Interestingly enough, Tim does not actually have big hands. I've met him in person and shook his hand, and they felt tiny. He is just very flexible and dexterous, probably because of playing guitar/violin from a VERY young age in combination with actually practicing a ton. His fingers are mad skinny, which I think gives that illusion. Scott actually does have big hands though
100% this. If you watch their play through of chimera (amazing song btw) you'll quickly see how small tims hands are compared to scott. That dude has some massive hands
You don’t need to meet Tim in person. Watching Tim’s tutorials I can see the neck of his guitar and Tim’s fretting hand. Tims hands wrap the neck, like (fretting more than bass note with his thumb. Tim hensons finger length is NOT average. Tim has Long fingers. You must understand many people can play guitar with average short finger. Advanced levels they either buy guitars (closer fretting space) because they cannot play solos like buried alive lemon drop. Although there is way to play the stretched notes re arranged. For that part, re arranging the notes does work. Arranging notes on fretboard, doesn’t always make fingerings easierto play either. I was lucky drop it works. Tim was meant to play guitar (Tim’s dad was good guitarist) Tim said both of our dads shred on guitar. Referring to Scott’s dad also. Average person can learn many things on guitar but struggle with polyphia.. They can learn gun roses slashes’ entire discography. They get stuck on polyphia. Long long time. It changes the way they feel about playing guitar. Not the same person No expression
The three keys I have found essential to playing wide intervals: 1. Thumb well below the top of the neck (as stated in the video); 2. Guitar positioned to the fret hand side of your body; and 3. Changing the position of fret hand elbow. Bringing it closer to the neck for wider stretches. Elbow position is often well overlooked by instructors.
The thumb rule doesnt work for me. Im double jointed in my thumbs which causes my thumb to pop up from the back of the neck. Lol. My thumbs literally fold back 90°. Ive played guitar now for 30 years with crazy thumbs.
He studied violin for years as a child. If you look at Tim's technique, he first developed on violin, and then he carried this discipline over to guitar. Some say Tim is this century version of Paganini, who was also a violinist and guitarist in his day also.
@@phunkyjunkee not overrated. Hes properly rated. Wanna talk underrated? Look at jimi Hendrix the grandfather of modern guitar playing. Innovation and absolute mad skills. Man did all that and never learned any proper Lessons in playing guitar from any books nor any teachers. Hes hated because he was so incorrect to classical guitar but nowadays we call that a skill
Great stuff. Tim is so freaking good. I love the video where one of his friends asked him how he got so good and he said “practice.” Then he asked how much do you practice? Tim says “I don’t know about 12 hours a day?”
@@woofcity6307 Nope. No such thing as talent - and you can see early videos of Tim playing and he's not very good at all. Now he's brilliant. Music is a skill and you learn it by practising it.
@@woofcity6307 It's not just sitting and playing the guitar you have to actually practise with a goal to an end. Look for example the process by which Tim learned Tosin's thumb technique - it took him months of dedicated practise including a few lessons from Tosin. If you can't do that it's not talent it's because you've sat and noodled stuff you can already play most of the time. If you sit and strum 3 chord for 40 years you'll be really good at strumming 3 chords. To play better you have to spend the time stretching your ability. It's not talent. There's no such thing. It's a skill. And Tim has created videos showing exactly how he uses a DAW to create his riffs. There's no mystery "woowoo" magic creative force" to any of this. In fact the people who expect to be hit by some kind of divine inspiration when they step into a studio are the ones who are going to struggle to come up with ideas. See, for example, Dave Lee Roth explaining how he came up with lyrics - he wrote everything down filled books - he didn't just listen to Eddie's riff and stand there waiting for God. Tim's created videos showing how Playing God was created using an omnichord and that parts of the piece were added by Wes Hauch - and Wes got one of those parts from a guitar teacher. No magic lightning bolts involved - and Tim, in particular, because of social media has documented what he does - literally sitting in front of a camera telling you what he does. The trick is to listen and stop thinking you can't do it. You can but it's more than just sitting for a bit struggling to play one of his riffs and giving up because he must be more talented than you - look at Tim's early doors guitar playing as a kid with a band - the playing is not some kind of wunderkind at all. Nor is simply learning a couple of his riffs enough - you can see how he creates - learn to do that and practise doing that, add other ideas - take something you create on a DAW and transfer it to guitar - and then sit and try to play. Clearly Tim, rather than just playing a melody where it would fall under the fingers plays notes all over the neck on different strings using open strings and harmonics where they fit - it creates something that appears complex and that, unlike a riff that falls into a box shape takes time to learn "How did anyone ever think of playing this riff?" - well he tells you how - you just have to watch and listen to his youtube channel. And these days we can see how significant numbers of people can learn to play the guitar to a high standard because of social media. There are a plethora of people playing Tim's music equally or even better than he can and most of them add some creative twist to it - the band have sat and watched a load of them.
I love this video so much man. No bullcrap, no long explanations to simple things, no blatant plugs. You've earned a subscriber. Keep up the great work.
he also does this thing with his thumb that you can see at 3:33 where it looks like he uses his thumb to alternate pick instead of pronating his wrist. You have to hold the pick close to the thumb joint and make a wave motion with it. It's strange at first but it feels like you have more control.
This is called circular picking. My understanding is it came from jazz with guys like Django, but I think a lot of people who get their picking to high level end up doing this instinctually out of necessity.
Ive never had a problem with harmonics as i have played with them since young, But the speed! Its almost incredible what some of the New-Age guitarists can do. As much as i am an old soul, Theirs a lot of respect for people who are currently challenging how musicians feel about their play. I went from blues and classic rock to heavy(ish) metal and had to learn alot. These guys are doing the same. Re-Imagining the music around us creates unique and inspiring pieces for others. I am amazed and inspired by the next generation and am in hope the future ones carry the same weight that players like Tim Henson do. I cant play it, but i respect it.
Thank you. This video highlights some crucial points on technique. I'm sure the people who are genuinely interested in learning will find tutorials to support the techniques you've highlighted.
I hope you find it useful. Sorry for the very long time between videos, I got extremely sick over Easter, was hospitalised for months, and have spent months afterwards recovering. Also, I drew the wrong conclusion that Tim has big hands! From his videos I saw he had around the same size hands as me, and I thought I had big hands, but it turns out that I have average size hands (7.6 inches from wrist to tip of middle finger). So I learnt that I am not as special as I thought 🙂 As the comments pointed out, small hands can be overcome with practice anyway, I touched on that in the video, but its important to re-stress that.
