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Hello from New Orleans, Louisiana.

What a guitarist u are?? Wow?? U are a beast man.

Wait…that humongous pick though!?

I am very grateful to have found your channel and its excellent content. I am currently trying to play this brazilian tune that doubles in speed towards the end, it has been quite a technical odyssey. Your approach will definitely give me an interesting perspective to work with. ruclips.net/video/CIRfTrIsRYE/видео.html Sorry for my English, it's not my native language.

I also don't like the methodology of visual mimicry, out if all the self teaching resources I've tried, these videos are the ones that have least helped (unless we're talking about software, but that's in general and only barely relevant to guitars)

Is your pick super slanted? I've seen soo many people holding their picks almost like its facing the headstock a little bit rather than being just a slight rotation.

What is that orange thing with the light on it?

you can learn something from anyone with any skill. thanks. you gave many informations,

What pick is that!

They’re different muscles. I have no issues doing a downstroke while moving my hand up.

Excellent tut. makes sense too. cheers !

More than all the greats and their lesson videos, you and Anton Oparin have both helped me so much! Not only with my right hand but left hand technique also. I'm 40 now and I've been playing seriously since I was 13 years young, I became really good in my first few years of playing. I even got to apprentice at a reputable recording studio in my hometown of Sudbury (Mission Studios, thx Shawn!). However I didn't yet know about the speed pickers aside from Steve Vai ala For the Love of God. Still to this day I have been trying to get my right hand up to speed, studied Speed Kills M.A.B., Paul Gilberts instructional vids, Friedman's Melodic Control, Satriani's guitar secrets book(a little speed picking but mainly on one string), so many lessons, so much time. Troy Grady helped me some but it's mostly been thanks to you and Anton. Thanks for helping me achieve my dreams :) Wishing you, family, and friends all the best.

The thing about "pick slanting" or whatever Troy Grady is calling it these days is that it's a concept built on an after-the-fact observation. Everyone who developed this technique did it, not through mimic'ing a person doing such... or even conscious thought. It was with slow methodical practice where these motions became fluid, natural, and subconscious in order to play precisely and accurately. A trend when asking great players about how they did such-and-such is an answer like, "I don't know, I just do it" or, "I wasn't aware my wrist was doing that". The greats typically never know how they are doing it, they just *are* from years of hard work. To make an analogy, it's like the difference between learning to be an athlete by years of steady training verse not knowing how to walk, watching a few youtube videos of athletes running, realizing that they are moving each leg back and forth at a fast pace, then getting out on the track and trying to run by doing just that. It just doesn't work like that! People who try pick slanting may get some kind of results because those dynamics are in play, but the person ends up focusing on flip-flopping their wrist with ever string change _in addition_ to all the other stuff we need to focus on while playing accurately. And most are _still_ stuck around 16ths at 120-140 BPM. Furthermore, the whole "cracking the code" thing seems more of a clever marketing scheme that sells a monthly subscription to struggling guitar players than something that's actually educational. Sure the videos are entertaining and do a great job of drawing in the viewer, but that's because it's designed that way; it's a hook. An advertisement. The goal is to get you paying Troy Grady $20/mo indefinitely while you lament on the forum about how you still struggle with 16ths past 140bpm. I spent a few years poking around on the forum and two things stood out: most people still couldn't alternate pick 16ths consistently, accurately, or in time with years of pick slanting, and any interaction with other members that were of vein of, "can you show us you playing at 160+ BPM", or literally any asking for people to provide video of them playing was shut down by the Admin. It's not a space for learning; it's a place to empty your wallet and keep you coming back. There's a reason Troy doesn't put of the videos like he was doing at the get go. Those were only made to entice guitar players and sell them on a narrative; that you have a problem - string hopping... and that you need to "crack the code" with "pick slanting". It's almost genius...

Thanks for the video! 💪

Great video about pick slanting, even number of notes is upstrokes , odd number of notes is downstrokes...

The complexity doesn’t seem to be with “slanting” per se, rather than the context switch when a line does not follow the same escape pattern on all string changes. When you have an even number of notes per string, changing strings feels easy, and for anything else, you can sweep or add one legato note to fit the pattern, like Yngwie.

