How I got BETTER on GUITAR!!!
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- After getting so many requests, here's a breakdown of three simple techniques I learned to make massive improvements to my playing.
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0:00 Alright Everybody!
1:47 Closed Fist
4:51 Smaller Picks
6:08 Better bends
7:15 Economy of Motion
11:08 This is BRUTAL!
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Glenn absolutely SHREDS then absolutely struggles how difficult ascending finger exercise is. LOVE that you shared that struggle dude! It's easy to think we all suck watching the RUclips guitarists forgetting they leave all the mess ups out of their vids.
Hey Glenn I’ve got an interesting idea for a video, get a pro musician with no professional experience in production and a group of producers with barely any experience playing instruments and have them record a song with the producers playing the instruments and the musician recording them.
This an Amazing idea!!!!
I dig this idea! I also hear everyone telling everyone else how they are "doing it wrong" unless you get "actual professionals" either way it should make great content!
Yes
Good lord... It would either be the next "Get Back" documentary, or a metal infused reboot of Clue, and I'm guessing Glenn, in the kitchen, with a Gibson V.
😂
A great way to get over 'red light fever' when playing on camera is to imagine everyone in your audience is a bass player. 😅
"red light fever" sounds like a new song! but like superGlam or acdc
Hahaha!
@@AMPProf Or Loudness - Red Light Shooter 🎸
Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much for thee name check! I love that exercise and I still do it every single day! You've really started t play that well, your technique is getting great!
Not only has your playing become better, you look like you feel so much more comfortable in front of the camera than you did seven years ago when I first started watching. (I Just watched stupid text II a week ago.) You have come a long way, great job. Your videos keep getting better and better.
Ty George!
@@SpectreSoundStudios you really need to learn how to practice. right now your left hand is all over the place and you are only practicing mistakes and bad habits. you are trying to go too fast. even the descending exercise is extremely sloppy.
@SpectreSoundStudios I didn't wanna day it before. Cause you're mad helpful. But it always seemed like you needed to just dump some hours into specific exercises. My neighbor did that with me when I was young on tenor guitars(4 and 5 strings they're dead besides customs and these days always 5 strings tuned in 5ths)
GLEEEEEEEEEEEN
HUGE props for letting yourself be vulnerable and showing where you suck. lot of people out there showing off their chops and inspiring others to get better. not many willing to show the rocky steps along the way and demonstrate that it's okay to be bad at something, so long as you're working to improve. lotta people saying it, but very few have the fortitude to show it. much respect.
The two biggest tips that has helped me when I learned to play was playing to a metronome and learning scales. The metronome helped me with timing and enumerated my speed improvement while scales showed me what notes I probably should be avoiding. For beginners, I recommend starting with a pentatonic scale since it's probably the easiest to learn while also being the scale that made 80s metal. Major or minor -- it doesn't matter, but you're only having to learn 5 notes out of 12. Once you have that memorized, you've eliminated a lot of guesswork and can just freely play without having to worry about what the next note should be -- something that would slow me down when I first started playing. Once you've mastered that, you can then move on to more challenging scales.
Completely agree. I used to shove on old Horror films and do my scales over and over, unplugged. Rapid improvement doing that
I've been playing for YEARS but never really practiced, I just picked up the guitar and played along to songs. I'm now actually practicing and using very similar techniques and I've improved more in the last 6 months than I have in the last 5 years.
when doing the economy of motion exercise, start on the low E string at Fret 1. then, after the first four notes, move down a string, but then move up one fret, rinse and repeat until your little finger is on fret 10 of high E. then go back up the strings (on to the B, then G etc. but continue to move up the fretboard by one fret for every string. This will help with using all of the fretboard, and will help a lot with your hand positioning and general locomotion when moving up and down the guitar.
I find it encouraging, as someone learning guitar, when an elite player like you talks about weaknesses and how to improve. You remind me of what Jimi Hendrix said in an interview, of how he makes mistakes when he’s trying something new. And then there’s the great Segovia, who once said he would learn something new about the guitar every day. And you say you’re not a teacher, but great teachers teach by using themselves as examples.
"Elite player"?
Lololololol, lay off of the crack sir.
Hey Glenn! I have to tip my hat to you for doing this video and being open about not being perfect. Especially in this day and age that if it isn’t perfect it is instant criticism.
