Little bit confusing Clause. You usually say to practice 3 notes per string and go for it. Now you are saying it does not get you anywhere. Confused? Yes I am. Please clarify.
Great Lesson! As ive been jamming with the looper pedal lately my playing has improved so much, but I often find myself looking at my picking hand and thinking "dude, your holding up the show here" pick hand focus, definately needed here. Funny how the fretting hand seems to get all the attention....
Fascinating! Both your compression explanation that begins around 4 minutes, and how you segued it into your focus concept. (Am actually as impressed with that feat as I am with your overall message of focusing on one single element at a time. You use the technique often in your vids, and it works, and it's probably why you're a top-shelf online instructor.) Anyhoo, nice lesson. Thank you!
Definitely agree, sometimes I just sit there playing a few notes of a scale in a rhythmic sequence slowly over and over just listening in on the notes and how I'm striking them, then after awhile I'll let the arrow fly and pick up speed and see if I can hear the same quality as I'm soaring through it. It's all about accuracy cause if your inaccurate doing it slow your just gonna be really inaccurate attempting it fast and installing the wrong program of mistakes in your subconscious. Better to take it slow and get it down right so you can soar later or it's just as you say, your just wasting your time and effort. Great vid 🤘
This lesson is GOLD! :) This also gave me an idea to take a common drum exercise of switching between three drum rudiments (singles, doubles, and paradiddles) while trying to make them sound exactly the same where you cannot hear any difference when you switch patterns (very hard to do) and apply it on guitar. 1) D U D U D U D U (singles) 2) D D U U D D U U (doubles) 3) D U D D U D U U (paradiddles) Then switch between these three patterns while keeping the sound exactly the same so that you cannot tell if you are doing a down stroke or an up stroke by the sound.
I moved out of my family home for uni almost a year ago now. Brought my electric guitar but no amp and my picking technique seemed to miraculously get better. This explains it :O
Hi Claus, I've been doing your "practice 3 things" challenge. I noticed more progress in one of the exercises. I'll try to more conscious of my focus an see how it goes. By the way if you had a pinky training routine that would be great.
In his free course INGENIUM, u can find absolutely amazing exercise featuring dynamic picking with accent on loud metronome click, it's very help me, but I'm recommend to start this challenge on 1 note! Just to learn basics. 4,8,16 bits. Claus u are the best
Effects and over drive, distortion, gain & Ect. will mask your tone & your true playing technicalities and skills in terms of true accuracy. Record yourself utilizing your guitar and amp in clean channel output mode for electric or accoustic guitar playing. Start at a BPM s-l-o-w that you actually can play accuratly and play with focus on your playing with accuracy before speed. Invest in a BPM Meter , ("Metronome"). The various forms of picking and picking patterns at variable speeds of measured in BPM indicatated by a music pieces time signature , accuracy and focus is crucial. In time you will learn to play ahead without thing about it but it is still that constant that is your accuracy and focal attentativeness that is most important. Tone is . . . All things can be used to create music. One thing in these technical purists ages to consider is that accuracy does not allow for the human touch as it was not always key in music of the Masters that came before any one of us, not for a lack of trying but many Masters of old were all mostly analog and unplugged. I have never heard nor seen a Master of anything, but it is not for a lack of trying to do ones best and keep on keeping on as well as playing through the mistakes you may ever make !!! GR8T VIDEO lesson fret- bro !!! Peace & Play On . . . 🎸 😎 Donald Harris 6-12-2019 .
Im just doing DIADs...Now, with my PINKY on the ROOT for the lower 3 strings. it's just making sure Im persistent ( i can play fast...it's not what Im after).. it's also building my pinky's strength and my fretboard vision. Im going to combine it or extend it later...it's so I see the fretboard/arpeggios Faster..weather I play towards the bridge or nut. I notice much improvements already..it's only been a week.. my sweeping is cleaner..but tht's just one of many benefits. As you know, I play different scales and the various modes within those scales. in multiple keys...with a song too... I can make it really complicated...which it will be once I extend and modulate.. but going to the BASIC of just diads i play CLEAN...striaght into the amp...NO FX..slight reverb on 2...at most. i can also finger pick. pluck hybrid, or use a pick. Im practicing sweeping using my fingers..i have to swtich between my thumb and one other fingers..it happens fast in real time...it was all slopping with the up stroke at first.. Until I designated my middle finger when I go up...and be persistent with it.
So right about needing to know how to pick and being accurate in picking, very inspiring to a composer like me who performs guitar for book trailers about comic books and your commentary about picking techniques for various tempos is spot on. Thanks.
