In this lesson I show you a beginner and advanced workout that will improve your left hand technique! These exercises helped me a lot with developing my own technique over the years and by working on them for just 5-15 minutes every day you will see some great results :) Hope you enjoy this one!
@@ashu7pathak If you meant your comment as an insult, you failed! I'm pretty sure Bernth is Austrian not German. They speak German there and use it as their written language. They also speak dialects. Same deal with the German speaking region of Switzerland. They, in fact, speak a dialect of German but use Hoch Deutsch (High German) or standard German as their written language.
The best online guitar teacher in the world NO JOKE i found this channel by accident and BERNTH is the one that motivated me to go pick up my guitar AGAIN after 10 years of not playing it !!
WOW! Bernth I came across you almost by accident today. The way you break it down makes so much sense. I've understood the spider excessive to be important for warm up but this is a game changer. I am a fan for life! You are truly a master of guitar and thanks for putting out these amazing lessons and please keep them coming!
Hi Bernth I love watching your lessons for guitar techinique ,particularly the left hand fingering and thumb positioning. I am really interested in learning these exercises to take my guitar playing to another level. You are one of the greatest guitar players and teachers across the you tube landscape. Thank you.
So, noob beginner, just returned home with a cheap electric guitar. This is absolutely a challenge for my fingers - increased by nerve damage in my spine - but will try and add 5minute or more per day doing this exercise. @Bernth - I have watched a few of your videos and subscribe to my mindset to optimise, and practice, but trying this a few times I realise the fingers will take time as dead strings is currently a major factor to overcome. thanks for making the content.
Thats a good statement and yes technic is not intent 9f melody. This repeating over and over is for second nature unconcious memory quite similar to chant and tcatile
I consider Bernth Brodtrager the number one instructor on UA-cam. I'm currently am working with Steve Stine primarily but will graduate to Brodtrager as soon as i can. I'm obsessed. Thank you Bernth Brodtrager for cutting through the bullshit like a bullet and sending the structure and technique strait to my brain.
The very first pattern you did I first saw satriani use, but he did it as choral movements. Never thought to break it down to single notes yet its been staring me in the face all these years! I thank you and keep up the vids
This makes me get more serious about guitar. I’ve always had decent rhythm playing, but never could get my lead playing under control, never felt confident about it. Your videos have really helped me get my fingers moving the way I want them too. Amazing videos man.
late to this video but this is actually pretty groundbreaking for my fledgling guitar journey. I've been trying to learn songs, picking styles, chords, the whole nine yards, but something just wasn't clicking. I had heard of this exercise before and even thought I had gotten it down, but I was never told why exactly you should do this exercise. This video showed me the proper way to do it, and now I can safely say after just a minute or two my left-hand technique has improved vastly. Thanks so much!
I immediately subscribe after this lesson. This is what I'm looking for unlike others that i watched. This one is clear and the other continuous video is great its like a reminder always practice continuously the exercise. Great job!!
Always awesome, Bernth! I've been doing the 'spider walk' for over a month now, including alternate versions to target my weaknesses, and it has dramatic effects. I do 4 reps several times per day to not overwork my hand. That second excercise looks beneficial, I'll get right on it, thanks.
This is something I've been looking for to help my hand development. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for the great video to illustrate what I need to be doing. OSZ
Bernth, only found you the other day...really liking your videos so far, very informative and explain concepts very well, will probably make my way to your Patreon page some time soon, cheers!!
I've really been improving a lot since I watched your channel !! inspiration towards discipline and constant improvement. thank u man greetings from Bogota
What up Bernth! I just stumbled on your video for practicing. Your lessons are by far the most comprehensive, well thought out and clearly explained. Your an amazing musician and teacher! Thank you!! I will be purchasing your 10 steps course
Great lesson. I have a problem with that too and even though I played for a long time, I don't take my time with a metronome and go slow at first and just go crazy at it which makes it sloppy. I have to discipline myself to do so. Plus, the resting of the fingers until needed is something that I have to get a grip on. Again, great lesson and thanks.
