THIS Is Why You CAN'T Pick Faster
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2022
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THIS Is Why You CAN'T Pick Faster
Guitar lesson for increasing picking speed. Picking speed guitar lesson
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Who makes that guitar?
@@patkeating97 It's a Floyd Rose Del Mar 👍
@@BenHigginsOfficial - May I ask what pick you use? I know speed isn’t in the plectrum, but I’m still curious. I’ve been using a perfectly triangular pick made of … Delrin, maybe? … and of an undetermined gauge, but it feels really sturdy. I like it, but I may try finding a lighter-gauged one, so I can hold it more firmly without getting all jammed up in the strings.
@@danopticon Dunlop Jazz III XL in this vid
What if you just pick in one direction? Also what if you use your elbow instead of just wrist?
right, there's only 2 things to worry about: how it sounds, and whether it hurts
hey
Could hurt your head tho if you have a weird picking pattern you have to do perfectly every time to stay consistent.
@Achilles Fergus If you need to pick fast its gonna be really difficult without the right technique, and trying to just brute force it is really bad for your wrist
@Achilles Fergus gd that's a little pretentious
@Achilles Fergus Do you use your wrist to trem pick?
“Hey man, you know you can just do stuff right? Like you don’t need anyone’s permission”
While I understand this is sarcasm, I honestly think there's some people out there that genuinely need this said to them 100% seriously
@@Ken_neThT me.
I’ve become a guitar player I could’ve only dreamed of being as a kid just by practicing and going after it.
The best advice anyone can give for guitar is to just keep practicing. The more comfortable you are with your instrument the more experimental you’ll get
Best comment in the feed! 😂 As simple as Shia LaBeouf "JUST DO IT!" meme
@@Ken_neThT I'm 30 and this just hit me so fucking hard. The amount of shit I don't do because I'm overthinking, worried about how people will perceive it, etc...
“I don’t give a toss” is probably one of my favorite expressions in modern language
Same
It's not modern, u clearly aren't British.
@@6fejmk correct.
Do you know what it means?
also the most British expression I've ever heard
And I notice the hand just naturally wants to tense up too. So making the conscious decision to relax the hand definitely helps me out
I believe that's such a big part of advancing as a guitarist. Being conscious of the tension, not only in the hands, but in the wrists, arms and rest of the body, helps so much in just enjoying the process as well as helps in playing better.
Totally agree. I’ve been playing for awhile and that is probably my biggest hangup is tensing up. This is especially true when I’m trying to do gallops or some chunky rhythms lol. So frustrating!
This is a problem in every instrument. Every new musician tenses up from unfamiliar muscle action, and it has to be forced out. Doing it consciously every day dramatically speeds up accuracy and technique retention.
Speed comes from ease.
Tension and strain are the enemies of speed.
No just go for it
“I don’t give a toss,” I’ve never heard that phrase before and I love it
😄 It's common in England.
@@jameseberhard7457 oh my goodness, I love it !! :)
English haha
@Bubble -x12 rain and afternoon tea sounds like a vibe ♥️
Hang out with more Brits
My wrist motion was very similar and I can now see how that dragged me down over the years but what is working for me now is pick on string - pushing through strings -accenting and breaking problem areas down to the smallest possible denominator - things I never thought of in the past until brought to light by Lord Higgy
I’m so glad you said this. I had a bit of a brain breaking moment a few years back due to how to held the pick etc and you’ve just helped me undo that
If your pick grip is wrong you will get to a point where you have to go back and relearn it all with the right grip.
Hold the pick wrong and speed will never come.
@@t.a.7970 Thank you
"Yeah, forget practice with a metronome, you just got to go faster!" Right.
I tell my gf the same thing over and over
"I dont give a toss how it feels, I wanna do it faster"
She doesnt understand, tho. Smh
Same
@SPAZZ really now
@carc what are we wittnessing here?