Dude. I love you. so, this year after -years- of playing, I finally realized hooking my thumb over the top of the neck was hindering me tremendously. My playing leveled up almost immediately. It was insane. Since then, sometimes I'd randomly fall into this groove where I was really comfy just flying around the fretboard and had no problem or comfort issues getting around. I couldn't figure out what it was whenever it happened, I just sat there both excited that it was happening and sad that I had no idea how to lock into that spot. Just right now, I literally just mentally locked my thumb behind my middle finger and not only did I *yet again* find playing so much easier and faster - but this position is also helping with pain I was having (obviously from poor ergonomics!) in my elbow and wrist. Thank you so much. Easy sub.
Dude what a breakdown! The best thing on TH-cam is when smart, talented, creative people break down the actions of other smart, talented creative people! Sometimes the people doing the impossible aren’t the best at explaining how they do it
My son I witnessed from the age of his 10th birthday til he was 18 , he practiced no less than 8 hours a day plus. I taught him basic chords and today he's 29 and is one hell of a musician. He doesn't play as much now but he plays gigs still and holds his family and job well too. I remember how hard that was and I am proud of him. This Tim H young man is playing a lot of what I heard in 2010 by son was creating. I have tons of him on sd cards playing variations of tapping and percussive stuff insanely technical. Anyway. I see alot of this now.
Put them up, i want to see how he sounded like tim henson before tim henson came up with his own style? I dont doubt your son is good but saying your son did did what tim did before he even came out, i want to see this because i honestly doubt that.
@@HADESHELLFIREMUSIC I get it. Why would you believe me? That's the gift of comments I guess. I can make the claim and you can deny it. All good. At least you commented without complete doubt and I appreciate that. Perhaps I should have said , Not identical like his actual songs but , the stuff he does with the slapping tapping and technical crazy insane abilities. I do have the stuff on some SD cards it's old and I will need to find them and see if the quality is up to standard. I would much rather email it to you as I don't know how my son will feel about that as he thinks it sucks. Lmao. He was young then and was borrowing my old droid phone and I found them going through SD cards few years ago. Hahah. I did post one to Facebook I think? But yeah I totally would like to share these with you. Since you asked. Perhaps I'll even put them on TH-cam if my son doesn't think it's a bad idea. I'm not saying he is Tim Henson. I am saying Tim and my Son are pretty similar in how long they have been playing. My son was a major Pertucci fan and Born of Osiris with one of the guitarists that left. He actually knew him and I can't think of his name now. Dude I'm an old drummer and while I do love to brag about my son I know it's a bad taste and I shouldn't as that is definately biased approach. He is amazing. He was playing drums at 5 and keys , like classical pieces pretty well at 12. He's a dad now and was in his band Disarayen in FL ...His name is Corey Clark. There are some small clips on my channel of him and it will say in title My son on those videos. However they are more recent and he's usually playing heavy stuff. As technical as he is he is into that really interesting heavy brutal stuff and solos like crazy over them. Not the style I'm speaking of here. But by hearing him perhaps at least you'll get the idea that he is pretty good. I hate to even mention those as the best he can do isn't on my channel. He isn't really into TH-cam and I have to beg him to show a few moments here and there. Heheh. Btw. Nice to meet you and hope this helps some as I don't want to make a claim and then dip out. Lol
@@robertclarkguitar understandable mate, as I said no disrespect to your son I more so just found the topic interesting having a precurse to the style we see come from tim nowadays, hopefully one day you can put them up I'd genuinely like to see them, cheers mate!
@@TheLunablackheart I'm not exaggerating either. Lol. He would come home from school and go right to his guitar. He would play til early in morning. Of course when he wasn't home he would be out with his friends whom also played. I'm sure they did other things and I don't think he skipped many days. He just loves guitar. He's still at it at 29 but he's a dad and doesn't have 8 hours lol. He sometimes skips a couple days now I'm sure. He is amazing. He claims he is out of practice. But the man is insane good. Thanks btw for the comment. He is in a couple of videos but none are him at his best. Most are recent or live gigs ...He won't use effects live much. I told him to grab a delay and reverb for those leads. Hahah. He doesn't like them. Hahah. But he does on occasion use them on his demos. Happy New Year to ya.
Dang this video was rly helpful. Gave me a lot of insight to what i've been doing wrong while learning this song and what i should work on. Thanks a lot!
Good vid, really nailed it with the classical fretting hand position. That, along with consciously minimizing tension in my hands/wrists during practice helped me a lot.
he says he doesn’t have big hands, actually he says he has small hands compared to someone like scott, but his fingers are slender and is palm is small compared to his actuall finger length, this gives the impression that they are longer
i have been using the index finger technique since i saw this video a while ago, and my playing improved considerably if you pay attention, for god knows why, its takes quite an effort for the hand to move only the index finger to a different string position try it in your forearm,, make a bar with the index and pretending you are jumping strings with the other fingers, it barely moves your hand, now do it with all fingers, it considerably tenses the metacarpal and forces the wrist extension but you can simply press the string with different parts of your index finger, and it also helps muting the upper strings
This is really helpful! Tip 2 about the thumb is great because you can learn so much from classical guitarists. I took classical lessons for about 6 months but I am still relearning some techniques. I recommend to everyone who feels stuck with thier playing to ask a teacher to check thier picking hand technique ( it's very common that we move our hands more than we need to ) as you can see with Tim Henson, he keeps his fingers closely together. Also make sure you are not pressing down with too much force as this can make playing anything much harder . Don't forget to make sure your action is set up to a comfortable height and find the guitar pick that is right for you! :)
Keeping your thumb behind the fretboard is also an essential thing for bassists. It's actually one of the main ways how I distinguish guitar players playing bass.
I suspect that even though Tim Henson hated playing the violin, starting at 3 years old plus the technique learned on the violin was a very good grounding for when he switched to guitar.
Pat Metheny is one of the fastest jazz players out there and you will regularly see his thumb. While I absolutely agree it's important to reflect or be aware of left hand shape and positioning it's not the key to speed. Speed is in the brain. If you can't hear it fast you can't play it fast. I've got huge hands, and can make long stretches but I wouldn't count myself as a fast (or capable being one) player. It's an attitude and synching brain and music.
I've got big hands too and ngl it helps alot. Especially covering Tim himself. Tim loves his 4-5 fret spanning chords and 3nps scale shapes really do accelerate your playing once your comfortable with them.