Bernth, you are an amazing teacher and very patient and precise. I just started to learn guitar at age 39. I am taking private lessons with my son and I am always looking for great videos and expertise such as you provide to supplement my lessons because I want to play and shred like you do. One question though. Should I be placing my palm almost touching the neck or hang it low and really try to bend my wrist down and arch my fingers. I have small hands so these exercises are a bit tough because I accidentally hit the D string with my pinky.
Started doing first exercise when Kiko Loureiro did a video about that...i did one modification while going upward it doesn't test well because upper string does not usually get mute so I started string skipping. The sequence became "e,G,B,D,G,A,D,E,A,E" Please give feedback what you feel! It's second week of your 10 week program and I did very well improvement in rhythm playing.
Guten Tag BERNTH !! I gotta be honest, I skipped your channel for quite a while, maybe a year cuz I thought you were just either a speed metal or death metal player / instructor. Well I guess I was partially correct, BUT I finally decided to give you a shot, and sooo glad I did. Your vids are VERY instructive and informative, even for an old bass player such as myself. So my question is, do you think 65 is too old to try and learn to play lead ? I've " played around" on acoustics for over 20 yrs, know my open cowboy cords and panatonic scale. My soloing abilities are pretty slow too. Am I destined to just stick with being an ok rhythm guitarist ?? I have a MIM Fender Strat and a Marshall C0112 amp. How do I speed up my left hand ???? My picking is quick enough, but the left can't keep up...
Oh crap that beginners one is actually quite challenging. Keeping your fingers one the frets moving one at a time. Have been doing it the other for years. After 20 years off and on of playing I feel like a complete beginner again.
Hey anyone have some advice on the spider exercise?? Have the issue with spider going down?? I just can't seem to find a thumb placement and hand movement that feels remotely right whilst leaving pinky on the fret. Going up is fine.
I'm hoping to start this challenge tonight. As 100% self taught I'm sure I've developed some bad habits along the way that are slowing me down. I barely use my pinky at all. This spider should really get it going and straighten up my grip. From your other video I am also guilty of resting my hand on the bridge *attempting* to sweep a 3 string D-minor shape. I need to pay attention more to angle of my hand and just developing more confidence. I won't be able to sweep cleanly or alt pick proficiently with a flying pinky. Also I tend to play with a decent bit of chunk. I'm going to try a cleaner setting as well. Looking at my skills honestly is the only way I can improve. Hope it's a lovely day is Austria dude. Thanks for the inspiration Ok day 2 and it can be done! Still some buzz and nowhere near perfect. Pinky is hurting cos I never use it much. Started with a little blues inprov to warm up up spider. Tried working on sweeping and some chords at straight clean on my Tele. Finished my practice with spider @ 40 bpm. Ready to try again tomorrow pinky is screaming like old times. Ok still at it, doing a little jamming to warm up but was able to get spider at 100 bpm. Still some fret buzz and not perfect but much much better. Tomorrow is day 5.
I started yesterday 8/24/22 and despite thinking it would be tough it's even tougher than I thought. I keep wanting to lift my fingers off prematurely and not let them remain on the string. I tried metronome at around 60 and it was just too fast. I turned metronome off to just think on fingers and get the position right. I'm coming back to this tonight. Hoping I can get 50 bpm or at least complete the spider down and back without lifting my fingers off
Not Bad Exersice! I startet to practicing it. It is realy Dificult in the Beginning! I had to watch the first Example over and over!. 👍 Vielen lieben Dank Bernth 💛
Thank you, I'll have to try the second one. The one I was taught years ago was a 1-3-2-4 pattern where 1 and 2 are on one string and 3 and 4 are on the string above. You work your way up to the high strings in the same way as your first exercise but you are using two strings with each version of the pattern.
This is the famous Dave Mustaine 'spider walk'. He started with this from his first song 'Into The Lungs of Hell' to 'Sweating Bullets' and 'Dystopia' also. Good work Bernth.
@@anyversionofme Yes, turn off distortion, play clean at just audible volume. I do it for the entire fret board sometimes, or mostly from fret 1 to 12 on all 6 strings down and up. It certainly helps.
Thanks again Bernth. But Vinnie Moore and Vinnie Vincent actually played with these exercises. Vincent crossed a tempo of 200 mostly with this in lead. That was stupendous. Now Strianni, Steve Vai, John Petrucci have taken this a far too long with their very long fingers. Find a band K3 or I would send you a link. They have Satrianni's influence and use this technique. Regards.