It isn’t just in guitar playing. I teach dance and people seem to get upset that that didn’t get it on the second try. Thanks for another great video and all the knowledge you hand out!
thanks for taking the time to talk about the "boring" stuff it is why I sub to your channel you have become my go to for insight into the esoteric world of music
It takes a lot of balls to just post your raw take with no processing of just an exorcise you’ve been working on.
Keep up the good work, Chrom
You're clearly better at self-instruction than I am. When I'm practicing, I hit a wall and will never break through it unless I have personalized instruction. I need to someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it. I also suck at working on the things I'm bad at. It's so frustrating and makes me want to scream. Righthand technique in particular is my nemesis. I don't really play metal, which I guess is a good thing, because even after decades of playing I'm not close to playing as fast as most people can. You've made way more progress with that in a year, or whatever, than I have in decades.
For the second half of the exercise: Play it super slow and always remember to relax your entire body while playing. I think Bernth gave this advice and it worked beautiful on this particular exercise for me … My best tip to improve your guitar playing is to follow bernth here on RUclips. This guy has the cleanest technique I‘ve heard so far and I like his attitude :) cool guy and best teacher in my career
Yeah I did see a noticeable improvement in your playing over the last few months. Well done dude!
Great content! thanks for taking the time to make such a relatable video. I’m relieved to hear that I’m not the only one struggle so much with part ‘B’ of the spider exercise.
Awesome playing!!!
Been waiting a long time for this one. THANKS SO MUCH, Glen!
Thank you so much Glenn, I'm starting right now to include these tips and excercises into my practice.
Great job at improving your playing! Loved this video would love to see more of these!
The video i was waiting for?!?
This just happened to opened my eyes in some ways, thank you Glenn!
Appreciate seeing a good honest video. Thought your chops were getting better. Good for you for putting the time in for yourself.
Right there with you, man. Also a decades long player that used the past few years to up my playing game including the spider walk. That’s been a HUGE help in getting better for me too.
I’d love more of these, please! Every new perspective is food for thought!
Oh man. You are showing what practice is like for some of us. Glad you shared this.
Glad to hear and see your progress man! Keep it up! Makes me want to get a guitar and learn to play!
Good day Glenn,
Very impressive Bro!
Glad to see your massive improvement!
Keep up the Grrr8 work!
Great exercises! Thanks Glenn.
Super cool man. Thanks for this.
Thanks for sharing the tips, Glenn :)
Dude this was sick. Ive been playing for ten years and even your final exercise kicked my ass aswell😂 and you are definitely good at explaining, don't be afraid to make more videos like this🤘🏼
Thanks for sharing!!! 💪🏻
Great video man. Cool tips to use. Thanks.
Hey Glenn, your guitar playing is getting better which each video. I love how transparent you are about your methods. Here's a little tip that really improved my vibrato: when coming out of a fast run and ending on a long ringing note, try to do slow down the speed of the vibrato. It's hard to do in the beginning since your mind tends to be in "fast-mode", but slowing down the vibrato really makes that last note sing. It provides a kind of contrast between fast and slow, and it has definitely made my lead playing sound more expressive. As an added bonus it gives the impression that you are pulling off the fast stuff with ease, even though that's definitely not the case for me :P
So spot on.. thanks for showing us you doing those excercises , and being willing to do it slow I feel like it’s not helping me but I’m not alone .. also changed picks from a medium fender to a small harder pick which helped a ton… gotta try the fist now !! Thank you !!!!
Dude, the faces you made on the ascending exercise had me rolling! Mostly because it’s the same face I make trying to do that kind of stuff. 😆
Glenn! Perfect video man. I e been playing since I was a kid, but had a very long Hiatus and getting back into playing again. Needed these little tips to get myself back up to speed.
Hey man, all good advice and a great overview of guitar technique. As a guitar teacher I can say you know the right stuff. And the best thing, practice a lot. Rock on Glenn
Youall keep opening your segments with that greeting you’re gonna have an aneurism!
I’ve been playing guitar since I was 12 (70 now) and never had ‘lessons’. Definitely not great- but it’s good enough for the people I hang out with.
Love your videos. Always picking up something new or different.
I hope you had a great time on the other side of the world. Probably a lot more sane than here lol.
Love from sunny California-
Mike
#3 was the EXACT thing i have been looking for. Thank you !
Definitely sounding better Glenn! Keep it up \m/
Nice tips Glenn. Thank you sir!
The up and down execises from Warren are amazing, I'm gonna start doing those.
Lovely! Thank you very much for the technics!
I'm not great at guitar by any means so I won't be able to help you out but I'm definitely going to add your practice in my own routine!