Moving my thumb positioning literally imporoved my playing so much. It took a while to adapt to it, but now my thumb naturally stays low and my hand sits off the neck, with just my thumb pad and finger tips touching.
0:45 i dont have big Hands and i dont even play a lot of Guitar, but i stretch my fingers sometimes and i can easy reach from the 8th fret on low e to the 14 of the low.
This is a great video and I really appreciate the look it takes at what he is doing. As a non musician but with great musical appreciation I was just enchanted by what Tim (and Scott) are able to do with their guitars. I'm a lifelong tradesman/crafts person with heaps of hand skills and I long, long ago realized that to learn new skills I was watching the hands of other tradesman even if they were just performing a gross motor skill task like troweling plaster or concrete and that was what led to the secrets. The truly talented make it look effortless and Tim certainly does here. I concluded that the sound he produces from what seems to be the lightest of pressure drifting over the strings could only be pinpoint precision applied with the most invisible of Shaolin strength level hidden pressure. When I first saw one of his POV play throughs with a head cam on it then all made sense. He simply plays so much that the callouses on his fingers behave like the hammers in a piano and the X Y Z axes of the rest of him puts everything where it belongs with uncommon exactness. I hope you can take a look at one of his POV's and maybe consider doing a video about it. I'm sure I missed plenty and would love to hear your take.
A lot of people complain about not having big hands, but big hands are not the panacea that those people think. The issue with big hands is that it can be much harder to control your fingers precisely and it takes more effort to exert a similar force to someone with smaller fingers. You've also got the issue that in some situations you have to curl your fingers more, which can cause more strain and fatigue. As as an example, how many people who play football (soccer) professionally have large feet? You'd think it would give an advantage, but it often translates to less control.
Having certain types of long fingers does help. I have tiny, tiny hands and i hate it, so much so that i use a 7/8 size guitar. It's not an excuse or cop out, but it does help. There's also the incredible talent and determination thing as well, that helps a tad.
The thumb thing should be standard practice. I see so many people have their thumb hanging out to dry and it limits their mobility. Thankfully when I started, I was taught not to. While I may have lost that over the years, I’m trying to start again and it’s easier than it was when I started.
And Jimmy Hendrix used his thumb to press the bass string in chords; that's why I don't play Hendrix because I was always taught to hide the thumb behind the neck.
@@harrisontownsend910 it can but it definitely slows you down. Using the thumb when learning bends for the first time can help, but it’s a bad habit. Its better to learn the right way later on.
Can you please do a review on Paolo Gans? He’s an underrated fingerstyle guitarist who has a different style of playing and almost does every part of a song and it’s amazing.
I've not even reached one minute of the video and you are already wrong. Tim DO NOT have big hands at all, man, just look at his hands, they're very small compared to the rest of the body, he is 5′7, so his hands are very small compared to the regular guy. I have almost exact hands and height as he does, and I can easily wear woman gloves medium size, for you to better understand. And this stretch at 0:44 is about the DAMN STRATCH not about hand size. With practicing stretches enough, you can easily do these kind of parts with whatever hand size you have. Okay, next one is about harmonics. The ones used in this song are the easiest out of all techniques of getting harmonics, any guitar player can get them consistently in a month of playing and hybrid picking have nothing to do with consistently getting them, it's just for sound purposes Okaaay, next one is about 3:39. The index finger here is not "waiting in the couple milimiters above fretboard for his turn". Tim uses his index to mute high 3 strings (this is actually very clever and requiers A LOT of micro-control, BEcause he uses part of a finger somewhere closer to the joint to press note on the first string while still muting 2nd and 3rd strings with it. Now that is pretty mind-blowing) Please, if you doing these kind of educational videos, do not confuse newbies with wrong information.
Halfway through watching this Video I paused it long enough to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBE . I like everything about this Video . Now I'm going to work my way backwards through your Lessons to explore what I've missed from you . I have no doubt that I'll be finding treasures among your Videos . Hope you're doing well . 🎸🎤🎸
You can also see his crazy picking technique in the last clip, where he's not even really moving his wrist, just his thumb and index to pick quickly on certain parts.
Tim doesn't have big hands, dude. He even says that he has small hands. They're not particularly small. But definitely not big. His hands are about the same size as mine, and I do not have big hands or long fingers. I was initially worried about that stretch at the beginning of the 'Playing God' riff. But I can easily nail it now and it's one of the easier components of the riff. Ultimately, Tim can play like that because he practises more than anyone else, and he practises with correct technique. I've practised that opening riff for over 60 hours at this point, and I can almost play it like he does. But even he struggles with it when he's practising. I don't think that Tim's fingers remain that close to the fretboard in that clip. Tim's percussive style often requires his fingers to come out more so that he can do left-handed tapping, for example. At the beginning of the run that comes in after the main riff, the fourth note, which is a D on the B-string, is tapped in. This is why he needs to come away from the fretboard to get the necessary velocity to sound that note. It takes some serious force. He even taps high notes with the little finger of his left hand during the arpeggio section.
Modern technical wizards all have the the thumb IP joint articulation thing going along with the hybrid picking with the middle finger. They make it look effortless.
Can confirm having long thin fingers gives an advantage. On top of having double jointed finger tips so my tips can bend at 90° angle when i apply enough pressure. ( for example: this allows me to play an A chord on the 2nd fret with 1 finger and do other weird chord rolls with 1 finger tip) I have really long fingers I can do the reach in Playing God with ease....one of my friends has a little hard time cuz they have kinda short fingers
He also has full fingertips. As someone who has lacking tips of fingers, I literally can’t pinch the strings or even clay when doing pottery. To do pottery I have to use special tools and finger caps lol. It seems like a very small thing, but to be true, it plays a huge role and I have never seen people with fingers like mine play instruments. Maybe it’s also not the reason but the outcome and I could improve my fingers, but not enough to be using them as easily. It’s easier for me to scratch though lol.
Thing a lot people dont understand is classical musicians will of course have the best technique which will allow them of course to play better easier and faster. I think everyone should start with classical training and then after some years take that knowledge and build whatever you want. A classical musician can become a rock one in some months a rock musician can become a classical in years of practice.
Your thumb position %1, your hand size %1, guitar position %1, your knowledge about scales %1. Practice adds %96 to the table. When we are talking about speed, the only thing that matters is practice, practice and practice more. There are lots of great guitarists with different styles of guitar handling yet they shred with incredible speed and some even play with their tongues.