Hi Claus! Thank you very much for this video. What are the specific points to work on for other techniques (legato, h & p, string shifting). How to discover on what to focus on to improve a technique ? (maybe a video series on this theme ^^) Thank you for your work and your passion
Hi Claus, so i made the terrible mistake to let myself go and not practice for few months, and now i feel completly lost. I feel that i lost my skills, my hands feels stiff and it's like a need many months of intensive training to et back to where i was. Do you have any advice on how to deal with frustration?
Nearly 12 mintues of utter boredom as he explained what was wrong and I never heard anything on how to fix it. Nearly fell asleep trying to listen for the fix (which the video was supposed to be about) now I need a nap.
It flew by me as well, because you can tell he was just trying to pitch his course... but i understood. What hes trying to say is. Just alternate pick slowly on one single string. Then calibrate from that.
You can easily pick up what the point of the video is - to focus on accuracy and to practise on clean to achieve it. The video is long because he also talks about different things (advertises his course aswell), but the way he speaks makes it more memorable with the inserted jokes. It's like a face to face lesson, it's never strictly the only little thing you're trying to learn but the bigger picture of it. If you're not interested enough to sit through 12 minutes of it, why bother playing?
@@pawelos4 -- Currently I go through MANY videos that never directly address the topic and more that do not even in-directly address the topic. You berated me because I would not sit through 12 minutes? That is so far off base and shallow that you really need re-evaluate you thought process. He said do "this" or why bother... But no one should bother to watch his video. 12 minutes? Its very easy to waste a lot more time by watching off topic videos or videos that are point blank with its topic then completely off base with content OR expecting one to read between the lines to get a general idea of his idea. And it gets worse. If you (for ANY reason get his "idea" wrong then you are going in the wrong direction.) And still there are more errors in his video AND your response.
I play Guitar for 25 yrs..and accuracy has allways been the problem...you HAVE to practice slow....slow but very accurate...even if it bores you...do not hesitate..play slow...over and over again....the speed comes alone after a while
Start with the basics and build from there, including the note names and the intervals involved in everything you want to understand. It will fall into place. You have to start with the chromatic scale and basic intervals in 1 octave. From then on, your knowledge of one thing, like a major triad being root, major third, and perfect fifth intervals, will aid you in learning and remembering other things, like the major pentatonic scale being made up of root, major second, major third, perfect fifth, and major sixth intervals. The only thing you have to learn is that you add a major second and major sixth to the thing you already learned. So, for example if you learned your major triads and you know that a G major triad is the notes GBD, then you can quickly construct a G major pentatonic scale by adding the A and E notes, since they are the major second (the note a whole step above the root or below the major third) and the major sixth (the note a whole step above the perfect fifth, or a minor third below the root). From there, learning the major modes is easy, you just add another couple intervals to that pentatonic scale you already know. All your knowledge keeps compounding, aiding you in learning and remembering other things. The important thing is to not take shortcuts. Learn everything by intervallic construction and by note names. Learn every note on the fretboard as well as you know your own name, as you learn and play other things. Otherwise you aren't making all the connections you could make and it will only hinder you. Hope this helps someone!
I don’t know how you theory nerds do it. I’m jealous. If I could sell my soul to the devil, I’d totally do it. I barely understood a fraction of what you just said
@@Soldier1287 go get Ross campbell's theory course for guitar. It's for intermediate players and really starts from the basics of music theory, with normal tabs, (not sheet music). I got it and it's a gem, seriously, really helped me understand more about what I'm going, what more could I do and where I am and what are my options all over the fretboard, I just finished his first course, on to his more advanced one. You HAVE to check it out, great teacher and to the point and understandable material, do yourself a favor
there is a way of playing guitar an there is the Yngway of doing it. (joke). speed changing inside strings is way harder than they all make us believe it is .
8 mins of just bs talks and less lessons....can we leave the philosophical lecture for another video...coz the title suggest other stuff than philosophy...
Thank god for Claus, a awsome teacher who cares to help the students who really want to learn. Great lesson as always!!
Little bit confusing Clause. You usually say to practice 3 notes per string and go for it. Now you are saying it does not get you anywhere. Confused? Yes I am. Please clarify.
Great Lesson! As ive been jamming with the looper pedal lately my playing has improved so much, but I often find myself looking at my picking hand and thinking "dude, your holding up the show here" pick hand focus, definately needed here. Funny how the fretting hand seems to get all the attention....
Fascinating! Both your compression explanation that begins around 4 minutes, and how you segued it into your focus concept. (Am actually as impressed with that feat as I am with your overall message of focusing on one single element at a time. You use the technique often in your vids, and it works, and it's probably why you're a top-shelf online instructor.) Anyhoo, nice lesson. Thank you!
I am so excited after excercise one I already seen a difference in my speed, technique and muscle memory enhanced!
