Agree w this but the title is misleading. Slow practice works if you are mindful of correcting your mistakes and figuring out your threshold with each leap attempt
Hey I don't know if you'll read this, but please get a better tone for your guitar. You may be very good with it, but I find it weird that you don't consider having a cleaner tone. Cheers
People, please... find a good teacher and practice A LOT. It's impossible to develop a good technique in a couple of years, it will take you A LOT of years. Stop looking for the “Holy Grail video that will teach you the right way to pick fast”. That doesn't exist. The only way to develop a good technique is to practice like crazy and someday it will click, and suddenly you will start playing good. The important thing here is to enjoy the ride and make your guitar sound good, then the speed will come eventually, that's it. It is not a mystery, it is not something that needs a huge amount of analysis, it is something personal. The path will have many roadblocks, but don't get discourage. If you look at the great instructional guitar videos from Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc. you can see that they don't spend time over analyzing things. That is the key. You just need to practice A LOT OF YEARS, and very slowly your muscle memory will adjust to find the right spot.
It shouldn't take 10 years just to learn to play a song. Not everyone is looking for the holy grail video. A lot are trying to congregate knowledge from different sources to see what works for them, because they're *stuck.* Don't make people feel stupid for looking for videos.
Nah, my problem is I was learning completely wrong. I didn't know how to hold a pick, how to fret and I would never practise slowly or repetitively. Once I started to take it seriously after looking at heaps of videos i realized there were many areas I was just doing wrong. Plus Ive watched videos where I already sort of knew what they were talking about, but simply having it repeated to me in a different way made it click better. I live in a small town where there aren't many teachers, so i need to use online recources. There is no one video or one youtuber who has all the answers, I have to watch heaps of stuff because everyone teaches something different even if i;ts about the same topic.
I'm 55 and haven't picked up a guitar in over 35 years but I got that itch after listening to my preferred music 80's hair metal, specifically" Lightening strikes" Ozzy with Jake E Lee on guitar here recently so I bought an Ibanez guitar and a fender amp, Moorer PE100 .I also bought the fret board note map decals and put on my guitar..... Everything I ever learned in my youth playing was basically scratching my albums playing a song over and over each part and learning by ear. I never learned how to play a solo which brings me here today. I could play the rhythm guitar pretty good and played Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Judas Priest etc. but never the leads. I appreciate the great video's, you are a very good teacher.... I would love to someday be able to shred out a solo.....
I broke my speed barrier (for easy licks) by jumping 30 bpm over my limit. It worked, but in retrospective I understand why I got stuck. At slow speeds below 110 bpm, 16th notes I rotate my forearm around the bone axis resulting in a bouncier, swinging pick motion. At higher speeds this axis is locked and my picking is totally efficient. I just have problems transitioning from one picking style to the other. Should I get rid of my bouncy/swinging, slow picking style entirely? I feel I need that extra momentum to get through the string at slow speeds.
The forearm has to rotate slightly while picking. Can you give me an example of a guitar player that picks the way you are describing. So I can get an idea of what you’re asking. For example, who were you picking more like before, and who have you been trying to pick more like lately? And if you haven’t already, check out MAB!!! He will make you faster. 🎸👍🏻🇺🇸
With all my respect i will disagree on the concept of slow practice. All guitarrist have a personal tempo to understand, some will play fast at the first moment, others will have to practice before, becouse they are using different mindsets to get the final musical sound, ones bases on theory, others on sound, others on phisic digitations and mechanics, others on what they feel, others uranu's position, and others on everything. That will make differenc on the personal tempo that you take to get your own understanding of what are you playing. Slow tempo is a method to get a microscope to find many details, faster tempo is too see another details. All spectre speeds are neccesary, the domain of your own understanding method will determinate the tempo you can play at first moment..