@carc 💀
Hope you're doing well in tenth grade this year
"get the job done" thats the most direct and right statement
My problem is that it gets stuck and delays it for a second, not really long but it’s noticeable.
this sounds like you could be tensing up your wrist/arm a little too much
What's "it"? If its your wrist or hand, yea you're tensing up and need to ease up. If you're talking about your pick, how thick of pick are you using? May need to move up a few gauge
You may be digging too deep. His floyd rose guitar has a raised body beneath the picking area to prevent just this. But since 99.9% other electrics don’t have this feature, just practice “gliding” over the strings, don’t dig too deep… you’ll probably find there’s only one or two spots where you’re tripping up creating that delay. Create exercises for yourself around those spots, and you’ll overcome them in no time. And metronomes can be helpful, but bursting also needs to be practiced, going from 0-100 in a burst… try it!
You are probably holding the pick too hard, and using more of the pick then you need. Loosen your grip, and try using just the tip.
If this is happening when you move from one string to another it's because of pick direction and you should watch Troy Grady's Cracking the Code series.
Man that guitar is beautiful
Yep, great purple.
@@DiscoScottie grape purple
@@nicochevez2124 - yummy!
looks like a car, sleep curves n shit
....BUT -What type of Guitar is This...? (It says Floyd Rose on It ???
“I dont give a toss”🤣
This is some of the best advice ever. Guitar is an instrument of /sound/, not of visualizations. Who cares *how* it looks, as long as it /sounds/ good?!
My biggest steps in improvement I ever made playing was learning a new technique, over thinking it, trying way too hard to get it just right, then picking it up the next day really lazy and getting it just right. It's strange.
Yes. Practice and fail for an hour or so, go to bed, sleep, and get back to it the next day. You will have magically learned to do the thing
@@Gurrehable pretty much! Gotta love it.
“I don’t give a toss what it’s doin” loved that
I give a toss
'I don't give a toss what it's doing!'. Love this, cracked me up!
I needed to hear this
That guitar is stunning, love that deep purple color! My next guitar is definitely going to be purple, you’ve just sealed the deal on it!
I found this exact advice by Ben around 4 of 5 years ago, from some of his older videos. I'm telling you Ben this advice was life changing. Remember how you said to wiggle your picking hand in a sort of like hand shaking motion, and then turn that motion on its side and just try to get it as loose and fast as possible? In less than a week I was already nailing the exercise that I was working on. These days I can just shred away any alt picking licks that I want. Thanks a lot Ben!
I love the phrase "I don't give a toss." First heard it from Colin from CS Guitars. It's awesome. You are two of my favorite guitar UA-camrs.
I am an overthinker and I over complicate everything but that has served me well in alot of ways. However, I fell in love with the guitar because of how free my mind feels while playing it. It was the first thing that I ever did that I just started doing it and stopped thinking about it. I don't know why my brain is wired that way but I'm glad that is. And yes you are correct.
This explains why I love guitar as well - after twenty years of playing, I finally understand this because I saw your post =D
That grape guitar looks good enough to eat 😋
Fantastic advice
As a surf guitar successor, me (and my pops) literally crab claw the pick w/ both pointer, middle and thumb. However we also used the heaviest possible pick and 60-16 strings in standard. we also plant our wrist on the saddles. Gives great control for accentuating whatever it may be. 🏄🏻♂️🍻
Instructions unclear, furniture in my living room is levitating
“How do you pick faster? Just pick faster.” and it’s literally true 😂
Man that tone sounds really good
he really doesn’t give a toss!!
I always loved how Richie would do those classically inspired single note riffs with a bend that just blew one away!
Richie Blackmore is great
I agree, you have to just go for it sometimes, it might take some time to get use to it, but otherwise you will never reach the next level
Thanks!
Finally UA-cam shows me Videos i REALLY wanna see
That’s the most annoying part i see a lot of new guitar players worrie about how the look while playing form hand form to picking and I always tell them it doesn’t matter how you look all that matters is that it sounds good and if it hurts
that tone is angelic
I like “stop overthinking” type videos for all aspects of life sometimes we need to slow down and just try what feels right without fear of failure
I agree the pendulum approach or strict alternation is just a guideline or habit you want as your default until it doesn't work for what you need.
I play in a grindcore band, and can’t stress this tip enough lol
Extremely g00d advice!
“I don’t give a TOSS” 😂 lol
"I don't give a toss" love it
I needed to hear this, thanks .
