10 Life-Changing Guitar Technique HACKS!
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In this video, I want to show you 10 life-changing guitar technique hacks that will improve your picking and fretting hand technique! We go through some very helpful exercises and technique adjustments that will help you out a lot on your journey :) Don't forget to download your practice files on Patreon and have fun shredding!
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00:00 Intro
01:15 Trick #1
03:06 Trick #2
05:22 Exercise #1
05:59 Trick #3
07:38 Exercise #2
07:48 Trick #4
08:59 Exercise #3
09:14 Trick #5
09:56 Trick #6
10:48 Trick #7
11:33 Trick #8
12:24 Trick #9
15:50 Trick #10
14:06 Exercise #4
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Get your tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and video play-alongs for today's exercises here: www.patreon.com/bernth 🎸 Have fun practicing :)
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽🍁🤘hope you get to shred some good food today!! I’m thankful for your lessons.
Happy thanksgiving to the guy above my comment👍🏽
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Bernth, I’m reviewing your patreon options and I would like to join. Additionally, is it possible to hire you as a consultant? I’m not looking to take a lot of time from you, I just would like to get a few sessions of consultation on setting up my home studio, nothing major, but I keep having minor issues with recording levels from guitar input, pedals, interface, kemper to Daw, for example. Thanks for all your great teaching content, it’s gold! 🤘Technik😎
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I've been playing for 20 years and I've never really thought about how hard I press on the fretboard. thanks for the mind blow.
I also discovered this way too late, hope it helps 🙂🤘
It also helps to have a light touch for vibrato 😉
I am guilty of this as well, About 14 years in now🤔😬
@@clayfinley with vibrato I usually grab that shit with a death grip
31 years of playing now! (And not ons za Grampspaz guitars guys! ) It's amazing! I've never altered my pick grip before tonight. And I've always had open hand for palm muting. So I tried your grip. Did a few drills with the new grip and holy shit All of the sudden I started landing simple runs at 125bpm 130bpm. I'm impressed man! Thanks! What I would have given fire TH-cam when I was a kid learning guitar. Back then it was, 'wait for the monthly issue of Guitar World magazine, buy books from local music stores, and trade info with friends. Crazy change compared to now.
Duuuuuude.... after 21 years of learning the guitar, finally, you are the one who is able to teach me! Your lessons are nothing but awesome and I'm making more progress with them in the last few months than I have made in the last 10 years without them.
I applaud you and thank you from the bottom of my heart!
whaha for a second I thougth hey when did I wright this comment!
21 years? Yikes that's awful
I was at my local guitar shop, testing out a pedal, when the shop owner was mindblown by the technik tips I picked up from this video. We talked and he ended up giving me the keys to his shop! Thanks to this video, no doubt! Watch till the end, you might end up with a free guitar shop...
I taught myself how to play in high school and have been playing for about 15 years now. I got far with no real strong technical foundation or lessons, but I've always been capped by speed. I just assumed I didn't have it in me to shred.
I stumbled upon the BERNTH's picking technique video and had an AH-HA moment. I had weak technique and I was holding the pick wrong! I feel like I finally have a path to playing stuff I've always wanted to play, and I'm now taking building a technical foundation seriously. I probably thought that was boring before, but what you gain from it is so worth it.
Playing with consistency, confidence, and without strain makes playing so much more enjoyable. I'm taking it slow, but things are finally making sense.
Through all the guitar teachers I've had over the years, no one has ever dug this deep on technique. I feel inclined to share it with other guitar players I know. So glad I found your channel- thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Pick angle trick is game changer! You're awesome Bernth for sharing such amazing life-hacks. Huge props!
switching to .007s and .008s made me focus on having a lighter touch. That made a world of difference in my playing. I think a scalloped fretboard also forces you to have a light touch as well.
Thank you for sharing all of your Technik. One of the best online guitar tutorial ever. Back to back solid videos full pack with great useful information.
When you share a lot of knowledge, you will receive many new knowledge in the process. This great positive cycle will never end. Thank you. 🙏🏽
*Thanks BERNTH.. You always share your great skills here. Love your guitar 🎸 sound.. No burst. Salute nice setting!*
I like how you focus on the small things that make a big difference I appreciate you Master BERNTH danke!
Hey Bernth, you are awesome, both as a guitar player and a teacher. I learn sooo much from your videos. Am glad that after decades of playing and hitting the wall there is someone who can finally break things down clearly and provide the analysis and tradeoffs that can help other be better guitarists. Very grateful!
awesome content! just starting out with playing the e-guitar and you've been veeery helpful!
