This ONE Technique Mistake KILLS Your Guitar Progress!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Are you making THIS guitar technique mistake? Get your tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and video play-alongs for today's workouts here: / bernth
Finger anchoring is a topic that is rarely talked about, so I thought this finger independence/control lesson might be helpful for you :) We go through 3 exercises and steps that will greatly improve your guitar technique - remember to get your files on Patreon to practice this together with me!
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00:00 Intro
01:11 Fretting Hand Technique Basics
02:29 The 'Table Exercise'
03:15 The Anchoring Problem
04:50 Exercise #1
06:08 Bad Technique Habit #2
06:31 Exercise #2
07:15 Bad Technique Habit #3
07:58 Exercise #3
09:53 Patreon Shred Collab
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The grip exercise can be applied in life too.
What do you do when every BERNTH video shows you more things you're doing wrong and gives your more excises to fix them...!! I guess just hit the shed and don't come out until you can shred :) Thx for all the videos, you are a fantastic resource for overcoming playing issues.
Sorry if this the wrong place iam keen to look at your site but not sure if I clicked right place .. videos r great
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Your lessons are like " If I can go back to the past and learn sooner these things", thank u so much!
Thanks for sharing :) I also had to correct lots of technique mistakes and inconsistencies over time, don't worry!
At age 43, I'm gonna have get good fast asf if I wanna be successful before I graduate highschool. 4 years from whenever I start goin is coming up quick.
A super old school finger dexterity trick I used to do during high school helped me make tons of progress.
Do the traditional "Metal Horns" with your Fretting hand and hold for 5 seconds. Then invert the shape so the middle and ring fingers are up but the index and pinky are tucked behind your thumb...hold for 5 seconds. Then "shift" the shape so the index and ring are tucked leaving the pinky and middle fingers...5 seconds Then shift the shape again so the index and ring fingers are up...5 seconds.
Get used to those motions and that pattern. Do 4 reps of 5 seconds in each shape. After that, see how quickly you can cycle through all the patterns. That tiny trick is something you can do throughout the day while you are away from your guitar and it builds dexterity and finger independence very rapidly.
@@theartisan1898 That means it's working...mwahaha. ;)
I love how the collab is all different skill levels, all at different points on their musical journey and all getting better thanks to what you do. And you did a killer job putting it all together and showcasing all of them. Seriously awesome man, one of the coolest things ive seen in a very long time! Cheers to all of them too, keep up the great work!
Light years beyond the thousands of other guitar tutorials on TH-cam. To the point and video-edited superbly. Much appreciated Bernth
Really loved the shred collab! Great job, all of you! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🤘🏻
Love how you added the plat members at the end of the video showing their skills 🤘 Keep up with the good work you're already doing.
really needed this lesson, thx bernth. Great to see our shred collab up as well rock on!!
I am really starting to like the content and teaching style of BERNTH more than other channels! It's lean and mean with nicely condensed information that make sense! Thanks!
Great lesson. Number 3, applies to everything and is one of the biggest things that I have found holding others back. It is also wonderful when someone gets it and instantly realizes just how much easier and more natural playing is when they learn it. Perhaps a lesson on keeping the fretting hand loose despite what the picking hand is doing, if you have not already done so. Thanks Bernth, and again, really great lesson.
Cool! I certainly have a DGOD so I'm immediately adding this to my practice routine! Thanks Bernth!
Loved the collab, too! Bonus exercise: learn to play all contributions heheh ;p
A lot of these issues I’ve slightly noticed and throughout the video I noticed myself doing all of these! Just having someone list and explain beginner issues helps me a lot. Thanks!
#Bernth you are the greatest. I have watched as many of your Shredding lessons that I can. All of them are fantastic, and they have helped me more than anything I've tried before. Keep up the SUPER WORK!!!
Stumbled upon your channel a few months ago.
But this notification got me to exercise #1, and I have to say, that I realized just how bad my fretting habits really are!
That's such a neat excersise, that it alone practiced daily will certainly make a difference.
Now I can't wait to watch the rest of the video!
Thanks!
Thanks Bernth! Somehow you always manage to bring up topics I never thought I should focus on. Even better, topics noone else is talking about. Keep it up!