Thanks Glenn. The 2 drills you recommended have made a huge difference in my playing and ability to hit riffs I couldn’t in the past. Night and day difference.
Hey Glenn! It looks like what you’ve been working on (including practicing while watching TV) is stuff I’ve been teaching for years!!! Got a video in the can addressing those very same ideas. Now everyone’s gonna think I’m ripping you off when I post it! Thanks a lot! Glad to see you building up your technique. Feels good, don’t it? Love the channel!
This is awesome! Ive been struggling with that damn exercise with the fingers and always thought that playing guitar just wasn't for, and now i see someono with much more years of experience, struggling with the same thing. I don't feel good watching others having a hard time but it makes me happy because i know now that, its okay not getting it perfect right away. Cheers
GLEEEEENNNNN! When I wanted to "re-adjust" my picking technique, and try to get better grips, as well as better control for more speed run / sweeping vs. my old school ways, I too chose a smaller pick, and the ones I chose were the Graph Tech TUSQ pics , the tiny ones as well. I used both 1.0 and 1.40mm... They FORCED me to change my grip and the way I was holding them. Funny enough I too was moving to a closed fist technique as opposed to a index and thumb grip like you demonstrated. It took several weeks, but I was broke of my bad habits and right back into the good stuff! Keep on rocking brother, love your content!
great video im about to get into producing and back into playing guitar/bass im very thankful you are still making videos :)
For the descending part, it's better using a metronome and start slow IMO. When you ear the all the notes ringning, you're doing it right.
Yeah slow is key you don’t wanna develop bad habits by practicing new shit too fast
so good! thanks for the tips man, i picked up my guitar to try em out.
one thing that helps me a bunch is getting rid of unnecessary tension
I’ve really gotta thank you man, so so much. Not necessarily for the excercises, I’d heard of them before, but just seeing you getting better has been inspiring. I’ll admit, I’m just about to turn 40 and roughly 10 years ago I said to myself “eh, I’ve probably peeked, why bother trying to improve?” In reality, I was falling victim to the classic, “only kids can improve” bullshit that we tend to get stuck in our mind. But now I’ve been watching you practice and get better and….man, it’s inspiring. You really can improve at _any_ age as long as you’re willing to put in the work!
So I’ve been pushing myself as well, doing these exercises and a few others that I’ve heard of over the years (and doing it with a metronome, which has really helped!) I’m _actually_ improving. And while I will definitely take credit for my hard work I also just wanted to thank you for being an inspiration. So a hearty “fuck you” Glenn. May we improve until the day we just can’t pick the damn guitar up anymore :D
Seeing this video pop up was the perfect way to start the day! And it's great to see the comments on the on this are awesome. Less than an hour and and it's already full of people grateful for the advice, as well as throwing in their favorite exercises. Would you considering grabbing your favorite advice and excercises from this thread for a video? Or making a video on bad practice techniques to avoid? Seriously Glenn, you've come a long way in both your videos and your playing. We're all grateful. Keep fucking rocking!
Awesome brother. .. Keep it up 🤟🤟🤟
Awesome video Glenn ☠️
Uncle Ben did a video a few years ago that really helped my alternate picking technique. It's pretty much the spider excercise from what I have been told, but it really helped me control my fingers and keep my pinky closer to the fretboard so it didn't look like I was sipping tea while playing guitar. Thanks for the video Glenn, great work.
Uncle Ben has some cracking technique builders for sure.
Yeah, I wanted to mention that, too. It's called "The Punisher" and is basically the spider exercise with a twist, as it forces you to change upstrokes and downstrokes on every other string change (normally you would always do a downstroke on a string change but never practice this with an upstroke and so leave out half of the stuff that you should be able to do). This is probably the best exercise I found in the past two years and it has helped me enormously!
What I did notice here and what I'm also trying to overcome at the moment (as I'm guilty of it, too!) is that when you're doing the ascending run your hand is almost in a 90 degree angle from your arm. Check this: at 11:19 in the video you show the descending run before you show the ascending run. First, your hand is in a rather straight line from the arm. But two seconds later at 11:21 your hand is 90 degrees from the arm. I've learned that this 90 degree angle blocks the muscles leading from the arm to the fingers (it actually locks those muscles tight) and thus prevents the fingers from moving easily, you really have to force them to move in this way and you can clearly see yourself straining to do so here (12:11 for example). What you need to make sure is that the hand is relaxed and rather straight. I found for me it all has to do with how close my elbow is to the body (not too close, that's a blocker as well) and most importantly where and how my thumb is behind the neck. Best for me is if I have it behind the middle finger (or between first and middle finger, but not further left) and only the tip of the thumb is connected to the neck, definitely not the more fleshy part of the thumb as that also stretches and locks the muscles in the hand. I often find my thumb pointing to the headstock instead of to the low E string, and that's when my playing is the worst.
