I just watched this video yesterday and was blown away. Everyone who has tried to play the guitar from the beginner like myself or a seasoned guitarist trying something new can relate. The patience and drive you had to go through this exercise is simply amazing.
Very cool idea for a video. I think it helps beginners realize that nobody just picks up a guitar and starts shredding naturally. In your case, you already know HOW to play… you’re just struggling to learn the execution of that knowledge. Great stuff!
The fact that we all played like this at some point its insane ..I tried to play left handed once to see how hard it is in like 10 years of guitar playing! Great video Elmo
New to your channel when I saw your review of the PRS SE Standard 24 (so I went and bought myself one!). I taught myself guitar at 16 doing a similar thing....then got lazy and didn't practice, so I plateaued and fell out of love with music (including writing). This is a great lesson both in co-ordination, being consistent and to focus (amongst other things). I'm now looking to play and write again, so this will become my mantra to practice 15mins (at least) a day. Thanks you.
11:10-11:40 ❤ thanks for the encouragement. I have felt like that more than once and it’s nice to be told it’s normal dude keep going! Really helpful video!
Thank you, Elmo. It's very eye opening for a complete newb to see someone that at least knows exactly what he should be doing go back to square one the moment he tries to play wrong-handed. 😲😲😁🤘
What a great experiment...you looked so frustrated at not being able to do it correctly. Emagine going back to playing normally but your brain had switched off and you had to start learning from the beginning again!! 😭
i noticed something, between the end of your first day and the beggining of the second day there was massive improvement, i don't know if the day 2 take was shot in the beggining or on the end of the session but i wouldn't be surprised if it was shot in the beggining because a healthy sleep can de miracle between two days of practice. I noticed that between two sessions if i have a good night i start the other session better than i was at the end of the last session. So don't underestimate the power of sleeping and the brain "movements", stay healthy and your playing will improve greatly, even in the moments you don't play guitar ! (but only if you sleep, and if you sleep at night!) Thanks for sharing your experience Elmo !
Thanks elmo! New viewer and new wannabe player. I upgraded my old Squire Strat, and refinished it that same buttercream color you have in the video! I will be doing this exercise for 15 minutes every day, regular style. Thanks again!
I've got an old Casio keyboard. It's gathering dust. The idea occurs to me that I could blow the dust off and give it 15 minutes a day. I guess there are a lot of things that idea could be applied to. Things to do as the cold rains of October transition to snow. Thanks for the video.
Practice always sounds better with overdrive or fuzz. I restarted guitar lessons at age 50 & I definitely found 15 minutes per day was perfect. I’m 61 now and I find with songs the best method for me was to learn a couple of bars at one sitting. Master them, then move onto the next bars. And then try to play a bar or 2 at a time without notation or tabs.
Now thats putting your money wear you mouth is! well Done Elmo! Im going to practice my pentatonic A (with blue note) every day for 15 minutes aside of regular practice. Thankyou for this. Its easty to talk and say do this or that but you actually did it, you are a great teacher.. Wish I lived a few miles closer (michigan lol). Take care and God Bless
Hello Elmo - Very funny and significant ! It reminds me when I started my guitar playing a year ago. I trained this chromatic exercise much more than 15 minutes per day (up to 1h30 for months) and sometimes achieved a maximum of 320 bpm (but not for long... lol) - but putting up a fight for speed is not appropriate with that. I’m still doing this every day at an average 130/160 bpm (useless to speed up) from fret 1 to 16 as a warm-up for 20/25 minutes before each training session - but striving above all, to get the best transition sound when changing string (i.e one must not feel the micro sound gap), starting with the index finger and the little finger as well. As a beginner for the moment, it’s the best warm-up workout to get my fingers ready before starting any training or playing in an efficient way. Thanks for your video !
