Guitarchampions! I hope you have a lot of fun working through this big video. If you have any questions feel free to share it in the comment section. I soon will make a Q&A about speedpicking and planing to do an interview with Ben the surgeon. Support this channel by subscribing to this channel and hit the bell. Cheers and stay #progress
Amazing video bro. How do U keep ur picking hand in one spot when picking? My hand always moves towards the bridge.. and I want it to stay by the neck pick up .. any advice would be great from you ! Thank you .
I agree that positioning your arm is important for maximum speed but you got guys like Nuno that holds his guitar really low and still manages to shred the strings.
@@mrgreeneye656 the left hand can work pretty well, when the guitar is hanging down low… but the right hand won‘t and Nuno is not really someone who does speedpicking. So I wouldn‘t compare to him for right hand technique. Paul Gilbert has extremely long arms and hands, which makes it more possible for him to speedpick extreme stuff while the guitar is low on his body.
@@justin.hombach Thanks for responding. I have to agree with your explanation of the generated speed a person can only achieve if holding the wrist and arm at a particular angle. Along with the other commenters here, thanks for your altruistic endeavors. You didn't have to do this for free but you did. That's very rare in this day and age so, thank you very much!
Hi, hope it's not too late but I have a question that's making me feel quite anxious, I was hoping you could answer it So basically I get what alternate picking and pickslanting are about, but when I'm playing and I go for a higher string I get the instinct to just pick down to reach it and vice versa with lower strings, I just pick up, regardless of how I picked the previous note. I've always found it more intuitive, and I do it naturally, is this like a bad habit? Should I force myself to exclusively alternate between up and down even if it seems counterproductive? Hope I made myself clear, my english isn't the best haha
This has more useful information than any "master class" every teacher is trying to sell us. I especially appreciate the pick slanting info. I always thought of it as one or the other. Never even considered combining both. Going to watch that video now. Thanks
@@justin.hombachthank you so much for this free lesson this really helped me and cleared confusions that i was having with my picking😊❤…And I have one question I always knew that marty freidman had limitations with that gypsy picking style,so if we wanna play that 2 string fast arpeggio lick in tornado of souls we shouldn’t pick like him with downward pick slanting motion?how should we try to play that lick while using less tension in arm😊
@@justin.hombach haha I definitely plan on watching the whole thing! I actually just clicked on it and let it play a few seconds so it would be in my history :)
You are one of the best teachers I have found on the internet. Your suggestions are scientifically based and you have a fantastic sense of humor! Thank you!
As a retired bass player picking up a guitar for the first time in years and watching your video helped me see why I was a bass player. My right hand skills with a pick held me back. Oh well 35 years too late.
I'm a lefty that started guitar like a right handed, thinking the fretting hand was gonna be a piece of cake, indeed it is, but now i find myself practicing all crazy stuff with my non dominant hand 😢
I’ve played guitar for 10 years. Fast picking was a real trouble for me. I used to pick moving only the thumb ! I’m able to do it rapidly but I just realized I’ve been doing it wrong! Never too late to correct it. Thank you so much
There is no wrong! The only wrong is people expecting it in 6 weeks. You have to do it every day and let it happen. It'll happen when it wants to not when WE want it to. Might take 4 years, might take 12. If you do practice hard, daily, very slowly and perfect, it'll happen in about 4-5 years. There's no wrong way!!
This is FANTASTIC and thorough advice, all of the way through! Thanks for posting this. It's always helpful to see something from someone else's perspective, too.
I thank you my German friend. This is the most helpful video I've discovered in helping picking speed (trust me, I've watched A LOT of videos on the topic). You cover basically every question I have about picking--wrist motion, where to rest the wrist, how to hold the pick, grip strength, how to deal with injuries, etc. Just based off your tips alone, I found that my fasted speed is sixteenth notes around 200bpm. Before taking your advice, I had trouble maintaining sixteenth notes at 120 without my bicep tensing up. I'm not sure exactly what changed based on the advice given in this video, but the clarity on holding the pick most definitely helped. Once again, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Justin, this video is by far the best technique video I have ever seen. The effort and detail is unreal! I instantly bought your course after watching it..haha all the best
I can't believe you're giving out such good information. I teach guitar and I change a ton for what you're telling everyone for free. You're awesome brother, I understand why you're doing this. It's because you want to help people play guitar well. And you're a very good person yourself.
