Why You Can't Pick Fast on Guitar - IDIOT PROOF!
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Why You Can't Pick Fast on Guitar - IDIOT PROOF!
If you're wondering how to to alternate pick fast on guitar and looking for alternate picking exercises and speed picking lessons so that you can learn how to shred on guitar... then this video is for you
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"Getting the pick to feel like it's glued to the string" is the best description of how the sensation of fluid speed picking feels that I've heard.
Happy to hear it.. Up the Irons!
I liked the analogy of Its like bouncing a basket ball when picking. Helped alot.
Hell yeah brother
I’m gonna try this. I have been struggling for years with this.
I actually thought it feeling like that was bad and I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, trying to get it to feel like individual plucks instead of being glued to the string. After seeing this and making a couple small adjustments I see now that I was actually a lot closer than I thought all along. This is why learning from others is important instead of just trying to teach yourself everything!!!
Casually wearing a DOOM Eternal shirt. Absolute legend
Gotta represent! 🤜🤛
What worked for me, I believe is called edge picking. Hold your pick perpendicular to the string instead of a 45 degree angle. Like how Michael Angelo batio and Alexi laiho pick. Only downside is you have to be a bit more accurate because it's harder to mute strings, but that's what worked for me
Its true, but really it's about escape angle and doing that sideways 45 thing can sound bad because you end up with scraping sounds but it depends on how heavy your strings and pick are. I know what you mean, but it is more about attack and escape angle for the pick in my opinion
Mustaine has recommended perpendicular too for sound quality of the notes.
@@ryj2848this works especially well for him I think because he plays with relatively thin picks, tortex .73mm i believe. You almost have to play that way with a pick that thin due to its tendency to bend and flex. Works really well for players with larger hands and a relatively lighter touch 🤘
This is the best basic advice I’ve ever heard a guitarist tell to the public. That’s exactly how I learned. I practiced on one string at a time.
I like that I've been getting pick theory shorts. It's all in the stroke 👍
hehe stroke
So basically I was told to figure out myself . Thanks dude 😍
The musician version of "git gud"
Can’t get better without figuring out what works best for you
@ violet. Very true ! Which is why I didn’t need a video to help me realize that . 😜
Good stuff sir!!
Foecing myself to learn Misirlou has been so beneficial as a beginner player
Straight forward. Concise. Thank you.
Is there anyone on TH-cam that just absolutely loves Jazz Picks? Knows how epic they are and that no one ever talks about it.
jazz picks are the best picks out there
@@defaultdan7923 Thank you! Man knows some sense! But why does no one ever talk about them. I swear 99% of people think a pick is just a pick, same size shape and thickness always.
@@grant8653 i guess maybe because they haven’t tried them. i know that i can’t ever go back even if i wanted to.
@@defaultdan7923 Decades ago first and only guitar lesson I ever took the guy handed me a bag of Jazz picks told me to give away any other pick I had and taught me some Elvis.
I used medium nylon picks, found one when I swapped to bass and liked how they played. I just kept using them after going back to guitar and a year or so ago I bought a pack of jazz picks just to try and I can't go back.
honestly the jazz 3's helped me with my speed too, but they arent for everyone.
Good call. I’ve been imitating some mandolin fills and had to change up my picking technique to get the speed!!
I practice an exercise that may interest you. It's basically triplets between two adjacent strings, 2 notes on one string and 1 note on the next, or 1 and 2, that way the attack on the strings always changes and gives you a good pick up, pick down ability.
The easiest thing I’ve found to practice speed that’s also kinda fun is trying to imitate the mandolin portion of the main silent hill theme.
Silent Hill is a classic!
On an angle inwards with the edge kind of skimming on the tip. Don't worry how long it takes to learn, just focus on technique that naturally gets faster over time.
Approaching the string as though i was doing a pinch harmonic is what helped me, but i dont know if thats the right technique, but it helped me stay close to the string.