For the people who have mastered the first exercise a variation you can try is to completely eliminate the picking hand and play the entire exercise with hammer ons. Since now your fingers are rooted, the hammer on will be a short precise movement which will improve your legato. At first you may not even be able to produce a sound with the fingers not able to move far enough away from the fretboard to generate momentum but as you will soon learn moving too far from the fretboard is unnecessary and inefficient. Also see Rick Graham's video on hammer ons from nowhere.
Hey Bernth i really love your channel and your videos, i wanted to ask you during your practice routine for how long do you practice a specific exercise until you move on to the next exercise ? Thank you very much !
Bernth, about exercice 1: If your pinky is too small, meaning much smaller than your ring finger, which is my case, you will end up in the second "wrong" position (wrist aimed towards the body of the guitar). It is the only way by which your pinky can drop straight on the string, cause it is too small to reach otherwise. I've been tackling with this problem forever :-(
Hey Bernth, hope you are doing well. Thanks for another great video. I feel like I am learning just by watching your videos even when I am not close to my guitar. I HAVE BEEN SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT YOUR CHANNEL AND TEACHING ON EVERY SOCIAL WEBSITE THAT I VISIT. I noticed that your website feed has been popping up on Facebook since then too. I might be changing the algorithm as much as I preach your services. From content to delivery and then how much I am able to retain from them YOUR GUITAR INSTRUCTION IS THE BEST THERE IS ANYWHERE on THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Every single time one of the other guitar instruction sites comes across my screen, I refer them to BERNTH so they can learn for real, and I build you up. If you start noticing a big jump in subscribtions or new students will you shoot me a message? I am just curious, because I believe in your product man. Thanks again, Ian
Your videos are always informative (some are beyone me, but hey, I'll get there eventually, heh). I'm just doing the spider one. I'm also doing it in the middle of the neck 'cause my fingers are having enough trouble stretching. If I start on the low E, and work my way down towards the high E... On the low e, all my fingers are next to the fret, and roughly parallel to each other. As I work my way towards the high e, my ring finger starts to work towards my middle finger, away from the fret. Also, my pinky starts to cock out sideways. It's no longer parallel to the rest, my nail is pointing towards the head, and the knuckles are cocked away from my fingers. Almost like it's too slick to hold straight, and it slides toward my other fingers. Is this just a strength issue, where it will get better with time or is it something else?
1:40 this exercise is the first fingering exercise of mine...but today it seems to be so difficult...i feel like i am play this lesson for the 1st time...
Hey Scott, I agree - a real challenge, took me quite a while to get it ready for this video :) Great to hear that you will start slow, hope you have fun with it!
I think I'll never be able to do properly the spider exercise like you and Kiko do it because I had a motorbike accident and my left hand was broken. For a long time I couldn't move two of my fingers one without the other. By learning to play guitar, I now can move them a bit separately but not enough for this exercise. I'm so sad about it... But an other guitar teacher on YT said "you don't have to keep the fingers on the string" but in this case you don't learn a perfect technique I think. He doesn't do it but plays very well, so I hope I will learn a reasonable technique without it. :-(
The second exercise sounds like it's inspired by Jelly Roll Morton's "Finger breaker"....and perhaps for that reason it does sound musical... The clearest explanation on spider exercise is another reason why I instantly subscribed. Respect and Headbanging node from India. 🤘🤘🤘
I actually find it easier to do the diagonal sweep-picking exercise than the fixed spider walk. Is that normal?! This is my first day with this technique. Thanks Bernth!
I'm completely self taught and after watching this video, I realize that I've been playing with terrible form for 14 years now. This is going to take a LOOOOOONG time to fix.
Oh wow I can't even do the Spider correctly. It's actually really hard. Trying to keep my fingers curled twists my arm and stretches my back. How do I even practice this?
In this lesson I show you a beginner and advanced workout that will improve your left hand technique! These exercises helped me a lot with developing my own technique over the years and by working on them for just 5-15 minutes every day you will see some great results :) Hope you enjoy this one!
