14 Technical Mistakes Every Intermediate Guitarist Makes
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0:00 Intro
0:09 Incorrect thumb placement
0:20 Angling your fingers
0:45 The Hendrix-style grip
1:40 Putting your fingers right on the metal
2:00 Having an inward bend with your fingers instead of an outward bend
2:25 Squeezing the neck too hard
3:08 Lifting your fingers too high as you play
3:50 Lifting the fingers of your picking hand
4:42 Not moving your right hand as you pick
5:06 Not bending with multiple fingers
5:27 Bending with fingers instead of wrists
5:53 Double notes
7:09 Weak pull-offs
7:32 Weak hammer-ons
You're all a bunch of bitches
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all of them.
@@marksomething - Yeah, me too. I still bend with my feet. Maybe using fingers might be easier after all. 🤷♂️
You're my favorite drill sargent! Learn a lot from your tips and love the humor! Hopefully I can be your student just need to save up. Need to get back on stage! Keep up the vids man...
... For some reason I keep seeing you in my nightmares yelling at me to quit cigarettes lol... I hope this continues!
Could you please make a video on the right process to learn scales and the fretboard?
Love you content!
Before i sign up for this 52 week course..just wanna know do you roast your students like in your videos? Cause if you don't I'm not interested..i want you to call my fingers weak little shit everytime i make a mistake
“Send this video to a guitar player that fuckin’ sucks!”
*proceeds to forward video to self*
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Me!!
same here 😂😂😂😂
Mistake number 15: learning guitar from this guy.
-Don't use angled fingers while using Italian grip
*01:32** Proceeds using angled fingers*
Also flung his fingers way high off the fretboard.
This thing about not using angled fingers should not be followed to the letter. It's good that you train like he said, a hand that is more reminiscent of a bass player, until you can play freely like that, and use angled fingers on the right occasions. Every professional uses angled fingers, but it is because of the context. Anyway, I don't know everything, but I think this way and I think it works well
Lolz you're right I kinda did! If you look at past videos like my Cliffs of Dover cover I generally don't though. It's a bad habit that I still recommend you avoid. Cheers my man!
do as i say not as i do kinda shit
@@BrandonDeon I understood what you were trying to say, I was just joking 😄. I have improved a lot because of your tips, Thanks
Mistake 0: Have short fingers!
My friend has short and fat fingers but he play fast solo lick like ease
Can't they just like get a smaller guitar
I got short, thick fingers and it def prevents from being able to do certain things. I can't use the Hendrix grip. My fingers won't reach without muting out most strings.
SAME
0.5 would have been funnier
0:30 fortunately I'm italian so I never make this mistake
This whole comment sections is on CIGARETTES!!!
I am appalled
@@kb470 Then lay off the CIGARETTES!!!
@@kb470lay off the cigerattes you need to practice guitar
@@Lucas-dm7xo I'm not! I don't even know how to spell sigerets
@@kb470 uh huh sure take him to guitar jail for not practicing the circle of 78ths for ten sets of 12
im sick of people telling me im doing stuff wrong so I stop playing how its comfortable and play how im "supposed too" then i see this video and im right bruh
Ok ok... You win, you are right Mr.Wrong
The guy in the video is too pretentious. Plenty of great guitar players/virtuosos use the so called 'mistakes' when it comes to their own individual technique, so don't worry!
But you angled your fingers, during the Italian grip! 😲
Sometimes i do that too but it was for close fret, just find your own comfortable spot
Great video (I haven’t seen it yet)
Real
I think He made a good point on 8:03
@@paulgilbert3139more like 9:20
This is such a good video. These points aren’t mentioned enough. I would show this video on day one if I were to teach a newbie. Thanks for all the great content, Brandon!
Let’s go Brandon!
As always great video. I've encountered all of these issues over the years and learned corrections!
Dude, the thumb thing makes no sense. Your thumb should naturally be changing positions and placement on the neck as you play and based on how high up on the neck you're hand is. Any beginner guitar player is gonna watch this, try to keep their thumb in the "correct position" you suggest and likely hurt themselves because you told them not to move their thumb in respect to the rest of their hand... good advice.
absolutely agreed
@keshavjoshi7098 Yup. This type of mindset ruins creativity. According to this guy there is only one way to play guitar...