Seems that it's the little details that matter.
Hey Glen, thank you for the video. I've been doing Bernth's guitar lessons to learn. He's a phenomenal guitar player and it only costs roughly $50 per year to get his sheet music for his exercises. Definitely gonna add those exercises to my regimen. Thank you again for the video can't wait to get to work.
Thanks for keeping it real! I've been playing for 20+ years now and I still need (and should) practice good techniques more often to be better because I've been in the ''comfortable zone'' for too long now and it's hard to change sometimes (even if I know I still do a lot of things wrong haha). When I compare my skills to the other guitar player of our band, I clearly see that mine are lacking big time haha
Hey Glenn,
this 3rd exercise you just showed is awesome! 😃 I'm playing guitar for about 17 years now and thought to myself "how hard could it be?"... damn was I wrong. 😆 I just felt like I was learning guitar for the first time. This is such an awesome exercise! 😃 Thank you for showing it to us. At least I have never ever seen it before... Guess I must have been living under a rock for the last years. 😆
Keen on shredding! 🤘
I appreciate you showing your shortcomings it makes me feel better about my playing. Nobody on RUclips shows their mistakes and it makes their level of playing feel unattainable. Time to practice 🎸
Stoked to see you rising against the Slough of Gibson despair. I own an SG and think you are on point with your views. Love from the UK
Great video , thanks !
Awesome video. Who would have thought you could get better with practice. Lol. I love how you keep it real and cut the crap. I will definitely be using those practice lessons. Great video as always 👍
i freaking love this guy! thx 4 the tips!
Hahaha thats awesome.
I've been playing for quite a long time and ive never seen that finger exercise before. I actually practice my guitar every time I watch you just because I always practice my guitar. To be honest I thought it looked easy until I tried it. Thats pretty cool, I'll be incorporating that into my practice routine for sure for sure. Thanks man 🤘
Awesome show
Loveeee the intro!!!
Searched "how to get better at guitar" saw this video, thought "Glenn usually gives good advice" watched video and was not disappointed. Thanks Glenn!
Glad I could help
immediate like, i trust this helped me, that morning scream got my ears ringing. love you
This was actually really helpful for me I've been strictly a rhythm player for years and just now learning my scales and theory and I hold my pick the old way you do and I'm really bad about lifting my fingers so I'm gonna start trying this and see if it can help me too thanks glen
Thanks for showing the hard part. As a drummer, I did myself and my loved ones a huge favor and got an electronic kit. Now I put the head phones on and get way more practice and don't have to be so self-conscious about stumbling through the same 2 measures over and over.
Hey Glenn I do a similar thing with my pinky, shoots to the sky when I use other fingers when playing. Thanks for sharing the cool practice exercise!
Depending on who's in the room, my middle finger goes all Clapton on me 😆😅
Great video. I have to get back to practicing regularly. I fell apart physically and mentally over last couple years. I had my knee surgery couple of weeks back. Slowly recovering. Now I need to get my head in order. Thanks for the great content. Your videos inspire me to things I wanna do. Greetings from Petawawa.
Thank you so much for the tips, Glenn. I have been playing guitar for 25 years, always resting my right hand on my pinky. Recently, I started strangling with some pain on my pinky while playing, which I blamed on the time I spend working on a computer. Today, I tried the "closed fist" picking technique for the first time and wow! What a difference! Much more comfortable and no more pinky pain!
Hi Glenn! Been an off/on again viewer for sometime now. More importantly I've been a guitar player for 20+ years, an still practice an enjoy it thoroughly still to this day. Self taught here, and I am stubborn in my ways! Though I've always took pride in that fact, it may take me longer to figure some shit out! 😅 Anyways, my picking technique has always been lacking something, and or just a tad bit sloppy when I increase the BPM. That closed, tight grip you have on your picking hand you showed literally change me an my technique over night! Not to brag but i took to it like a duck to water! It's everything I've been missing!!! IT'S GIVING ME SUCH INSPERATION an I HAVE SUCH A SHIT EATING SMILE RIPPING THROUGH MY DUAL REC!!! It's crazy what one small adjustment can do!! So I can't thank you enough Glenn, seriously cheer's brother!!🤘🍻
This is one humble dude. Good stuff man.