Definitely agree, sometimes I just sit there playing a few notes of a scale in a rhythmic sequence slowly over and over just listening in on the notes and how I'm striking them, then after awhile I'll let the arrow fly and pick up speed and see if I can hear the same quality as I'm soaring through it. It's all about accuracy cause if your inaccurate doing it slow your just gonna be really inaccurate attempting it fast and installing the wrong program of mistakes in your subconscious. Better to take it slow and get it down right so you can soar later or it's just as you say, your just wasting your time and effort. Great vid 🤘
Great lessons, and as a bonus, biggley, you are teaching focus as a life skill.
This lesson is GOLD! :) This also gave me an idea to take a common drum exercise of switching between three drum rudiments (singles, doubles, and paradiddles) while trying to make them sound exactly the same where you cannot hear any difference when you switch patterns (very hard to do) and apply it on guitar.
1) D U D U D U D U (singles)
2) D D U U D D U U (doubles)
3) D U D D U D U U (paradiddles)
Then switch between these three patterns while keeping the sound exactly the same so that you cannot tell if you are doing a down stroke or an up stroke by the sound.
I moved out of my family home for uni almost a year ago now. Brought my electric guitar but no amp and my picking technique seemed to miraculously get better. This explains it :O
Hi Claus, I've been doing your "practice 3 things" challenge. I noticed more progress in one of the exercises. I'll try to more conscious of my focus an see how it goes. By the way if you had a pinky training routine that would be great.
Sir I love the way you talk you are very humorous.
In his free course INGENIUM, u can find absolutely amazing exercise featuring dynamic picking with accent on loud metronome click, it's very help me, but I'm recommend to start this challenge on 1 note! Just to learn basics. 4,8,16 bits.
Claus u are the best
🚩Thank You for the Free PDF. I so appreciate when Guitar teachers throw us some help for free. Not all of us have $$
Effects and over drive, distortion, gain & Ect. will mask your tone & your true playing technicalities and skills in terms of true accuracy.
Record yourself utilizing your guitar and amp in clean channel output mode for electric or accoustic guitar playing. Start at a BPM s-l-o-w that you actually can play accuratly and play with focus on your playing with accuracy before speed. Invest in a BPM Meter , ("Metronome").
The various forms of picking and picking patterns at variable speeds of measured in BPM indicatated by a music pieces time signature , accuracy and focus is crucial.
In time you will learn to play ahead without thing about it but it is still that constant that is your accuracy and focal attentativeness that is most important.
Tone is . . . All things can be used to create music. One thing in these technical purists ages to consider is that accuracy does not allow for the human touch as it was not always key in music of the Masters that came before any one of us, not for a lack of trying but many Masters of old were all mostly analog and unplugged.
I have never heard nor seen a Master of anything, but it is not for a lack of trying to do ones best and keep on keeping on as well as playing through the mistakes you may ever make !!!
GR8T VIDEO lesson fret- bro !!!
Peace & Play On . . . 🎸 😎
Donald Harris 6-12-2019 .
Thank you so much.
Im just doing DIADs...Now, with my PINKY on the ROOT for the lower 3 strings.
it's just making sure Im persistent ( i can play fast...it's not what Im after)..
it's also building my pinky's strength and my fretboard vision.
Im going to combine it or extend it later...it's so I see the fretboard/arpeggios
Faster..weather I play towards the bridge or nut.
I notice much improvements already..it's only been a week..
my sweeping is cleaner..but tht's just one of many benefits.
As you know, I play different scales and the various modes within those scales.
in multiple keys...with a song too...
I can make it really complicated...which it will be once I extend and modulate..
but going to the BASIC of just diads
i play CLEAN...striaght into the amp...NO FX..slight reverb on 2...at most.
i can also finger pick. pluck hybrid, or use a pick.
Im practicing sweeping using my fingers..i have to swtich between my thumb and one other
fingers..it happens fast in real time...it was all slopping with the up stroke at first..
Until I designated my middle finger when I go up...and be persistent with it.
So right about needing to know how to pick and being accurate in picking, very inspiring to a composer like me who performs guitar for book trailers about comic books and your commentary about picking techniques for various tempos is spot on. Thanks.
You are a musician and philosopher .you should write a book
Hi Claus! Thank you very much for this video. What are the specific points to work on for other techniques (legato, h & p, string shifting). How to discover on what to focus on to improve a technique ? (maybe a video series on this theme ^^)
Thank you for your work and your passion
That was my first explanation of compression. Thank you!
so what do we do pick less notes?
As always, good stuff!👍👍👍👍
Good lesson Claus!
Hi Claus, so i made the terrible mistake to let myself go and not practice for few months, and now i feel completly lost. I feel that i lost my skills, my hands feels stiff and it's like a need many months of intensive training to et back to where i was. Do you have any advice on how to deal with frustration?