This is all fine If you' re on your own. Let me tell you : If you' Play with Others and the Drummer counts in the Idea of self-actualization in regards to Timing is Just gone . Since Nobody ever listens to this advice literally everyone i know learned the hard way. 😏 Worst Thing i Heard was someone got His amp cut from Juice due to bad Timing. Lol! It's Always heartbreaking but the discussion about time finally ends right there. Btw. It's actually not about Just playing fast but have a good Pocket.
@@marcelhiltrop5286 I didn’t quite follow what you were writing, and the title is very misleading. Of course one has to play slowly to learn an intricate lick. But still, this was a tutorial directed at picking speed.👍🏻
@@heyjarrod Now, in music , everything is always at the same time. There is no this and that. So while you still should practice to relative different tempos, slow practice doesn´t have any negative effect on your speed. If you can´t play something at different tempos , it´s pretty much a case of not fully comprehend something. Alway try to practice and play with focus and flow. In this regard , even to fast playing (tempo is always relative , note length differs ,also rests) , the title is wrong. If you want play fast , practice slow a lot! Bue also practice the same a different tempos. Slow practice is definitely making you better. If not, you´re practice is inefficient,
You make good points overall and I enjoy your content, even though I'm more in the Shawn Lane philosophy camp with the how to learn to play fast question. I'd like to point out though, that I think practising slowly can actually help you improve the muscle memory and hand synchronisation, so it gradually also gets easier to increase the speed when your fingers actually know what they are supposed to be doing. This is only the critique that I think has some ground with previously mentioned philosophy of Shawn Lane and only somewhat strong argument for the classic "start by playing slow"-method. I don't believe every player(at least at the beginning) is able to be self critical enough to actually be able to clean what they tried to play "too fast" with "the Shawn Lane method"(I think you've said something similar in some other video). Overall though going straight to the max may visualize the goal better imo and I think the cleaning up part is actually playing it slower and learning the exact shapes and notes with more precision. As you have already tried and know what you aim for, it maybe easier to clean up as you have kind of a reference point in your mind and fingers already. This might be faster and optimal way to learn at least for some, as playing slow also includes all the steps to gradually increase the speed, and repeating that stuff at different tempos again and again until you can do it takes time. For example, if you'd want to go from say 50 bpm to 200 with some phrase, increasing the tempo by even 10 bpm after you are able to play it with the previous slower tempo would require 15 trainining steps, but if you try to play the phrase with 200 bpm, make it slower from there and notice "huh, I'm able to play this at 140 just fine already", you can actually skip possibly hours and hours of playing the same thing over and over again, so I think it might be worth it for some. I'm not even that great player by any means, but most of my lazy practice routine through out the years has been basicly and mostly to teach my fingers to get comfortable to all the different possible combinations, so when I try to play some spesific scale for example, I don't have to think about fingering that much, as spesific shapes and combinations are already in my muscle memory. Another thing is that this should be applied with personal preference in mind to some degree. What feels more comfortable to you is probably better than forcing some standard on yourself that feels uncomfortable, and I think learning something since it's "the right way" or "this is how most play or learn it" is simply time wasted. Finding your own way makes you also sound more unique I think, which is very common issue these days with the most typical and even great guitar players. I've heard so many similar sounding shredders, who sound like they have trained hours and hours on that one spesific scale for example, but I think when you'd ask them to improvise something or go wild with it, they would sound sloppy, not know what to do or sound very mechanical, since they are simply linking one over practiced scale or shape with another. Most of the "legends" don't really have perfect technique either, so it is kind of funny that aiming for it seems to be the go to practice when you ask most guitar teachers. Perfection is kind of boring. I like to rather listen to what I play than think what I play. Maybe it does not work for everyone as well, but I am technically probably best player compared to other guitarist I know personally. I have been even been even called "virtuosic" what I don't personally agree at all, but still I guess that shows I've done something right at least with my personal guitar journey.