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Hi, this is just the workout my left hand needs. I can't do it right now but I won't let it beat me. Thank you
@@ashu7pathak If you meant your comment as an insult, you failed! I'm pretty sure Bernth is Austrian not German. They speak German there and use it as their written language. They also speak dialects. Same deal with the German speaking region of Switzerland. They, in fact, speak a dialect of German but use Hoch Deutsch (High German) or standard German as their written language.
Thank you for all of your kind help with playin guitar. You’ve helped me a lot.👍🤓
The best online guitar teacher in the world NO JOKE i found this channel by accident
and BERNTH is the one that motivated me to go pick up my guitar AGAIN after 10 years of not playing it !!
omg i just started playing after 4 years and found you, i can not thank you enough man you teach the real secrets man i love you thanks a million
WOW! Bernth I came across you almost by accident today. The way you break it down makes so much sense. I've understood the spider excessive to be important for warm up but this is a game changer. I am a fan for life! You are truly a master of guitar and thanks for putting out these amazing lessons and please keep them coming!
Hi Bernth
I love watching your lessons for guitar techinique ,particularly the left hand fingering and thumb positioning.
I am really interested in learning these exercises to take my guitar playing to another level.
You are one of the greatest guitar players and teachers across the you tube landscape.
Thank you.
So, noob beginner, just returned home with a cheap electric guitar. This is absolutely a challenge for my fingers - increased by nerve damage in my spine - but will try and add 5minute or more per day doing this exercise.
@Bernth - I have watched a few of your videos and subscribe to my mindset to optimise, and practice, but trying this a few times I realise the fingers will take time as dead strings is currently a major factor to overcome. thanks for making the content.
I know you said that these aren't the must musical sounding exercises, but man the second pattern has this crazy cool outside sound.
Look into the diminished scale, very cool sounding...pairs with minor scales for ascending n descending sweeps
I agree. Ain’t his lessons so cool
Thats a good statement and yes technic is not intent 9f melody. This repeating over and over is for second nature unconcious memory quite similar to chant and tcatile
I consider Bernth Brodtrager the number one instructor on UA-cam. I'm currently am working with Steve Stine primarily but will graduate to Brodtrager as soon as i can. I'm obsessed. Thank you Bernth Brodtrager for cutting through the bullshit like a bullet and sending the structure and technique strait to my brain.
The very first pattern you did I first saw satriani use, but he did it as choral movements. Never thought to break it down to single notes yet its been staring me in the face all these years! I thank you and keep up the vids
That second exercise sounds like some fantastic jazz.
one of the best techer on youtube.a modest man,thank you
This makes me get more serious about guitar. I’ve always had decent rhythm playing, but never could get my lead playing under control, never felt confident about it. Your videos have really helped me get my fingers moving the way I want them too. Amazing videos man.
The absolute shredding jedi professor, every class is a step forward toward faster chops. Thanks man!
late to this video but this is actually pretty groundbreaking for my fledgling guitar journey. I've been trying to learn songs, picking styles, chords, the whole nine yards, but something just wasn't clicking. I had heard of this exercise before and even thought I had gotten it down, but I was never told why exactly you should do this exercise. This video showed me the proper way to do it, and now I can safely say after just a minute or two my left-hand technique has improved vastly. Thanks so much!
I immediately subscribe after this lesson. This is what I'm looking for unlike others that i watched. This one is clear and the other continuous video is great its like a reminder always practice continuously the exercise. Great job!!
Welcome to the channel and thanks for the kind feedback! :)
Loved that exercise. My “spider” was only going up faster. It is incredibly challenging training down direction.
Finally, someone who explains the spider exercise correctly! 👍
I am struggling with the beginner exercise more than i'd like to admit, but I am excited for when I can complete your exercises!
Always awesome, Bernth!
I've been doing the 'spider walk' for over a month now, including alternate versions to target my weaknesses, and it has dramatic effects. I do 4 reps several times per day to not overwork my hand.
That second excercise looks beneficial, I'll get right on it, thanks.
imo you are the best shred teacher on the interweb
Excellent. I want to develop my speed and to keep it clean. I will start with the basic exercise and see how it goes. Thanks Bernth!
Thanks for sharing, appreciate the positivity and detailed explanation/clips. Keep it up!
The beginner exercise is great. Even after a couple of days just playing 1/8 notes at 100bpm I can really feel my left hand working.