Both laughs and reflections while watching this. Don´t forget where you started and be happy for where you are today. By the way - what´s so tricky with your name? I had schoolmates with far more trickier finnish names than Karjalainen :)
@@MrPolevaulter Lately been focused on jam tracks or playing along with a song and learn it by ear. Also learning basic audio production (learning REAPER, build guitar tones in TH-U Overloud, build my own drum tracks). For Music Theory I can identify chords/modes by ear, know passing chord, modulation, neopolitan, borrowed chord, tritone sub, etc as I hear them. Finally for technique I do a lot of scales and chord work, particularly when I'm feeling uncreative that day but still want to practice. Not sure what else to do but I want to improve. I have a couple specific problems. Biggest one is that when I start to focus on playing, I lose what I had in my head. I have found that if I sing it out into my phone quickly before I forget, then this helps, but that's just a workaround. Second big problem is playing a good portion of a song without making a mistake (pick slips out of grip, missed note, etc), as well as remembering how songs go (have a terrible memory). Third problem is just technique, I can't really shred that well and struggle getting to chords in time.
Also I usually practice at least 1 hour every day, sometimes 4 or more hours. I have been playing for 15 years. Also I have taken lessons as a teenager. This is part of why I'm feeling stuck, I am kind of getting older and set in my ways by now.
Holy crap Elmo, your left hand playing with horrid at start, and after 30 days it was still bad, but if you would put that into perspective of a novice/new player, it would be awesome! Also, I might just start a 30 day challenge myself.... playing naked. Cause playing naked usually distracts me too much... ;-)
@@MrPolevaulter thanks. im trying to get this guys EVH and randy sound-> ruclips.net/video/-kdNQA-TvQM/видео.html Im not planning on using pedals except if i find and old mxr dist+.
Next goal, play an Eric Gales solo Eric Gales style 😁 If you haven't see it yet, there are a few really interesting videos by Ryan Burke about the sense or nonsense of the handedness of guitars. He has a couple of interesting thoughts on the topic and on playing the "wrong handed" guitar.
Interesting results for sure. My current rut comes from information overload and not knowing where to start since i'm self taught. Don't really know where to pick up theory-wise and there's a gazillion pages of information out there and by the time i found something, I already used up half of my time of practice. Any good books on theory for guitarists you'd recommend, Elmo?
Mycket spännande video som tydliggör hur stor utmaningen faktiskt är att först behärska och sedan bemästra sitt instrument. Men frågan jag har: blev du mer tacksam/förlåtande mot dig själv och ditt spelande när du satte dig och spelade "rätt" igen?
I'm left handed for most things - like writing etc. Playing guitar with my left hand is..... extremely difficult and my brain cannot comprehend it. I assume you felt the same haha.
Oh man. Left handed. Kiko is left handed but learned right handed which I can't imagine. ♥️😂 Great idea sir. ♥️🤘♥️ This will be interesting. 🤘🤘♥️ I wish you great luck sir. You are doing better. Much. Keep it up. Great insights man.. ♥️ My mother used to practice writing with her left hand and she can write with either hand just as well and has very nice hand writing. ♥️ Never stop. ♥️🤘♥️ Be safe sir. Hope all is well and the Russians haven't over run your city yet trying to escape military conscription. 😂
@@MrPolevaulter i bought microcube gx which is on budget, instead of the older version, could not find a clean one but, through your objective comments. thanks.it saves the day...
I actually think it is much harder for you to learn to play with your non-dominant hand then it would be for a new player to learn using their dominant hand. Unless you happen to be one of those very few people that actually can use both equally. Kudos for giving it a shot though. I can only imagine how frustrating that must be for a really good guitar player lol.
Haaaa..I played more than that when I started, like 6 hours a day but I had rock star dreams.. but in that time,after a year I knew all my major and minor scales, tons of exercises, was pretty proficient at Bends and speed..if I was a teacher I would want my students to do more time or get out of Dodge, but if they're paying I'd them take all the time they want.. cool video, hey, who said you could reproduce.. kidding,I got 3 kids grown up now..
You now have improved you chances of not getting dementia as soon 🧠but what i want to know which i get … what is that buzz on the low end strings. Is that fretting errors or a plucking issue… it happens to me and never sure if its a guitar fret level issue or just me
@@MrPolevaulter thanks…well one day could you explain that in detail…because it drives me crazy when i go evaluate guitars and never sure if its me or indeed guitar has a fret levelling issue or too low of an action….yet i could pass same guitar to friend and cant do the same and get the buzzes i find….Exactly what is the correct way to “fret”
Years ago (~20) I got few months at music school learning guitar. Then I lost ring finger on left hand🤕. And this february decided to recall guitar playing - buy LH Danelectro. This is 8 months result, 160 bpm is well for that kind of excersise: ruclips.net/video/FnveMFHXSA4/видео.html.