I have played many years but just recently realized that I have a speed barrier as we started writing songs at higher tempos. I feel that I have developed the wrong picking technique early on and i tense up when I start getting faster…I have watched countless videos on staying relaxed but cannot make myself stay relaxed enough without tiring out when getting up to 180 to 190 16th notes…I have been at 170 for many many months and that’s why I think I have developed the wrong technique…someone help my position in the band depends on it
I wish someone would actually make a video that gives real examples of what they mean by "slow". What BPM does this teacher consider slow for the average beginner or intermediate.?
I have been doing slow practice and it's work really well for me. Slow practice make my each note sounds more clear when i play fast. It's feel become more easy when it came to fast. In my humble opinion slow practice is feels like I train my muscle memory
Slow practice has *not at all* worked for me and I imagine that the reasons outlined in the video are why. It seems you intrinsically have good guitar technique as well.
Hi Mike excellent video! The stereo audio was a bit funny though, it kept being panning from left to right (I think) I could only notice with my headphones
Dead wrong Warming up is slow Velocity is what makes you fast Beethovan technique teacher was Czerney who wrote the book School of Velocity I would recommend playing hannon Number 1 on guitar and see what are the easiest fingerings without stretching are and accommodate your fret hand with a combination of alternate picking and directional picking Also listen to SATO. by OZZY. That is velocity at medium speed 0
To develop technique, sure, but when it comes to mastering your internal clock, met is better without question. Plus, being able to play to a met is a valuable skill to have on its own.
We often hear, "Practice makes perfect." But as Mike pointed out in this video, only PERFECT practice makes perfect.
Not really. Practice makes permanent.
Agree w this but the title is misleading. Slow practice works if you are mindful of correcting your mistakes and figuring out your threshold with each leap attempt
Sounds like my years of trying and failing .
You sir are indeed one if my top guitar teachers when I stepped into the advanced level of playing. I owe you many things, and I thank you 🎸🙏♥
Practice to time, a Metronome a drumgroove with different bom, from Time to time..
Hey I don't know if you'll read this, but please get a better tone for your guitar. You may be very good with it, but I find it weird that you don't consider having a cleaner tone. Cheers
Concert musicians practice at speed but two notes followed by a breath, then take a 45 minute break after doing anything but music.
People, please... find a good teacher and practice A LOT. It's impossible to develop a good technique in a couple of years, it will take you A LOT of years. Stop looking for the “Holy Grail video that will teach you the right way to pick fast”. That doesn't exist. The only way to develop a good technique is to practice like crazy and someday it will click, and suddenly you will start playing good.
The important thing here is to enjoy the ride and make your guitar sound good, then the speed will come eventually, that's it. It is not a mystery, it is not something that needs a huge amount of analysis, it is something personal. The path will have many roadblocks, but don't get discourage.
If you look at the great instructional guitar videos from Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc. you can see that they don't spend time over analyzing things. That is the key. You just need to practice A LOT OF YEARS, and very slowly your muscle memory will adjust to find the right spot.
It shouldn't take 10 years just to learn to play a song. Not everyone is looking for the holy grail video. A lot are trying to congregate knowledge from different sources to see what works for them, because they're *stuck.* Don't make people feel stupid for looking for videos.
Nah, my problem is I was learning completely wrong. I didn't know how to hold a pick, how to fret and I would never practise slowly or repetitively. Once I started to take it seriously after looking at heaps of videos i realized there were many areas I was just doing wrong. Plus Ive watched videos where I already sort of knew what they were talking about, but simply having it repeated to me in a different way made it click better. I live in a small town where there aren't many teachers, so i need to use online recources. There is no one video or one youtuber who has all the answers, I have to watch heaps of stuff because everyone teaches something different even if i;ts about the same topic.
Man, you talk you talk to me! Just Subscribed. May have to get with you further
I'm 55 and haven't picked up a guitar in over 35 years but I got that itch after listening to my preferred music 80's hair metal, specifically" Lightening strikes" Ozzy with Jake E Lee on guitar here recently so I bought an Ibanez guitar and a fender amp, Moorer PE100 .I also bought the fret board note map decals and put on my guitar.....