Most teachers do charge a ton. I checked with one, I knew personally, and even he offered to charge $45 for 45 minute sessions, with the agreement that I would pay for 10 sessions in advance. Which is why I am here.
so what you are saying is that you are scamming people into paying alot of money for something that is free smart guy you should tell your students about this guy
All the idiots here criticizing the value of a teacher do not understand the value of 1-on-1 personalized feedback. This 1 hour video is all the knowledge, but hiring a teacher is for the knowledge and personalized corrections. You can know all the right things and still get it wrong because you don't have a teacher fixing the bad habits and mistakes that even you aren't noticing in your own playing. $60 per hour is worth it, as long as the teacher is giving you quality lessons. If the teacher doesn't know how to teach you or cater lessons for you, then obviously they're over priced. It all depends, but do not be so foolish to dismiss the real quality and worthwhile price of paying for a teacher in order to break through plateaus in your playing a certain style or technique. You have to be clear about your goals so you can find the right teacher...
Thanks for the great video Justin. Have a question regarding holding the pick. I hold the pick with 3 fingers. I tried to switch it to 2 but did not manage to. Do you think it is a big disadvantage? Thanks in advance. Greetings from Trier.
What a great way of explaining this Justin. Thank you for this - it's helped out an old guitar player trying to learn some speed picking - well done - "Subscribed".
Men, you are certainly the Solaire of guitar playing. Thank you for doing this video and for releasing all this knowledge for free. Also, something that helped me in my way to get faster is learning or practicing with songs that I like. It keeps your attention around the instrument and the exercise you are focusing on.
This is great!! thank you. Pick slanting is a real eye opener. On slanting, is the pick slanted but flush with the string or slightly at an angle so the pick doesn't contact the string at a 90 degree angle, if this makes sense. Slanted up, lets say but slightly pitched forward so the pick doesn't hit the string flush? Or does this even matter?
Hey Justin. Respekt, dass du das einfach mal for free raus haust, glaube das ist eine einmalige Aktion im großen WWW. Hab auch direkt mal gesubt und auch weiter geteilt. Viel Erfolg weiterhin 😎🖤🤘🏼
I’m going to try the classical posture to see how much it helps me with my playing. I use the guitar on my right leg so lets see the difference when I hop in to practice time.
Justin thank you for this valuable info. You mentioned Pat Martino and improvising on Giant Steps. Are the right hand picking different than in metal due to the arpeggios and enclosures etc. Got into swi NY and bebop and love a piano player from back in the day by the name of Eddie Costa. Check out Yesterdays , Get Happy and Tin Tin. He was a piano player, yes it was jazz, but he was a shredder! Well an incredible swinger so intense he'll melt your race right off! Check him out. He played with Tal Farlow back in the late 50's
I believe this lesson can be wrapped up in less than 30 minutes if you'd just stick to saying the important stuffs instead of beating round the bush 80 % of the time and just get to the point !! All the same, it really helped me a lot and my playing had improved immensely !!!
The best picker is Chris Brooks. He used a combination of forearm rotation and wrist deviation. His tremolo is insane. He’s not known by the mainstream.
I have developed pain in the right side of my back very close to the lower part of my shoulderblade. Google said it was cancer but now I know what is causing it. I just need to fix my posture.
Subbed. What an amazing video, so much knowledge! Thank you for the long format video, it really makes it feel like i just did a hour and a half private lesson.
Hi im curious on the speed picking course if you help with different fingerings sync exercises? Having problems with middle and pinky fingers .. two note per string patterns . Thanks
Absolutely incredible! Your teaching skills are just as good as your playing. (Which says a lot!) Thank you for your kind contribution to all of us struggling to speed pick without the continued suffering. 🙏
Haven’t even gotten more than thirty seconds into the video and I’m thinking “that guitar needs some polish and a fretboard cleaning, this is my dude”.
Very awesome and comprehensive video, congratulations! I'm just wondering about the "pickslanting" part why could it be a problem that the pick is between the B string and the E? I read an article a few years ago about the fast technique which said that when going from the low strings to the high strings the last pickstroke before the string change must be down to attack the next string with a downstroke otherwise we lose time. What do you think ?
What you are talking about is Sweep/economy picking, where you use the power of something that is called „reststroke“ to sweep from one string to the next, the problem with that, is that it is a) hard to controll in mid/slower tempos b) you have to design your licks depending on that technique, you‘re giving (in my opinion) a lot of freedom away. When you practice pickslanting, and avoid being stuck between strings by a simple hand rotation you are far more independent
@@justin.hombach Danke for your fast answer. I get it when you have to skip a string to avoid a unwanted stroke but if not it seems illogical for me. However i will work this technic as well. Keep producing great content ! Cheers from France
most guitar teacher will just mention a fact very briefly to get our attention, but to know more we have to pay. but you sir, giving so much information for free. for that, I subscribe to help your channel. keep it up!
