This is one of the most effective picking exercises i have ever come across! Grab the TAB and practice tracks here: www.patreon.com/posts/best-picking-76810447?Link&
This is a great way to build speed. Reminds me of another good way to practice fast complicated runs my classical violin teacher taught me back in the day. For any runs that are straight 8th or 16th notes, practice them in two syncopated ways instead of even note divisions. For example if it was a run of straight 8th notes, practice it with the down stroke as a dotted 8th note and the up stroke a 16th note. And then reverse that as an alternate exercise, down stroke 16th / up stroke dotted 8th.
This is great advice! A friend of mine who happens to be WAY better at guitar than I am told me once that if I'm ever having trouble with a particular lick, reverse my picking and try it that way. ie: if I'm starting it with a downstroke, start it with an upstroke. Do that for a while and when you go back to starting it with the downstroke...it's easier! Blew my mind.
You ain’t foolin’ me again Ben .. just spent 5 years living in a cave doing nothin’ but your damn Punisher 14 hours a day - got up to 280bpm! - trouble is I can’t play anything else now so I need a song in the key of Uncle Ben’s Punisher
Hahaha made my day! 😄 Yes, the punisher is great, a video covering the punisher over a couple of scales would be nice to make something useful out of it.
no way! I was looking for something exactly like this! I've been creating my own patterns but I was not satisfied at all! this is perfect! Thanks man! and Happy New Year!
The Punisher and the pickslanting exercise from Wankshop 124 have been in my warmup for years. I’m getting back into the grind and this one tripped me up at first but I got into it pretty fast. Thanks Uncle Ben!
Yessss I've been working on trying to play the Neoclassical Nightmare drill at full speed since December, kinda made it a point to practice regularly for the month, and seeing amazing new gains for the first time in forever. Really feel like I'm climbing again rather than walking the long plateau. This seems like a brilliant companion to that one, with the more frequent string switching. Something about these drills is *really* special. They're a lot more fun than traditional drills like chromatic walkups or spider climbing because they have musical context. I made my own practice track for the NcNm drill, but now I'm 100% jumping on the Patreon. These exercises are awesome and you deserve the support for putting these out there \m/
Hey, Uncle Ben, keep up the awesome content! You, Troy Grady, and Andy Wood are three of the best resources here on TH-cam for improving on the guitar, and I appreciate everything you do. Thanks!
Very nice excercise, I've been on standby since 2017 and this thing has helped me dust of some rust from my fingers. Going to add it to my warmup excersices
This excercise is so cool! Why didn't I think of it, lolol? Within minutes I was flying through it and trying other string pairs and other scales. Game changer! Thanks a bunch!
Actually, I have the same problem, especially with string groupings more than two. It happens about 140ish bpm for me. I lose a little bit of pick attack because of it, but I am picking it.
You probably should try to alternate pick this, cause then you can work on improving your escape motion when changing strings, sweeping the next string is awesome, but doesn’t work as well if you had to skip a string.
@@andrewdescant4996 I think you should be able to do both if you think about it. That's what mastery of the instrument looks like. Small details like that.
A very good lesson, thank you. However surely the issue isn't so called inside versus outside picking. Rather it's entirely determined on whether you prefer upstroke versus downstroke string changes, the inside outside thing is a misnomer. You prove this by playing your preferred sequence. The sequence has both inside and outside picking which doesn't bother you because both string changes occur on upstrokes.
Dude, hope you're doing fine and had a smooth slippedy slide into 2023. So, what was that awesome intro I heard there? Was that some of your own stuff your gonna bring out more of this year? I sure do wish for that to be true. That was really nice! Otherwise crappy lesson, I can do that already... just kidding. Great vid as always. I'll just follow your lead on this and work on getting it under my fingers to reap it's benefits. Thanks so much for sharing. Your channel is a real gem... Ben. ✨️✌️😅👍🎸✨️
Yo Ben - Happy New Year! this is great stuff. Hey, can I propose or ask that you do a few videos on how you "learned the guitar neck". did you learn it by CAGED? else? So, for example, if you must change from Eb chord to Ab chord somewhere on the neck (as an example), do you think about it during your play or is it a reflex/instinct to you? How did you learn it? That will really REALLY help if you can share that about how you advanced. Thanks my man.