Everything I ever learned in my youth playing was basically scratching my albums playing a song over and over each part and learning by ear. I never learned how to play a solo which brings me here today. I could play the rhythm guitar pretty good and played Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Judas Priest etc. but never the leads.
I appreciate the great video's, you are a very good teacher....
I would love to someday be able to shred out a solo.....
I broke my speed barrier (for easy licks) by jumping 30 bpm over my limit. It worked, but in retrospective I understand why I got stuck. At slow speeds below 110 bpm, 16th notes I rotate my forearm around the bone axis resulting in a bouncier, swinging pick motion. At higher speeds this axis is locked and my picking is totally efficient. I just have problems transitioning from one picking style to the other. Should I get rid of my bouncy/swinging, slow picking style entirely? I feel I need that extra momentum to get through the string at slow speeds.
The forearm has to rotate slightly while picking. Can you give me an example of a guitar player that picks the way you are describing. So I can get an idea of what you’re asking.
For example, who were you picking more like before, and who have you been trying to pick more like lately? And if you haven’t already, check out MAB!!! He will make you faster. 🎸👍🏻🇺🇸
With all my respect i will disagree on the concept of slow practice. All guitarrist have a personal tempo to understand, some will play fast at the first moment, others will have to practice before, becouse they are using different mindsets to get the final musical sound, ones bases on theory, others on sound, others on phisic digitations and mechanics, others on what they feel, others uranu's position, and others on everything. That will make differenc on the personal tempo that you take to get your own understanding of what are you playing. Slow tempo is a method to get a microscope to find many details, faster tempo is too see another details. All spectre speeds are neccesary, the domain of your own understanding method will determinate the tempo you can play at first moment..
This is all fine If you' re on your own. Let me tell you : If you' Play with Others and the Drummer counts in the Idea of self-actualization in regards to Timing is Just gone . Since Nobody ever listens to this advice literally everyone i know learned the hard way. 😏 Worst Thing i Heard was someone got His amp cut from Juice due to bad Timing. Lol! It's Always heartbreaking but the discussion about time finally ends right there. Btw. It's actually not about Just playing fast but have a good Pocket.
@@marcelhiltrop5286 I didn’t quite follow what you were writing, and the title is very misleading. Of course one has to play slowly to learn an intricate lick. But still, this was a tutorial directed at picking speed.👍🏻
@@heyjarrod Now, in music , everything is always at the same time. There is no this and that. So while you still should practice to relative different tempos, slow practice doesn´t have any negative effect on your speed. If you can´t play something at different tempos , it´s pretty much a case of not fully comprehend something. Alway try to practice and play with focus and flow. In this regard , even to fast playing (tempo is always relative , note length differs ,also rests) , the title is wrong. If you want play fast , practice slow a lot! Bue also practice the same a different tempos. Slow practice is definitely making you better. If not, you´re practice is inefficient,
Excellent video! Thanks.
Hi from Russia for that nice joke. This is exactly what we say in such cases and thank you for your video!!! Really helpful.
Awesome advice.
You have the best analogies!!!
your all videos are GREAT
You make good points overall and I enjoy your content, even though I'm more in the Shawn Lane philosophy camp with the how to learn to play fast question. I'd like to point out though, that I think practising slowly can actually help you improve the muscle memory and hand synchronisation, so it gradually also gets easier to increase the speed when your fingers actually know what they are supposed to be doing. This is only the critique that I think has some ground with previously mentioned philosophy of Shawn Lane and only somewhat strong argument for the classic "start by playing slow"-method. I don't believe every player(at least at the beginning) is able to be self critical enough to actually be able to clean what they tried to play "too fast" with "the Shawn Lane method"(I think you've said something similar in some other video).
