable but still allows the left hand to comfortably hit all notes with all fingers (including the pinky). I had a touring shredder guitarist give me that advice 30 years ago and it's still true. Best from the S.F. Bay Area. MK
I have small hands. I love the way necks feel on Ibanez guitars. Do you think that if you take an Ibanez Wizard neck with a 15.75 radius (like on the Jem Premiums) it woiuld be easier for smaller hands or if ya took a Wizard Neck with a 17inch radius (even though normally at that point they are Super Wizards, like on the Genesis guitars). My wife wont let me buy guitars often lol so i need to make the most of when I am ALLOWED to get them. And thank you soooo much for your lessons. You really do a great job of getting your point across and making things easy for us old people to understand :)
At age 62 w/ not only very small, but arthritic hands, started buying and loving Ibanez miKros (which, being a form-factor-above all guy, I upgrade w/ locking tuning machines [Harvey Benton's for ~$40 for 6!], Elixir Nanoweb 9-42 or 9-46s, cheap graph string trees, maybe nut w/ "Nut Sauce", even an amazing $175 [more than a miKro costs] NutBuster floatingbnut lock for tune stability; HHs, bridge for tone, pots way good enough for me). Whew. Found the YTs on this search page very encouraging and helpful: ua-cam.com/users/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=your+hands+are+not+too+small&search=Search And this amazing finger-lengthening exercise: ua-cam.com/video/NDonovesJaw/v-deo.html as well as: ua-cam.com/video/p0Ys1WwyL34/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/TSrfB7JIzxY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/pxJNvIgnHeQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/j72JILdKYR8/v-deo.html et.al., no reason to get discouraged or unmotivated, all the best.
I more have an issue with the glued pinky to ring tbh. Just started using the flying one deliberately to "unglue", but apparently have to download the whole practice session :)
After 21 years of my pinky finger doing what it wanted one day I was listening to an Alice in chains tune and decided to tie one on. Everytime I listen to Layne and the boys I want to get drunk so when heavily intoxicated I decided to fix the pinky problen once an for all and had my Buddy chop it off with an axe. I haven't had a pinky problem since and now I can rip up and down the fret board with blinding speed and even outplay most 4 finger pros.
Pinky control is especially frustrating for those of us that have clinodactyly. In most cases, the cause is misaligned growth plates in the finger bones. In the original formation of the bones in utero, the growth plates formed wrong. This causes the finger to grow in a crooked direction during childhood. It happens more often in boys than girls and only on one side of the body. There are rare instances where both hands are affected. at I don't let it stop me from playing i do my best to work around it but man is it a pain in the ass.
Hi, Bernth! Thanks for the excercises! Can you explain to me do i have to practice every new lick or riff that i learn slowly while focusing on the fingers or should i play it faster and not focus that much on how much the fingers go away from the fretboard? Sorry for my english. Greetings from Bulgaria! :-)
For me the pinky itself seems not really to be the core of the problem but rather every finger distance to the fretboard... When I play really slow everything is fine and I lift my fingers up only a minimum after playing a note but as soon as I try to increase the tempo (slowly) every finger gains more and more distance to the fretboard the faster I play. It feels like my fingers are trying to give the others some more space to move and of course that only works until I reach a certain speed when my timing comes to stuttering because of the distance every finger has to move...
Download the 4, 8 and 12-minute video practice sessions and tabs for this lesson here: www.patreon.com/bernth - happy practicing! :)
Ooo yaaa sure ✌✌✌ I'm a new subscriber and I've been practicing guitar with the help of some of ur exercises and it's really helping me ✌✌✌ thank you Mr. Bernth
Just joined your Patreon channel. This is just what I need for pinky control. Especially like doing it concurrently for timing and accountability. Thank you sir!
Thank you very much Bernth. Excellent fingering exercise you have shown. These exercises are very useful to develop the fingering.
Thanks a lot! What about spider exercise? It's teaches to move fingers in economy way, Kiko Loureiro recommend that:)
I followed the link but didn't see a July 14 posting for Your Left Hand Sucks? I just wanted to see what it was there before becoming a Patreon-- thanks for the great stuff!