Best patreon I've ever subbed to, great video as always
Props. Always awesome to see people excelling at something they love and helping others do the same.
Exactly what I needed! Thank you!
This is epic man, u always have the most easy to digest lessons of some of the most important techniques. Keep up the videos man! Been playing 13 years and I’ve seen a lot of progression in my playing since I discovered ur channel 🤘
Love it. Amazing content as always. Video editing and comedy skills have improved as well 😎🥸
Trick #2 combined with your way of holding the pick and closed hand... this is MAGIC
I was always playing with an open hand, anchoring with my pinky, and my index and thumb holding the pick were always kind of "unstable", but somehow I managed, alternate picking was working good enough at least
but I've been practicing sweeps for some time, they were giving me quite some trouble, it's like you said, it felt that sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't, it was kinda random
and then I tried your technique - suddenly the sweeps became almost effortless, and I can do them consistently well, WTF
how such a small change can give such a leap in progress, it's really magic...
Snapping motion tip about string transition is very helpful for me.
(Ending with an up stroke on the lower string and then having to play a down stroke on the higher string.)
That kind of string transition has been the most difficult thing for me for many years.
Thanks to your advice, now I know what to focus on when practicing.
I'll Pick up my guitar and practice right now.
Thank you BERNTH.🤟
Great videos I improved very much thanks to you.
Btw your fretting hand for some reason is soooo satisfying to watch.
Your recents vids keep me playing everyday. These older videos more talk. Yet I still follow Im impatient.
I'm definitely benefiting as a beginner watching these so I learn the proper technik! Danke, Bernth!
Love your videos, very descriptive, thank you for all the explanation on techniques one can apply and do it wrong always not realizing it, now I have to learn all over again, but it'll be a pleasure, thank you!
Thanks Bernth! These are really awesome tips. I saved the files. And will be incorporating into my guitar workouts daily. I'm still working on the Handnd syncronization video and after 2 months daily, I got to 120 bpm. I didn't think I'd ever get past 110. Thanks! You make a difference. Your Patreon is really an awesome value!
Dude!!! You are an absolutely phenomenal guitarist and teacher. Thank you for displaying your skills!!
I've only very recently found your channel and I have to say it is awesome. I come from a pop/rock background and I want to get into shredding and this video is great. Everything you need to know in one video. Even if I don't succeed in shredding I feel that a lot of these techniques will help my guitar playing in general. Thanks for the great content.
Another great Technik lesson Bernth very helpful information & demonstration! Thank you.
Thank you bernth! Have been struggling with fire and ice at a low bpm for months... Finally I progressed! Light touches, minimal wrist movements really helps... Something I never thought of cause I always exaggerated the wrist movements and swayed left and right... My speed and precision increased with just light touches and keeping my wrist steady...
Excellent tips, as always!
Just started learning to play. I’m 62 and I’ve always wanted to learn how to play. The biggest challenge for me is fingering the fret board. I just can’t seem to angle my fingers right, especially when I’m practicing the spider crawl. Going to practice some of these techniques and hope it’ll help me or maybe I’m just too old 😊
No such thing as too old man, you've got this!
I don't know if anyone has suggested this to you, but boading balls helped my fretting. You can also do exercises with one where you hold it in your palm and touch every finger to it when you're watching tv or whatever. Making sure your wrist is relatively straight instead of cocked toward yourself is also important.
If you sit while you practice (and you’re right handed) hold your guitar on your left leg, not the right one. It will bring your left hand to a much more comfortable place as you try to keep your left thumb as close to the center of the neck as possible (on top of the skunk stripe if you play a strat), not over the top of the neck.
Hi Bernth. Just want to say a big thanks for all of your videos. Not only have you done them for free, but they are not junk videos like some that I have seen. I also love the fact that you don't just show off. I am not yet a patreon, but you will see my name pop up next year. All the best to you and thanks again.
Great video on technik! You make me look forward to practicing
Why have I not seen this video earlier? There are nuggets of gold here, Thanks!
very informative video, great tips for guitarists..good job mate
TECHNIK !!!🤘🤘 Thanks Bernth for another great lesson, cant wait till i get back to my guitar and practice these!
TECHNIK!!! :) Rock on bro! Great stuff
Love technik! Thanks bro!
You're just amazing Bernth! This is the only video that helped me improve My playing, I wish that the greats like; e.g. Malmsteen, petrucci and Campbell emphasize more on proper picking execution 20 years ago. Anyway, thanks Bernth for delivering again!