Overall though going straight to the max may visualize the goal better imo and I think the cleaning up part is actually playing it slower and learning the exact shapes and notes with more precision. As you have already tried and know what you aim for, it maybe easier to clean up as you have kind of a reference point in your mind and fingers already. This might be faster and optimal way to learn at least for some, as playing slow also includes all the steps to gradually increase the speed, and repeating that stuff at different tempos again and again until you can do it takes time. For example, if you'd want to go from say 50 bpm to 200 with some phrase, increasing the tempo by even 10 bpm after you are able to play it with the previous slower tempo would require 15 trainining steps, but if you try to play the phrase with 200 bpm, make it slower from there and notice "huh, I'm able to play this at 140 just fine already", you can actually skip possibly hours and hours of playing the same thing over and over again, so I think it might be worth it for some.
I'm not even that great player by any means, but most of my lazy practice routine through out the years has been basicly and mostly to teach my fingers to get comfortable to all the different possible combinations, so when I try to play some spesific scale for example, I don't have to think about fingering that much, as spesific shapes and combinations are already in my muscle memory. Another thing is that this should be applied with personal preference in mind to some degree. What feels more comfortable to you is probably better than forcing some standard on yourself that feels uncomfortable, and I think learning something since it's "the right way" or "this is how most play or learn it" is simply time wasted.
Finding your own way makes you also sound more unique I think, which is very common issue these days with the most typical and even great guitar players. I've heard so many similar sounding shredders, who sound like they have trained hours and hours on that one spesific scale for example, but I think when you'd ask them to improvise something or go wild with it, they would sound sloppy, not know what to do or sound very mechanical, since they are simply linking one over practiced scale or shape with another. Most of the "legends" don't really have perfect technique either, so it is kind of funny that aiming for it seems to be the go to practice when you ask most guitar teachers. Perfection is kind of boring.
I like to rather listen to what I play than think what I play. Maybe it does not work for everyone as well, but I am technically probably best player compared to other guitarist I know personally. I have been even been even called "virtuosic" what I don't personally agree at all, but still I guess that shows I've done something right at least with my personal guitar journey.
I have played many years but just recently realized that I have a speed barrier as we started writing songs at higher tempos. I feel that I have developed the wrong picking technique early on and i tense up when I start getting faster…I have watched countless videos on staying relaxed but cannot make myself stay relaxed enough without tiring out when getting up to 180 to 190 16th notes…I have been at 170 for many many months and that’s why I think I have developed the wrong technique…someone help my position in the band depends on it
This video helped at the right time!!
Thank you 👍
I wish someone would actually make a video that gives real examples of what they mean by "slow". What BPM does this teacher consider slow for the average beginner or intermediate.?
Very sensible!
False. This has helped me significantly
I have been doing slow practice and it's work really well for me. Slow practice make my each note sounds more clear when i play fast. It's feel become more easy when it came to fast. In my humble opinion slow practice is feels like I train my muscle memory
Slow practice has *not at all* worked for me and I imagine that the reasons outlined in the video are why. It seems you intrinsically have good guitar technique as well.
So the purpose of the video was to click that link?
Hi Mike excellent video! The stereo audio was a bit funny though, it kept being panning from left to right (I think) I could only notice with my headphones
Dead wrong
Warming up is slow
Velocity is what makes you fast
Beethovan technique teacher was Czerney who wrote the book School of Velocity
I would recommend playing hannon Number 1 on guitar and see what are the easiest fingerings without stretching are and accommodate your fret hand with a combination of alternate picking and directional picking
Also listen to SATO. by OZZY. That is velocity at medium speed 0
So I have a question. Is playing with a backing track just as good as practicing with a metronome?
To develop technique, sure, but when it comes to mastering your internal clock, met is better without question. Plus, being able to play to a met is a valuable skill to have on its own.
Fuck dude! This class saved years of wrong practice
Slow practice is great only if you're doing it right. That's it. Though this might not work for some people.
The quick dig at homeless people lol
practise or speach🥵🥵🥵
You're very good at playing fast but terrible at making music