No you didn’t. This is dreadful advice.
Accuracy is what is important. Speed is built over time.
Try to play fast too soon and it will be messy.
Awesome, thank you for sharing 🎶🎶👍
Watch Glenn Tipton shredding on stage and then tell me I have to pick a certain way.
This video's point is so valuable.
yeah I been practicing, the up and down motion
I think keeping my hand still and moving my arm up and down at the elbow makes my picking better and more stable than flicking the wrist. Feels more ergonomic to me
If it works, it works. As long as it doesn't hurt or cause problems. Works for Vinnie Moore, Rusty Cooley, Chris Impellitteri and many more
Thanks for Info really helped out😊
Thank so much helps right away
The thing everyone needed to hear
I've never had any issues with overthinking I'd just throw my hands as fast as I could. Focus on speed then cleaning it up and it's worked wonders. I'm glad I watched this video because that's great advice I can pass on because I've met people who just "can't" do it. But they are probably overthinking. Cheers
You have just explained the perfectly. In a way that I cannot explain it
the finish on the axe looks great!
👏👏👏 Solid advice, sir!
You can even apply it to a great many things in life... If you aren't able to do something that you wish you were able to do ... just STOP NOT BEING ABLE TO DO IT! 🤯
Thank you. I’ve always played slow because everyone says so, but naturally I play fast and then I learn faster.
I'm so glad I found this❤ thanks Ben Higgins Official
Bro's hand like
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Thanks for this, I've been working on my picking a lot this year. Great to hear someone tell me to just go for it lol
This helps a lot because I do worry how my hand looks while picking, especially when picking fast I noticed my picking hand moves to a different position and rather than picking in that position I try to pick clean up and down mostly moving my arm up and down to pick , all in all the awkward hand position for me worked the best I believe you have to find a comfortable position
Hey man, go through my How to Play Guitar Faster Playlist in the pinned comment above and it will help you out 👍
What helped me most was doing short bursts of say 4 notes with a pause inbetween, and doing it rhythmically like a snare drum roll. instead of just a constant stream of notes. Then resting if when i started to tense up.When I got used to that I just upped the amount of notes that were in each group.
Right hand muting can be applied to really focus on the attack of the note and also holding the pick at a slant to get a bit more bite or friction on the string helps .
A big difficulty im still working on is jumping strings and syncing up the left hand.
Really great info
Dude, as simple as this video is. It totally changed my ability to pick fast in I’m not even joking.. 5minutes. I can actually pick fast now that I’m not worried about how my wrist is moving.
Excellent tips bro☝️👍
Now THAT guitar is cool! :0
Needed to hear this.
I love the "I don't give a toss" 😂 Thank you fellow Brit 🫡
One of the things that held me back was how hard I was hitting the strings. When I hit the strings as lightly as possible, I find I can strum much quicker and with much better dexterity. Good luck out there, guys. 🎸🔥
Volume comes from technique, not force. It is surprising how little energy it takes to get a string ringing well.
Beautiful guitar. I would love to have one in that color
That's a cool finish for that wood
Beautiful Guitar
If it sounds right and doesn’t make your fingers bleed; mission success.
Just go for it. Try! Even if you think it sounds off or bad or whatever. Keep at it. It will shape itself into something you love and others will love eventually.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you choose the most easiest way of picking now, it might come to bite you back in the long run. I had to completely re-learn a new way of holding the pick after 10 years of playing, because the nerves in my hand started to get pinched time after time. Then I took a year to actually just focus on my picking and picking speed and I've gained some really nice results - now I feel that only thing that is holding me back is the ammount of practice I do.
Deceptively good advice. When I was starting out I got in the habit of using a lot of thumb movement, even sometimes only using thumb movement to pick some notes, and this was always considered wrong technique. Then 15 years later I learn Malmsteen does it. If it works and it doesn't cause you injury, do it. And you can always learn another way later if you want or need to.
what got me to like this is him saying "i dont give a toss..."
Thankyou somebody said it✊.
You got yourself a new subscriber
Welcome 👍👍🍩🍩
Very solid advice, there seems to be a culture of, if you don't spend 4hrs a day with a metronome it won't come, nope. Got to go for it sometimes. But string changes require intellectualizing the movement otherwise you'll end up with a technique that only works for certain runs and never get mastery of it. But even then, it's more about feeling it out rather than getting it to look right.