Good points

Seriously, thank you for sharing this content. What I can make clear after watching your videos is that we have to experiment more with the instrument and leave aside the "tricks" that seem to only serve to sell us products.

Thank you!

Very insightful information. Thanks!

Yeah, I've been struggling with my hand getting tired too soon and cramping. I thought I just don't have the endurance.

Teach me how to bend without interfering with the other strings.

8:30 lmaooo This is the most accurate thing ive ever heard about gym content. Adam ragusea explains this quite well in his video "Cooking internet and weightlifting internet have the same problem"

11:02 a few persons come to my mind 😂

I just realized a few days ago the thing about using the underside of the index finger as a reference point for fretting hand. I’ve tried to use the classical fretting position for a long time but it just doesnt feel natural.

Great information, especially for me as a beginner so I can establish good habits.

Guitar is my second instrument. I've realised I want "fluency" rather than speed and impressive technical wankery. This is great advice.

Beautiful lesson! I'll add: I think Classical technique doesn't work for you, because you sit with the guitar horizontally. This will cause unnecessary tension, with the thumb-behind technique.

What's the song name mate? Good stuff.

So, for string skipping; like the Sweet Child o Mine intro… Hand rocks back and forth on the wrist/hand contact points?

Most thorough picking lessons online!

Your insights continue to be very valuable.Thank you.

Excellent lesson. I wish I'd realised this earlier on in my development. It started to occur to me over the last 5 years. I remember starting to ask myself what's the experience a player like Malmsteen is having, rather than 'what' is he doing.

This guitar lesson taught better tha most of guitar Lesson out there really tells about feel than how it looks and that's what needed

which amp do u use here?

What guitar is that?

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Sometimes I do understand the warnings about too much relience on RUclips lessons. 🥴

Very nice and informative

Nc vid man helps me a lot in fast strumming burst and tremolo picking

Yessss finally someone said it.. People just go on about Triads like they will solve problems that they are not designed to do

Put video caption son. Very helpful, Now I am not fool of shit.

Well put. I think I agree. I've always disliked playing just a triad in a dry way, as a means to making a musical idea. Thanks for sharing. Inspires me to think about alternating between triads and scales to form the ideas in my head.

I thought they are more useful to navigate the fretboard and give you something to hold on to. I see them as landmarks. I don’t think these YT teachers are saying to only play triads. When I practice them I always play the surrounding scale notes as well, which makes it already more musical. Sidenote: the left handed guitar makes it tricky to follow, so used to see the neck pointing tonthe right 😂

Hola Ben, I wanted to watch but 3 minutes in and you're still saying the same exact thing. Triads don't sound good, which I already got from the title. It's also pretty rough not even being able to see your face and just watching your hands wiggle around. I hope to see you improve your content.

Excellent tutorial. opened my ears a bit with these ideas. Thanks !

My guitar teacher was a real jazz connoisseur, the type of guy that had transcribed tonnes of Holdsworth, Pat Metheney etc... he taught me from beginner through my grade 8 exam and beyond. He wasn't a barrel of laughs, but ultimately I could not have had a better teacher who got me to the level I am at today, and that was because he REALLY knew every good lesson to teach me about technique, phrasing, soloing, timing, rhythm. One massive problem today is people will teach online lessons, despite basically needing lessons themselves - but to a beginner these teachers sound like the real deal because they don't know any better. Then inevitably their students will end up playing with the same bad habits that their teachers do. The thing that makes me cringe the most is bad rhythm/timing. E.G. seeing people try to teach the swing riff from "im the one" by EVH, yet it sounds lifeless when they demonstrate it

Question, are you pulling your arm in and out on every legato note? Or just on every 3 note phrase.I'm trying to apply this but it's really awkward to me.

You bring up very overlooked nuances that have been helping me tremendously in my playing, no longer feeling forearm pain after I started to let go of tension (which tends to arise when I try to play faster) and honestly, not even the guitar Gods I know go in depth about technique concepts the way you do. Thank you so much for the precious knowledge you have been giving us, you deserve way more recognition. Cheers from Brazil

Thank You...❤