WORST Picking Technique For SPEED!

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

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  • @BenHigginsOfficial
    @BenHigginsOfficial  Год назад +18

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  • @censored7881
    @censored7881 9 месяцев назад +222

    Ah shit, I've been using my big toe all this time.

  • @TheStoneyJackson
    @TheStoneyJackson Год назад +64

    Dude I’m seeing results after watching 3 of your shorts and 2 hours of practice. It’s crazy how just thinking about how to use my hand differently all of a sudden made it make sense. Thank you!

  • @jf4433
    @jf4433 Год назад +119

    I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU BROTHER. I've tested diffrent picking techniques for months now and the simple answer was to move the fingers with the wrist. I've heard people say use the wrist but i didn't fully understand. THANKS!!

  • @donpogi1
    @donpogi1 8 дней назад +1

    I’ve been suffering of upstroke or inside picking for almost 20 years, I will try this later and I think this shorts will help me.. thank you for this video sir, Mabuhay ka❤️🇵🇭

  • @raymundo5044
    @raymundo5044 12 дней назад +2

    Very beneficial... outstanding !!!

  • @JackJenningsGuitarist
    @JackJenningsGuitarist 11 месяцев назад +13

    Good video. Forearm rotation is the real power-house behind the picking technique of many of the greats.

    • @ahom_ahom_ahom
      @ahom_ahom_ahom 8 месяцев назад

      Makes sense

    • @Thomas-cw9ej
      @Thomas-cw9ej 7 месяцев назад +4

      My teacher made me focus on forearm rotation and subtle wrist movement and my speed jumped massively in one week

    • @bumblbesss
      @bumblbesss 3 месяца назад

      what is Forearm rotation ?

    • @bur9452
      @bur9452 День назад

      But the "Greats" aren't the fastest

  • @PhilippKloeppner
    @PhilippKloeppner Месяц назад +4

    Damn I used to do this intuitively but at some point started practicing the wrong way because I saw some youtubers say you should always have a flat wrist. My speed has never been the same and I kept wondering how much more practice I'd need to get to the old speeds of my supposedly wrong technique. Thanks for clarifying!

  • @RJW14
    @RJW14 Год назад +25

    what really helped me improve my picking speed was learning tremolo picking, and then I don't mean short 1 b eat sections, I mean stuff like knights of cydonia. That forces you to absolutely not put tension on anything in your right arm because you will burn yourself up.

    • @itsfratalbert6645
      @itsfratalbert6645 Год назад +13

      I completely agree. The exercises never made click it for me but some black/death metal where you have to hold the tremolo for bars on end forced me to change technique or it wasn’t happening

    • @RJW14
      @RJW14 Год назад +2

      @@itsfratalbert6645 CTS was gonna be what was happening!

  • @RedThr3e
    @RedThr3e 16 дней назад +1

    I like the video, and I also like how you use your pinky as a fulcrum, too.

  • @Gwyn1stborn
    @Gwyn1stborn Год назад +9

    Definitely this is a part of my problem. Also worth trying to move your arm up and down when you change strings instead of just pivoting your wrist

    • @BDarOZ
      @BDarOZ Месяц назад

      Thats something that sounds counter intuitive but definitelly helps a lot!

  • @naegleriafowleri2230
    @naegleriafowleri2230 Год назад +8

    Even if you have great picking technique, it wont matter shit if your left hand cant keep up which is the case for 95% of people. Hand synchronization is life

    • @Nakkiteline
      @Nakkiteline 5 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@mikewelch3747i don't care what you say, you absolutely do not have to be born with it. that's just a sorry ass excuse when you don't bother to practice enough. i started only at 26 years old without ANY hand coordination, two years later i can do moderate speeds accurately. in next two years i'm at those shredding speeds with my hand coordination. practice is everything, nothing is given as a freebie.

    • @Nakkiteline
      @Nakkiteline 5 месяцев назад

      @@mikewelch3747 yeah well gotta admit, it is easily the toughest thing i have tried this far. i just thought your comment was some based on nothing mumbo jumbo but you have experience on matter so i respectfully apologize my previous bad attitude. guess i'm kinda jaded because i've always picked things up quite quickly. that's why i never had the discipline to learn the instrument as a kid because i wanted and expected results now, not sometime next year. got always discouraged immediately when i tried my step dad's guitar. well i did learn G and C and Em chords :D
      some more of my journey if interested.
      now as an adult with little more understanding of everything and some capability to look ahead of time, i finally have gotten over the first hump with guitar where you just stumble on and sound like a damn child. took about a year for me, and my mate said i have learned more in a year than he learned in 4 years as a teenager when he started haha. well that's just because of my lucky situation where i have time to practice for hours, basically every day, and eager attitude towards learning. and pretty high iq paired with autism works quite well for my advantage too :D so i'm the odd one out here most likely. btw i still sound like fucking shit but atleast i've got the major and minor scales down across 5 positions, pentatonic and full scales. two sets of shapes and you know 4 scales, it's quite awesome haha. and the fingers are starting to go faster all the time, but the progress is slow and takes so much work. but atleast now i can say i can play the damn thing even though i sound like shit. but i can play it. can make most sounds out of it like pinch harmonics and have my muting and tension in hands pretty much sorted and just gaining miles by playing. some minor technical stuff to learn and some 5 years more practicing and playing, until i can dream of sounding any good haha! luckily i learned from the start with correct technique so no need to relearn and no obstacles going forward. but yeah it's damn hard that's for sure. sorry for the long post, hope you got it one day, just keep practicing, and i do too! we'll both shred one day for sure!! >:) cheers from finland brother!

