How to build picking speed FAST (just do THIS!)

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  • Download your play-along videos, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and 20 other courses here: / bernth - happy practicing my friends! :)
    Techniques in this workout: alternate picking, finger exercises, picking exercises, and much more!
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  • @BERNTHGuitarAcademy
    @BERNTHGuitarAcademy  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Download your play-along videos, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and 20 other courses here: www.patreon.com/bernth - happy practicing my friends! :)

    • @satchrules101
      @satchrules101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey Bernth I was wondering if u have any lessons on how not to swipe 3note per string picking ? Thanks

    • @tiberiuspit9050
      @tiberiuspit9050 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hello, I also want to buy that Guitarist practice set, I'm from Romania, is it possible to get these products too?

    • @simonr6643
      @simonr6643 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I know what I doing wrong thanks Tensing up my arm my whole arm. So I have to retain myself and say relax and that is what my problem has been for many years thanks

  • @Crambo2
    @Crambo2 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    I’ve spent 30 hrs over the past 48 playing 15 min bernth videos over and over and over. I feel truly alive

  • @trashmai
    @trashmai 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I practiced this about 20 minutes every day of the past few weeks and I got so much improvement of my picking speed (120 => 150bpm and still going) and my left- and right-hand synchronization. Thank you very much!

  • @iBoss818
    @iBoss818 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

    Here's a tip to make this workout even more fun: instead of just playing the exact same thing as Bernth, do what he's doing, but harmonize with 3rds. It sounds epic. Thanks for the vid, Bernth!

    • @AbbieGreenMusic
      @AbbieGreenMusic 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks! i might try this today! 🤘🎸

    • @KingNuma.k82
      @KingNuma.k82 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great idea!

    • @rmcf3972
      @rmcf3972 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I am a beginner. How to do, harmonize the 3rds?

    • @zombieteenager007
      @zombieteenager007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      ​@@rmcf3972 - you need to play the note that's a third away from the original. For example, in G major, the third of G is B (a major third), the third of A is C (a minor third), and the third of B is D (a minor third).
      Bear in mind that a major scale has the following pattern: major third, minor third, minor third, major third, major third, minor third, and minor third. I hope this helps.

    • @Lennyplays234
      @Lennyplays234 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      ​@@zombieteenager007i don't think a beginner will understand that 😂

  • @clueless12345
    @clueless12345 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I was so desperate for something like this! Danke Bernth, du bist unser aller Held!

  • @Lassef3k
    @Lassef3k 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you so much. This is what I needed. I‘m just on the first day of the workout but even after 20 minutes I can see slight improvements. Love from Frankfurt

  • @rickclick8359
    @rickclick8359 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Bernth thanks for releasing these fresh lessons, it keeps my practice sessions fresh. I managed to get through it first time but cheated on the strick down strokes only at the higher tempos lol.

  • @supcharecords9054
    @supcharecords9054 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Before start practicing, this video already help me getting more understanding on 5/4 time signature. Many Thanks!!!

  • @trevorlynn1021
    @trevorlynn1021 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    took a 20 year hiatus from playing! found you and this video and has alone helped me the most! thanks!

  • @HalvyRiffs
    @HalvyRiffs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Made it about halfway through the second to last repeat. Was hard to keep up with those down picks! Thanks for providing this to work on!!

  • @insanityofgravity
    @insanityofgravity 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    will be added to my routine. thanks nice workout

  • @smallguitardude4672
    @smallguitardude4672 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For the past month i have been struggling with level 4. Then i came back to this video after a week or so to practice some more and found myself actually playing level 4 and struggling with level 5! I was so happy to see that my practice have paid off. Thank you so much for these types of videos! :D

  • @MGR_Songs
    @MGR_Songs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a good exercise, bernth!!! I got the three first levels at first, i'm so happy with it lmao

  • @stefandesouza6994
    @stefandesouza6994 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing exercise love it.

  • @mattfairfield9007
    @mattfairfield9007 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is the first BERNTH academy video I've watched and saw improvement in the first 3 sections of this workout. I am 32 an have been playing acoustic sparingly since i was 16. after playing a few open mics with my self taught style, i decided i wanted to get good at the electric guitar. just the first couple of tips about keeping fingers close to the fretboard and where to keep my hand on the bridge immediately made playing the fast section of seek and destroy(rhythm) easier. i had been practicing for a month with little progress and already saw improvements in 20 mins. my bad habit is i never learned o alternate pick! when learning riffs i have been breaking them down and forcing my brain to learn them alternate picking. this workout got my brain more ready than ever for alternate picking. thank you

  • @asra2729
    @asra2729 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This seems to be prettu good at helping with my horrid down-picking, def gonna include this in my technique practise

  • @Lawrance_of_Albania
    @Lawrance_of_Albania 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am mounth and a half into practicing guitar. I satrted on a 1st of January this year, and i already feel some great results.