Practice can make you great, if done properly, but natural ability is just that. My favorite guitarist who can shred from Santana to Malmsteen, to Rhodes to Gary Moore and a thousand greats in between practiced for 10s of hours a day. When i showed this great to my guitar teacher who has played with record label bands he said shit if i had time to practice 10 hours a day, but i saw this great play after 3 years if starting and he wad playing like 25 year musicians...talent does play a part, for an amazing treat check out my fav guitarist.....panos arvanitis....simply incredible.
Yup I noticed the thumb when trying to learn a lot of their songs along with CHON stuff. Its a thing all these super fast modern guys do that im bummed to say feels extremely awkward for me to stay disciplined with for entire songs outside of fast riffs I would naturally throw the thumb on the middle of the neck for. Had a old shred lord guitar teacher that taught me playing with my index finger knuckle glued to the bottom of the neck helps me stay locked in - it does but and just cant get away from it now without feeling lost :')
I think the fact that Tim Henson’s mother forced him to play violin from a very early age, and even when he started playing guitar, his parents wouldn’t let him stop practising has a lot to do with his guitar playing style.
I've been playing guitar for over 40 years, having played in many metal cover bands throughout the 80's and 90's. I'm 6'1" tall, yet I have FREAKISHLY short fingers AND toes. At first glance most people would never even notice it until I showed them, but they are short. In fact, my little fingers are so short they look like they only have two joint along their length, instead of three joints, like normal people's fingers. I do have three joints, but you can't tell by looking. In fact, my little fingers are so short, I only have one joint crease along the finger on the palm side of my hand. Weird, right? Yet I've still managed to become a pretty decent guitarist. I can't say it hasn't been somewhat of a handicap, because I'm quite certain a lot of things would have come much easier had I had the reach most people's hands have, but I've seen guys with only two or three fingers play most impressively.
those who dont want to listen to all the yapping. tim henson has mastered fast alternate picking, fast hybrid picking and fast sweep picking and he combines them together to make some really cool melodies which are easy for him to play but hard for us because it takes a lifetime to learn these techniques, and another to master them
I use my thumb to fret strings all the time lol. Sometimes my thumb is placed down on the back of the neck while I play things that require more stretch but my thumb is usually my best friend lol. I don’t even know when I started doing that and I thought it was just me being weird until I saw John Mayer play Neon.
Beginning aspiring guitarists don't use the optimized position for their hand size and finger length - ever. The secret is to just play the way that feels best not the way that looks right. So yeah I agree the thumb trick is true, but I still always play acoustic with that thumb on the low E for blues riffs because thats what feels best and makes the most sense for me.
I tried learning to play Euphoria and I'm stuck just the first part cuz I have trouble reaching and changing the notes with my fingers 💀 the stretches were too much, even on my guitar that's on the smaller side
I guess we can say that Tim is kinda of a "classically trained fretboard player" - he was a violin player for most of his infancy/childhood. So yeah, dude definitely know all the intrinsic things of the fretboard-hand posture, and uses it 24/7 to play at such high level. Also: Tim actually has "tiny hands", like, for such a high level guitarist that reach all those stretches, I would say.
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Tim's secret is countless hours of hard work
I have yet to see an interview with Tim where he's not practicing something during the interview.
@@jomiran1000he also said directly that he used to practice all day when he was a young kid. Dude was hella focused
@@Hadri_ART he also said he did this because he was grounded through most of high school on account of getting busted for weed
He practiced so you don't have to....he's passing it to you on you tube
Nah I call hacks
Interestingly enough, Tim does not actually have big hands. I've met him in person and shook his hand, and they felt tiny. He is just very flexible and dexterous, probably because of playing guitar/violin from a VERY young age in combination with actually practicing a ton. His fingers are mad skinny, which I think gives that illusion. Scott actually does have big hands though
100% this. If you watch their play through of chimera (amazing song btw) you'll quickly see how small tims hands are compared to scott. That dude has some massive hands
I was gonna say wtf his hands are small lol
You don’t need to meet Tim in person. Watching Tim’s tutorials I can see the neck of his guitar and Tim’s fretting hand. Tims hands wrap the neck, like (fretting more than bass note with his thumb. Tim hensons finger length is NOT average. Tim has Long fingers. You must understand many people can play guitar with average short finger. Advanced levels they either buy guitars (closer fretting space) because they cannot play solos like buried alive lemon drop. Although there is way to play the stretched notes re arranged. For that part, re arranging the notes does work. Arranging notes on fretboard, doesn’t always make fingerings easierto play either. I was lucky drop it works. Tim was meant to play guitar (Tim’s dad was good guitarist) Tim said both of our dads shred on guitar. Referring to Scott’s dad also. Average person can learn many things on guitar but struggle with polyphia.. They can learn gun roses slashes’ entire discography. They get stuck on polyphia. Long long time. It changes the way they feel about playing guitar. Not the same person No expression
His palms are small but his fingers are long and thin.
Watch classical nylon string players... Fret 8 to Fret 13 is not that big a deal, either?
The three keys I have found essential to playing wide intervals: 1. Thumb well below the top of the neck (as stated in the video); 2. Guitar positioned to the fret hand side of your body; and 3. Changing the position of fret hand elbow. Bringing it closer to the neck for wider stretches. Elbow position is often well overlooked by instructors.
Yep. Elbow is the control lever for reach.
The thumb rule doesnt work for me. Im double jointed in my thumbs which causes my thumb to pop up from the back of the neck. Lol. My thumbs literally fold back 90°. Ive played guitar now for 30 years with crazy thumbs.
@@bearingceeTim also has a hitchhikers thumb
He studied violin for years as a child. If you look at Tim's technique, he first developed on violin, and then he carried this discipline over to guitar. Some say Tim is this century version of Paganini, who was also a violinist and guitarist in his day also.
Hm. I learned how to play the Cello as a child and picked up the e-bass as a teenager. Could it be....? *wonders about life*
Tim is overrated as a guitarist.
@@phunkyjunkee nah
@@phunkyjunkee not overrated. Hes properly rated. Wanna talk underrated? Look at jimi Hendrix the grandfather of modern guitar playing. Innovation and absolute mad skills.
Man did all that and never learned any proper Lessons in playing guitar from any books nor any teachers.
Hes hated because he was so incorrect to classical guitar but nowadays we call that a skill
@@magnipettersson4432good point. I just don’t find his playing very musical.
Great video. I don't even play guitar, but the way you explained those concepts was incredibly clear.
Thanks!