Yeah I don’t run your specific routine, mine varies depending on what specific skill I’m trying to develop, but I find that I tend to progress faster with shorter practices where I focus on proper technique. Trying to force it by “pushing through” is almost always a waste of time for me. My daily practice is usually 15 minutes focusing on isolated skills like scales, chords and chord transitions, tremolo picking, etc and then usually somewhere around another 30 minutes to whatever amount of time I can squeeze in just goofing around learning one song or another. I got my raw tremolo picking speed up to within spitting distance of Dick Dale with 5-10 minutes a day over a few weeks (still working on controlling it).
For more on the 15 minute practice routine, check out this video: ruclips.net/video/qnMby7TxCoQ/видео.html
I just watched this video yesterday and was blown away. Everyone who has tried to play the guitar from the beginner like myself or a seasoned guitarist trying something new can relate. The patience and drive you had to go through this exercise is simply amazing.
Thanks!
You are da man no one else on RUclips has the balls to do this. Love your channel.
Thank you Robert!
I just noticed you hit 40k! Congrats! 🎉🎊🎈💃
Yes! Thank you!
Very cool idea for a video. I think it helps beginners realize that nobody just picks up a guitar and starts shredding naturally. In your case, you already know HOW to play… you’re just struggling to learn the execution of that knowledge. Great stuff!
Absolutely. Most of it's just down to the work you put in.
The fact that we all played like this at some point its insane ..I tried to play left handed once to see how hard it is in like 10 years of guitar playing! Great video Elmo
Thanks!
New to your channel when I saw your review of the PRS SE Standard 24 (so I went and bought myself one!). I taught myself guitar at 16 doing a similar thing....then got lazy and didn't practice, so I plateaued and fell out of love with music (including writing). This is a great lesson both in co-ordination, being consistent and to focus (amongst other things). I'm now looking to play and write again, so this will become my mantra to practice 15mins (at least) a day. Thanks you.
Awesome! Thank you!
11:10-11:40 ❤ thanks for the encouragement. I have felt like that more than once and it’s nice to be told it’s normal dude keep going! Really helpful video!
Glad to be of help 😊
I got myself a left-handed guitar (inspired by this video) and will try my best to improve my playing technique. Thanks again for the inspiration!
Thank you, Elmo. It's very eye opening for a complete newb to see someone that at least knows exactly what he should be doing go back to square one the moment he tries to play wrong-handed. 😲😲😁🤘
And thank you :)
What a great experiment...you looked so frustrated at not being able to do it correctly. Emagine going back to playing normally but your brain had switched off and you had to start learning from the beginning again!! 😭
Yeah, it was a really interesting experience :)
i noticed something, between the end of your first day and the beggining of the second day there was massive improvement, i don't know if the day 2 take was shot in the beggining or on the end of the session but i wouldn't be surprised if it was shot in the beggining because a healthy sleep can de miracle between two days of practice. I noticed that between two sessions if i have a good night i start the other session better than i was at the end of the last session. So don't underestimate the power of sleeping and the brain "movements", stay healthy and your playing will improve greatly, even in the moments you don't play guitar ! (but only if you sleep, and if you sleep at night!)
Thanks for sharing your experience Elmo !
Sleeping is very important, absolutely.
Thanks elmo! New viewer and new wannabe player. I upgraded my old Squire Strat, and refinished it that same buttercream color you have in the video! I will be doing this exercise for 15 minutes every day, regular style. Thanks again!
And I am going out and buying a metronome, also! Thanks for the tips
Glad to be of help. Please let me know what kind of results you get.
I've got an old Casio keyboard. It's gathering dust. The idea occurs to me that I could blow the dust off and give it 15 minutes a day. I guess there are a lot of things that idea could be applied to. Things to do as the cold rains of October transition to snow. Thanks for the video.
Absolutely. I think this should work for most things.