  • @bestrelaxationmusic5955
    @bestrelaxationmusic5955 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I see you do a really great job, so now i'm going to register on patreon to buy your courses someday, (cannot do this rn) but i wish you all the best alerady despite that fact i didn't learned anything yet from your courses 🙂

  • @rylanpowers1581
    @rylanpowers1581 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hairs looking good man!

  • @alexanderfamily
    @alexanderfamily 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thx!

  • @SuperJohan64
    @SuperJohan64 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    3:10 - Beginning of exercise
    5:08 - 2nd Pass
    6:29 - 3rd Pass
    7:34 - 4th Pass
    8:24 - 5th Pass
    9:08 - Final Pass

    • @indraspell1973
      @indraspell1973 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      any idea what the BPM is at 7:34?

    • @SHARE_LICK_GUITAR
      @SHARE_LICK_GUITAR 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great

    • @stangreg
      @stangreg 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@indraspell1973Seems to be around 125 BPM

    • @SuperJohan64
      @SuperJohan64 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@indraspell1973 lol nope

  • @angeloalcazar7355
    @angeloalcazar7355 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i get the idea that practicing makes you speed specially on sweep picking. what we need to understand and to learn is what scales or mode you guys use. i saw sweep pickers never used pentatonic scale is too boring to use and im stucked at my own improvising.

  • @user-te8yo9wo8m
    @user-te8yo9wo8m 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its great

  • @stephenroger2144
    @stephenroger2144 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it’s very useful to me
    Thanks man

  • @charles-davidcorbin3341
    @charles-davidcorbin3341 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks by the way for the free lesson, its a great video.
    I was wondering when you work at higher tempo, do you put the metronome lower and play it at the half step or the whole or you still make your groove at lets say 300 bpm at your metronome. My friend told me its easier to get the groove on bpm between like 60 to 150 ihh and just change the note value to make it correspond the speed ( so if its 300 bpm at the quarter note, 150 at the half note should work too) , than grooving at 300 bpm from your meteonome.

  • @UrzaTron707
    @UrzaTron707 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good channel

  • @gohgeofferyampingut7820
    @gohgeofferyampingut7820 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice❤

  • @rjprivate
    @rjprivate 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Respect to this guy. Although the beginning and end seem a bit sped up

  • @monsterzero1965
    @monsterzero1965 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And now it is time on Shprokets when we dahnce!!

  • @JamieCarter-wv8rp
    @JamieCarter-wv8rp 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very cool....

  • @Drumming_Monkey
    @Drumming_Monkey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the video. I am really struggeling with it but I'm trying and slooooowly improving. Realized my picking might be pretty shitty while trying to learn One by One by the Foo Fighters and having a hard time with those fast 3 chugs on the E string in the Verse there. But Oh well...back to practicing I guess. Edit: That left hand stretch is equally difficult though xD I just don't have the flexibility to keep all fingers cloase to the fretboard.

  • @Shredalist
    @Shredalist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What model Ibanez is that? Thank you for the video

  • @TheMLMRocker
    @TheMLMRocker 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I practice this for 30 days. Today is Day 2. Your stuff is da shit bro. Fucking rock on.

  • @greenpukeaudiolab7422
    @greenpukeaudiolab7422 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I found that when i tried to hold a second pick with my ring finger in my right hand, my right picking went more dynamic and precise it’s just like training wheels, I don’t expect to use it the rest of my life in that way. But it worked for me and may work for you too while you do this workout. Just a suggestion.

  • @performanceshootingacademy7647
    @performanceshootingacademy7647 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ugh. The last speed is pushing my limits for sure. I’m almost there!

  • @demonicon1
    @demonicon1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dudes opening speech for the first 35 seconds felt like he was talking directly to me

  • @wolf30349
    @wolf30349 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this is good stuff, timings gonna be hard

  • @JffreNongzz
    @JffreNongzz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you sir love from India 😍🇮🇳❤️

  • @TheDeadpedal
    @TheDeadpedal 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm so envious of those long alien fingers...

  • @ds_on_strings
    @ds_on_strings 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    after playing along with it me be like - hell yeah , lets go man, oh yeahh 😎😎😎😎😎😎

  • @lostinalbion4223
    @lostinalbion4223 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My daughter said it sounded like Hot Cross Buns.