A lot of the other mistakes he mentions are the same. Its almost like its deliberately put first to cause outrage.
@BLINKxSCOT I'm just highly bothered by that he's acts like he's sn expert. Even if he's just acting this way for the videos, he's gonna give beginner guitar players the wrong idea. No instrument is this rigged or black and white.
He acts like that cause he has to sell courses to you all. First make people think they have a problem and then sell them the solution.
I had always had the "right" thumb position shown at 0:13. However, I've watched some videos that say that the "wrong" way is more natural for the hand. I've tried this for a few months and I've noticed that I no longer feel any pain/tension in my thumb muscle. However, I still need to use the "right" thumb position for big stretches on the lower strings. I think in the end it all depends on the situation.
I may be a little bitch on CIGARETTES, but I’m not even mad because this is gonna help me become better at guitar.
Well done!🎉 Learned a lot and also had a few laughs along the way. Subscribed
this video is really good and reassuring, thanks man.
All great advice! Thanks Brandon!
“SYNC THAT SHIT UP!” 😂
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Always Grateful for your wisdom, Sifu D'eon.
Liking the longer vids👍
Biggest intermediate guitar mistake: watching UA-cam instead of practicing. Facts
This is FUCKING GOOD CONTENT! But I'm not even mad. Thanks for the great quality video bro. 1 million subscribers incoming and well deserved!!
Keep the long formats coming
Doing gods work thank you
I love how Brandon proceeds to do the "mistakes" he told us not to do not even 3 mins later in his demo's, form a semi-open picking hand, to Hendrix and angle on legato licks. Might be time to make a difference between the "mistake" (which is the extrem form that Brandon shows on the bad form demos) and the playing styles some people have that still has not 100% clean technique but works better for them than the super clean technique, as Brandon uses this too
Improper technique can lead to things like repetitive stress injuries. Sure it might work for some people, but you're gonna find out if you're obe of them at the risk of injury. If it feels right for you and you don't mind making that gamble, more power to you, but don't expect it to condoned as a best practice by an instructor who doesn't know you
Good tips!
How about a video of tips on barre chords?
6:10 helped me alot, i thought i needed to practice my touch of the strings to not make noise when i place my fingers. Actually only applying pressure in my left hand exacly when im picking with my right will be a game changer when ive practiced enough
Corrected all these today crazy being called out so many times in a row but im learning thank you, playing is more comfortable now, especially the tense part and the italian grip with angled fingers
Ngl this is by far the best video about guitar mistakes ive ever seen
can we all appreciate how the thumbnail is perfectly lined up
Angled fingers during demo of point 3, Italian grip.
Saw that too. Also Hendrix grip is mandatory when playing stuff like Hendrix which you can’t do with Italian grip.
Yep..noticed that🤣
"Don't angle your fingers."
*immediately demos angled fingers.*
Correct answer: It depends. If you need your pinky (jazz, classical, fast soloing in general), you need the "Italian" grip. If you need sick bends, angled fingers are fine.
The Italian grip worked amazing for me!! I’m self taught and had been playing for almost three years now, always struggled playing on higher frets. I thought it’s because of my 2.5 inch long tiny fingers, but changing the grip helped soooo much 🥰 It feels so much easier to stretch and reaching the upper two strings. Thanks for making this video!
If I had a buck for every contradictory thing in this video I'd be FOOOKIN RICH!
0:40 Don't do this, you'll hurt your wrist. If you really want to achieve the Italian parallel finger/fret thing, lift the neck to the Italian classical position it came from so your wrist can straighten and relax.
Btw cool riffs for the tips🗿🎸
Honorable Mention: Playing Guitar, only the cool kids play Bass (im 6'4 btw)
Bro is *slapping* some real facts here
Hey this was pretty useful.
Hey Brandon, would love if you could make a video about recording your guitar audio. I personally use plugins and digital effects boards for the most part so not really talking about mic setups for amps but more using DAWs to record. Like what DAWs do you use/preffer? Tips/tricks and things to avoid. Would be cool to get a little behind the scenes of how you record guitar audio for your videos
Dang thx for this helps a lot like i have one or three mistake pointed out after correcting it it makes the puzzle complete now im playing better
Thanks man
*1:32** Brandon making the mistake displayed at **0:24* 😂
at 1:32 he had to angle his fingers to reach the horizontal range...
