This will SOLVE your string crossing problem! Pick across strings EASILY
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Maybe you’re struggling with alternate picking.
Maybe you just can’t get the right technique for sweep picking.
Most likely you’ve got bad hand coordination.
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Pretty certain I’ve been playing guitar (badly) longer than you’ve been alive. Yet today I learnt something so simple yet incredible. Just shows, age is no measure of ability to teach. Thank you Ben.
Thank you, glad you've got something out of it!
Already knew this stuff but the warm up exercises are pure gold.
Thanks, glad to hear it!
Such an important lesson thats normally completely overlooked. Great work as always Ben!
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I think it comes from so many so called guitar teachers on the internet demanding you lock and pivot the hand.
Yup, that's exactly what I do - get tense trying to play fast, that locks the picking hand in place and then I get into really awkward angles where everything turn to slop. Thanks so much for the lesson!
You're welcome, Jack!
Ben is telling that simply move the arm accordingly while you are moving up the strings... Really good advice
This is PRICELESS advice!! I’ve been doing it the wrong way for so long and this solved SO MANY problems I was having. I have bought many of Ben’s lessons over the years. He is one of the best teachers around. But even then I never knew exactly what he is saying here. I guess I missed this lesson. But this is amazing. I was doing it the wrong way, makes total sense watching this. THANK YOU BEN!!
That's awesome to hear, Brandon! Keep getting those guitar gains!
This was a big one brother 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Thank you Thank you Thank you!
i rarely comment but this video is awesome, virtually every second of the video was informative and helpful. it’s like you tied together all the most common problems and addreessed them in one video. great stuff
Thanks man, love the username!
Only been teaching myself for two years and I still haven't gotten alternate picking down. Hopefully soon before the 3 year mark.
It's been a while. How's it coming along?
SuperSJ he’s not going to answer. They never do.
4th year playing guitar here. Only started to get the hang of alternate picking when I started guitar lessons and there was somebody who could look at my hands and tell me what I needed to change.
And, of course, practice slooooooowly.
I was lucky enough to where alternate picking was only a thing I struggled with for a couple months. I’ve been struggling the most on switching between strings, this video though immediately changed that. I’m also self taught going on my second year now. I know it’s been 6 years but if you’re still struggling with it then try using a metronome and increasing speed incrementally.
thank you so much ,i had a problem with that for months and you just fixed it within 5 minutes!
That's awesome! 👍👍
Yep me too, this guys awesome!
This was an immediate improvement after watching this. Been playing with this bad habit for 13 years now. Time to learn a new habit!
That's awesome man, get those guitar gains! 🤜🤛🎸
I’m a new player and was wondering what the right way to move the right way, very helpful thanks!
Awsome u solved me what blocked me for a year ...omy god this is pure gold thankyou
This may be all that the problem I've had for years actually was. Thank you.
So I’ve had trouble with string crossing for months now, even though my picking speed is very fast. I tried to find what the cause was for this on my own and noticed the pivot thing you mentioned, I didn’t know though if it was proper technique or not and if I should change it. So I never did. It got to a point with sweep picking as well where I was picking in a full circle rather than up and down. After hearing you talk about the pivot, I went and tried it myself, found the best spot for my picking and my GOD it changed immediately. I finally can string cross with ease and have no issues anymore. In the matter of minutes you changed everything. Thank you!!!!
Also just like you said, I assumed it’d effect my wrist picking motion, and that my arm would take it over. Which is a big reason I didn’t want to mess with it until I got confirmation of it being a bad technique. However, it feels much more natural using my arm to adjust height. My wrist feels in no way effected by it, in fact it feels even easier on my wrist now.
That's great to hear, man... well done for putting it into action! 👍👍🔥🔥
This is amazing advice, and I believe this is exactly my problem.
Yes,Yes,Yes! I teach this all of the time it’s very common, some players can pull off this “Radius”picking when anchoring with the pinky or palm in a mute ready or mute position but for some students I’ll take a magic marker to their strings as a straight line target, your lesson also helps with players who complain about volume pot being in the way, sometimes it’s the little things, good one
Dude you have been such a goldmine of information to me, thanks.
That's great to hear!
Ben Higgins: the King of Commonsense. Well done!
Worked instantly, thank you so much
Excellent tip, Ben. I'm a self confessed and frustrated 'scraper' so this 4:15m should be invaluable.