    • @Ptcz3891
      @Ptcz3891 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂😂😂

  • @ok-hh4xz
    @ok-hh4xz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Surprisingly i did this first try

  • @HwKSouviK
    @HwKSouviK 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    which ibanze guitar do you use plz tell i want to buy plz

  • @dnt7593
    @dnt7593 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello. What guitar do you Play on the video ?

  • @user-cx6dq9ie6l
    @user-cx6dq9ie6l 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    BTW does this exercise works for acoustic guiter?

  • @minkorrh
    @minkorrh 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey. your metronome has a mind of its own. lol. Great strategy....don't always practice slow....I found this out and it was hobbling me until I started to just 'go for it' and realized that playing fast requires practicing fast. Ramp it up as soon as comfortable.

  • @musisiPT
    @musisiPT 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sangat membantu kawan

  • @shhivanshh
    @shhivanshh หลายเดือนก่อน

    Starts at 3:11
    22/4/2024 Day 1: 11:09 PM to 11:14 PM up to 7:00 D string
    26/4/2024 Day 2: 12:06 AM to 12:19 AM up to 7:32 3 rounds

    • @younggriff4703
      @younggriff4703 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      what about now

    • @shhivanshh
      @shhivanshh 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@younggriff4703 Haven't practiced after that. Will start again in a week or two

  • @dannyurocks
    @dannyurocks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    6:43 I’m currently out at this speed. But will try again everyday now.
    Seems difficult to me now. Definitely Very Challenging!!

  • @hierayku873
    @hierayku873 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the practice, but why do you have palm mutes in tabs if you don't use them?

  • @yotu9670
    @yotu9670 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:12 Workout Start

  • @773Spair
    @773Spair 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Besides the different positions your hands and fingers will be in, practicing on different strings will help with the varying picking techniques you have to use for the construction (usually only one or two on a given instrument) and gauges of the strings; which I'm guessing comes into play once you get to a certain speed. Playing on a .012" string will require a slightly different picking technique than playing on a .009" string. Picking a plain G3 vs. a wound D3 string will be more noticeable. Picking the highest notes of a D1 string (likely on a 9-string) at those speeds will require a greatly morphed technique relative to the first 2 strings on a set of 9s.

  • @jonathansingh4230
    @jonathansingh4230 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Right hand was damn pain

  • @khmerjamesgoodness8712
    @khmerjamesgoodness8712 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍👍👍

  • @tiberiuspit9050
    @tiberiuspit9050 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You can also translate videos for Romanian, I'm not that good at English and I'd like to learn from you

  • @dschannel573
    @dschannel573 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤

  • @Destroyer-jf3qz
    @Destroyer-jf3qz หลายเดือนก่อน

    the final speed broke my brain lol hands just can't do it haha. practice practice practice

    • @Destroyer-jf3qz
      @Destroyer-jf3qz หลายเดือนก่อน

      well 2 days later and I can consistently play final level to half before falling apart. progress feels nice

    • @Destroyer-jf3qz
      @Destroyer-jf3qz หลายเดือนก่อน

      12 days into it after a day of skipping practice I can feel the difference in how I was and how I am quite clearly. Still getting better :D. Thx Bernth

    • @Destroyer-jf3qz
      @Destroyer-jf3qz 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      3 weeks since this, final bpm high E string and B string are killing me haha. G also after trying for a while. but the rest is smooth

  • @KingNuma.k82
    @KingNuma.k82 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello Bernth and fellow guitarist, I need some help. I need to build muscle i think or something. Had surgery on both wrists with years apart. The last one was this past sping on my picking hand. I need it to help with the pain after playing guitar. Most of my pain is in my fretting hand. Im a seasoned player so its not like im new and experiencing the usual pain a new player would. Ive even changed my posture for both hands thanks to Bernth 🙏 but im still facing pain after an hour or 2 of practice. Has anybody else faced this problem and overcame it? If so, please help a brother out.

    • @meljohnson5579
      @meljohnson5579 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep....left triceps tendon repair 30 yrs ago...bilateral L & R in the same year epicondyle tendon release surgery 8 yrs ago. Finally in the last 6 mths almost average every other day practice. I use ice packs etc...I know man it's a struggle. Played guitar since I was 12 yrs old. Let's not give up. We can do it!😊

    • @KingNuma.k82
      @KingNuma.k82 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@meljohnson5579 that's where I'm at lol it's a day to day struggle, physically and mentally. I will give the ice packs a try. Especially after the bar chord days. Thank you my friend.