Great to hear Duncan, thanks for sharing that :)
This is something I've been looking for to help my hand development. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for the great video to illustrate what I need to be doing. OSZ
This was eye opening, so much control gained.
Bernth, only found you the other day...really liking your videos so far, very informative and explain concepts very well, will probably make my way to your Patreon page some time soon, cheers!!
Quite exciting for this kind of technique thank you sir for awesome sample..
From Philippine
one of the best exercises for guitar fingers ever!for me its important to do minimum 4 minutes every day!thank you berth
Thanks Bernth ! These videos are solid gold! You’re a good dude for helping all of us wanna be guitar players👍🤓
I knew I liked it even before seeing the actual video. I was right. Thank you for the great tip!
Another great exercise made even better by the great visual layout 🤘
Your channel is a gem Bernth,thank you for all the advice and everything they have really helped me
I've really been improving a lot since I watched your channel !! inspiration towards discipline and constant improvement. thank u man greetings from Bogota
Thanks for you video. I have the stupidest left hand in the world and it helped me a lot.
I just discovered a few days ago and I'm loving your videos. It's time to get better. Thanks
What up Bernth! I just stumbled on your video for practicing. Your lessons are by far the most comprehensive, well thought out and clearly explained. Your an amazing musician and teacher! Thank you!! I will be purchasing your 10 steps course
These are Great!
Great lesson. I have a problem with that too and even though I played for a long time, I don't take my time with a metronome and go slow at first and just go crazy at it which makes it sloppy. I have to discipline myself to do so. Plus, the resting of the fingers until needed is something that I have to get a grip on. Again, great lesson and thanks.
Deine Begrüßung ist immer super 😂👍🏼
Voll alles auf Englisch aber dein Name Bernd knall hart auf deutsch 👍🏼
I think you are German by the way you speak. Very strong, powerful and precise.
Thank you sir for teaching. Greetings from Singapore...
This is the best left hand exercise in the history of left hand exercises!
Bernth, you are an amazing teacher and very patient and precise. I just started to learn guitar at age 39. I am taking private lessons with my son and I am always looking for great videos and expertise such as you provide to supplement my lessons because I want to play and shred like you do. One question though. Should I be placing my palm almost touching the neck or hang it low and really try to bend my wrist down and arch my fingers. I have small hands so these exercises are a bit tough because I accidentally hit the D string with my pinky.
I like your instructions, I've learned more from you in just a few lessons, I'll be there for your videos.
Always watching ur video
wonderful man love love love and happy weekend
Thanks Bernth for sharing all your knowledge!!!
Thanks so lot brother..for your exercise..very² helpful for me..i will always saport for your channel brother..
Excellent and very helpful! Cheers, Bernth!
Started doing first exercise when Kiko Loureiro did a video about that...i did one modification while going upward it doesn't test well because upper string does not usually get mute so I started string skipping. The sequence became "e,G,B,D,G,A,D,E,A,E" Please give feedback what you feel!
It's second week of your 10 week program and I did very well improvement in rhythm playing.
Thank you for the awesome videos. I love this chanel🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for your lesson
Dude this is huge!!!!!!!!!!!
Guten Tag BERNTH !! I gotta be honest, I skipped your channel for quite a while, maybe a year cuz I thought you were just either a speed metal or death metal player / instructor. Well I guess I was partially correct, BUT I finally decided to give you a shot, and sooo glad I did. Your vids are VERY instructive and informative, even for an old bass player such as myself. So my question is, do you think 65 is too old to try and learn to play lead ? I've " played around" on acoustics for over 20 yrs, know my open cowboy cords and panatonic scale. My soloing abilities are pretty slow too. Am I destined to just stick with being an ok rhythm guitarist ?? I have a MIM Fender Strat and a Marshall C0112 amp. How do I speed up my left hand ???? My picking is quick enough, but the left can't keep up...
This was just what i needed.
Top shelf stuff dude
Oh crap that beginners one is actually quite challenging. Keeping your fingers one the frets moving one at a time. Have been doing it the other for years. After 20 years off and on of playing I feel like a complete beginner again.
Amazing, now I need to improve my right hand picking accuracy and I'll be golden
Great lesson! Thank you!!!
Hey anyone have some advice on the spider exercise??