Glad u went into detail about when hendrix grip is useful. Most videos I've seen in my self taught adventures have said to never ever use hendrix grip under any circumstances
Its like “never use a grip used by many of the top guitar players in the world” lol
You let the Canadian slip oot, I heard that you hoser 🤣🤘🏽
I just assume everyone vaguely American sounding on UA-cam is from Canada because like 70% of Canadians are UA-camrs
Oops. No. He's Russian.
Omg the grip thing I accidentally got right but thank you for the rest! Sooo useful.
For mistake 8, George Lynch tends to play with pretty fanned fingers. Rather than a closed fist, I like to leave my middle, ring, and pinky open but loose to help with muting the higher strings and to hybrid pick the higher strings.
I think just like the Hendrix grip, what you are playing will dictate which right hand position is better.
Regardless, you shiuld not keep you fingers tense in your right hand if you don't keep a closed fist.
Wow, there are actually some things I'm already doing correctly!
It's just the other eleven I need to work on. I'll start tomorrow, maybe sooner.
These videos are so funny 😂
Can you do a similar video focusing on the picking hand for gallop picking and downstrokes like Iced Earth etc?
Thank you for actually showing how the Hendrix grip is/can be effectively used. So many snobs love to shit on it for being unprofessional or however they feel like branding it.
Good luck trying to get back and forth between bending and shredding with the “Italian “ grip
Oooh the bending, thanks for pointing that out, defintely why it's not working 😂 .. made me laugh out loud!
Funny M F. You have earned my loyalty. Beginner here
Graham Coxon uses the Hendrix grip to play bar chords. Is there any issue with that?
The Technical "mistake" #3 is allowed for some chords, like on gypsy jazz, for example
My fingers are totally double jointed like yours. Thanks for the tips.
I would think the thumb pointing towards the headstock is good because less angled wrist is good.
Hendrix grip, Italian grip…lol classic! 😁👍🏽✌🏽
I don't like teachers who yell.
I haven’t got any yelling teachers in my life who teach guitar 🥲
I agree !
Womp womp
Struggling to get proper technique on CIGARETTES so I'm taking up Guitar. Thx for all the Gold Senór! Your videos really piss me off!
Does Mistake #13 about weak pull-offs apply to tapping as well when it's in a repetitive sequence of the same set of notes (as in, when the tap is not just a simple hammer-on)?
Back when I started I saw a lot of people saying "you should do like this", always making some pointless rules because theu were taught that way and they were the worst because many of this rules came from classical guitar performances poses, play it as you feel confortable if you struggle with stuff try different positions, don't follow rules, I imagine this seeing me make and A chord with only my middle finger lol.
With the thumb, i don't know why but i just can't get to put the thumb that way without my hand hurting a lot, or just not being able to reach anything.
Mingya this lesson
An explanation of why the mistakes are bad would be helpful.
if you plan to yell use compressor
I mean do you strive for perfection by definition or do you find your own perfection by what you feel when you play?
sometimes these habits are hard to break but i ensure anyone whos trying, youll get there !
ADHD, Autism or OCD?
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Gotta catch them all
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But lifting my fingers all the way up helps to keep me from getting confused as to which finger im supposed to use. Like, if its up its at the back of the line and out of the way..my adhd makes it so im always moving random fingers. But making them go so far out of the way helps keep the order in line
You can't shred if you do it like that
I plan to be an amazing guitar player without practicing. How should I position my fingers for that?
damn, the first one was a game changer
great video. had me laughing 😃
I never Italian grip, like to keep my wrist straight and tension free
Mine moves all over and i try new ones to see if it helps with what I'm playing
I get what your saying that angled fingers means you have less reach but I would hardly call that a technical mistake. Essentially every player even the greats like Guthrie, Petrucci, Brandon D'Eon Music and many others angle their fingers when playing certain lines.
Sure I would call angled fingers a mistake if the goal is to try to stretch to reach higher frets but calling it flat out a mistake seems a bit excessive and maybe needs more nuance. Same thing with always having a thumb behind the back of the neck. Once again looking at 99% of guitar players they will have their thumbs behind the neck when not playing stretchy licks. Just my 2 cents
to perfect the italian grip, I will now exclusively just eat my spaghett and nothing else...
all jokes aside, figuring out that I had a gorilla on everything and refusing to move the entire arm down when string skipping, was some galaxy brain shit for me like 3 months ago.