Been playing 37 yrs. The hardest thing for me to do was learning “economy picking”. I don’t know why it was so hard but it was a game changer. What this guy showed was simple to learn compared to that. Many 4 letter words involved.
This is exactly what im dealilng with... Thanks for the help!
Thankyou teach
It helps if your pick is firm enough and sometimes I like to angle it so it's not so much grabbing as it is more like a slicing motion off the tip
I'll add to this that you should hold the pick closer to the tip than you'd initially expect. Holding if from the back has way too much leeway and is sloppy where as closer is more tight and you don't have to move it with much effort. Also helps with pinch harmonics too.
Ive played 30 odd years. I find a rigid style only fits a limited genre of riff. Usually metal. Rock needs more relaxed motion, so its limited. I finger pick slap and use pick in the same bars or bar for bar. So apart from metal id actually have my pick on a solid 45 degree angle. 95% of anything I do with a pick is on an agle.
I recently seen one guy telling his auidience to only hold a pick one way. Was really bad advice. This guy is pretty much saying try different things, which is the right advice. Art isnt black and white.
@@ultimadum7785I use both edges of the pick, dull and sharp and the reason for that is I keep the pick tucked up in my ring finger and pull it in and out mid riff, so by the time pick makes it to my fingers its 50/50 which edge I land on so Ive learnt to use both edges.
The thing with the thumb and the pointing finger he does at one moment - that's what i've been saying to my friends wo also play - FOR DECADES! Everybody was sayin i was talking nonsense! I came up with it on my own, not 'cause i'm a genius, but just 'cause it's NATURAL! Damn, thanks, Universe, for this clip.
Thank you
This is great information
Remember to refine it
Thanks
Marty Friedman - 'Hold my sakaayy'
Correct
Also underrated is what pick is the best for you. For me, changing to a slightly thicker pick with a bevel tip worked wonders because I don't have to work as much for the pick to go through the string. That being said, it's completely preference-based; Paul Gilbert, the master of alternate picking, has always used regular shaped and relatively thin picks, if I remember properly.
Well, except for when he's using a drill
I like a very sharp point plectrum, over 64m heavy tortex, for perfect alternate picking!
🎸👈😀👍
Or incorporate some hammer ons and pull offs. It really isnt an issue to speed pick a single note like some Slayer bull. Its just impatient people who are learning.
My neighbours will love this exercise
I need more, Dave Murray, and Adrian Smith
Personally I use Ultex jazz iii xl and pick at an angle... simple
I think this is generally good advice, however, there are definitely exceptions in great guitarists like Marty Friedman and EVH, among others, who have bizarre, if not terrible picking technique but make it work somehow.
Exactly.
cheers mate.
your a legend mate
“How many pick ups do you need sir?”… “All of them… I need all of them…”
I had the exact same thought, but i think those doubles are actually more like humbuckers, so its like hes got a single coil, and 2 humbuckers, which seems less excessive than what appears lol
Mahavishnu Style!
Use the "OK" hand grip
I found my own way : I join my thumb with the side of my index (as if I holded a pick)... but there is no pick. I use the nail of my index instead.
It works fine. 👍
Now try to do that on Bass 😂
Lol I do this too. Works fine, but the tone is weird.
@@mjl11783 It's a bit creamy I like it ! (but you have to have some nail length)...
@@simoneric8183 Or you can glue a ladies' fake nail on. I used to do that when I played in a acoustic duo and needed to switch between fingerstyle and flat picking and needed more volume than you get out of your normal fingernail.
Hi Ben . Hope you're doing well . Again , thank you for sharing your
Skills and Knowledge . This is what I've been focusing on for a few weeks now . I'm starting to make progress with combining this Exercise and your String Crossing Exercises . I think I'll have some serious progress in a couple of months . Stay safe Ben . 🎸
👍👍🍩🍩
Keep at it Rik - working for me as gains are being made …… thanks to Ben
00:32 It looks. like you go from wrist to elbow as you go faster. I noticed this with kirk Hammett as well. I don't understand how you can maintain this for long periods without tiring your shoulder out. I have to play all wrist always which uses my forearm muscles. What's even more amazing with Hammet is he does this with speed across strings as well. I guess I'm more like Hetfield with the tremolo picking all wrist, but it's harder to do across strings...