Great stuff. Tim is so freaking good. I love the video where one of his friends asked him how he got so good and he said “practice.” Then he asked how much do you practice? Tim says “I don’t know about 12 hours a day?”
when talent meets hard work..
@@chopholtz4950unappreciated comment.
@@chopholtz4950 I aint reading all that
@@woofcity6307 Nope. No such thing as talent - and you can see early videos of Tim playing and he's not very good at all. Now he's brilliant. Music is a skill and you learn it by practising it.
@@woofcity6307 It's not just sitting and playing the guitar you have to actually practise with a goal to an end. Look for example the process by which Tim learned Tosin's thumb technique - it took him months of dedicated practise including a few lessons from Tosin. If you can't do that it's not talent it's because you've sat and noodled stuff you can already play most of the time. If you sit and strum 3 chord for 40 years you'll be really good at strumming 3 chords. To play better you have to spend the time stretching your ability. It's not talent. There's no such thing. It's a skill. And Tim has created videos showing exactly how he uses a DAW to create his riffs. There's no mystery "woowoo" magic creative force" to any of this. In fact the people who expect to be hit by some kind of divine inspiration when they step into a studio are the ones who are going to struggle to come up with ideas. See, for example, Dave Lee Roth explaining how he came up with lyrics - he wrote everything down filled books - he didn't just listen to Eddie's riff and stand there waiting for God.
Tim's created videos showing how Playing God was created using an omnichord and that parts of the piece were added by Wes Hauch - and Wes got one of those parts from a guitar teacher. No magic lightning bolts involved - and Tim, in particular, because of social media has documented what he does - literally sitting in front of a camera telling you what he does. The trick is to listen and stop thinking you can't do it. You can but it's more than just sitting for a bit struggling to play one of his riffs and giving up because he must be more talented than you - look at Tim's early doors guitar playing as a kid with a band - the playing is not some kind of wunderkind at all. Nor is simply learning a couple of his riffs enough - you can see how he creates - learn to do that and practise doing that, add other ideas - take something you create on a DAW and transfer it to guitar - and then sit and try to play. Clearly Tim, rather than just playing a melody where it would fall under the fingers plays notes all over the neck on different strings using open strings and harmonics where they fit - it creates something that appears complex and that, unlike a riff that falls into a box shape takes time to learn "How did anyone ever think of playing this riff?" - well he tells you how - you just have to watch and listen to his youtube channel.
And these days we can see how significant numbers of people can learn to play the guitar to a high standard because of social media. There are a plethora of people playing Tim's music equally or even better than he can and most of them add some creative twist to it - the band have sat and watched a load of them.
I love this video so much man. No bullcrap, no long explanations to simple things, no blatant plugs. You've earned a subscriber. Keep up the great work.
Thanks very much! Yeah I'm trying to make shorter "to the point" videos.
he also does this thing with his thumb that you can see at 3:33 where it looks like he uses his thumb to alternate pick instead of pronating his wrist. You have to hold the pick close to the thumb joint and make a wave motion with it. It's strange at first but it feels like you have more control.
This is called circular picking. My understanding is it came from jazz with guys like Django, but I think a lot of people who get their picking to high level end up doing this instinctually out of necessity.
I also do that cus the g at the bottom will sound like it's loose or it'll suck. Also it's for that INSTANT loud strum
Ive never had a problem with harmonics as i have played with them since young, But the speed! Its almost incredible what some of the New-Age guitarists can do. As much as i am an old soul, Theirs a lot of respect for people who are currently challenging how musicians feel about their play. I went from blues and classic rock to heavy(ish) metal and had to learn alot. These guys are doing the same. Re-Imagining the music around us creates unique and inspiring pieces for others. I am amazed and inspired by the next generation and am in hope the future ones carry the same weight that players like Tim Henson do. I cant play it, but i respect it.
Thank you. This video highlights some crucial points on technique. I'm sure the people who are genuinely interested in learning will find tutorials to support the techniques you've highlighted.
Yes, god given talent and impeccable work ethic.
I hope you find it useful. Sorry for the very long time between videos, I got extremely sick over Easter, was hospitalised for months, and have spent months afterwards recovering. Also, I drew the wrong conclusion that Tim has big hands! From his videos I saw he had around the same size hands as me, and I thought I had big hands, but it turns out that I have average size hands (7.6 inches from wrist to tip of middle finger). So I learnt that I am not as special as I thought 🙂 As the comments pointed out, small hands can be overcome with practice anyway, I touched on that in the video, but its important to re-stress that.
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Dude. I love you.
so, this year after -years- of playing, I finally realized hooking my thumb over the top of the neck was hindering me tremendously. My playing leveled up almost immediately. It was insane.
Since then, sometimes I'd randomly fall into this groove where I was really comfy just flying around the fretboard and had no problem or comfort issues getting around. I couldn't figure out what it was whenever it happened, I just sat there both excited that it was happening and sad that I had no idea how to lock into that spot.
Just right now, I literally just mentally locked my thumb behind my middle finger and not only did I *yet again* find playing so much easier and faster - but this position is also helping with pain I was having (obviously from poor ergonomics!) in my elbow and wrist. Thank you so much. Easy sub.
This was a good video and explanation, certainly for a pleb. Thank you :) Tim and his guys are incredibly talented
They certainly are very talented. Happy it was helpful.
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Dude what a breakdown! The best thing on TH-cam is when smart, talented, creative people break down the actions of other smart, talented creative people! Sometimes the people doing the impossible aren’t the best at explaining how they do it
Thanks very much. I really appreciate it.
My son I witnessed from the age of his 10th birthday til he was 18 , he practiced no less than 8 hours a day plus. I taught him basic chords and today he's 29 and is one hell of a musician. He doesn't play as much now but he plays gigs still and holds his family and job well too. I remember how hard that was and I am proud of him. This Tim H young man is playing a lot of what I heard in 2010 by son was creating. I have tons of him on sd cards playing variations of tapping and percussive stuff insanely technical. Anyway. I see alot of this now.
Put them up, i want to see how he sounded like tim henson before tim henson came up with his own style? I dont doubt your son is good but saying your son did did what tim did before he even came out, i want to see this because i honestly doubt that.