I’m proud of you man. Keep on grinding.
GLEEEEEENNNN!!!! yes thanks for showing the one finger per fret technique! It’s something lacking even on many professional players
Brilliant! Thanks bud 🖤🤘
Good on you. Keep step’en.
Glenn, feels so good to see other long time players who still have to work on some stuff (just like me). 9:42 If you do the "spider exercise" descending (where you lift off fingers) *make sure to set all fingers but the last one at once (!) to the next string on the fretboard*. This will give you a boost for legato, too. BTW: I spottetd you at the Guitar Summit in Mannheim. If I remember right, at the RuF Guitar stand! Hope you had a good time there.
Wow! Just after watching this video I went to band practice and used a James Hetfield White Fang plectrum (jazz iii 1.14) that came with the EMG Het Set. They’re smaller than my normal plectrum and the instant improvement in my pinch squeals was amazing! Can’t believe it took that long to find out this little gem of knowledge! Thank you!
Those are my absolute favorite picks! I like the 1.0s too but 1.14s are my favorite!
@@Douglas_I I’ve worn it down to being unusable already! I need to buy more!!!
Hey Glenn.... Im not that good yet at guitar but i got the major and minor shapes down and understanding the (circle of fifths)Thank you for sharing --Josh Bailey --Love your content.
I love seeing you struggling. Usually if someone shows some exercises, they're executed perfectly. Feels good that I'm not the only one struggling
Glenn... Im just sending mad respect from Kuwait. You've helped me a lot.
Glen, yup, that's a real kicker, that's me screwed for the next 2 years.......... Only a newbie to your channel, love it, keep up the good work.
Seeing you play the ascending part lets me know that it can be done- good thing I have my guitar on my while I watched this!
It’s nice seeing another mortal learning. Honestly more inspiring than not seeing the struggle.
Thanks Glenn! My pinky is also fused to my third finger it’s really hard to break out of that habit. I know you point out there are better players to learn from but it’s cool to hear tips from someone who recently improved and saw results. Sometimes with pros they’ve been so good for so long it seems like they’re disconnected from the struggles of beginners and intermediates.
I'm completely loving this new intro of screaming "Everybodyyyyyyyyy" and to be honest I think more teachers in public schools should be greeting their respective classes in such a way
Hey Glenn. I've finally got some content on my own channel. My most recent video, I experiment the difference between holding a pick with the thumb and index finger vs thumb and middle finger. And I discovered there were some things I found there were some things I found easier with the middle finger.
After watching this video, you've inspired me, a guy who's been a guitarist for 20 years to inspire me to turn it into a series.
Love the channel, love from the UK 🇬🇧
Ok, after 30 minutes of trying the "economy of motion" technique I have muscle aches in muscles I didn't even know I had. Thanks, Glenn...it can only make me a better player. Keep on doing what you do. Honestly trying to save people money on gear is a great thing even if it rustles some feathers.
Great tips Glenn! I still have a 90's era Guitar World(I think) where Dimebag himself suggests that same exercise! Definitely a stamina builder. He went on to only using triple picking(with three fingers) because there is an alternate pick string skip in there, "just to mess with you". Thanks for reminding me to start doing that again, and with your quads!
Do your quads Bro! lol.
I'll have to dig that mag out but Dime did plenty of snippet articles back in the day. Cheers.
Good ideas in there. The chromatic(ish) alternate picking exercise is something that I used to do to ad nausem. It really helps!
Those are great exercises! I learned it through Fender Play. I've been a long-time strummer and power chords guy. I took some damage to all but my index finger many years ago and those exercises have been really challenging and great for my playing and accuracy, building up muscle strength and endurance. Never underestimate the power in chromatic scale exercises!
Great video as always!
Nice!!! Thanks bro
Most people: I don't have enough time to practice my guitar
Glenn: I'm gonna practice my guitar more to save time
Thanks for this.
Love the progress you’ve been making, amazing job! As constructive criticism, if you’re looking for the next technique to tackle or focus on maybe work on vibrato/bends more next!
Yep. I completely agree!
@@SpectreSoundStudios also maybe work a little bit on your picking synchronization. here are some awesome exercises to improve on hand sync:
ruclips.net/video/nYWr3b67xV8/видео.html
best wishes!