It's more of a combination of wrist and forearm. It's hard to see the wrist rotation when you see it from the front on 👍
Marry Friedman has a weird technique but he is so amazing in my opinion
If I could pick that fast, I'd never leave the house.
You learn tunes and you play within the context of the tune. Some fast playing is at times necessary. I listen to Scotty Anderson play Take The A Train and he is not using any effects and picking is BLAZING at times. It would be nice to be able to play like that.
Yeah flat to string and you will hit a maximum. You turn the pick a 45 to the string then the pick face is now wider, meaning the string you aim for will be hit faster than a flat edge, return the travel and it hits the opposing string, also faster. Turning the pick has the edge hitting the string faster. Flat = slow. Turn pick= fast
Get a fan an use the blades as picks while it turned on
If you ball your fist but put your thumb on the outside with the pick between your thumb and first finger , you can pick death metal quick. 🎉
What has worked for me is keeping the picking motion in the wrist not using my forearm etc
A stock PS-4 in Burnt Cherry? I have that same guitar, 1995 model.
I have opposite problem. I can pick very fast but a lot faster than I can fret the notes. So my other hand is playing catch up to my picking hand. It's hard to sync up the speed of the two hands.
to all budding guirarists.this guy is right.also play without effects at first play clean.TONE IS IN THE FINGERS NOT YOUR EFFECTS.effects come later for your OWN fun.they dont enhance your playing.when your famous remember me i accept paypal cocaiane and hookers .
I'd think you'd want to accept spelling lessons. 😂
Sir i watch your all your instructional videos and i am a die hard fan of yngwie Vinnie Moore satriani petrucci Jason Paul gilbert marty vitto brata white lion...etc but somehow my both hands get stiffed m 47 years is it due to my age ? I do spider chromatic and other pentatonics scales n normal chromatic major scales....at some point of time my fingering gets smooth but my picking gets stuck... please suggest how to work on ..thank you i would appreciate your acknowledgement.. from northeast India
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Nah I always change the way I hold my pick whether I'm strumming multiple strings as chords or I'm picking individual strings. Whenever I pick individual strings I think I do do the technique correctly but when I strum chords I hold it with three fingers and my thumb because it helps me hold it tight while being able to strum really really hard without the risk of dropping it. And I've gotten good at seamlessly switching my holding position between strumming sections and picking sections.
I'm honestly surprised more people don't do this.
Stopped using guitar picks about 8 years ago 💀 🔥
Also gotta work on it so that you are not hitting a note two times.. unless you were wanting to.
I can tremolo pick perfectly on one string lol its switching strings without losing the speed and accuracy that i always struggle with. Also, wierdly enough I have an *in-between* speed ceiling, where I can pick up to a certain speed, then it gets goofy, but above those middle-high speeds I can pick super fast (tremolo pick) just fine 🤔
Ive been trying so hard to figure out why i struggle in this certain bpm range, or rather, how to fix this struggle (I kinda know the WHY, has something to do with how I hold slight tension in my fingers/hand to make very small yet fast movements for tremolo picking, but my regular picking is different)
What guitar is that? IT Looks stunning ❤❤❤
It's a Jackson PS4
@@BenHigginsOfficial thanks M8 👍👍👍
I thought it was a Godin from seeing the dots.
Thanks bro 🙌🌅🧡😃
I enjoy watching a James hetfield down picking masterclass
I thought bro was gonna pull out through the fire and the flames with that tone lol
So true...i cant pick fast....
Doing triplets consistently helps bridge to fast picking
I hold the pick sideways so it strikes the string perpendicular when I am picking for speed.