@@HADESHELLFIREMUSIC I get it. Why would you believe me? That's the gift of comments I guess. I can make the claim and you can deny it. All good. At least you commented without complete doubt and I appreciate that. Perhaps I should have said , Not identical like his actual songs but , the stuff he does with the slapping tapping and technical crazy insane abilities. I do have the stuff on some SD cards it's old and I will need to find them and see if the quality is up to standard. I would much rather email it to you as I don't know how my son will feel about that as he thinks it sucks. Lmao. He was young then and was borrowing my old droid phone and I found them going through SD cards few years ago. Hahah. I did post one to Facebook I think? But yeah I totally would like to share these with you. Since you asked. Perhaps I'll even put them on TH-cam if my son doesn't think it's a bad idea. I'm not saying he is Tim Henson. I am saying Tim and my Son are pretty similar in how long they have been playing. My son was a major Pertucci fan and Born of Osiris with one of the guitarists that left. He actually knew him and I can't think of his name now. Dude I'm an old drummer and while I do love to brag about my son I know it's a bad taste and I shouldn't as that is definately biased approach. He is amazing. He was playing drums at 5 and keys , like classical pieces pretty well at 12. He's a dad now and was in his band Disarayen in FL ...His name is Corey Clark. There are some small clips on my channel of him and it will say in title My son on those videos. However they are more recent and he's usually playing heavy stuff. As technical as he is he is into that really interesting heavy brutal stuff and solos like crazy over them. Not the style I'm speaking of here. But by hearing him perhaps at least you'll get the idea that he is pretty good. I hate to even mention those as the best he can do isn't on my channel. He isn't really into TH-cam and I have to beg him to show a few moments here and there. Heheh. Btw. Nice to meet you and hope this helps some as I don't want to make a claim and then dip out. Lol
@@robertclarkguitar understandable mate, as I said no disrespect to your son I more so just found the topic interesting having a precurse to the style we see come from tim nowadays, hopefully one day you can put them up I'd genuinely like to see them, cheers mate!
8 hours a day???????? How tf did he have the time? That's either insane focus or hyperfixation - either way, that discipline alone is very impressive.
@@TheLunablackheart I'm not exaggerating either. Lol. He would come home from school and go right to his guitar. He would play til early in morning. Of course when he wasn't home he would be out with his friends whom also played. I'm sure they did other things and I don't think he skipped many days. He just loves guitar. He's still at it at 29 but he's a dad and doesn't have 8 hours lol. He sometimes skips a couple days now I'm sure. He is amazing. He claims he is out of practice. But the man is insane good. Thanks btw for the comment. He is in a couple of videos but none are him at his best. Most are recent or live gigs ...He won't use effects live much. I told him to grab a delay and reverb for those leads. Hahah. He doesn't like them. Hahah. But he does on occasion use them on his demos. Happy New Year to ya.
Dang this video was rly helpful. Gave me a lot of insight to what i've been doing wrong while learning this song and what i should work on. Thanks a lot!
Thanks!
Nifty, well-crafted fun video! Great explanations ~
Thanks!
You got me with the unexpected finger. The pearl clutch was perfect.
Henson looks SO RELAXED when he plays
And gay
@@ashgonza92 ... not that there is anything wrong with that :)
@@ashgonza92 lol
he looks smug
yeah, can't be tense or straining if you don't wanna sound like an absolute beginner.
Good vid, really nailed it with the classical fretting hand position.
That, along with consciously minimizing tension in my hands/wrists during practice helped me a lot.
Thanks Patrick
Practice, practice, practice is a good start!. I can stretch from the 5th fret to the 13th fret with ease. My fingers are long for my body size.
Man, this was so helpful.
he says he doesn’t have big hands, actually he says he has small hands compared to someone like scott, but his fingers are slender and is palm is small compared to his actuall finger length, this gives the impression that they are longer
i have been using the index finger technique since i saw this video a while ago, and my playing improved considerably
if you pay attention, for god knows why, its takes quite an effort for the hand to move only the index finger to a different string position
try it in your forearm,, make a bar with the index and pretending you are jumping strings with the other fingers, it barely moves your hand, now do it with all fingers, it considerably tenses the metacarpal and forces the wrist extension
but you can simply press the string with different parts of your index finger, and it also helps muting the upper strings
Thx for the short and sweet vid, i learned about the importance of thumb placement and also laughed at the text
This is really helpful! Tip 2 about the thumb is great because you can learn so much from classical guitarists. I took classical lessons for about 6 months but I am still relearning some techniques. I recommend to everyone who feels stuck with thier playing to ask a teacher to check thier picking hand technique ( it's very common that we move our hands more than we need to ) as you can see with Tim Henson, he keeps his fingers closely together. Also make sure you are not pressing down with too much force as this can make playing anything much harder . Don't forget to make sure your action is set up to a comfortable height and find the guitar pick that is right for you! :)
Anyway, thank you for the video it was very well made! :)
Keeping your thumb behind the fretboard is also an essential thing for bassists. It's actually one of the main ways how I distinguish guitar players playing bass.
Hard work and having the guitar set up properly and posture , plays a major role .
Tim is a beast. Also the text bit was hilarious.
I suspect that even though Tim Henson hated playing the violin, starting at 3 years old plus the technique learned on the violin was a very good grounding for when he switched to guitar.
Pat Metheny is one of the fastest jazz players out there and you will regularly see his thumb. While I absolutely agree it's important to reflect or be aware of left hand shape and positioning it's not the key to speed. Speed is in the brain. If you can't hear it fast you can't play it fast.
I've got huge hands, and can make long stretches but I wouldn't count myself as a fast (or capable being one) player. It's an attitude and synching brain and music.
I think he was saying the thumb position was for stretching and reaching notes. He said keeping his fingers close and his picking created the speed
1:15 is not only the thumb, the elbow is almostdirectly below de nech, you have your elbow against your ribs
Total Boss appreciating the artistic expression of a total Boss. Thank you, sir.
Thanks very much.
When explaining the natural harmonics it helps to add that the lighter you touch the string over the fret the better the harmonic
“I’ve never seen someone have so much control over a finger” will stick with me forever 😂
That’s what she said.
The middle finger pointer was great.
First time watching your channel, tip at 1:32 is pure gold - suddenly those long stretches are so much easier!
Thanks Miles
I just plain love how we all go nuts over something thats totally normal in the flamenco or classic world.
There its called "the basics" ;P
Exactly!
I've got big hands too and ngl it helps alot. Especially covering Tim himself. Tim loves his 4-5 fret spanning chords and 3nps scale shapes really do accelerate your playing once your comfortable with them.
Also hybrid picking is awesome. Tim does it a lot but someone who talks about it in good detail is Guiseppe Gilardi.