    • @christopherfarrington9270
      @christopherfarrington9270 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@Nakkiteline when is the book coming out.

  • @latheofheaven1017
    @latheofheaven1017 Месяц назад

    After a dozen years of struggling to get any speed into my playing, I changed the way I hold the pick so my hand is almost in a fist. This did three things. 1) It changed the angle of my wrist and allowed it to flex the right way, and 2) stabilised my grip so the pick isn't moved around by the strings - it's much more reliably in the right place for the next pluck all the time. This had the 3rd effect of almost instantly increasing my speed at least 20%.

    • @MikaTarkela
      @MikaTarkela Месяц назад

      I do this sometimes for faster runs but palm muting like this is weird for me so I don’t use this for rhythms / all the time

  • @cc_1983
    @cc_1983 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nuno Bettencourt is a prime example of whole wrist going

  • @tylerlong7733
    @tylerlong7733 Год назад +1

    THANK YOU

  • @TheCollinKeller
    @TheCollinKeller Год назад +4

    Do you have any exercises to help break out of this specific bad technique?
    Looking to add some stuff to my daily practice without slipping back into old habits

    • @BenHigginsOfficial
      @BenHigginsOfficial  Год назад +1

      Yes, try doing this ruclips.net/user/shortsrlTpnEq3DQg?feature=share4

  • @clippted.
    @clippted. 3 месяца назад

    Thank you

  • @alostforgottensadspirit
    @alostforgottensadspirit 6 месяцев назад +1

    Do you have a tab for what you played or is it some scale

  • @jametalboy
    @jametalboy Год назад

    Nice trick... Please do share what you played there... Thanks

  • @nyoo2222
    @nyoo2222 3 месяца назад

    Where can I get that guitar? 😍

  • @gainmeister4505
    @gainmeister4505 8 месяцев назад

    I choke up on the pick and use a key turning motion and its really helped my speed on faster runs.

    • @trey3384
      @trey3384 4 месяца назад

      I just up pick mostly

  • @วุฒิชัยยางธิสาร

    So good

  • @bryanmcgregor5417
    @bryanmcgregor5417 Год назад +2

    I need to try this. I’ll update yall

    • @LqFZoSo
      @LqFZoSo Год назад +1

      So, have you seen any improvements?

    • @bryanmcgregor5417
      @bryanmcgregor5417 Год назад

      @@LqFZoSo 100% I can finally play the song marigold by periphery. Just a lot more focus than I thought. And practice!!!

  • @silentscript
    @silentscript Год назад +1

    This is great advice!

  • @Jennie-xiaoyu-lin
    @Jennie-xiaoyu-lin 6 месяцев назад

    Hello Sir. Sometimes my right hand gets fatigued after playing some speed solos or riffs. Can you suggest some exercises to gain consistency without any tired right hand.

    • @BenHigginsOfficial
      @BenHigginsOfficial  6 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, I recommend The Warm Up exercises. They're free 🤜 courses.benhigginsofficial.com/freecourses

    • @Jennie-xiaoyu-lin
      @Jennie-xiaoyu-lin 6 месяцев назад

      @@BenHigginsOfficial Thank you sir.

  • @lukasbecker6882
    @lukasbecker6882 Год назад +1

    Hey Ben what's that lick you play at the beginning?!? It sound killer I'd love a tab for it!

    • @BenHigginsOfficial
      @BenHigginsOfficial  Год назад +1

      Thanks, it's based off the ideas I talk about in this video ruclips.net/user/shorts9NGoNpya7uE?feature=share4

  • @keithsmith606
    @keithsmith606 Год назад +3

    I am absolutely struggling with my pick hand. I try to stay close to the strings and alternate picking, but I miss notes.

    • @walterwallman3566
      @walterwallman3566 Год назад +3

      Take it easy, experiment with different pick angles and with different ways to hold your guitar even. After that its just repetition. It took me a while but in the end it will feel natural

    • @keithsmith606
      @keithsmith606 Год назад +3

      @@walterwallman3566 Thank you

  • @MarkRhodesSongs
    @MarkRhodesSongs Год назад

    The wrist motion is crucial. I can play fastest that way but for me it’s an almost underhanded motion which doesn’t allow much muting. So i don’t always use that motion for riffs.