This is a fantastic video. I naturally have always held my pick that way by the way, it's kind of just what I did in the beginning and what felt comfortable for me. I will say playing with picks that have more grip, or the old method of scoring your picks with a sharp knife negates that pick slide problem entirely, at least for me. I've been using the Dunlops with the circular grip thing for years. I also play with like, 2mm picks, so having that much material might help too, not entirely sure.
Thanks man :) Yeah I‘m currently relearning guitar for left Hand and I‘m realizing now even more how useful it is to hold the pick this way, I‘m experimenting with different ways but they all have the issues that I‘ve mentioned in the video :)
your guides are VERY helpful and we appreciate all your insight, diligence and time taken to try and help us… ignore the haters… cause that’s all they can do. You’re an incredible player and teacher. Hope you’re doing well and life is good. 🤘🏼😈
Of the multitude of videos, books, etc, your explanation here is the BEST! Others leave out important details and you end up stuck confused. Thanks man!!!
Thank you so much I play for 4 years right now and almost there with the speed picking but I'm holding the big wrong man so thanks a lot man!! My finger was touching the strings sometimes when I'm playing fast but now it's over!! Cheers
This video definitely motivated me to go to the next level, I'm going to buy the course, but I would like to know if you can also do online classes (live). Thanks
Hey Justin ! Super cooles Video, viele Informationen , klasse Tipps und Anregungen, macht Spaß zu gucken. Ich habe dich live im Pitcher in Düsseldorf gesehen, die Kinnlade war die ganze Zeit unten :). Gruß
Wusste ich es doch, dass mir das Gesicht bekannt vorkam :D Wusste gar nicht, dass du aus Deutschland kommst, die Videos kennt man ja :D Am 14.01. bin ich wieder da mit meiner Megadeth Tribute Band, komm vorbei :) Dann kann man mal ein Bierchen trinken
Rick is NOT who he portrays himself to be! First, I should mention I do have 2 degrees. Rick has serious anger issues. You can see it during live streams since it can't be edited out. When someone says something he doesn't like you can see his demeanor change instantly and he kicks them out and bans them. It's hard to explain but just go watch the beginning of some of his live streams and play attention to his eyes. I worry about his wife and kids.
The retrowave style music on the background its so peacefully and conect the brain with the infos. Its a state of mind....First I heard the music and after that your words.
I agree I play with index finger curled too but I gotta mention yngwie malmsteen plays the other way and he’s acclaimed one of the fastest to do it. I think the biggest problem with most people is the left hand. If the left can’t keep up then there’s no point in trying to fix the right. Get your legato game up first then add in the staccato. Guys like Goven and Quayle are the fastest not because of their right hand rather their left hand is leaps and bounds better than most guitarist out there. Most of the time there actually using hybrid picking anyway.
Justin, Thank you for the free info and practice downloads! I loved this lesson, I can actually feel the difference in my picking with just that little bit of advice regarding how to hold the pick correctly. I can only imagine with some practice, how well that will work out.
I am Greek so my picking technique was inspired( almost subconsciously)from Bouzouki players that most of them use the index-thumb grip with their picking motion generating mostly from the wrist... So i pick in a very similar way with yours. Of course i continue to evolve and learn because that's the way it is!!! I was watching an older video of yours that helped me to figure out the Stabwound solo!You do a very good job! Congrats! Question: i constantly lose my picks and end up practice with a coin! Is that good?
The band around his neck is there because he likes it! You have the award for weirdest comment in this thread. Be a man and don't concern yourself with such shallow and immature thinking.No one cares about your opinion of his fashion.Have a great day fabio.
Hey Justin, Grrr8 lesson here! I agree that the way you hold the pick is essential. But I did find out over the years, that your hand, wrist and forearm have just as important role in your results. I use to use a Fender medium pick all the time, then I finally relized several years ago how it was holding me back. Now after four plus years, I use the Earnie Ball prodigy 1.5 and or the Patrucci 1.5.... It has made a remarkable difference with speed & accuracy. As far as pick movement and loose grip, that comes with time and experience, and positive results. I find myself always adjusting the pick effortlessly without even thinking about it, it just happens😅 Anyway enough mumbo jumbo 😂 Thanks again for every lesson you provide, and I'm glad to have subscribed to your channel.✌️
This was a great and thorough tutorial. I'm a Nashville based musician with over 30 years of guitar experience and it recently occurred to me that I've been taking so many shortcuts in my technique throughout that journey that I boxed myself in. Watching this video highlighted some major areas of focus that I intent to work on. Huge props for going into the granular physiological details of the wrist, arm, muscles, etc. Looking forward to more content!