Thanks for another new exercise!!! Now if I could just stop the DAMNED PROCRASTINATING! Between yours and Ben Higgins' lessons, I have s ARSENAL of technique practice...now all I gotta do is practice.
I keep watching hours of videos without a guitar in my hand. I can’t play the stuff I’m watching but I can damn sure tell everyone else how to do it!😂😂
@@Imokyourok440 for the last 1 month I've been watching hours of videos WITH a guitar in my hands, and that's literally all it has taken for practices like these to start working. Just find a vid, pick up your guitar, THEN click-through.
Good! Thank you. One question. Is there any deeper meaning in your suggestion to change the last note of the standard sequence pattern? Yours: 123, 456, 5 rest Strd : 123, 456, 4(56, 789, 7...) - ( 123 -this is degrees)
"First wank of the new year" 🤣🤣🤣🤣I am reminded of a Dana White flub on an earlier season of The Ultimate Fighter "We don't vote guys off the show, we beat 'em off"...if course he quickly realized what he said in that moment....
I have a question about practicing these various techniques . Love all the exercise videos 👍and I attempt a lot of them because I don't want to be very limited with my playing a few years from now. If you're starting guitar as an adult and have an initial goal to play covers of some of your favorite artists and limited time to practice, how do you decide which technique exercises to skip ( cover the ones you'll need to play what you want and comeback to the others when you have time) Difficult to know what your favorite artists use in their compositions.
@Message_Ben_Eller Hi Ben, I'm sorry I'm French and I didn't understand what I should do. Is it really you? Can you tell me exactly what to do because I didn't understand. Was I drawn to win something? Thank you in advance for your answer.
Thanks for all your great content, Ben! Would anyone know the tempo of the beginning by any chance? Can't seem to get it exactly right with tap tempo Thanks!
Thanks for this, Ben! I have nerve damage in my fretting hand, and I'm still hacking away, but I've lost a lot of strength and dexterity. It's like, God says hey, I know this is like the only thing that's ever brought you joy, so I'm gonna take it away. You cool with that?? 🤬 I'm hoping they can fix me. I've had to short cut stuff, as best I can. This is a great example of it. My ring and Pinky fingers are numb. I'm never gonna quit!
Unkie B, What if I'm just OK at ALL of these picking styles and at stepdaddy speed but want to shred asap. Is there one that rules them all, in general?
Hi Mr Eller, in which way or tecnique could I arrive to play the 4° last solo of sweet child o mine that is a very fast loop of 4 note that Slash repeat 8 time.
Amen. I played righty 15 years but my picking hand was completely useless so i switched to lefty. Im already doing better in the picking department after 10 months. Hope you have better luck
That’s totally fine! Nobody’s hands are naturally better at either picking or fretting anyway. We all start with a clean slate. I’ve taught MANY lefties how to play right handed and it’s totally fine. The ONLY exception I would consider is if you were already proficient on another stringed instrument playing with your natural handedness.
@@BenEller In my case my right hand had no coordination, stamina or speed after years of trying. I do believe some people can be more or less right or left handed. I never touched any other instrument before i started right handed so my slate was clean. I can actually downpick that creeping death riff for a solid 3 minutes on lefty compared to... not at all on righty. It's an interesting one :D
This is one of the most effective picking exercises i have ever come across! Grab the TAB and practice tracks here: www.patreon.com/posts/best-picking-76810447?Link&
How do you keep your hand so relaxed?
This is a great way to build speed. Reminds me of another good way to practice fast complicated runs my classical violin teacher taught me back in the day. For any runs that are straight 8th or 16th notes, practice them in two syncopated ways instead of even note divisions. For example if it was a run of straight 8th notes, practice it with the down stroke as a dotted 8th note and the up stroke a 16th note. And then reverse that as an alternate exercise, down stroke 16th / up stroke dotted 8th.
This is great advice!
A friend of mine who happens to be WAY better at guitar than I am told me once that if I'm ever having trouble with a particular lick, reverse my picking and try it that way. ie: if I'm starting it with a downstroke, start it with an upstroke. Do that for a while and when you go back to starting it with the downstroke...it's easier!
Blew my mind.