Your first pick grip kinda like synyster gates and he picked fast with that grip. (I think he fixed his pick grip tho)
That's right but the point I'm making is that you can get away with all sorts of weird stuff until you test it and see what falls apart or holds up under pressure
So using the thumb and two fingers on the pick like James Hetfield does is a no-no for most people?
And does this apply to all-downstroke fast playing?
There's nothing wrong with that if it works. The examples I was giving on the video were just to make a point about how we don't know if our picking technique works if we never test it at higher speeds. I'm not making a critique of any specific way of holding the pick. Hetfield's incredible and I don't consider his picking technique unusual. He just bends his thumb a bit to angle the pick and quite a lot of people do that 👍
Bro Gesticulates with a guitar pick lol
is that a jackson ds 11 cause it looks familiar
It's a Jackson PS4 👍
I’ve always thought the biggest issue with not being able to pick fast is hand synchronization. You can pick up and down on a single string faster than any human ever but until you can move that from string to string and in synch with your fretting hand it’s a pointless exercise
Yes but you'd be surprised by high many people get stuck at the fast picking aspect. For many people, it's the missing piece of the puzzle
damn, guitar? is so nice
Jackson PS4
My wrists have always been naturally slow and stiff. Think it might be to due to the stonemasonry Ive done for work since 16 years old. But, yeah, I guess I could gain speed with practice.
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And yes... dont forget kids lol... both hands will have to work together, same time. Yes... both hands.
I can play at the speed of light....BUT.... I can't shred at all. I developed a round motion of the pick when I started out. Being initially self taught I didn't know how to do things correctly. It worked out very positively for me as the notes are clear & precise & that's ok but I just cannot get that speed by shredding. Frustrating to say the least.
James hetfield guitar picking handling is the hardest to playing guitar picking and handling.
Fantastic tips, esp re: starting on one string and thinking of your metaphor while practicing it. Would the same apply for fast acoustic picking?
The principle will still apply but you will need more attack on an acoustic 👍
So if I think this is a pretty basic technique. Even like moving your fretting up and down. Can I finally call myself an intermediate level guitarist
cap. i pick with 3 fingers (thumb, pointer and middle) and i pick relaly really fast
if i use the normal piking technique i cant pick as fast.
Id safely say im at a solid 45 degree angle and you look a little less, Ove got slightly more twist.
That guitar looks lovely, which one is it?
It's a Jackson PS4
I have trouble with my other hand, my fretting hand. I can't move as fast as the pick. It becomes sloppy and tense after trying to play fast licks. What do you recommend?
Hey man, add this fretting hand exercise to your routine every day, it's free and it'll level up your speed and stamina courses.benhigginsofficial.com/the-warm-up
Do most people hold the pick against the side of the index finger?
I can think of one technique to train that. ask my girlfriend. it involves tap in the "guitar body" every now and than. :)
Shawn Lane.
What string gauge are you using? And what do you recommend?
I use Ernie Ball Super Slinky 9-42 and they're great. There's no problems with them whatsoever
I always wished I could pick faster.
Unless you're James Hatfield
That looks a lot like my guitar lol
But I can pick fast, very fast actually 😁
Joshua meader would like to have a word with you
That's good and all, but I use thumbpick
And if you don't practice well, you can develop bad picking even if you used to be good for years, so don't be lazy. 😮
Al DiMeola
At least I’m not one of those “idiots”😂
Heres the reason why i dont pick fast enough: because my dad always told me "up stroke = bad" so i ALWAYS downstroke
When i do get fast, you better start calling me James Hetfield 2.0
Because i WILL find you
Hetfield is a beast! But don't forget that he also uses alternate picking too, otherwise he'd never be able to play anything like Battery, Fight Fire With Fire, all the fast thrash tracks they've ever released etc 👍
Marty friedman enter chat
and Steve Morse
What model is this guitar?
It's a Jackson PS4
Used to listen to talking heads, now its talking hands....
Synyster Gates belike:
me when i learn One as my first song