Your comment on Pat Metheny made me laugh. In the early 80s, I saw a TV music program where an idiot DJ/presenter said something along the lines of, "And here's Pat Metheny. The only person I would allow to play this fast." Pat was considered pretty speedy in those days!
Good question, When you mean it from the „I play fast but don‘t know how fast“ pov, then you should record yourself with a DAW, start slowly with a click on a point where you know you have control over what you are doing, and then start to increase up to the point where you start to get sloppy and not tight anymore. There you know your temporarily limit. Try to analyze your playing more often with a click, and with recording yourself and you‘ll eventually get a feeling and an awareness about what kind of subdivision you play in certain tempos. And just practice rythms helps also a lot to gain a better consciousness
Thank you very much for this video! The posture adjustments were a huuggee unlock for me. Just a thought, I don't feel speed picking as ulnar and radial deviation, I feel it as pronation/supination that is being compressed into a smaller movement by my arm being flush to the guitar. When I try to do ulnar/radial deviation with my arm on the guitar, my forearm immediately starts burning
On re-adjusting the pick (at from 09:00 ...): I experienced problems with this earlier, too, and I use exactly the same pick position as you do for years. But, later I worked on my downstroke / upstroke balance (letting both sound the same loud / fast / noisy). And as I made progress with this, the moving pick problem disappeared. Seemed to me as if they were interconnected.
17:50 about forearm rotation....it completely contradicts what others, including troy grady, are saying about forearm wrist motion...in my opinion(which is nr.1 among metal players amongst others)...e.g. ben higgins explains it: th-cam.com/video/8XPezIRYnpA/w-d-xo.html justin are you using ellbow wrist combination?
do you have any tips from changing rapidly from one string to another and back? (for example, e string, b string, e string, b string). You talked about the "snap" tecnique which I get, but can you do this snap technique over and over again like in this example?
Guitarchampions!
I hope you have a lot of fun working through this big video.
If you have any questions feel free to share it in the comment section. I soon will make a Q&A about speedpicking and planing to do an interview with Ben the surgeon.
Support this channel by subscribing to this channel and hit the bell.
Cheers and stay #progress
Amazing video bro. How do U keep ur picking hand in one spot when picking? My hand always moves towards the bridge.. and I want it to stay by the neck pick up .. any advice would be great from you ! Thank you .
I agree that positioning your arm is important for maximum speed but you got guys like Nuno that holds his guitar really low and still manages to shred the strings.
@@mrgreeneye656 the left hand can work pretty well, when the guitar is hanging down low… but the right hand won‘t and Nuno is not really someone who does speedpicking. So I wouldn‘t compare to him for right hand technique. Paul Gilbert has extremely long arms and hands, which makes it more possible for him to speedpick extreme stuff while the guitar is low on his body.
@@justin.hombach Thanks for responding. I have to agree with your explanation of the generated speed a person can only achieve if holding the wrist and arm at a particular angle. Along with the other commenters here, thanks for your altruistic endeavors. You didn't have to do this for free but you did. That's very rare in this day and age so, thank you very much!
Hi, hope it's not too late but I have a question that's making me feel quite anxious, I was hoping you could answer it
So basically I get what alternate picking and pickslanting are about, but when I'm playing and I go for a higher string I get the instinct to just pick down to reach it and vice versa with lower strings, I just pick up, regardless of how I picked the previous note. I've always found it more intuitive, and I do it naturally, is this like a bad habit? Should I force myself to exclusively alternate between up and down even if it seems counterproductive?
Hope I made myself clear, my english isn't the best haha
This has more useful information than any "master class" every teacher is trying to sell us. I especially appreciate the pick slanting info. I always thought of it as one or the other. Never even considered combining both. Going to watch that video now. Thanks
It is INSANE that this is free content. Thank you!
Your welcome, thank you for your support :)
Nice name, bud
Troy Grady
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@@justin.hombachthank you so much for this free lesson this really helped me and cleared confusions that i was having with my picking😊❤…And I have one question I always knew that marty freidman had limitations with that gypsy picking style,so if we wanna play that 2 string fast arpeggio lick in tornado of souls we shouldn’t pick like him with downward pick slanting motion?how should we try to play that lick while using less tension in arm😊
Hey that’s me back there with Andy Wood about 6 seconds in!
And I‘ve mentioned you in the video as well as a channel that‘s worth to check out if you wanna learn more about picking :)
Even tho I think all of my followers are aware of you and your channel :D
@@justin.hombach haha I definitely plan on watching the whole thing! I actually just clicked on it and let it play a few seconds so it would be in my history :)
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For anyone struggling with their picks turning while playing, try a Dunlop Jazz 3 Max Grip pick. It solved my pick holding problems.