You've reached 100k Bernth....this is so cool.....hope to see you at a million by the end of next year..... you rock!!
I see 99.1k,wut
Wot
wow how many people play electric guitar in this world
193k, what yall talkin bout?
My middle finger (dont laugh) is the finger that I have problems with. I play in church and honestly it looks like I'm flipping people off. Any suggestions?
58 Y/O learning again after 30 years .I accidentally found your videos .I subscribed and am learning a lot .I think after 6 months into it again i am doing great and learning so much .My fingers are getting a lot faster .I remember i couldn't even do scales .Now my speed has really picked up and i can see that i have made huge progress. Thanks for the help !! I guess im not too old to learn again ??!! :)))
I almost feel bad telling you this on this guy’s channel. But check out Steve Stine. He’s a pretty good teacher.
Flying pinky finger? Must be a new guitar I haven’t heard of.
Awesome help!
Thanks.
Here I thought I was the only one with a delinquent rogue pinky.
It’s New Years Eve and I found out I’m not alone.
Two years of learning guitar 🎸 on my own and this is an issue that will be dealt with in 2021.
I understand about what your speaking about lazy fingers, in my classical guitar classes my professor discribed unbrella fingers, your fingers hover above the fretboard ,and work at keeping your fingers closer to the strings and work on clarity, no fret noise! When moving across the fretboard, your exercises are awesome, thank you for sharing, I need more friends like you! Who have a passion for playing and understanding the fretboard, research is everything, once again thank you. .....
This exactly this is what I am going through. I started learning guitar 6 years ago and the 6 months into it, I fell and broke my left hand and now after 6 years I am picking it up again. I cannot thank you enough for your help. You keep me motivated.
Thank you Bernth for all you do. Your videos have led to me picking up my guitar more than ever. Now if I can just control that flying finger!
My trouble is with my ring finger. I have no idea why but it tends to "lag". Coming here to this channel has surely helped by a factor of 10, though. Great lesson, Sensei!
Quit 3 years ago after 6 years of playing because I've hit a wall in terms of speed. Came back just yesterday and only realized that it's mostly my fretting hand that's problem. Had I just got back into playing without relearning, I probably would've quit again. These videos are a godsend!
the fact your giving all this stuff for free is amazing!
You're an amazing teacher. I'm not making much progress, but I'm not really putting in that much effort; I play about 30 minutes a day, and much of that is just focusing on very basic things that I never learned properly since I just taught myself guitar by learning my favorite songs. I'm trying at the moment to fix basic flaws, like I was using your Hand Synchronization exercise and I noticed that strings were ringing when they shouldn't be, so I'm working on properly muffling them when leaving the string. I am trying to focus on a clean technique, and hope speed will come.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Speed comes in time.
Key to playing fast is to playing it real slow at first - Michael A Batio
Hey my friend, I am relearning music theory after 10 yrs of not playing guitar I understand you completely, I'm pretty much doing the same thing, studying lagtos, and horizontal appreggios, with a metal influence, you mentioned your strings ring, maybe your action is to low, ?,anyway keep on doing what your doing, ,I've learned more on my own, with u tube videos ,than when I started classical guitar in college, it's crazy because I only practice an hour to two hours every other day, and noticed when I don't practice for week, I'm even better at what I'm studying, sometimes a mental break is needed for everything to sink in, good luck my friend. ......
I NEVER even paid attention to my pinky while I was fretting until watching this video. This is great man, I'm pairing this with your video on alternate picking and realizing I should've developed my technique when I started messing around on guitar like 6-7 years ago.
Another awesome practice routine is to try. Can't wait to get home from work. Thanks again.
YAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!
„Windmill Hands“ was this lack of technique called by a great guitar player. Like your Videos!
More important than the technique is the idea to isolate the problem parts and do very simple exercises to correct them! Very inspiring!!😁🤘
Cover all the bases! Thanks again Bernth!