Many thanks.
Hope it helps!
Full kudos to you mate, you are filling in all the cracks in other courses I have
Thanks a lot for that man! Sometimes it´s the little detail that makes the big difference! Thanks
struggling with this...gonna apply this with practice thank you!
Great advice - thanks 👍😊
Holy crap... I have been struggling with this for years!!!!
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Great advice cheers
Thanks! I was doing this very thing and wondered why I wasn't making the progress I felt I should. I was so inconsistent! (Consistently inconsistent, really, which is maddening!)
It's great when we find the cause of our issues!
And the first place award for this year's Johnny Marr look-alike contest goes to..... BEN HIGGINS!!! Come on up, BEN!!
Thank you so so much man!!! So simple yet so helpful, you are amazing ✌️
Happy to help, duder 👍
No one has ever explained that to me before. Many thanks 🙏
Awesome, hope it helps! 👍👍
Faced this problem when i tried to upstroke 2 strings keeping palm-mute. Downstoke/upstroke of top strings with palm-mute is good, but when i go a bit lower to 5-4 strings i cant and upstroke and palm mute string 4 at the same time. The only way i found to do that was to move the whole palm lower to save an angle.
Alternative way to solve the angle problem is to land the palm lower than you would do, so your angle starts to change later.
man you r the best! your play is amazing!
Tysm this helped alot
This ibanez is Beautiful 🎉
Wow Ben I didn't realise I was doing this! Thank you man
Glad to help!
@@BenHigginsOfficial Awesome stuff, wish I'd found this years ago! Do you have any other vids that would help me get my timing better? Thanks Ben
@@OneLifeYourWay This will help with triplets which is something most guitarists get wrong when trying to practice with both hands! ruclips.net/video/4ueaiTd60cg/видео.html
@@BenHigginsOfficial Thanks!!
awesome!! thanks for the lesson man!
👍👍 That's what I do wrong
Gonna work on it! THANKS!!!!
It’s like linear tracking on a record deck. Mine is at its best around b and g strings so I will defo look at this . I see a badass alt picking course in my future lo,
Thx man rly helped my latest issue
Omg this worked instantly thanks man your amazing
Excellent!!
Hey Ben, your tips are always very helpfull! keep doing the awesome work man!!
Thanks Eduardo, glad you find them useful!
thanks this helped me for string skipping as well!
Ben - I just have found your videos and I've been practicing what I've watched from you. I wanted to say thank you so much for simplifying it! I've struggled for years of playing with alternate picking and I'm finally starting to feel in the groove while practicing and that feels super cool! I've signed up to your site as well, thanks for the content in there too. Do you give online lessons?
Thanks Derek, glad you're getting good use out of the videos! As well as the online streaming courses, I do a free 'Speed Accelerator' workshop in Facebook every few months and also a 6 month program where I mentor players to sort out their guitar technique. You've probably seen the links already but here they are again www.benhigginsofficial.com/free-workshop.php and the BTP www.benhigginsofficial.com/6-month-program.php
Man, that's one of the best advices I ever get. Thanks a lot, really. I love your videos!!
BTW, am I the only one who is disturbed by the volume knob??
Glad you find it useful, Dani! What is it about the volume knob? :D
BenHigginsOfficial Hi Ben! When I move the arm to play in the high E string, in some guitars (like most Ibanez, Strats...) the volumne knob doesn't let me do the movement comfortably, because I touch it with the hand
Ok I understand. I've had that issue in the past. It usually occurs when you play with your hand closer to the bridge. It's an annoying compromise but if you can bring it forward a bit it will help.
BenHigginsOfficial Okey, I'll try it! Thanks again dude!
I have a strat. I don't use the tone control. I dropped it into the cavity and moved my volume down to that hole. Volume knob is not in my way.
I liked you video. I don't suppose you know how to fix arthritis. I got it years ago and in my thumb and I have terrible Control of my hands at times and was hoping I could figure a way to fix it by looking around and what is cool about your video is people aren't going to check this stuff out until they find themselves unable to do things because the body has a problem and then you find out that all kinds of things we do that we shouldn't or how hard you need to squeeze to hold a pick or something. You would be surprised how many things a lot of us did that weren't good and then years later you have to try to relearn it so break old habits
Great video, great info!