Love the content!
As a bass player transitioning to guitar, I can 100% confirm the max-grip picks are clutch.
You are one of the best teachers I have found on the internet. Your suggestions are scientifically based and you have a fantastic sense of humor! Thank you!
A huge thank you for this comment. This is the reason why I‘m doing all of this ☺️☺️ This made my day
The most detailed explanation of speedpicking I've ever seen.
Thanks a lot for your work!
As a retired bass player picking up a guitar for the first time in years and watching your video helped me see why I was a bass player. My right hand skills with a pick held me back. Oh well 35 years too late.
I ve search lots about this subject and you re video is by far the best and easiest to understand
I'm a lefty that started guitar like a right handed, thinking the fretting hand was gonna be a piece of cake, indeed it is, but now i find myself practicing all crazy stuff with my non dominant hand 😢
I’ve played guitar for 10 years. Fast picking was a real trouble for me. I used to pick moving only the thumb ! I’m able to do it rapidly but I just realized I’ve been doing it wrong! Never too late to correct it. Thank you so much
There is no wrong! The only wrong is people expecting it in 6 weeks. You have to do it every day and let it happen. It'll happen when it wants to not when WE want it to. Might take 4 years, might take 12. If you do practice hard, daily, very slowly and perfect, it'll happen in about 4-5 years. There's no wrong way!!
This is a absolutely Master Class in Speed Picking. You made my Day, dude.
Thanks a lot for your support :)
This is FANTASTIC and thorough advice, all of the way through! Thanks for posting this. It's always helpful to see something from someone else's perspective, too.
This is truly a definitive masterclass on the subject. Thanks.
I thank you my German friend. This is the most helpful video I've discovered in helping picking speed (trust me, I've watched A LOT of videos on the topic). You cover basically every question I have about picking--wrist motion, where to rest the wrist, how to hold the pick, grip strength, how to deal with injuries, etc.
Just based off your tips alone, I found that my fasted speed is sixteenth notes around 200bpm. Before taking your advice, I had trouble maintaining sixteenth notes at 120 without my bicep tensing up. I'm not sure exactly what changed based on the advice given in this video, but the clarity on holding the pick most definitely helped. Once again, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It took me a long time to arrive at the answer. Thank you for your practice. Thank you for teaching me carefully.
This really is the ultimate guide for speedpicking. Thanks! I want to learn to pick faster and this lays down how to do it right and why!
Hi Justin, this video is by far the best technique video I have ever seen. The effort and detail is unreal! I instantly bought your course after watching it..haha all the best
Best tutorial out there for SP! Thank you Sir!!!
I can't believe you're giving out such good information. I teach guitar and I change a ton for what you're telling everyone for free. You're awesome brother, I understand why you're doing this. It's because you want to help people play guitar well. And you're a very good person yourself.
Most teachers do charge a ton. I checked with one, I knew personally, and even he offered to charge $45 for 45 minute sessions, with the agreement that I would pay for 10 sessions in advance. Which is why I am here.
@@sock2206 tell that to my bank. If you're good at what you do, you can literally charge and get what you want!
@@neaituppi7306Jesus. I charged 6 euro.
so what you are saying is that you are scamming people into paying alot of money for something that is free smart guy you should tell your students about this guy
All the idiots here criticizing the value of a teacher do not understand the value of 1-on-1 personalized feedback. This 1 hour video is all the knowledge, but hiring a teacher is for the knowledge and personalized corrections. You can know all the right things and still get it wrong because you don't have a teacher fixing the bad habits and mistakes that even you aren't noticing in your own playing. $60 per hour is worth it, as long as the teacher is giving you quality lessons. If the teacher doesn't know how to teach you or cater lessons for you, then obviously they're over priced. It all depends, but do not be so foolish to dismiss the real quality and worthwhile price of paying for a teacher in order to break through plateaus in your playing a certain style or technique. You have to be clear about your goals so you can find the right teacher...
praise the sun! excellent and in-depth learnt a lot
Wonderful contribution! Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the great video Justin. Have a question regarding holding the pick. I hold the pick with 3 fingers. I tried to switch it to 2 but did not manage to. Do you think it is a big disadvantage? Thanks in advance. Greetings from Trier.
Jap, denke ich sehr stark. Vor allem wenn es darum geht präzise zu picken.
you are incredible sir, wow thank you for the lessons
Great material!
What a great way of explaining this Justin. Thank you for this - it's helped out an old guitar player trying to learn some speed picking - well done - "Subscribed".