Hahaha bro you're great
by the way i signed up for 52 week guitar player super early and realised i can't participate because of school. i was wondering if i could be removed from the list.
Mistakes I currently have:
11(Sometimes) & 12.
But where should my thumb be for barre chords? I’ve always heard closer to the Italian style, parallel to your barre finger, but whenever I do that for too long it cramps my forearm and wrists really really fast. I’m sure I’m just doing something wrong, but I’ve got my hand as close to example pictures as I can get and it still starts to hurt pretty quick. Holding my thumb parallel to the guitar neck does also start to cramp a little bit, but not nearly as bad or nearly as fast.
I partly agree with Italian style, but hear me out. When I do long stretches I put the thumb back there, but otherwise it’s more comfy angled. I compared hand sizes with my friend who was 6’5 and we had nearly the same pinky to thumb span(I’m 5’10). His fingers were mad long though. My thumb is longer than my pinky and almost the same size as my index. I hated my classical lessons because they always told me to keep it back.
"Don't angle your fingers during Italian grip" Proceeds to angle his fingers during Italian grip.
So now how do I put my thumb in the right place without jacking up my wrist like it looks like you're doing?
🔥🔥
Sometimes I anchor my pinky so hard it hurts so bad i have to stop (especially on precision finger picking acoustic)
yep
I don't disagree with the gripping part, however I can say this because I have big hands and long fingers. After 11 years of playing, and having first been taught what you preach, I must say for like the first 5ish years this was good for me too when I developed my technique.. until I grew to 6'7 and my hands and fingers also decided to jump the scaling and now it is actually easier for me to play with a slight angle in most cases because it closes the distance better for my fingers while also allowing me to still hold it comfortable.
So I don't really have that problem so maybe mention it that it is in most cases, which I do agree on, the correct way yet it can also be individual and can vary for specific reasons.
That is what I teach my students now too although I do correct them in the way they hold their pick and position their picking hand a lot.
My reach is extremely throttled when I have my thumb straight
, I’ve heard this so many times and it’s nearly impossible to correct
I instantly removed this video from my watch history. Young and Rebellious teacher.
Everyone always explains fingers flying away from the fretboard so poorly. What needs to be demonstrated is what our relaxed hand shapes like, as well as how that shape shifts with different wrist positions. From these relaxed states we need to feel what it's like to close our fingers and to then relax them. To feel then extend and relax.
To the point, fingers flying away stems from not understanding we can just relax our hands to release notes, and if we instead try to pull our fingers away to release notes we over do it. We are most efficient when our muscles arent trying to do opposite actions (in this case finger flexion and extension) simultaneously.
Tldr: utilize the stretch reflex of the fingers to release notes instead of your extensors, unless you can do so in a controlled manner and for a practical reason
Soooo….. My fingers kinda naturally angle inwards which makes Italian style kinda awkward. I also have trigger finger in both ring fingers. Tips?
I had already seen half of the video from shorts and ig reels lmao
as an italian it was pretty easy to fixing the second mistake
I got dent on my guitar frad wire. What should I do?
what about something that i have been told is to play scales with all the frets pressed "almost like Legato Piano playing" I think that's stupid a f
and crazy to actually do for picking.
Another one is changing your alt picking from down up to up or vice versa and losing the alt pick . especially when praciting 3nps.
Try economypicking, it's easier than alt picking
Ah heck. I know I've made these mistakes before. Fortunately, I quit tobacco products on June 13th, 2022 and will never look back. Happy Friday everyone!
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The correction to the first "mistake" is the complete opposite of what they tell you to do when you get wrist pain when playing guitar.
Also, how do you keep your hand from cramping when trying to play bar chords?
if you're cramping, you're tensing your hand/ applying too much force. it's about finding the right angles, not about holding your hand down as hard as possible
I'm Glad That I Didn't do Most of These With My Guitar Covers, that Being Said I Should Work on a More Close-Fisted Pick-Grip! :D
3:08 This is something I actually learned from watching Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest. When he does his solos, his hands hardly move and his fingers stay close to the fretboard.