Excellent tutorial
you are the man!!!
Great content!
Hi Ben I think this one Is the most important lesson can be done for picking. I figured out by myself exactly what you explain in this video and a new world opened to.me, allowing to pick much cleaner. The only I disagree with you Is that you Anchors the Pinky AND this for people with big hands can be no issue as the length of your anchored picking still allows the forearm movement you explain but for people with smll hands as me, if I anchor then I can not maintain the proper forearm-picking position in the Thicker strings hence issues appear on picking lower strings. cheers
Yes it's down to personal taste with the anchoring thing.. both ways work.
i don't find an anchor point on my jackson rr without tremolo because there is no proper bridge
please, How did paul do the riff at 25:41 ???? what strings ? how to pick ? just How ???
Thanks
I identified this in myself... it happens when you get lazy or fatigued alot too.
Does this also solved the problem when using different guitar? Im using a les paul type guitar and this works but when i switch to another guitar that is not a les paul type it feels like i dont know how to pick. Great and helpfull tip anyway cheers!!!
Different guitars do make it feel different to pick. A guitar with a double locking tremolo will cause you to hold your hand a bit further forward, for example. But we adapt and we also get used to what we do the most. My advice is to get good at doing this with the guitar you use the most. If you can do it on one guitar, you can do it on others :)
@@BenHigginsOfficial i see, thanks Ben!
Brilliantly simple advice and something I would never have thought of,... unfortunately I've been doing it wrong for years and it's gonna be tough to retrain this area but great advice.. Cheers.
Thank you! \m/
I have an issue where I pick down and then up and the I need to pick down again but on the next string down and I just end up hitting the same string by accident. How do I fix this?
That's an inside picking motion on an ascending lick.. so using an outward hand angle will help with that.
So you got tabs for this? I need to use that
i dont think it has to do with the way one positions the hand, i think it just has to do with the tensio of the strings, the thicker gauge strings feel a lot better to people mainly because theyre a bigger target to hit, and when you pick the bigger strings, they're also more likely to have more bounce and play in them because lower pitch note strings vibrate like crazy, when you palm mute the vibration of the string gets much shorter, while still keeping the bouncyness of the string, intact. And what i mean by that is that essentially what your picking hand needs to do Tripple picking or tremolo picking or legatos or whatever you call it is Bounce, because when the string makes your pick bounce into the other side of the string you suddendly have to waste less energy, its easier, you can go though it like a bullet goes through untempered glass.
However when the tension of the string is really high and solid, but you have a small gauge string to hit (very small string) your pick gets locked into place when you use the same technique as you did for the lower strings, which essentially means the force being exerted into the string does not get absorbed by the string as much, your hand thinks its good, and you get locked out into the position. If you pick too hard you can have the note go out of tune, you can even break the smaller strings and you could hurt yourself.
Its a mix of the size of the string how big it is and the tension each string carries, for example i find it easy to tripple pick on the low E A D but on the G string B and E i struggle to even get a nice CHUGGING action going simply because these strings are so thin and so high tension they dont have a lot of bounce and play in them. Now im not saying is impossible to chug on the High E string (professional guitar players will proe me wrong all day long if thats the case) All you have to do is change the angle in which youre picking and possibly even shift your hand further towards the neck pickup as opposed to the bridge i found this to be quite helpful but now i struggle with my right hand getting tired all the time! how do they do it!!!!
Hey @benhigginsofficial thank you so much for the excellent video lessons! I've been hitting a bit of an issue trying to follow this one and was curious to pick your brain. I tend to rest my forearm on the guitar and my elbow comes behind the plane of the instrument. This seems to exacerbate the problem you demonstrate here by making it challenging to actually move the whole arm up and down. I'm thinking taking my forearm and elbow and making it more parallel to the guitar body is the way to go, but I wanted to check with you to see if that is what you would suggest here?
Hi Justin it's hard to tell exactly without seeing your form but it sounds like you're just putting too much pressure through the arm and relying on it to try and isolate your wrist movements. Instead, allow the forearm to brush against the body instead of sticking it to it. Your forearm can still move freely as well as letting the wrist move as well. If you're interested in joining my free workshop in February it'd be great to have you there! www.benhigginsofficial.com/free-workshop.php
@@BenHigginsOfficial Thanks Ben, that might very well be the case! I'll try to loosen the arm up a bit and rely more on gently brushing against the guitar rather than sticking to it. I just signed up for the workshop! Thanks again! Also, your subscriber number is pretty metal right now \,,/,
@@justins9612 Haha that's true!!