  • @Cayres9
    @Cayres9 Месяц назад

    Hi Ben 👋☺️ i used to be able to play really fast 10 years back but sadly got diagnosed with osteoarthritis and its not feasible for me to play like Yngwie for example anymore so ive switched to doing what Paul Gilbert has done ij his older years and now focus on blues and classic rock and i enjoy it just as much 🤫👍 but yeah i do miss not having speed but i play with more emotion now if that makes sense? Anyway great tutorial video

  • @williammiller6761
    @williammiller6761 Год назад +3

    “Quest” got that right ! But loving it

  • @littlesnob
    @littlesnob 10 месяцев назад

    Yngwie Malmsteen says hold my pick

  • @JehanSaren
    @JehanSaren 28 дней назад

    when you comfort using tremolo picking in a fast speed then thats it

  • @donkiddick3562
    @donkiddick3562 Месяц назад

    It's my fretting hand that's the problem. I can't imagine ever moving my fingers individually, with accuracy and at speed.

  • @madvillaintv5072
    @madvillaintv5072 Год назад

    That’s basically what I was I doing. I was stuck at 96 bpm four notes per click and using my whole wrist helped tremendously

  • @ampsandguitar
    @ampsandguitar 6 месяцев назад

    Great!!! What jackson model is?

  • @reidmarshall1368
    @reidmarshall1368 3 месяца назад

    I have those same pants

  • @AlainVillaverde
    @AlainVillaverde 5 месяцев назад +1

    You won’t believe it… but I knew it was Ben without looking at the name… and before he speaking…

  • @twobrotherskayaking4736
    @twobrotherskayaking4736 5 месяцев назад +1

    If I could get to even one tenth of your speed this year I'd be happy!

    • @BenHigginsOfficial
      @BenHigginsOfficial  5 месяцев назад +2

      Hey man, grab the free material here and you'll be surprised what it can do 👍 courses.benhigginsofficial.com/freecourses

    • @bradymcnamee5292
      @bradymcnamee5292 5 месяцев назад

      Keep on practicing brother; it gets better with time.

  • @cogitationescaecae1125
    @cogitationescaecae1125 Год назад +1

    YP 100%

  • @TheJudasrising86
    @TheJudasrising86 3 месяца назад

    Ah my hands have calcium deposits from being double jointed in my thumbs so i stick to ten bpm

  • @Ma_X64
    @Ma_X64 7 месяцев назад +2

    It's very individual thing you know. And you don't even understand biomechanics underlying beneath speed. You learned your one only way to do it and now you dare to teach someone that your way is only right.

  • @rickbarfield4344
    @rickbarfield4344 11 месяцев назад

    I had the same guitar once. Wish I had it back:(

  • @JoeJuts19
    @JoeJuts19 Год назад

    I do the ‘funny little motion’ but can work out if it’s hindering me or I just need to practice. Any tips?

  • @maddypuneetofficial
    @maddypuneetofficial 7 месяцев назад

    What's that " Funny Little Motion " ?? I have seen so many shredders doing this...

  • @rogelioybarra4068
    @rogelioybarra4068 Год назад

    I’m having a problem with hitting the right strings when I’m not looking at my picking hand for example, if I want to pick the G string but then instead of that, I’m picking the B string I’m having that problem. What am I doing guys?

    • @BenHigginsOfficial
      @BenHigginsOfficial  Год назад +1

      Start applying the picking exercise in this free course. If you have to look at your picking hand whilst you get used to it, no problem. You will get better at gauging how far to move your pick without looking at it after a while. Trust in the process 👍 courses.benhigginsofficial.com/the-warm-up

  • @ahom_ahom_ahom
    @ahom_ahom_ahom 8 месяцев назад

    The little things count.

  • @keithd.6712
    @keithd.6712 16 дней назад

    So using ur elbow like I do is fine?

  • @LETS_GO_DODGERS
    @LETS_GO_DODGERS Год назад +1

    Is that a Jackson Performer PS4. Love that guitar.

  • @Phil_4young
    @Phil_4young Год назад

    that's what she said

  • @moham_bm6009
    @moham_bm6009 Год назад +1

    👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @marcopaez2082
    @marcopaez2082 12 дней назад

    Hilarious how he is able to play very fast with that wrong technique xD

  • @ltjoseph9042
    @ltjoseph9042 8 месяцев назад

    Metal guitarplayer
    comments:
    I noticed Ace Frehley moves
    his entire arm up and down
    when he wants to sound
    speedy. I like the Spaceman
    but that isn't the best looking
    leadguitar habit from such
    a famous guitarplayer.

  • @dustinray1840
    @dustinray1840 Год назад

    I use my whole arm oppose to my writer.

  • @someoneclaimedit
    @someoneclaimedit 11 месяцев назад +1

    I've been playing guitar for over 20 years and was using all thumb and index finger like that. I saw this last night and I really wish I knew this when I started. I saw an IMMEDIATE improvement in both my speed and accuracy. Even parts I thought I did well sounds a lot more clean now. Thank you for this video! I'll definitely be subscribing and watching more!

  • @Metalhead980
    @Metalhead980 Месяц назад

    👆

  • @LuciousMidnite
    @LuciousMidnite Год назад +1

    its all in the wrist!

  • @fartman7470
    @fartman7470 Месяц назад

    The pick is just outdated.

  • @DizzyKrissi
    @DizzyKrissi Год назад +2

    Steve Vai talked about this technique and said that it's part of his playing.