Shut up and play now..cheers
9deth6 Mega lol, I agree.
@@9deth6mega60 oh waw, the idea never crossed my mind. thanks for the solution sherlock 👍
@@iskanderboulila4453 Have you started playing???just checking on you...
Awesome!
It's the most important thing that you are talking about 👍🤘💪
What’s up with the one eye 6 symbolism bro? Is that the price?
Wat?
The symbol you are displaying with your hand over eye at start of video. You have to know what it stands for or you wouldn’t display it I’d imagine.
@@jazzcat1056 Wat?
6:26 how I feel when I practice
Really 😂
Nearly 12 mintues of utter boredom as he explained what was wrong and I never heard anything on how to fix it. Nearly fell asleep trying to listen for the fix (which the video was supposed to be about) now I need a nap.
It flew by me as well, because you can tell he was just trying to pitch his course... but i understood. What hes trying to say is. Just alternate pick slowly on one single string. Then calibrate from that.
You can easily pick up what the point of the video is - to focus on accuracy and to practise on clean to achieve it. The video is long because he also talks about different things (advertises his course aswell), but the way he speaks makes it more memorable with the inserted jokes. It's like a face to face lesson, it's never strictly the only little thing you're trying to learn but the bigger picture of it. If you're not interested enough to sit through 12 minutes of it, why bother playing?
@@pawelos4 -- Currently I go through MANY videos that never directly address the topic and more that do not even in-directly address the topic. You berated me because I would not sit through 12 minutes? That is so far off base and shallow that you really need re-evaluate you thought process.
He said do "this" or why bother... But no one should bother to watch his video. 12 minutes? Its very easy to waste a lot more time by watching off topic videos or videos that are point blank with its topic then completely off base with content OR expecting one to read between the lines to get a general idea of his idea. And it gets worse. If you (for ANY reason get his "idea" wrong then you are going in the wrong direction.) And still there are more errors in his video AND your response.
He reminds me of Lars from that movie heavyweights 😂, for real though great lessons
most overnight successes on the guitar have actually been paying their dues 15-25 years, Randy Roads comes to mind
I play Guitar for 25 yrs..and accuracy has allways been the problem...you HAVE to practice slow....slow but very accurate...even if it bores you...do not hesitate..play slow...over and over again....the speed comes alone after a while
🚩 No Joke.. Your Fast! Takes a lot of practice!
My real nemesis is theory.
Makes me feel like an absolute bellend
Start with the basics and build from there, including the note names and the intervals involved in everything you want to understand. It will fall into place. You have to start with the chromatic scale and basic intervals in 1 octave. From then on, your knowledge of one thing, like a major triad being root, major third, and perfect fifth intervals, will aid you in learning and remembering other things, like the major pentatonic scale being made up of root, major second, major third, perfect fifth, and major sixth intervals. The only thing you have to learn is that you add a major second and major sixth to the thing you already learned. So, for example if you learned your major triads and you know that a G major triad is the notes GBD, then you can quickly construct a G major pentatonic scale by adding the A and E notes, since they are the major second (the note a whole step above the root or below the major third) and the major sixth (the note a whole step above the perfect fifth, or a minor third below the root). From there, learning the major modes is easy, you just add another couple intervals to that pentatonic scale you already know. All your knowledge keeps compounding, aiding you in learning and remembering other things.
The important thing is to not take shortcuts. Learn everything by intervallic construction and by note names. Learn every note on the fretboard as well as you know your own name, as you learn and play other things. Otherwise you aren't making all the connections you could make and it will only hinder you.
Hope this helps someone!
I don’t know how you theory nerds do it. I’m jealous.
If I could sell my soul to the devil, I’d totally do it.
I barely understood a fraction of what you just said
@@Soldier1287 go get Ross campbell's theory course for guitar. It's for intermediate players and really starts from the basics of music theory, with normal tabs, (not sheet music).
I got it and it's a gem, seriously, really helped me understand more about what I'm going, what more could I do and where I am and what are my options all over the fretboard, I just finished his first course, on to his more advanced one. You HAVE to check it out, great teacher and to the point and understandable material, do yourself a favor
6:25 really its great 😂
there is a way of playing guitar an there is the Yngway of doing it. (joke). speed changing inside strings is way harder than they all make us believe it is .
Less gow haha
Pebber Brown taught this lesson over ten years ago, and it only took him two minutes.
And he's Christian
Guitar itself is a waste of timr
You talk too much for a 11 min video....more talks and less lessons...
Waste of time. Lots of talk & no actual teaching.
8 mins of just bs talks and less lessons....can we leave the philosophical lecture for another video...coz the title suggest other stuff than philosophy...