Men, you are certainly the Solaire of guitar playing. Thank you for doing this video and for releasing all this knowledge for free. Also, something that helped me in my way to get faster is learning or practicing with songs that I like. It keeps your attention around the instrument and the exercise you are focusing on.
Great video, I love all the tips. Some can teach guitar, and some can play. You can do both!
This is great!! thank you. Pick slanting is a real eye opener. On slanting, is the pick slanted but flush with the string or slightly at an angle so the pick doesn't contact the string at a 90 degree angle, if this makes sense. Slanted up, lets say but slightly pitched forward so the pick doesn't hit the string flush? Or does this even matter?
Hey Justin. Respekt, dass du das einfach mal for free raus haust, glaube das ist eine einmalige Aktion im großen WWW. Hab auch direkt mal gesubt und auch weiter geteilt. Viel Erfolg weiterhin 😎🖤🤘🏼
I’m going to try the classical posture to see how much it helps me with my playing. I use the guitar on my right leg so lets see the difference when I hop in to practice time.
Justin thank you for this valuable info. You mentioned Pat Martino and improvising on Giant Steps. Are the right hand picking different than in metal due to the arpeggios and enclosures etc. Got into swi NY and bebop and love a piano player from back in the day by the name of Eddie Costa. Check out Yesterdays , Get Happy and Tin Tin. He was a piano player, yes it was jazz, but he was a shredder! Well an incredible swinger so intense he'll melt your race right off! Check him out. He played with Tal Farlow back in the late 50's
It is different I would say, not as fast but much more complex :)
Oh man those dark souls tattoos
Discovered you over on BluGuitar's channel. Thank you for sharing this information!
Fantastic video Justin, thank you so much!
Thank you for making this video. And thank you x2 for making it free!
I swear bro were gonna get you bigger lol, this channel is the best one out
Hahahaha thanks man ☺️☺️ This kind of support means a lot to me
@@justin.hombach for years your channel has stood out as really pushing the envelope giving those exercises that put you from "Thats cool" to "WTF!!!"
200kg deadlift ? and also shred like this? thats the dream haha
I believe this lesson can be wrapped up in less than 30 minutes if you'd just stick to saying the important stuffs instead of beating round the bush 80 % of the time and just get to the point !! All the same, it really helped me a lot and my playing had improved immensely !!!
This is a very good guitar video!
Dude thanks so much! This is the kind of stuff a lot of us are looking for and the quality here is stellar. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks a lot mate :)
People are bad not weapons...How bad could a weapon be if there were no people.....We never here about those many times a weapon saved many lives.🤔🤔🤔
incredible video! Thanks!
The best picker is Chris Brooks. He used a combination of forearm rotation and wrist deviation. His tremolo is insane. He’s not known by the mainstream.
Yeah Chris and I know each other, there are some things were we agree to disagree but he is def. an awesome player.
I have developed pain in the right side of my back very close to the lower part of my shoulderblade. Google said it was cancer but now I know what is causing it. I just need to fix my posture.
Great Stuff man!!! Thank you!!!
Awesome, glad you dig it
Praise the sun ☀️
Great Lesson 🤘🏻😎
Subbed. What an amazing video, so much knowledge! Thank you for the long format video, it really makes it feel like i just did a hour and a half private lesson.
Thank you a lot :) I hope you won‘t regret it :)
Hi im curious on the speed picking course if you help with different fingerings sync exercises? Having problems with middle and pinky fingers .. two note per string patterns . Thanks
Great video. Thanks
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Absolutely incredible! Your teaching skills are just as good as your playing. (Which says a lot!) Thank you for your kind contribution to all of us struggling to speed pick without the continued suffering. 🙏
Haven’t even gotten more than thirty seconds into the video and I’m thinking “that guitar needs some polish and a fretboard cleaning, this is my dude”.
looks like an early 80’s model judging by the Ibanez logo
I can do speed nose picking. I call it buger flingin 😂
this was great thank you!!
All those wrist angle terms are used a lot in golf tuition.
More wideos on the subject, please!
For working for more than 50 years on that technique your looking quiet fresh, vampire bro!
people need to watch Roy Marchbanks picking ability, it is unreal.
Very awesome and comprehensive video, congratulations! I'm just wondering about the "pickslanting" part why could it be a problem that the pick is between the B string and the E? I read an article a few years ago about the fast technique which said that when going from the low strings to the high strings the last pickstroke before the string change must be down to attack the next string with a downstroke otherwise we lose time. What do you think ?