My biggest frustration stems from lifting my fretting fingers too much in between sequences.. it's like my hands belong to somebody else when it's time to run a little
Thank you dear Bernth🙏.
Love you,
From Kochi, India.🙏
Thanks Bernth. That is so helpful.
I will be joining Patron here very soon!
I slowed down my licks and I could clearly see in what positions my pinky is flying off. With this exercise from the video it is close by, but when I pull off 4-2-1 as soon as I pull 4 off and engage with 2 pinky flies off like crazy, like there is some kind of connection btw 1&2 and 3 & 4.
Doing this exercise where 1-3-4 is engaged my pinky stays put in nice close by position.
The best advice from Bernth is watch what your fingers do and correct that. Becouse I belive for everybody is different.
Good luck
This is insanely well constructed, and your explanations are clear as day. I'll be applying this knowledge for the next few months. Thanks man.
Thanks for this tutorial. Finally someone who teaches how to control that damn finger. I've been dragging this problem for years.
Very very awesome advice! Thank you so much for putting your time, effort and knowledge to share, Bernth! 👍👍
Thanks Bernth, you rock!
Hi Bernth, I just wanted to thank you for sharing your insightful knowledge and how to achieve supreme dexterity. You are a great teacher! Frederick Rohrbacher, Phoenix Arizona
You’re awesome. I hope your channel grows tremendously! Your lessons are ON point. 🌼
This guy is awesome.
You make excellent videos Bernth. Im sure I can speak for everyone who learns from them when I say "thank you sooo much"
I consider myself a pretty experienced guitarist as I can hit high bends and play some but whenever I would try to get fast I just mess things up and I have to say these exercises are helping me so much. One of my biggest problems after 15 years is I simply was not keeping my left wrist upright enough and I don't curl my fingers well. Practicing both of those while also the other exercise on the speed video I actually have a sore wrist. I just hope it doesn't take too long to adjust
Thanks Bernth ,from Philippines
Sick tats, sick guitar, sick licks..... you sir are my new hero.
Thank you so much, I’ll start doing some of these exercises and I’ll practice one on each day
I just noticed that I wasn't subscribed, I was shocked!! You are amazing
Berth, thank you for the great vids and info. I've been shredding since I first saw Shawn Lane 20+ years ago. ALWAYS more to learn out there.
This is awesome. I already do the spider exercise and left hand sync exercise every day, adding this should get me even more control and help unbox me at the same time.
Cheers
Your videos have helped my progress so much. Thank you.
Big problem of mine thanks this video helped me out !
I think this is one of the best guitar channels of all time
seems legit, will be trying this thanks!
This is why i wish i had a seasoned guitarist to watch me cover a song to tell me things I'm doing wrong or things I need to work on, but i don't have any guitar friends and i never learned really any technical guitar stuff im more of a play by ear and just play it how it feels most comfortable to me but I know im seriously lacking in certain techniques especially when it comes to soloing
Thanks. Another great lesson.
thank you man! my pinky was straight and i knew that that was a problem. But i did not know how to solve it... this really helped!
You could also do the exercise in the Dorian mode by moving up a whole step each time to stay in key.
I really need to focus on my pinky, I've found ways of compensating and actually done OK for years with minimal issues, but now I'm getting faster, my tendency to either move my pinky away or for me to bend only the top joint and lock it due to my hypermobility is a pain, it is even worse because I am trying to learn the violin as well, and there is no way to compensate if I am above first position and can't use an open string, as trying to shift instead messes everything up! Probably help to do it on ukulele first, then move it to guitar and violin.
I feel you on the hypermobility. If I'm not careful, some awkward stretchy chords end up with my middle joint on my pinky hyperextending then my whole pinky "collapses" and everything goes to hell.
incredibly useful 👍
great tip.
thanks man
I don't have your flying pinky but I have a curling pinky, that curls way down when I fret with the ring finger. I think I see that you have it too @ 8:27 . Yours probably isn't as bad as mine, but it still feels like I dont have true independence between my pinky and ring finger. It hasn't ben much of an issue except on the fastest of runs. Should I correct this? Basically my question is that I don't have a "flying" pinky but a "curling" pinky, is this still also a problem? It feels like a very mild problem to me, and would take a long time to fix.