Thanks for sharing those techniques,, ive learned a lots,,
Thank you for these lessons.🤘🤘
great vid. i usually skip around but watched this one in full!
Awesome! I struggle with my strumming or picking hand. This is helpful.
Love your technik!
Man i thank you so much for these videos.... Muchas gracias eternas desde Colombia!
Bernt you are too good! You are so extremely technical and play fantastically well and i are not even jealous because no one can be so good 😁 when I play it is a gentleman's string sound and tangles me in the strings, but hey it still swings and rocks fat.
Greetings from Mexico. I love tips tops 10 and all sorts of lists. Felicidades Bernartho
Thanks for the lesson Bernth! Its time for me to work on my Technik!
Great tips! And more exercises to work into my daily routine. I can't thank you enough! One other consideration for using a 'light' touch with the fretting hand is the notes are less likely to go sharp. I really suffered from 'gorilla gripping' my guitar neck for a long time (and still struggle with it), and I always wondered why I sounded so 'out of tune'. Most guitars suffer from being a little sharp with the first few frets, and pressing hard on the strings *really* bends it sharp. A light touch Technik is SO important!
Awesome as always!
I've been playing for 30 years and I must say that is the most extreme pick angle I've ever seen. Great video.
Great Lesson as always. At some point you should do and the 'How to Mix Major and Minor Scales for Impro'. It will be really interesting.
Bernth, do you know that Adam Jones from Tool posted a short clip of your Dopamine video to his insta story with a comment 'This guy!'? You should pay a tribute to him with a riff or lick lesson. Cheers mate.
thanks for the technik and I will watch this video lots so I will memorise these techniques
TECHNIK!! Thank you!🙏🤘🤘
You are awesome, love your vids. They are important in my life
Great job young man! I'm 59 yrs old and I have played guitar since I was 12. I grew up playing on cheap high action axes. Thus I've known my fingers are way to far away from the frets to progress. I like how you recognize that and I'm gonna go forward now with some of your exercises that address this. Thank you 😎🎸🎶
Bernth thanks for all your help 🎸🎸😎
Technik!
Your a good demonstrator/tutor God bless you sir for sharing your skill in playing guitar,,
Muito bom conteúdo...GRATO!!!
Thank you very much Bernth, I think I will take my old guitar again, and will start practicing
Thank you Bernth! Thank you so much! Thank you for these little details lesson. It helps a lot! Thank you. I can imagine myself shredding with happy tears in the future. Lol
Es muy admirable la forma en que enseñas. Tambien admiro la forma que ejecutas la guitarra. Saludos desde Salta, Argentina!!
appreciate your videos bro
Sos una luz en el camino hermano, saludos desde Argentina
Insanely good videos😳. You are Paul Gilbert/Malmsteen level with technique! Always helpful and impressive.
You mean technik!
you've got to be ignorant to put him in the same category as Gilbert. malmsteen I get it, he is a very binary player that does that one thing (harmonic minor) very well, better than anybody but still binary. meanwhile Gilbert is a fuckin wizard and always has been. you can totally disagree with me, but this is one of those things where if you know you know
@@kevinbazarek - “if you know, you know.” Right. And I disagree. Bernth’s videos are very much in line with what Gilbert teaches in his videos. I’m saying Bernth is getting to be on the same techinical level - and a review of his picking technique confirms what I’m saying. I’ve played for a long time and done over 3,000 shows, hired and fired Berklee grads.... i know talent. Bernth is next level.
@@Michael-bl4no yeah you're delusional lmao
@@kevinbazarek - no, I actually can play and have real world experience. Over 3,000 shows in North America. You? Ma’s bedroom?
Very helpful video🤘
One of the most difficult things in my guitar routine, is actually building an effective one. It would be awesome if you could share tips on how to create an effective routine (I know you already shared content about how frequently to practice exercises, but still I'm struggling with building a programme).
Another helpful lesson from Bernth! Greetings form Greece :)
Greetings to Greece! :)
that small lick you played at 8:01 sounds like the last part of horizons by thedooo. and also this is an awesome video Tip 3 being especially useful as i also always ran into that problem
Good videos as always
Tnx for being a best guy on the yt.
im a bass player and these tips and tricks are insanely helpful for a bass player as well (pretty obvious but still). the strings are thicker and further apart and i transcribe some exercises down to lower strings but ye, insanely helpful still. thank you
Wonderful tips man!!! Economy of movement, distance, pressure and thought. It's alot of fun cause it makes you a better musician!! TECHNIK! 🤟
Priceless tips! Thanks to God i can watch it on TH-cam!🤘
Really excellent 👍
Thanks for Trick #2. Also helps me on Bass. ;) some I saw only recently with Michael Angelo Batio.