Moving my thumb positioning literally imporoved my playing so much. It took a while to adapt to it, but now my thumb naturally stays low and my hand sits off the neck, with just my thumb pad and finger tips touching.
0:45 i dont have big Hands and i dont even play a lot of Guitar, but i stretch my fingers sometimes and i can easy reach from the 8th fret on low e to the 14 of the low.
Great insight for a non-guitarist. Thanks a bunch
No worries, glad it was helpful
Great video - highly incisive! 🙌🏻
“We in here talkin bout practice….We talkin bout practice.” - Allen Iverson
This is a great video and I really appreciate the look it takes at what he is doing. As a non musician but with great musical appreciation I was just enchanted by what Tim (and Scott) are able to do with their guitars.
I'm a lifelong tradesman/crafts person with heaps of hand skills and I long, long ago realized that to learn new skills I was watching the hands of other tradesman even if they were just performing a gross motor skill task like troweling plaster or concrete and that was what led to the secrets.
The truly talented make it look effortless and Tim certainly does here. I concluded that the sound he produces from what seems to be the lightest of pressure drifting over the strings could only be pinpoint precision applied with the most invisible of Shaolin strength level hidden pressure.
When I first saw one of his POV play throughs with a head cam on it then all made sense. He simply plays so much that the callouses on his fingers behave like the hammers in a piano and the X Y Z axes of the rest of him puts everything where it belongs with uncommon exactness.
I hope you can take a look at one of his POV's and maybe consider doing a video about it. I'm sure I missed plenty and would love to hear your take.
Thanks! Appreciate your take on things. I'll check out those POV videos and see what I can do.
A lot of people complain about not having big hands, but big hands are not the panacea that those people think.
The issue with big hands is that it can be much harder to control your fingers precisely and it takes more effort to exert a similar force to someone with smaller fingers. You've also got the issue that in some situations you have to curl your fingers more, which can cause more strain and fatigue.
As as an example, how many people who play football (soccer) professionally have large feet? You'd think it would give an advantage, but it often translates to less control.
Many years of practice since he was a kid. That's why he can play fast and consistent.
Having certain types of long fingers does help. I have tiny, tiny hands and i hate it, so much so that i use a 7/8 size guitar. It's not an excuse or cop out, but it does help. There's also the incredible talent and determination thing as well, that helps a tad.
How does he do it? Practice. Lots. He mentioned that he practiced 16 hours a day as a child.
Practice? 16 hours a day is a warmup talk to be when you practice 40 hours a day in 2 hours that’s when you stop sucking ass
DANG
How can he practice that long?
@@blacklikethesun being obsessed will do it, on top of being naturally talented.
@@markdonnelly6921 playing that long isnt the issue for me but more so, how does he play that long without getting bored???
The thumb thing should be standard practice. I see so many people have their thumb hanging out to dry and it limits their mobility. Thankfully when I started, I was taught not to. While I may have lost that over the years, I’m trying to start again and it’s easier than it was when I started.
And Jimmy Hendrix used his thumb to press the bass string in chords; that's why I don't play Hendrix because I was always taught to hide the thumb behind the neck.
I was taught to use the thumb to help with bends. Slows down shred but makes bends super easy.
@@harrisontownsend910 it can but it definitely slows you down. Using the thumb when learning bends for the first time can help, but it’s a bad habit. Its better to learn the right way later on.
@@ricktheexplorer Jimi.
Classical technique, honed over centuries is very good, who was surprised? :)
Knowing every note on the fretboard can really help you play fast. Speed is really just the knowledge of knowing where your going.
Can you please do a review on Paolo Gans? He’s an underrated fingerstyle guitarist who has a different style of playing and almost does every part of a song and it’s amazing.
0:16 being short isn't and advantage, its a requirement
I remember him posting videos as a kid playing "shred" type solos, and a Live where he talked about how much *TIME HE SPENDS PRACTICING*
but tim has small hands
Yeh hes short af
Dude he’s 6’7 at 235 lbs pound solid … I saw him bench press 2 guitars ….. at the same time
Nahh I think they’re average sized
I've not even reached one minute of the video and you are already wrong.
Tim DO NOT have big hands at all, man, just look at his hands, they're very small compared to the rest of the body, he is 5′7, so his hands are very small compared to the regular guy. I have almost exact hands and height as he does, and I can easily wear woman gloves medium size, for you to better understand.
And this stretch at 0:44 is about the DAMN STRATCH not about hand size. With practicing stretches enough, you can easily do these kind of parts with whatever hand size you have.
Okay, next one is about harmonics. The ones used in this song are the easiest out of all techniques of getting harmonics, any guitar player can get them consistently in a month of playing and hybrid picking have nothing to do with consistently getting them, it's just for sound purposes
Okaaay, next one is about 3:39. The index finger here is not "waiting in the couple milimiters above fretboard for his turn". Tim uses his index to mute high 3 strings (this is actually very clever and requiers A LOT of micro-control, BEcause he uses part of a finger somewhere closer to the joint to press note on the first string while still muting 2nd and 3rd strings with it. Now that is pretty mind-blowing)
Please, if you doing these kind of educational videos, do not confuse newbies with wrong information.
i used to be proud that i never got grounded but knowing tim getting grounded made him so good just makes me jealous
Halfway through watching this Video I paused it long enough to hit LIKE and
SUBSCRIBE . I like everything about this Video . Now I'm going to work my way backwards through your Lessons to explore what I've missed from you . I have no doubt that I'll be finding treasures among your Videos . Hope you're doing well . 🎸🎤🎸
This video made me appreciate how damn good my guitar teacher was. Shout out Mike.
You can also see his crazy picking technique in the last clip, where he's not even really moving his wrist, just his thumb and index to pick quickly on certain parts.
Tim doesn't have big hands, dude. He even says that he has small hands. They're not particularly small. But definitely not big. His hands are about the same size as mine, and I do not have big hands or long fingers. I was initially worried about that stretch at the beginning of the 'Playing God' riff. But I can easily nail it now and it's one of the easier components of the riff. Ultimately, Tim can play like that because he practises more than anyone else, and he practises with correct technique. I've practised that opening riff for over 60 hours at this point, and I can almost play it like he does. But even he struggles with it when he's practising. I don't think that Tim's fingers remain that close to the fretboard in that clip. Tim's percussive style often requires his fingers to come out more so that he can do left-handed tapping, for example. At the beginning of the run that comes in after the main riff, the fourth note, which is a D on the B-string, is tapped in. This is why he needs to come away from the fretboard to get the necessary velocity to sound that note. It takes some serious force. He even taps high notes with the little finger of his left hand during the arpeggio section.