What you are talking about is Sweep/economy picking, where you use the power of something that is called „reststroke“ to sweep from one string to the next, the problem with that, is that it is a) hard to controll in mid/slower tempos
b) you have to design your licks depending on that technique, you‘re giving (in my opinion) a lot of freedom away. When you practice pickslanting, and avoid being stuck between strings by a simple hand rotation you are far more independent
@@justin.hombach Danke for your fast answer. I get it when you have to skip a string to avoid a unwanted stroke but if not it seems illogical for me. However i will work this technic as well. Keep producing great content ! Cheers from France
I can see on slow motion your thumb moving. Is that when you are changing pick slant?
Great Job!!! Thx
The Zen of speedpicking is how much in American dollars? Is it a download program or an lifetime online membership?
Around 100 bucks I would say. It‘s no subscription it‘s a one time buy only
most guitar teacher will just mention a fact very briefly to get our attention, but to know more we have to pay. but you sir, giving so much information for free. for that, I subscribe to help your channel. keep it up!
Thank you a lot for these words :)
This is a fantastic video. I naturally have always held my pick that way by the way, it's kind of just what I did in the beginning and what felt comfortable for me. I will say playing with picks that have more grip, or the old method of scoring your picks with a sharp knife negates that pick slide problem entirely, at least for me. I've been using the Dunlops with the circular grip thing for years. I also play with like, 2mm picks, so having that much material might help too, not entirely sure.
Thanks man :)
Yeah I‘m currently relearning guitar for left Hand and I‘m realizing now even more how useful it is to hold the pick this way, I‘m experimenting with different ways but they all have the issues that I‘ve mentioned in the video :)
your guides are VERY helpful and we appreciate all your insight, diligence and time taken to try and help us… ignore the haters… cause that’s all they can do. You’re an incredible player and teacher. Hope you’re doing well and life is good. 🤘🏼😈
Thanks a lot man 💪🏻💪🏻🤘🏻
Mashallah! 🙌
Of the multitude of videos, books, etc, your explanation here is the BEST! Others leave out important details and you end up stuck confused. Thanks man!!!
Thank you so much I play for 4 years right now and almost there with the speed picking but I'm holding the big wrong man so thanks a lot man!! My finger was touching the strings sometimes when I'm playing fast but now it's over!! Cheers
Awesome to hear that :) Keep it going man
Thank you for everything? Do you think that holding the pick with my thumb and middle of my index is a disadvantage? Thank you!
This video definitely motivated me to go to the next level, I'm going to buy the course, but I would like to know if you can also do online classes (live). Thanks
Yeah I do :)
Just hit me up via: guitarcoach-justinhombach@web.de
Hey Justin ! Super cooles Video, viele Informationen , klasse Tipps und Anregungen, macht Spaß zu gucken. Ich habe dich live im Pitcher in Düsseldorf gesehen, die Kinnlade war die ganze Zeit unten :). Gruß
Wusste ich es doch, dass mir das Gesicht bekannt vorkam :D
Wusste gar nicht, dass du aus Deutschland kommst, die Videos kennt man ja :D
Am 14.01. bin ich wieder da mit meiner Megadeth Tribute Band, komm vorbei :)
Dann kann man mal ein Bierchen trinken
@@justin.hombach Klasse ! Sollte klappen 😀
Hi, at 30:04 is the arm and palm always fix, or is it slightly moved when going up and down?
Rick is NOT who he portrays himself to be! First, I should mention I do have 2 degrees. Rick has serious anger issues. You can see it during live streams since it can't be edited out. When someone says something he doesn't like you can see his demeanor change instantly and he kicks them out and bans them. It's hard to explain but just go watch the beginning of some of his live streams and play attention to his eyes. I worry about his wife and kids.
Great video, man, but the background music is so annoying!
Something I can‘t change after uploading that video 😅
But thank you for liking it anyways
The retrowave style music on the background its so peacefully and conect the brain with the infos.
Its a state of mind....First I heard the music and after that your words.
Subbed. Good Info
Good information. Thankyou G'.
🥰🥰🥰
What a very great yet very humble teacher... wish you all the best, love you from Indonesia *anjali*
Thanks a lot for that comment :)
I agree I play with index finger curled too but I gotta mention yngwie malmsteen plays the other way and he’s acclaimed one of the fastest to do it. I think the biggest problem with most people is the left hand. If the left can’t keep up then there’s no point in trying to fix the right. Get your legato game up first then add in the staccato. Guys like Goven and Quayle are the fastest not because of their right hand rather their left hand is leaps and bounds better than most guitarist out there. Most of the time there actually using hybrid picking anyway.
Justin, Thank you for the free info and practice downloads! I loved this lesson, I can actually feel the difference in my picking with just that little bit of advice regarding how to hold the pick correctly. I can only imagine with some practice, how well that will work out.