BERNTH is highly recommend youtuber for me when it comes to guitar teaching, techniques etc...
I agree.
What I love about guitar is that it evolves by players breaking the rules. Too many rules and techniques can be an impediment to the creative process.
Most detailed and in depth explanations of techniques. Awesome channel. Anyone who wants to take that next step , this is the channel you want. Thanks for all the content!
one of the great lessons from a great teacher, and one of the best communities!
Thanks for that! Not phased to say help is always welcome! ⭐️
Thank you🙏 Collab sounds great🤘🤘 Good job everyone!!
DGOD was really hard for me to overcome (I am mostly self-taught), but doing that helped a LOT. I never thought about anchoring the index finger, but hearing you call it out made me recognize immediately I do it too much and need to break the habit. Thanks!
You are what I’ve been looking for, I’ve been trying to play the guitar but could never get my fingers to act right. The finger exercise you demonstrated I feel will help me to get started.
This is a GREAT video!!!! Very well done, going to help alot of players and no one talks much about these things!!! Awesome lesson!!!
SO fun watching this again after so many months. I was soooo stressed trying to get mine down lmao. Wish I could redo this now haha, but it was really fun and a great learning experience. 😁🤘
This is a fantastic lesson, as are all the lessons you post. I am guilty as charged and I have made such slow progress as a result! Thanks for posting this. Your videos are always very professional. Absolute top quality. Cheers! \m/
Your guitar skills both inspire me & also make me want to hang up my guitar 🤣 Keep up the great lessons my friend! 🤟🏼🎸
Amazing Bernth 🤘
Thank's all of these.
I can't find the word to discribe what I fell.
So Shred On 🤘
Curled fingers and the thumb behind the neck is classical guitar basics. Good job!!! No one smokes a classical guitar player 🤘💀🎸🎶
Very very helpful and understanable,thankyou sir😁🤘
Dude! I'm not a speed metal guy but I love your videos...really improves my playing.
Great work on the collab everyone, turned out killer!
When I think about the fact that I've been playing for nearly 17 years and I'm still intermediate at best I worry that my bad habits may be too entrenched by now to learn my way out of them and that I might never be good, so looking at talented guitarists often makes me feel pretty down about myself. With that in mind, these videos are great for just concisely explaining what some problems are, how to correct them and some exercises to practice doing so. The fear of eternal mediocrity is still there, but at least I know how to try now
I sort of did the same thing in a way. I’d been playing since I was 14 (27 years.) I had a dog bite my left hand, tearing up my pinky, ring, middle fingers and thumb. It shredded my skin and crushed the bones. I couldn’t play any longer, at least while bandaged and splinted up. I switched to left hand playing. Mentally, I still knew all of the music theory I’d learned and memorized through the years, but physically, I might as well had been 14 again. Perhaps it was worse than starting over, at least when I started playing right handed, it felt natural to play that way. I picked up playing the piano at about 20 years old, so my right hand wasn’t too disoriented fretting strings. It was my picking technique and basically reversing everything I’d ever learned. Well now 3 years later, I’ve never been as fluent as I am now. It truly makes a difference learning things correctly. I wish I had as many resources back then as we do now. It’s scary to think about how many more crazy shredders we would have had in the 80’s if TH-cam was around then like it is now. Or maybe where guitar will be in another 20 years with how easy it is to be saturated with knowledge and theory.
@Galen Marek in contrast, back in the old days we would have hundreds of impressive guitar players playing utterly good songs, and nowadays we have tons of guitar players making, at the end, only lots of noise. I'm not saying shred is disgusting, and period, but shredding without an outstanding musical hook is just garbage.
@@galenmarek8287 l play bass and fractured my pluckibg fingers, so l started using a pick 100% of the time, figuring l could pluck again when they healed. Well, they never got their strength back, and l prefer the sound of the pick.
Take a month or two off from playing to lose the habits and then immediately start practicing proper technique to prevent muscle memory from taking over.
I thought the same for years about my bad picking habit but 1 day sucked it up and forced myself to completely change my picking style, felt so unnatural and difficult but only took a couple hours to start getting used to it and a couple weeks for it to become habit. Ive heard before it takes on average 30 consistent days working on something to fully break a habit
Nice playing to everyone in the collaboration video!