Finally one guy comes to help me!
Good info. I personally like to use a finger excercise that doesn't even involve a guitar. Y'know the pink to index finger rapid tapping some people do when they are bored? Do THAT but in reverse. Thank me later
Finally my problems might be solve.. Thank you ..vid really helps alot 😁😁
Bernth, I have a problem. Five years ago I broke my left pinky and I had to go to therapy just to be able to move it. Luckily therapy worked, I got the mobility back and I can even stretch it a lot. The problem comes when I do trills or just hammer ons and pull offs, if I try to do it fast it really starts to hurt and I'm worried if that is something that only happens to me or if it happens to everyone, because the pain generally comes from the joint I damaged years ago
Keep you thumb on the middle of the headstock.
very helpfull..thanks ...salam terimakasih from INDONESIA.
Thanks a lot Bernth, now I'm going to be humming the "Inspector Gadget" theme all day. Love your videos man.
it is a nice tecnicicly in the right
me to do and make me better
for practice technically you
are really good teacher.
I really like your content, keep up the good work and good luck!
The new ESP guitar arrived!!!
Flying Pinky!!
can you make a video on how to fix left hand thumb postion?
Love ur Vedios !!! U deserve more subscriptions
You rock, man! For some reason, to me, a lot of the other UA-cam guitar teachers can get quite annoying and often unhelpful. Love your practice videos. Better than just average "spider" chromatic stuff all the time that most teach. After practicing along with your videos I'm really seeing improvements! Love the channel!
Good Exercises.
Super helpful! Thanks!
Awesome Video Bernth.Please Make All The Solos You Will Ever Need For Soloing.Thank You. :)
Thank you very much for your awesome content... I’ve been having this struggle for a long time.. you really know what it‘s all about
Griaß di aus Österreich ;)
Gracias for this video
Lot of love from Nepal 🇳🇵💚❤
Greetings to Nepal! :)
Awesome lesson as always. 👌👌👌
You deserve more subscribers. Awesome video
Thank you very much! :)
Great videos... You are a true inspiration ❤️ from India
Greetings to India! :)
Greetings from Colombia Mr. Guitar God! During the pandemic I started playing again after 20+ years only to find out I did everything wrong. Hopefully won't take other 20+ years yo correct my Bad habits. Considering chopping my f** flying Pinky. Thanks for your valuable lessons
ThnQ brothers👌
the prog/fusion song at 4:13 is really great! i should do a cover version
really helpful.
thanks for the lesson..love from nepal
Sick guitar wow 👍
Your lessons are really helpful 🔥🔥
Just watching 🔥
Lol. it took me 8 years to get that pinky finger to work. It didn't have the strength and independence since I started out a 3-finger legato player, so I really had to work hard to get it to work independently for that wider stretch runs....
I'll tell you what turned my pinky into a superpinky finger was to play bass in a band for awhile.
Now I have other guitarists tell me they wish their pinky was that strong.
This is really effective 👌great..❤️
tried to keep my pinky as close as possible to the fretboard...really made it easier
finally, this is my problem when I try to play fast and my left hand doesn't cooperate:(
Me too...
Excellent 😍😍😍 exercise I find really different to play fast but hope this exercise helps me✌✌✌😉😉
Hope this does the trick for you, it really helped me :)
@@Bernthguitar ✌✌✌✌😁😁😁😁 yes I know it will help me again
This is extremely useful.
What is the correct position for left hand thumb ? and how should we move it as we move our hand on fretboard ? Please explain...
You will likely see the fastest players keep their left-hand thumb behind the neck like classical guitar. The answer for most of us is to keep the left-hand thumb in a position that is comfortable but still allows the left hand to comfortably hit all notes with all fingers (including the pinky). I had a touring shredder guitarist give me that advice 30 years ago and it's still true.