Have the issue with spider going down?? I just can't seem to find a thumb placement and hand movement that feels remotely right whilst leaving pinky on the fret.
Going up is fine.
I'm hoping to start this challenge tonight. As 100% self taught I'm sure I've developed some bad habits along the way that are slowing me down. I barely use my pinky at all. This spider should really get it going and straighten up my grip.
From your other video I am also guilty of resting my hand on the bridge *attempting* to sweep a 3 string D-minor shape. I need to pay attention more to angle of my hand and just developing more confidence. I won't be able to sweep cleanly or alt pick proficiently with a flying pinky.
Also I tend to play with a decent bit of chunk. I'm going to try a cleaner setting as well. Looking at my skills honestly is the only way I can improve. Hope it's a lovely day is Austria dude. Thanks for the inspiration
Ok day 2 and it can be done! Still some buzz and nowhere near perfect. Pinky is hurting cos I never use it much. Started with a little blues inprov to warm up up spider. Tried working on sweeping and some chords at straight clean on my Tele. Finished my practice with spider @ 40 bpm. Ready to try again tomorrow pinky is screaming like old times.
Ok still at it, doing a little jamming to warm up but was able to get spider at 100 bpm. Still some fret buzz and not perfect but much much better. Tomorrow is day 5.
I started yesterday 8/24/22 and despite thinking it would be tough it's even tougher than I thought. I keep wanting to lift my fingers off prematurely and not let them remain on the string. I tried metronome at around 60 and it was just too fast. I turned metronome off to just think on fingers and get the position right. I'm coming back to this tonight. Hoping I can get 50 bpm or at least complete the spider down and back without lifting my fingers off
Not Bad Exersice! I startet to practicing it. It is realy Dificult in the Beginning! I had to watch the first Example over and over!. 👍 Vielen lieben Dank Bernth 💛
Thanks man!
You're such a great teacher 😊
Thank you, I'll have to try the second one. The one I was taught years ago was a 1-3-2-4 pattern where 1 and 2 are on one string and 3 and 4 are on the string above. You work your way up to the high strings in the same way as your first exercise but you are using two strings with each version of the pattern.
Actually I think I didn't tab this right. You want to go E:1-3 A:2-4-1-3 A:2-4
Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤
This is the famous Dave Mustaine 'spider walk'. He started with this from his first song 'Into The Lungs of Hell' to 'Sweating Bullets' and 'Dystopia' also.
Good work Bernth.
Shashank Sherkar first encounter in a Satriani book for me... early 90’s. A boring exercice. But not a bad one.
@@anyversionofme Yes, turn off distortion, play clean at just audible volume. I do it for the entire fret board sometimes, or mostly from fret 1 to 12 on all 6 strings down and up. It certainly helps.
Thanks again Bernth. But Vinnie Moore and Vinnie Vincent actually played with these exercises. Vincent crossed a tempo of 200 mostly with this in lead. That was stupendous.
Now Strianni, Steve Vai, John Petrucci have taken this a far too long with their very long fingers. Find a band K3 or I would send you a link. They have Satrianni's influence and use this technique. Regards.
I’m definitely going to put these into my practice routine, thank you so much 💃🎶💃🎶
great lesson and great teacher
For the people who have mastered the first exercise a variation you can try is to completely eliminate the picking hand and play the entire exercise with hammer ons. Since now your fingers are rooted, the hammer on will be a short precise movement which will improve your legato. At first you may not even be able to produce a sound with the fingers not able to move far enough away from the fretboard to generate momentum but as you will soon learn moving too far from the fretboard is unnecessary and inefficient. Also see Rick Graham's video on hammer ons from nowhere.
Aula sensacional. Parabéns!!!
Hey Bernth i really love your channel and your videos, i wanted to ask you during your practice routine for how long do you practice a specific exercise until you move on to the next exercise ? Thank you very much !