The only mechanical advice I can suggest is, picking is more a doorknob turning motion, not a side-to-side "casting a fishing line motion". You attack the string plane at an angle, sometimes alternating that angle during changes. When you speed up you will find that you can loosen your grip and allow the pick to "choose" that angle. I spent my entire teens doing the side-to-side (fishing-line casting motion) and it didn't matter how many hours I spent it NEVER came together. Breaking that habit took a solid year, but it finally all came together
Yes, that's right. And with the string crossing, breaking it down is the only way to get a feel for it ua-cam.com/video/E__a61lfceU/v-deo.html
And here's me barely doing it slowly without hitting the other 5 strings accidently
Personally, I found that picking from the wrist slows me down. However, if I hold my wrist still and move my whole forearm up and down (as he does in the video), I can pick much faster.
Also, I found that twisting the pick slightly so it doesn't hit the string squarely (again, as he is doing in the video), speeds up my picking.
Thank you for affirming that l am free to pick as l choose. When l tried to pick the way it is taught it slowed me down.
I am faster and more comfortable when l pick the way l feel is more natural.
Thanks bro.😊
It is taught that way in order to avoid injuries. Beginners will inevitably clench their wrist as if they're wanking off, and limit their speed.
Here's the secret to a relaxed picking motion: STRUM the guitar.
When you're ready, try to strum on fewer strings. Stay relaxed.
Speed that motion up with a metronome. Done.
(The wrist will naturally bend, and stay relaxed)
Man I needed this. Been working on my triplet all night and I’ve been worried about how fast I can do them vs how I shouldn’t worry about it at all.
For me there are a couple of things to understand about fast picking: first obvious, the way you pick fast is not the same motion when you pick slow...so, like the big Mr. Lane said with that sweet little angel voice he had, practice slow, AND fast, even if you can't make it sound good. The thing is that you have to be aware that you are sounding ugly so you can perfection it. Cause if you think you already are picking fast and good, you will never get to the right point.
And the other thing for me is, no matter the grip or the kind of way that you hold the pick, you have to do it with firm on the fingers and loose on the rest of the arm (starting with the wrist). For me, it worked so much, and i think are the basics for picking technique. Cheers!
Just called me on my bullshit !!
Good work. !
I usually like my guitars kinda plain and traditional looking. That royal purple finish is nice. That guitar just wants to be played.
I pray to and thank God for you man, thanks for the lesson
I was told by fancy guitarists for over a decade that I have incorrect strumming technique (it was once compared to skating mongo, which really made me nervous since I used to skate and skating mongo not only looks dumb as all hell but also puts a very hard cap on your abilities no matter how much you work it, which is a big problem if you’re like me and want continuous growth/improvement) , so I finally started really working on changing. A few years in, I finally strum “correctly”, only to find that the music I’ve always played (punk/garage/rockabilly/etc.) is full of guitarists who pick like I used to bc that’s the most practical or only possible way to play some kinds of styles.
The lesson here is, don’t let the “right” way scare you out of YOUR way, bc your way may work better for you-unless someone tells you not to skate mongo, you should always listen then because they are right and you will always be wrong about everything in your life so long as you think it’s ok to push mongo.
Imagine skating mongo 💀💀💀
What the hell is Skate Mongo?
@@majesticpbjcat7707 you push with front foot instead of back foot,
mongo is awful
Frank Gambale and economy picking was life changing for me!
Don't think about it, just do it!
bro said just go fast lmao respect
This is exactly right and the only advice that has helped me. Just go for it.
Awesome word of advice...thank you, sir.
Im.a beginner, and I guess you can say I've been distracted with this
I like the way you play the guitar.🤠🍺🎸
Thank you
As someone who just got an electric guitar, I agree with this.
I've learnt more from you than I have from any guitar teaching app or other youtubers 😩
Wow, that's great to hear!
I think that the bigger problem is trying to get it to sound clean when you're playing that fast
I like your approach!
That color is beautiful
Such a beautiful purple 😭