Been playing 🎸 on and off since 1989. October 2021, I've decided to try shredding. I'm starting in this video.✌️🎧
SKAL! bro. Thank you so much. I'm an old guy just learning and you are a great teacher IMO. And you Shred wicked bro.
Thanks for these tips My playing improved dramatically! This is the most informative channel ever! Keep up the good work.
Art of Guitar is another great channel.
Such good videos everytime honest talk that helps
These are by far the best tips i saw since i started playing guitar
thanks for the opportunity to participate in the September collab ..... congratulations to all the guys !!🙏♥️
Amazing! Proud to be in my first ever shred collab and also first TH-cam video lol 🤘🤘
I've payed a number of instructors for a lesson, but none of them told me about my left hand posture which was dead wrong. Should've known you earlier Bernth. Thank you for making me a better guitarist every week. Cheers from Korea!
Why would you pay money to a musician
@@husnainali-gn8bo but when you put it like that, i wish more people paid money to musicians :(
@@drocka36 :/
I've tried learning for years and listening to this, it makes perfect sense as its what I've been doing wrong.
I've been too busy trying to brute force my progress by slowly playing faster and ignoring technique, your vids are eye opening for sure.
Bernth, you’re a genius teacher (and obviously insane guitarist). Thank you so much!
Why dont you play the exercises slowly once. The patterns are too complex to copy by ear also ...can not tell which fingers are fretting because of the camera position. I would follow your channel but for that. I dont want to waste practice time trying to see what you are doin. They look like really great exercises though.
Thanks for the lessons Bernth
Great - off to go practice your exercises on my classical guitar. 🙃
Thanks.
A line I use when teaching students how to use a wood lathe, from an old Hollywood movie about Cyrano de Bergerac, "Hold the sword as you would a bird. Too tight and you kill it. Too loose and it flies away." Still working on that one for my guitar work....
Oh, after watching the shreds, maybe do one like the trend of have a cord progression and the guitarists play shreds to the same tune.... Still wish I had many hours per day to practice...
I cant agree more on the point you illustrated in the video, this is especially important for hands synchronisation. As right hand does the continuous alternative picking, but left hand always have different pace if you leave index finger still for anchoring. For training individuals movement, it helps the brain to sync both hands by one hand finger movements with another hand consistent picking speed. You will know that every picking matches one particular finger pressing on the fret.
awesome and very practical, thanks
Great video!!
I assumed this would be some clickbait bullshit but im glad i stayed, as a relative beginner starting to learn legato this has been amazing and id something ill work on straight away, thanks, youve got yourself a follower!
Thanks for the video!
Awesome. Thank you.
Most teachers never discuss genetics and age of student when they begin an instrument. I have none of the bad habits discussed because I began playing keyboards when 10 years old, today I play professionally acoustic piano. But I began playing guitar when I was 20, and after 45 years of practice could never play professionally. I already had all the coordination and relaxed playing from organ and piano before beginning guitar, never made the mistakes listed in the video, but never improved much either. While improvements on piano have followed me for 55 years, I still have the strength today to easily practice or perform for 3+ hours on piano. Guitar practice does not fatigue me either, but improvements were rare, and frustrations have followed me for 45 years. My guess is starting guitar 10 years earlier would have given me skills to play professionally, skills like I possess today with piano.
Then we must add genetics, the born skills of musicians. Yes, these do exist and why many musicians have extraordinary skill. Born with good musical hearing, and good athletic talent, began your instrument at 5 years old...and you will on your way to pro career in music. I was a professional athlete as well, and know how important genetics are, those born with great genetics in muscle strength will very quickly gain the strength to play light on the fretboard, others who do not have this born talent will quickly reach a threshold of strength and never surpass it. This threshold may be fall below what is necessary for a guitarist. Add to this muscle fiber type, one is powerful, the other is endurance, you will need the correct ratio of power to strength to endurance to be a pro guitarist too. Yes we all play guitar, but most will never have the natural born talent to go very far with it, most give up after 5 years and rightly so. I should have given up too, but kept searching for better technique, better practice training. I am patient, too patient, I am stubborn, I am intense in my goals and vision of accomplishment.. I should have given up guitar a long time ago.