Bernth, about exercice 1: If your pinky is too small, meaning much smaller than your ring finger, which is my case, you will end up in the second "wrong" position (wrist aimed towards the body of the guitar). It is the only way by which your pinky can drop straight on the string, cause it is too small to reach otherwise. I've been tackling with this problem forever :-(
Hey Bernth, hope you are doing well. Thanks for another great video. I feel like I am learning just by watching your videos even when I am not close to my guitar. I HAVE BEEN SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT YOUR CHANNEL AND TEACHING ON EVERY SOCIAL WEBSITE THAT I VISIT. I noticed that your website feed has been popping up on Facebook since then too. I might be changing the algorithm as much as I preach your services. From content to delivery and then how much I am able to retain from them YOUR GUITAR INSTRUCTION IS THE BEST THERE IS ANYWHERE on THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Every single time one of the other guitar instruction sites comes across my screen, I refer them to BERNTH so they can learn for real, and I build you up. If you start noticing a big jump in subscribtions or new students will you shoot me a message? I am just curious, because I believe in your product man.
Thanks again, Ian
Your videos are always informative (some are beyone me, but hey, I'll get there eventually, heh). I'm just doing the spider one. I'm also doing it in the middle of the neck 'cause my fingers are having enough trouble stretching. If I start on the low E, and work my way down towards the high E... On the low e, all my fingers are next to the fret, and roughly parallel to each other. As I work my way towards the high e, my ring finger starts to work towards my middle finger, away from the fret. Also, my pinky starts to cock out sideways. It's no longer parallel to the rest, my nail is pointing towards the head, and the knuckles are cocked away from my fingers. Almost like it's too slick to hold straight, and it slides toward my other fingers. Is this just a strength issue, where it will get better with time or is it something else?
Thanks. Good exercises.
6:12 - *crazy advanced example*
Thank you very much
A true master
1:40 this exercise is the first fingering exercise of mine...but today it seems to be so difficult...i feel like i am play this lesson for the 1st time...
Well, the first exercise shows I have about 2% independence in my ring finger. Feels impossible to move on its own
Just curious, how much have you improved?
same
Same lol I think mines like .5 %
GEIL! Danke Dir!
That second exercise is really tricky. Going to have to start slowly and work it up to speed.
Hey Scott, I agree - a real challenge, took me quite a while to get it ready for this video :) Great to hear that you will start slow, hope you have fun with it!
My sweep picking is subpar, I fear that more than the left hand fingering.
@@EclecticEssentric same😥 but slowly improving
Ur my best teacher woahhh
I love your videos! Very very well explained and shown goodies!!!
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Jesus you teach like you had a lifetime experience in teaching industries. efficient...!!!
Hello..you can make videos in Italian and make them
in reduced speed to study better? ... you are number 1
thanks....
I think I'll never be able to do properly the spider exercise like you and Kiko do it because I had a motorbike accident and my left hand was broken. For a long time I couldn't move two of my fingers one without the other. By learning to play guitar, I now can move them a bit separately but not enough for this exercise. I'm so sad about it...
But an other guitar teacher on YT said "you don't have to keep the fingers on the string" but in this case you don't learn a perfect technique I think. He doesn't do it but plays very well, so I hope I will learn a reasonable technique without it. :-(
Saludosdesde México, me interesa mejor mi tecnica, y me emociono mucho encontrar tu canal. Grcias
The second exercise sounds like it's inspired by Jelly Roll Morton's "Finger breaker"....and perhaps for that reason it does sound musical...
The clearest explanation on spider exercise is another reason why I instantly subscribed.
Respect and Headbanging node from India. 🤘🤘🤘
I actually find it easier to do the diagonal sweep-picking exercise than the fixed spider walk. Is that normal?! This is my first day with this technique. Thanks Bernth!
Hi Bernth. Great vid. But how are you supposed to mute unwanted string without flatting your fingers (or at least flating the first finger) ?
I'm completely self taught and after watching this video, I realize that I've been playing with terrible form for 14 years now. This is going to take a LOOOOOONG time to fix.
Did you stick to this exercise? Did you notice any improvements?
Excellent
I love your lessons
wow thanks..new teacher 👍😅
If I were to start in you lessons which video do you suggest I do?
the strugle on ring finger is real hahaha in downward movement
Oh wow I can't even do the Spider correctly. It's actually really hard. Trying to keep my fingers curled twists my arm and stretches my back. How do I even practice this?
And this beginner lesson can apply to other chromatic exercises as well?
Hi, I am from India.doing this 1st excercise last 3 years
Is there any improvement bro???
Ya me too from some months