The best Online Guitar Teacher for me. Thank you Justin for this free video. 👍🏻
Awwww thank you 🥰😌
I am Greek so my picking technique was inspired( almost subconsciously)from Bouzouki players that most of them use the index-thumb grip with their picking motion generating mostly from the wrist... So i pick in a very similar way with yours. Of course i continue to evolve and learn because that's the way it is!!! I was watching an older video of yours that helped me to figure out the Stabwound solo!You do a very good job! Congrats!
Question: i constantly lose my picks and end up practice with a coin! Is that good?
Can I ask what that band around the neck is for?
The band around his neck is there because he likes it! You have the award for weirdest comment in this thread. Be a man and don't concern yourself with such shallow and immature thinking.No one cares about your opinion of his fashion.Have a great day fabio.
Hey Justin, Grrr8 lesson here! I agree that the way you hold the pick is essential.
But I did find out over the years, that your hand, wrist and forearm have just as important role in your results.
I use to use a Fender medium pick all the time, then I finally relized several years ago how it was holding me back.
Now after four plus years, I use the Earnie Ball prodigy 1.5 and or the Patrucci 1.5....
It has made a remarkable difference with speed & accuracy.
As far as pick movement and loose grip, that comes with time and experience, and positive results.
I find myself always adjusting the pick effortlessly without even thinking about it, it just happens😅
Anyway enough mumbo jumbo 😂
Thanks again for every lesson you provide, and I'm glad to have subscribed to your channel.✌️
Nice video!! As a suggestion, I would chill with the music in the background, it doesn't help me to focus on what ur saying, too much epicness haha 🥴
This was a great and thorough tutorial. I'm a Nashville based musician with over 30 years of guitar experience and it recently occurred to me that I've been taking so many shortcuts in my technique throughout that journey that I boxed myself in. Watching this video highlighted some major areas of focus that I intent to work on. Huge props for going into the granular physiological details of the wrist, arm, muscles, etc. Looking forward to more content!
Where do I get that cushion you have to make playing in the classical position more comfortable. I don’t want the foot stool for a number of reasons.
Your comment on Pat Metheny made me laugh. In the early 80s, I saw a TV music program where an idiot DJ/presenter said something along the lines of, "And here's Pat Metheny. The only person I would allow to play this fast." Pat was considered pretty speedy in those days!
you are the best! Thank u for existing
Thank you very much :)
how do i know how many bpms im playing
Good question,
When you mean it from the „I play fast but don‘t know how fast“ pov, then you should record yourself with a DAW, start slowly with a click on a point where you know you have control over what you are doing, and then start to increase up to the point where you start to get sloppy and not tight anymore. There you know your temporarily limit.
Try to analyze your playing more often with a click, and with recording yourself and you‘ll eventually get a feeling and an awareness about what kind of subdivision you play in certain tempos.
And just practice rythms helps also a lot to gain a better consciousness
Thank you very much for this video! The posture adjustments were a huuggee unlock for me. Just a thought, I don't feel speed picking as ulnar and radial deviation, I feel it as pronation/supination that is being compressed into a smaller movement by my arm being flush to the guitar. When I try to do ulnar/radial deviation with my arm on the guitar, my forearm immediately starts burning
On re-adjusting the pick (at from 09:00 ...): I experienced problems with this earlier, too, and I use exactly the same pick position as you do for years. But, later I worked on my downstroke / upstroke balance (letting both sound the same loud / fast / noisy). And as I made progress with this, the moving pick problem disappeared. Seemed to me as if they were interconnected.
17:50 about forearm rotation....it completely contradicts what others, including troy grady, are saying about forearm wrist motion...in my opinion(which is nr.1 among metal players amongst others)...e.g. ben higgins explains it: th-cam.com/video/8XPezIRYnpA/w-d-xo.html justin are you using ellbow wrist combination?
This must be the longest YT video I've ever watched in one go :D Great video!
Awesome, that made me extremely happy :) Thanks
Man everyone can tell that you put lot of effort and passion on what you do, look at that straight mustache, superb!
Thanks a lot man, really appreciate this
work in progress, 2 hours for day for this video to understand, thanks Justin I appreciated your lesson
I've been looking for a detailed lesson like this for so long. Thank you so much for putting this together! Greeings from India! :)
do you have any tips from changing rapidly from one string to another and back? (for example, e string, b string, e string, b string). You talked about the "snap" tecnique which I get, but can you do this snap technique over and over again like in this example?
nice, i turned on my amp after watching the first 30 mins and fixed my technique lmaooo
Where do you get that Cushion that avoids need to use a foot rest used in Classical position to elevate the left leg?