Im not a metäl håed but you i learn a lot from this channel. Keep it up!
Loved the video. Helped me a ton since I’m an older, new guitarist. You have any suggestions on helping older guitarists with less flexible fingers?
Great vid as always!!! I'll definitely have to join the next Shred Collab🤘👽🤘
Thanks man!
Thanks bro!👊
I had flying pinky disease for forty years. Thanks to Bernth I can now go out in public and not feel embarrassed. Thank you Mr. Bernth.
I'd demand a refund. We are still pointing and laughing bro.
That collab was savage!
watched this video and was super glad you went over things i had only recently noticed myself and had started correcting, thought i was overthinking things but nop, bernth knows the score
you're a awesome teacher bro
Best guitar lessons on youtube 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This video at half speed is way better. Good lesson 👍
Excellent! I just subcribed 👍
Bernth Skwigelf does it again, nice one dude 🤘🏼
Wow, great community! Everyone is shredding!
This is the other piece I needed
Thank you
👏 around of applause to the shredders contribution!! We should start a band 🤘
jusr awsome ,,,,thanks a looooooooot .
Great tips! I'm kind of there already, but I'm not consistent. Also, I'm not a shredder, but this helps me out regardless.
Hey man you're always saying how thankful you are to your fans and stuff don't forget your f****** an awesome dude man and I love your f****** videos sorry about the language
if you are planning on continuing making videos for beginners, please consider showing proper techniques of using alternate picking for open chords, power chords and chugging, along with tips for improving left hand speed. Would be a complete package : ) Thanks for your work!
Seriously, you're one of the best guitar teachers...
makes a lotta sense !
I really wish to know you a five years before. Excelent work as usual, thanks for it.
The BEST GUITAR TEACHER in youtube! 🤘
Bernth. You rock. 🎸
This dude always helping me not suck. Well...I still suck...but I suck less than I did before I started watching and practicing his stuff
despite of my one permanently disabled finger due to accident, your videos are really helped me a lot... I mean, A LOT....
Danke, Bernth! Prost!
Very helpful, thanX a lot! O:)))
Totally agree
Though, you have to grip harder when bending or doing vibrato
I love you man
Love every video Bernth ! I had a quick question 🙋♂️ what kind of acoustic guitar strings do you use as well as electric ?(: hope you have a good day!
Another great lesson. I loved the (C) next to the Death Grip of Doom :)
Great eye for detail!! 🙂🤟
his technique is fucking insane man, on par with Jason RIchardson / Stephan Toronto
Damn
8:32 On my acoustic guitar I'm surprised on how hard I have to push to make the note rings out, lol...
Bernth could you make a video about phrasing? Like marty friedman or jeff loomis style. I think they are the best at it. And should make for a great video
Can you do a video to prevent nerve damage like stretching after you play and before you play. I'm asking you this because i recently got carpal tunnel syndrome and i don't want people to go through that like i did. And also what is best position for the fretting hand. I can see your fretting hand is horizontal. My fretting hand is almost vertical!
Awesome guys! Shred collab \m/
Sweeeeet! We all rock!! Lol
I have a question. I’ve seen players pick the strings as their right hand is floating above the strings. I’ve also seen players who have their pinky/ other fingers on the body of their guitar as they pick, kinda like fingerstyle acoustic guitar style. What is your opinion on this matter? Other opinions are also appreciated.
It's pure preference! I'd recommend pinky down to start as it gives a solid reference point for the rest of ur hand but in time you won't need it 🙂🤘❤️
I just joined the guitarists. Bought Esp ltd m-50 + Micro cube GX. Is my setup lacking something or was the amp or guitar itself bad decition? Wondering should i have gone for stratocaster or something?
Good day,
I have a guitar and it seems like it’s hard to play it. How tight or loose a guitar strings should be?
Ok when I don't press hard like I always do and lighten my touch I also stop picking hard enough, it is enough to drive a person nuts!
I am just starting out and I feel that the boils on my fingertips are hampering what I can achieve with practice.
Exercise #2 is great, because it feels like it SHOULD be an easy lick to play, but it can be hard purely because of bad playing habit and undeveloped technique.