Great Video ! thanks a lot Ben ! I have a technical question. I use a lot of "classic" scales which makes my right hand alternate and go back and forth between two strings. In that case, does the right forearm have to move according to the motions between a string and another? I mean, does this motion of the forearm is applied on little changes between a string and the next one? Thanks :)
Hi Sebastien. In the case of a pattern which is moving back and forth over 2 or even 3 strings, the forearm movement is very small but is still making a contribution.
I struggle with this in a bad way. Are you letting your palm touch the strings at all?
I've been really practicing different techniques but they keep clashing with each other.
Sweep picking vs. alternative picking vs. Hybrid picking. I can't seem to connect them all.
Once something starts to lock in for me I start losing other techniques.
Okay the thing is to really narrow your focus and get a solid foundation. It sounds like you've been frustrated by these different techniques, going from one to the other. If you narrow your focus and keep on the step in front of you, you'll make gains with it. Start here and focus on getting the pick action on one string, then left hand dexterity etc.. just take one step at a time ruclips.net/p/PL9t1h0FnbQAvlekadQQlWb6ZbcNLhQ2U3
Is that a Full Metal Alchemist shirt?
I just found your videos and was wondering what the downloads on your web page offered that the youtube videos do not? I am set to buy, I was just curious if there was more in depth content.
Hi.. no, it's just a Tee with an alchemical symbol on it. I had to look up FMA when somebody else asked me about it once!
The courses go more in depth on the physical techniques from start to finish and have more exercises
what's the guitar of paul ?
I only have this problem when palm muting. Is it even possible to tremolo on muting?
what about the other strings that u dont mute when u move your arm down, i have an 8 string and when ever i dont mute the 8th string it rings out, and thanks for the video :DDDD
I also play an 8 sometimes. You can still palm mute as normal.. but the lowest strings won't be covered as you move your hand to the higher strings. The low string is usually sounded by either the picking hand moving off it, causing it to ring. Or it's caused by fretting hand pressure, hammer-ons etc. Best we can do is control our muting and accuracy to reduce that effect.
thanks for the tip :D
Guitar ??
is there other kind of exercise outside of playing the instrument that can speed up the arm's movement between strings? shakeweight? lol
In all honesty, the way to get better at something is to do more of that actual thing! There's no substitute that I know of that can replicate the movement of picking across, or between, strings.
question.
is it ok to pick upwards then downwards between two different strings? example is picking upwards on the g string then downwards on the b string.
Yes that's totally okay. That's known as inside picking. You can arrange your picking runs to capitalise on that if you prefer
@@BenHigginsOfficial Thanks for the reply. was really struggling and confused if it was ok.
I've been playing for over a decade, but my wrists are so messed up, and stiff, no matter what I can't do it.
Is it bad to rest the picking hand on the guitar while playing?
It depends if you have the problem I mention in the video. If you rest your hand on the guitar body itself and keep it there then you'll have trouble with picking higher strings. If you're referring to resting the hand on the strings like you normally would then no. Even though I move the hand position I still rest it against the strings and I still palm mute when needed. The hand doesn't have to float completely away from the strings.
My wrist gets stuck on the face of the guitar making it hard to swap strings
for me I can't even move across string quickly without picking...
can you be less awesome pls
Are you wearing a Fullmetal Alchemist t-shirt by any chance?
Hi, it is an alchemical symbol but isn't related to FMA
Hey guys, does someone know the title of the song in the intro ? (a Malmsteen one apparently)
Hi, it's a piece I wrote for a Jason Becker style lesson ruclips.net/video/QkaOT_3W0jE/видео.html The intro footage is just a montage, with some taken from '30 Shredders in One Solo' which is why you see Yngwie's name at the bottom
BenHigginsOfficial thanx ^^
what is the intro song
You may know this by now but just in case , its his take on a Jason Becker style soloing. Its here on youtuber search for it :D
@@madden7732 thanks!
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Ben's a great player and what he said in this video is true, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. I doubt anyone watching this video thinking that this was going to solve all their problem made any significant gains. Sorry. (I did NOT thumbs down the vid though.)
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