Love it again
THANK YOU SHRED MASTER 🤘😎🎸🎶❤️🔥
Great video. I'm trying out the closed hand technique as recommended. I really struggle with stopping my thumb helping my picking, which inevitably leads to sloppiness. I know Yngwie manages, but I lack his God given ability. I can already see in the 15 minutes I've been trying, it does seem to show some promising potential. Thanks Bernth.
I've tried and tried the closed hand picking like he does and it makes my hand hurt. It's more difficult for me to play like that. I think some people CAN play easily like that but other just can't. People hand shapes are different. I play with the open palm.
@@amazingthingsfromaroundthe2057 there's definitely no single correct way. Definitely go for what's right for you. I've been struggling to stop my thumb joining the party, initially this does seem to do the trick of keeping those micro finger movements at bay. It's amazing when you see how much thumb movement Yngwie has when he picks, from what I can see, it tends to be when he economy picks during string changes. It obviously works well for him, being as he is a virtuoso. I on the other hand need as much help as I can get!!
@@davidyates8880 I see lots of people playing with the closed hand but I just can't make it work. And also just as many great guitarist play with the open hand. I agree that go with what works best for you. For me it's extremely uncomfortable playing with the closed hand. I also choke down on my pick a lot. Sometimes so much I do pinch harmonics when I don't mean to.
Ikr? That was the best advice I've heard in a long time! I had the same issue with the thumb and when I stopped doing that thumb motion it was kind of disapointing at first, I couldn't play at higher bpms like I used to but with more practice it feels way better now :) still not as fast, but it feels more effortless this way. The momentum does most of the job lol
Great guitar 🎸 hacks Bernth I need to try these out
Hope you have fun with these Jeff!! :)
@@Bernthguitar thanks 👍
best teaching videos on youtube
Regarding Trick 5: It was really unnatural for me to keep the pick parallel to the string when playing with a closed group and thought if the pick was at an angle, it was bad technique. Really happy to know its now ^_^
Jesus, that's the best lesson I ever had, thank you very much sensei.
Technik... thanks for this!!
thank you very much
Thank you.
Thank you, Bernth! Your videos show me, how degenerated my technique has become. I´ve started 25+ years ago and was quite fast. As the years went by, I became absolutely sloppy and "fake". Now, I start again with the basics! Especially playing with the metronome, keeping a steady alternate picking and most important: having a good left hand grip and therefore putting the guitar way higher on the belt. Looks way more uncool, but feels amazingly more natural! THX, Bernth!!!👍
#Technik thank you for this video !! Your videos have helped me so much in my journey to become a better guitar player !!
Can’t wait to go work on my technik
The thumbnail picture shows a very important aspect of the fretting hand technik which is angling the pinky against the fretboard. This has personally helped me a lot with the 134 type of legato licks. Not sure, if you already talked about it.
Sir, you are really impressive....
Love from India.... 🇮🇳❤️🤘🎸
I am left shedder Left handed guitar 🎸 , u are my best instructor,🍕🎸💯
To be honest I am quite shocked with the fact that having the pick on an angle made it easier! I was under the assumption it would make it harder and was trying to play with pick as parallel to the string as possible! Well, definitely trying that one out tonight.
Hey Bernth, firstly I'm very thankful for your comprehensive videos which helped to extremely improve my technique.
Now I have a question, I normally play with a closed hand while picking, but as soon as it gets to hybrid picking I have my hand like half open half closed, because either closing or opening it fully wouldn't be economic, do you have any advice regarding hand position during hybrid picking?
this video made me subscribe to your channel.and this video is answered many questions.I wish you good luck.Greetings from Russia.
Ausgezeichnete.... Technik ;) Ein schönes Wochenende!
Schöne Grüße aus Italien.
It's so true that this video is a life changer, THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SIR!.... I just discover that my guitar picking hand is wrong now it is better for me to play when my hand is close...I'm struggling finding the right channel to improve my skills then i find yours.
I’m new to guitar playing and I want to learn as much as I can from people who know the proper techniques and methods. I’ve been training my fingers with D’Addario guitar finger strengthening device. Been practicing pentatonic scales and metal rhythm. I sound extremely terrible but determined to learn from people like this musician here.
Hi, thanks for all the great tips.
Which guitar model did you use in the video?