You ain’t foolin’ me again Ben .. just spent 5 years living in a cave doing nothin’ but your damn Punisher 14 hours a day - got up to 280bpm! - trouble is I can’t play anything else now so I need a song in the key of Uncle Ben’s Punisher
Uncle Ben's rice is Inanimate objects 👶🎤🙏👶🎤🙏👹🎤🙏
Hahaha made my day! 😄 Yes, the punisher is great, a video covering the punisher over a couple of scales would be nice to make something useful out of it.
can I just say that new intro music is FOOKING SICK!
Wow.. this worked like magic. Never experienced such picking smoothness in my 20 years of practice. Thanks uncle Ben !!
Great to hear!
Thanks Uncle Ben!
no way! I was looking for something exactly like this! I've been creating my own patterns but I was not satisfied at all! this is perfect! Thanks man! and Happy New Year!
Glad I could help!
I’m such a ‘Swiss cheese’ player. THIS is will help me fill the gaps! Thanks Ben
The Punisher and the pickslanting exercise from Wankshop 124 have been in my warmup for years.
I’m getting back into the grind and this one tripped me up at first but I got into it pretty fast. Thanks Uncle Ben!
add this into your routine, i assure you you'll see results!
This is a great exercise! I'm going to add this to my daily routine with your punisher, speed burst and hopscotch exercises!! Thanks, Uncle Ben!
Where do I find other ones you mentioned mate?
Yessss I've been working on trying to play the Neoclassical Nightmare drill at full speed since December, kinda made it a point to practice regularly for the month, and seeing amazing new gains for the first time in forever. Really feel like I'm climbing again rather than walking the long plateau. This seems like a brilliant companion to that one, with the more frequent string switching.
Something about these drills is *really* special. They're a lot more fun than traditional drills like chromatic walkups or spider climbing because they have musical context.
I made my own practice track for the NcNm drill, but now I'm 100% jumping on the Patreon. These exercises are awesome and you deserve the support for putting these out there \m/
Thanks so much dude! Glad you’re making strides!
So i’m trying to learn a new scale and i’ll combine this idea of a two string back and forth excercice with the new scale. Thanks uncle Ben!
Hey, Uncle Ben, keep up the awesome content! You, Troy Grady, and Andy Wood are three of the best resources here on TH-cam for improving on the guitar, and I appreciate everything you do. Thanks!
I will be working on this today. Thanks Ben
Love the intro song being Black in this one 🤘
Thanks for this. Appreciate you taking the time to make this for us. 🙂👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thanx uncle!
Most welcome!
Sweet guitar!!
Wishing you a more better year
Uncle Ben! ✌🏼
Same to you!
Very nice excercise, I've been on standby since 2017 and this thing has helped me dust of some rust from my fingers. Going to add it to my warmup excersices
This excercise is so cool! Why didn't I think of it, lolol? Within minutes I was flying through it and trying other string pairs and other scales. Game changer! Thanks a bunch!
This video has come at the right time because I saw that Jared Dines shred collab video and thought "jeez FML, I need to work on my chops".
I was sitting here at Whataburger thinking about how I need help with my picking technique and first thing I see......mindreader!!
Thanks Ben! Happy new year!
What a simple but efficient exercise if you take ur time …. Already see it improving licks I’ve been challenged with
Hi Mr Eller, congratulation for your teaching method that for me is one of the most effective.
New Year, new picking workout to kick my ass. Thanks for all the work you do!
Oh, God!!! That guitar is freaking stunning, I love it!! you're a lucky Ba... Ben!! 🤩😄😃
Thanks dude. I love it. Might be my favorite Ibanez.
After a couple of hours doing this I noticed an improvement in all different ways to pick
The name of ther finish on the guitar is called 23 And Me
Beautiful guitar...
@BenEller.. 🤣🤣🤣 scam account... it's a very old trick, get out of here
That Prestige! ❤❤❤
You always provide such great stuff. Thank you!
I think he's an excellent teacher.
Thank you for another great teaching Uncle Ben !!
When I speed this up, my hand automatically goes into economy picking without my knowledge
Actually, I have the same problem, especially with string groupings more than two. It happens about 140ish bpm for me. I lose a little bit of pick attack because of it, but I am picking it.
@@shadehunter Should i embrace the instinct of economy picking or should i fight it and try and alternate pick only?