  • @matforsbon
    @matforsbon 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I hate stretching from fret 3 to 7, by the way it's very seldom used in actually riffs whether it's in Metal or Rock songs. So no I change the 7 fret to fret 2 on a string higher.

  • @cheesewonton7263
    @cheesewonton7263 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Me trying to black metal tremolo pick

  • @user-pf3xi5yz3s
    @user-pf3xi5yz3s 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi bernth

  • @waynegoldstein7653
    @waynegoldstein7653 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Es fácil. Progresión de tiempo y dificultad con ayuda del metrónomo. Y repetir y repetir. Solo eso

  • @VLKV_loves_you
    @VLKV_loves_you 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    my downstrokes just aren't fast enough at the last level. does that mean i'm stuck?

  • @pabloandres007
    @pabloandres007 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My arm is dead!!!!🤣

  • @vaudronphilippe5415
    @vaudronphilippe5415 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tu peux aussi passer ton temps à bosser la musique tout simplement…
    Car quand tu écoutes dream theater y’a pas que la vitesse qui compte… et écouter toute sorte de musique 🎵

  • @ppang
    @ppang 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly.
    - Bee

  • @gaddam691
    @gaddam691 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:08

  • @RuslanZhurbin
    @RuslanZhurbin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    06:28

  • @fazefusion2220
    @fazefusion2220 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My problem is not my picking speed it’s my left hand because my left hand is much slower but I can very easily tremolo pick

  • @markdawsonziglar9436
    @markdawsonziglar9436 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I must confess: I cheated. I alternate picked the entire last run😬…just can’t down pick that fast.🤷‍♂️Great exercise.

  • @zenkijoe9022
    @zenkijoe9022 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You have to like yngwie and whip yourself everytime you hit the wrong note

  • @aeksinsang932
    @aeksinsang932 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bernth is the ultimate wankathon of notes without bending or doing any melodies lol

  • @michelepennisi230
    @michelepennisi230 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    AAAh stuck on the penultimate level

  • @YiffsterXenn
    @YiffsterXenn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hell I can't even stretch that far without hurting my wrist ._.

    • @YiffsterXenn
      @YiffsterXenn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheKlaun9 I don't have guitar friends... I've been trying to make them but I'm flying solo unfortunately. And don't have the money for lessons.

    • @YiffsterXenn
      @YiffsterXenn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheKlaun9 I meant I wouldn't want to go to a class and not go two or three times. And a few of the teachers I met generally tell you that they do monthly payments so I can come in once a week and those turn out to be like a hundred or so cuz it's 4 payments. There's the online teachers but I'm afraid of going to them because if they don't specialize in the thing I want to learn then I feel like I'll be setting myself backwards instead of forward.
      No, I've had my guitar for a few years. Got a little assassin and even took it to a guitar shop to get the action adjusted as well as the bridge fixed up. Since then I understood how to do that myself, so I can set up my own guitar at my own pace when I get a new one. I also know how to get rid of the fret scratching if the guitar was hit with humidity by sanding the edges, and a bunch of other maintenance.
      I don't have guitar friends. I could probably afford a lesson (now) since I just recently got a job. I just don't want to go switching teachers repeatedly tbh.

    • @YiffsterXenn
      @YiffsterXenn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheKlaun9 I am recording a few practice sessions, I appreciate you talking to me about it. I'll see if I can't find some help with the technique issue soon.

  • @TSCBoySouviK
    @TSCBoySouviK 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Plz recommend me an Ibanez electric guitar under 200 dollar plz plz bro😢😢

    • @NightwishArena
      @NightwishArena 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It have to be used one on that budget. I wouldn't even consider to buy new one under 300 euros, probably not even under 500 euros. But for 200 you can find a good used one for sure.

  • @rubin_bass
    @rubin_bass 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To all metal basists here: If You are pick user, You can practice that on bass as well!

  • @Dontaskhowiknow
    @Dontaskhowiknow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a easier tutorial
    Step 1
    Play for years
    All done 😃

  • @JoelDubay
    @JoelDubay 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's pretty presumptuous making piles of videos telling everyone that they do things wrong…

  • @RJ-lf8ex
    @RJ-lf8ex 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you start making videos with less empty space? You don't talk enough. Make it like where it sounds like you are stating the world's longest sentence without stopping.

  • @maxpolansky3417
    @maxpolansky3417 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Никаких жирных результатов за 30 дней не достичь. Нужно сыграть миллион раз правильно, чтоб это сработало. Лучше используйте видео Michael Batio, а не этого школьника с гитарой, который и пальцы криво ставит.