Thanks for the thumb info, game changer. Best wishes, Stefan, Jersey, Channel Islands
thanks Stefan!
Modern technical wizards all have the the thumb IP joint articulation thing going along with the hybrid picking with the middle finger. They make it look effortless.
Can confirm having long thin fingers gives an advantage. On top of having double jointed finger tips so my tips can bend at 90° angle when i apply enough pressure. ( for example: this allows me to play an A chord on the 2nd fret with 1 finger and do other weird chord rolls with 1 finger tip) I have really long fingers I can do the reach in Playing God with ease....one of my friends has a little hard time cuz they have kinda short fingers
Your skills are remarkable
He also has full fingertips. As someone who has lacking tips of fingers, I literally can’t pinch the strings or even clay when doing pottery. To do pottery I have to use special tools and finger caps lol. It seems like a very small thing, but to be true, it plays a huge role and I have never seen people with fingers like mine play instruments. Maybe it’s also not the reason but the outcome and I could improve my fingers, but not enough to be using them as easily. It’s easier for me to scratch though lol.
I wonder if around 3:40 if he isn’t using the part of his index finger closest to the edge of the neck to hold the 12th fret of the high E string
I know how to play that part. He bars with his index finger to play the 12th fret on the e, b and g string
that looks more like a hinge barre than hovering over the string, which is another great classical technique that can ease very tricky passages.
The 13 th fret on the 2nd string is the same note as the 8th fret on the first string, so no massive stretch required.
Awesome video mate
thanks mate
Thing a lot people dont understand is classical musicians will of course have the best technique which will allow them of course to play better easier and faster. I think everyone should start with classical training and then after some years take that knowledge and build whatever you want. A classical musician can become a rock one in some months a rock musician can become a classical in years of practice.
Your thumb position %1, your hand size %1, guitar position %1, your knowledge about scales %1. Practice adds %96 to the table. When we are talking about speed, the only thing that matters is practice, practice and practice more. There are lots of great guitarists with different styles of guitar handling yet they shred with incredible speed and some even play with their tongues.
Summary of the video: he plays with good technique.
0:50 i'm a small teenager with small hands and don't have much trouble with reaching this part?
Speed is important, speed.
Tim and ichika are super human....incredible style.
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Practice can make you great, if done properly, but natural ability is just that. My favorite guitarist who can shred from Santana to Malmsteen, to Rhodes to Gary Moore and a thousand greats in between practiced for 10s of hours a day. When i showed this great to my guitar teacher who has played with record label bands he said shit if i had time to practice 10 hours a day, but i saw this great play after 3 years if starting and he wad playing like 25 year musicians...talent does play a part, for an amazing treat check out my fav guitarist.....panos arvanitis....simply incredible.
Yup I noticed the thumb when trying to learn a lot of their songs along with CHON stuff. Its a thing all these super fast modern guys do that im bummed to say feels extremely awkward for me to stay disciplined with for entire songs outside of fast riffs I would naturally throw the thumb on the middle of the neck for. Had a old shred lord guitar teacher that taught me playing with my index finger knuckle glued to the bottom of the neck helps me stay locked in - it does but and just cant get away from it now without feeling lost :')
I think the fact that Tim Henson’s mother forced him to play violin from a very early age, and even when he started playing guitar, his parents wouldn’t let him stop practising has a lot to do with his guitar playing style.
Amazing video
Thanks!
Tim is a music ninja
I can stretch from the 1st to the 6th fret and still play comfortably. The Seventh not so much.
Good video, good explanation 👌♥️
Thank you 🙂 Glad you like it
I've been playing guitar for over 40 years, having played in many metal cover bands throughout the 80's and 90's. I'm 6'1" tall, yet I have FREAKISHLY short fingers AND toes. At first glance most people would never even notice it until I showed them, but they are short. In fact, my little fingers are so short they look like they only have two joint along their length, instead of three joints, like normal people's fingers. I do have three joints, but you can't tell by looking. In fact, my little fingers are so short, I only have one joint crease along the finger on the palm side of my hand. Weird, right? Yet I've still managed to become a pretty decent guitarist. I can't say it hasn't been somewhat of a handicap, because I'm quite certain a lot of things would have come much easier had I had the reach most people's hands have, but I've seen guys with only two or three fingers play most impressively.
Someone tell me if I'm looking at this wrong but 8th fret to 13th fret is not a super difficult stretch for me with small hands??
those who dont want to listen to all the yapping. tim henson has mastered fast alternate picking, fast hybrid picking and fast sweep picking and he combines them together to make some really cool melodies which are easy for him to play but hard for us because it takes a lifetime to learn these techniques, and another to master them
I have small hands but my guitar has a narrow neck. I can stretch from 6 to 12, not quickly, but can definitely see it possible.
I use my thumb to fret strings all the time lol. Sometimes my thumb is placed down on the back of the neck while I play things that require more stretch but my thumb is usually my best friend lol. I don’t even know when I started doing that and I thought it was just me being weird until I saw John Mayer play Neon.
Beginning aspiring guitarists don't use the optimized position for their hand size and finger length - ever.
The secret is to just play the way that feels best not the way that looks right.
So yeah I agree the thumb trick is true, but I still always play acoustic with that thumb on the low E for blues riffs because thats what feels best and makes the most sense for me.
I love your stupid cutaways, very fun 😂
thanks! Analysing guitarists playing can pretty dry otherwise!
I have even developed the ability to release the thumb completely to get even wider stretches
I tried learning to play Euphoria and I'm stuck just the first part cuz I have trouble reaching and changing the notes with my fingers 💀 the stretches were too much, even on my guitar that's on the smaller side
when I moved my thumb...
shook🤯
I learned guitar with the thumb completely behind. This is why is hard, for me, play John Mayer songs, like Neon
Wow great tip
wait was it just me or was the 8th fret 6th string to 13th fret 2nd string not a stretch?
Tim Henson's GF: What those fingers can do?
Tim Henson: Yes
I guess we can say that Tim is kinda of a "classically trained fretboard player" - he was a violin player for most of his infancy/childhood.
So yeah, dude definitely know all the intrinsic things of the fretboard-hand posture, and uses it 24/7 to play at such high level.
Also: Tim actually has "tiny hands", like, for such a high level guitarist that reach all those stretches, I would say.