You probably should try to alternate pick this, cause then you can work on improving your escape motion when changing strings, sweeping the next string is awesome, but doesn’t work as well if you had to skip a string.
@@andrewdescant4996 I think you should be able to do both if you think about it. That's what mastery of the instrument looks like. Small details like that.
Good shit uncle Ben!
Thanks sir, most effective finger excersice
Thank you so much. This is IT! Heading to my next lvl, getting this one down ❤
A very good lesson, thank you. However surely the issue isn't so called inside versus outside picking. Rather it's entirely determined on whether you prefer upstroke versus downstroke string changes, the inside outside thing is a misnomer. You prove this by playing your preferred sequence. The sequence has both inside and outside picking which doesn't bother you because both string changes occur on upstrokes.
WHALE....looks like my left hand is gonna get some a-stretching exercising today! Thanks, Uncle Ben!! You make painful workouts more fun 👍
You got this!
Damn that Ibanez looks sick!
Awesome, as someone who wants to shred some neoclassical style in the future, this is perfect 🤘 Thanks
As usual, another hand cramper🤘
Sweet guitar.
Dude, hope you're doing fine and had a smooth slippedy slide into 2023. So, what was that awesome intro I heard there? Was that some of your own stuff
your gonna bring out more of this year? I sure do wish for that to be true. That was really nice! Otherwise crappy lesson, I can do that already... just kidding. Great vid as always. I'll just follow your lead on this and work on getting it under my fingers to reap it's benefits. Thanks so much for sharing. Your channel is a real gem... Ben. ✨️✌️😅👍🎸✨️
Yo Ben - Happy New Year! this is great stuff. Hey, can I propose or ask that you do a few videos on how you "learned the guitar neck". did you learn it by CAGED? else? So, for example, if you must change from Eb chord to Ab chord somewhere on the neck (as an example), do you think about it during your play or is it a reflex/instinct to you? How did you learn it? That will really REALLY help if you can share that about how you advanced. Thanks my man.
Walk it, jog it, then Rrrrun that metronome as fast as you can trill 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Edge tremolo and Dimarzio tone zone air Norton true velvet I believe. Nice!
Lo Pro Edge (they made the RGT with that bridge just one year) plus two PAF Pros!
Man, I love your stuff!. 🤝🍻
Greetings from Amsterdam!
tanks uncle ! 😀
this is a great one!
This should be called the 2000's era Iron Maiden exercise! Another great video and lesson Ben, you rock dude!
Happy New Year Ben. You're still the "King Of Pain" in my book, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. 🙂
Massive bang for the buck on this one! 🤘🤘🤘
Good One Ben ........ Thanks
Thanks for another new exercise!!! Now if I could just stop the DAMNED PROCRASTINATING! Between yours and Ben Higgins' lessons, I have s ARSENAL of technique practice...now all I gotta do is practice.
🤣🤝🍻
I keep watching hours of videos without a guitar in my hand.
I can’t play the stuff I’m watching but I can damn sure tell everyone else how to do it!😂😂
@@Imokyourok440 for the last 1 month I've been watching hours of videos WITH a guitar in my hands, and that's literally all it has taken for practices like these to start working. Just find a vid, pick up your guitar, THEN click-through.
Thank you.
I'm ready to make 2023 the year I can finally shred.
loved the exercise, found myself being most comfortable with the economy picking
You make my playing more gooder 🤘🤘
wow great exercise ! i too often struggle with inside picking or starting on upstrokes. i really feel my wrist working ! thanks for sharing ! 👍👍
Excellent 🤌
Great one Ben!
This will definitely help me out
Yeeeesssss! Good stuff here. 👍 nice
What is that free Tv and free Iphone I always get when I write? Exellent lesson!!
Good! Thank you. One question.
Is there any deeper meaning in your suggestion to change the last note of the standard sequence pattern?
Yours: 123, 456, 5 rest
Strd : 123, 456, 4(56, 789, 7...) - ( 123 -this is degrees)
I’ve been playing a while now and seen plenty of these drills. I gotta say this one works great. Took me back to the shreddy days.