Best from the S.F. Bay Area.
MK
Heil, Bernth, great exercise!! Thank you!!! Cheers from Colombia 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴
I have small hands. I love the way necks feel on Ibanez guitars. Do you think that if you take an Ibanez Wizard neck with a 15.75 radius (like on the Jem Premiums) it woiuld be easier for smaller hands or if ya took a Wizard Neck with a 17inch radius (even though normally at that point they are Super Wizards, like on the Genesis guitars). My wife wont let me buy guitars often lol so i need to make the most of when I am ALLOWED to get them. And thank you soooo much for your lessons. You really do a great job of getting your point across and making things easy for us old people to understand :)
At age 62 w/ not only very small, but arthritic hands, started buying and loving Ibanez miKros (which, being a form-factor-above all guy, I upgrade w/ locking tuning machines [Harvey Benton's for ~$40 for 6!], Elixir Nanoweb 9-42 or 9-46s, cheap graph string trees, maybe nut w/ "Nut Sauce", even an amazing $175 [more than a miKro costs] NutBuster floatingbnut lock for tune stability; HHs, bridge for tone, pots way good enough for me). Whew.
Found the YTs on this search page very encouraging and helpful:
ua-cam.com/users/results?search_type=search_videos&search_sort=relevance&search_query=your+hands+are+not+too+small&search=Search
And this amazing finger-lengthening exercise:
ua-cam.com/video/NDonovesJaw/v-deo.html
as well as:
ua-cam.com/video/p0Ys1WwyL34/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/TSrfB7JIzxY/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/pxJNvIgnHeQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/j72JILdKYR8/v-deo.html
et.al., no reason to get discouraged or unmotivated, all the best.
Great lesson thanks man. How's about a lesson on trem bar, like idk what its called but you kinda flick the bar.
"guitar fretting hand exercises" Let's see... so many options... Oh a Bernth vid definitely this one.
The flying pinky is the bane of every guitar player's existence.
I more have an issue with the glued pinky to ring tbh. Just started using the flying one deliberately to "unglue", but apparently have to download the whole practice session :)
Love to see 0 dislikes ... Way to bring the positive vibes for this legend guitar fam 💛
To the point
After 21 years of my pinky finger doing what it wanted one day I was listening to an Alice in chains tune and decided to tie one on. Everytime I listen to Layne and the boys I want to get drunk so when heavily intoxicated I decided to fix the pinky problen once an for all and had my Buddy chop it off with an axe. I haven't had a pinky problem since and now I can rip up and down the fret board with blinding speed and even outplay most 4 finger pros.
Pinky control is especially frustrating for those of us that have clinodactyly. In most cases, the cause is misaligned growth plates in the finger bones. In the original formation of the bones in utero, the growth plates formed wrong. This causes the finger to grow in a crooked direction during childhood. It happens more often in boys than girls and only on one side of the body. There are rare instances where both hands are affected. at I don't let it stop me from playing i do my best to work around it but man is it a pain in the ass.
Almost a hundred thousand 🤘🏻
Hi, Bernth! Thanks for the excercises! Can you explain to me do i have to practice every new lick or riff that i learn slowly while focusing on the fingers or should i play it faster and not focus that much on how much the fingers go away from the fretboard? Sorry for my english. Greetings from Bulgaria! :-)
For me the pinky itself seems not really to be the core of the problem but rather every finger distance to the fretboard... When I play really slow everything is fine and I lift my fingers up only a minimum after playing a note but as soon as I try to increase the tempo (slowly) every finger gains more and more distance to the fretboard the faster I play. It feels like my fingers are trying to give the others some more space to move and of course that only works until I reach a certain speed when my timing comes to stuttering because of the distance every finger has to move...
You are right, my left hand sucks, but so does my right hand LOL
I just suck all round 😫🤯
100k let’s go!!!!
Do you have any tips for using a slide?
This technique works!
Now if i could wrangle in my right hand pinky. Looks funny when I'm drinking beer
Is the best 👍💯