Great vid 👍
That guitar is pretty! Well done getting that one man
thanks for this practice routine Ben, i'll be having fun with this one ;)
This exercise has got me hooked 😜
Even Bernth is clapping his hands. 👏
Yo I just came here to say the burst on that les Paul in the thumbnail is fire emoji level.
If played without the rest, I think this exercise will teach you what you need to know to play the beginning of Into Eternity - Splintered Visions?
Is that a new ibby?
Love the music in the intro to the lesson man. Is this new?
It’s old, actually! Learn all about it and hear a longer chunk of it on that Loomis pedal video I put out a week or two ago.
"First wank of the new year" 🤣🤣🤣🤣I am reminded of a Dana White flub on an earlier season of The Ultimate Fighter "We don't vote guys off the show, we beat 'em off"...if course he quickly realized what he said in that moment....
Freudian slip
I have a question about practicing these various techniques . Love all the exercise videos 👍and I attempt a lot of them because I don't want to be very limited with my playing a few years from now.
If you're starting guitar as an adult and have an initial goal to play covers of some of your favorite artists and limited time to practice, how do you decide which technique exercises to skip ( cover the ones you'll need to play what you want and comeback to the others when you have time)
Difficult to know what your favorite artists use in their compositions.
Thank you Ben for sharing your knowledge. Always great and effective exercises. Happy new year 2023, full of music and guitar. Take care of you \m/
@Message_Ben_Eller Hi Ben, I'm sorry I'm French and I didn't understand what I should do. Is it really you? Can you tell me exactly what to do because I didn't understand. Was I drawn to win something? Thank you in advance for your answer.
ej good
I WILL!! I PROMISE!! 😂 Just kidding, will practice this later tonight. Ben always deliver gold.
could we see you do a walk through of Rock Me by Great White?
Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!
That intro song though :D Something i would love to learn
When you slow it down, it just sounds like Ghost
That's an absolutely sexy guitar.
Uncle Ben - love your lessons, and your rice!
Thanks for all your great content, Ben!
Would anyone know the tempo of the beginning by any chance?
Can't seem to get it exactly right with tap tempo
Thanks!
Let it rippp
Inside picking style seems more efficient, but I'm an outside picking guy as well. Is inside more efficient (easier to be shreddy) if you do it well?
i should send you some of the ones I do. mannnnn. especially the ones with contrary picking with both inside, outside and sweep picking.
Thanks for this, Ben! I have nerve damage in my fretting hand, and I'm still hacking away, but I've lost a lot of strength and dexterity. It's like, God says hey, I know this is like the only thing that's ever brought you joy, so I'm gonna take it away. You cool with that?? 🤬 I'm hoping they can fix me. I've had to short cut stuff, as best I can. This is a great example of it. My ring and Pinky fingers are numb. I'm never gonna quit!
Huge Ibby fan but Holy fingerprints Uncle Ben!! What kind of profile are the neck thru necks?
Haha I’m shopping for guitar polish endorsements now … the neck is amazing. Slightly rounder than an old school wizard, insanely comfy
great exercise it reminds of the one part of suicide machine by death.
Good Exercise learning all the minor chords and major chords? What I do every time.
Unkie B, What if I'm just OK at ALL of these picking styles and at stepdaddy speed but want to shred asap. Is there one that rules them all, in general?
Hi Mr Eller, in which way or tecnique could I arrive to play the 4° last solo of sweet child o mine that is a very fast loop of 4 note that Slash repeat 8 time.
gonna need all the help i can get, playing rightie as a leftie
Amen. I played righty 15 years but my picking hand was completely useless so i switched to lefty. Im already doing better in the picking department after 10 months. Hope you have better luck
That’s totally fine! Nobody’s hands are naturally better at either picking or fretting anyway. We all start with a clean slate. I’ve taught MANY lefties how to play right handed and it’s totally fine. The ONLY exception I would consider is if you were already proficient on another stringed instrument playing with your natural handedness.
@@BenEller In my case my right hand had no coordination, stamina or speed after years of trying. I do believe some people can be more or less right or left handed. I never touched any other instrument before i started right handed so my slate was clean.
I can actually downpick that creeping death riff for a solid 3 minutes on lefty compared to... not at all on righty. It's an interesting one :D
Thanks Uncle Ben. You're awesome. I'm resigned to be a "step-dad".