This is really good stuff man.
Glad you like it :)
Practice always sounds better with overdrive or fuzz. I restarted guitar lessons at age 50 & I definitely found 15 minutes per day was perfect. I’m 61 now and I find with songs the best method for me was to learn a couple of bars at one sitting. Master them, then move onto the next bars. And then try to play a bar or 2 at a time without notation or tabs.
Cool bananas :)
Mind bending experience.
Cheers!
@@MrPolevaulter But it proves the point.That is a real chellenge.You are brave man.
Very interesting explainations. As I just started a daily training routine, I will keep your video in mind. Thank you Elmo 🙂👍
Glad to be of help 😊
Thanks for the video Elmo🙏✌️
And thank you 😊
Now thats putting your money wear you mouth is! well Done Elmo! Im going to practice my pentatonic A (with blue note) every day for 15 minutes aside of regular practice. Thankyou for this. Its easty to talk and say do this or that but you actually did it, you are a great teacher.. Wish I lived a few miles closer (michigan lol). Take care and God Bless
Thanks man! :)
Ee muutku elmo keikalla vedät soolo noin😁 vaatii hyvät hermot toi😫 kiitti videost elmo👌
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Hello Elmo - Very funny and significant !
It reminds me when I started my guitar playing a year ago.
I trained this chromatic exercise much more than 15 minutes per day (up to 1h30 for months) and sometimes achieved a maximum of 320 bpm (but not for long... lol) - but putting up a fight for speed is not appropriate with that.
I’m still doing this every day at an average 130/160 bpm (useless to speed up) from fret 1 to 16 as a warm-up for 20/25 minutes before each training session - but striving above all, to get the best transition sound when changing string (i.e one must not feel the micro sound gap), starting with the index finger and the little finger as well.
As a beginner for the moment, it’s the best warm-up workout to get my fingers ready before starting any training or playing in an efficient way.
Thanks for your video !
And thank you :)
Loved the cat.
That's Ole, our cat. I'll tell him you said hi 😊
Elmo eres un grande!
Gracias!
Brilliant!
Cheers!
I started this yesterday and have improved massively, but right handed lol
Cool bananas! Let me know how it goes later on.
Both laughs and reflections while watching this. Don´t forget where you started and be happy for where you are today. By the way - what´s so tricky with your name? I had schoolmates with far more trickier finnish names than Karjalainen :)
Anders Grönlund? Swedish? Tackar :)
We need some videos on how you got so dang fast. How did you learn to shred or were you just talented.
A lot of practice :)
@@MrPolevaulter Fair enough. More practice is required. I'm stuck at suck 😭
@@HELLNAWW How do you practice?
@@MrPolevaulter Lately been focused on jam tracks or playing along with a song and learn it by ear. Also learning basic audio production (learning REAPER, build guitar tones in TH-U Overloud, build my own drum tracks). For Music Theory I can identify chords/modes by ear, know passing chord, modulation, neopolitan, borrowed chord, tritone sub, etc as I hear them. Finally for technique I do a lot of scales and chord work, particularly when I'm feeling uncreative that day but still want to practice.
Not sure what else to do but I want to improve. I have a couple specific problems. Biggest one is that when I start to focus on playing, I lose what I had in my head. I have found that if I sing it out into my phone quickly before I forget, then this helps, but that's just a workaround. Second big problem is playing a good portion of a song without making a mistake (pick slips out of grip, missed note, etc), as well as remembering how songs go (have a terrible memory). Third problem is just technique, I can't really shred that well and struggle getting to chords in time.
Also I usually practice at least 1 hour every day, sometimes 4 or more hours. I have been playing for 15 years. Also I have taken lessons as a teenager. This is part of why I'm feeling stuck, I am kind of getting older and set in my ways by now.
Bravo!
Thank you!
Holy crap Elmo, your left hand playing with horrid at start, and after 30 days it was still bad, but if you would put that into perspective of a novice/new player, it would be awesome!
Also, I might just start a 30 day challenge myself.... playing naked. Cause playing naked usually distracts me too much... ;-)
Haha :D
🤣
Would an sv20h with a 4x12 and a cheap attenuator be good for home use in your opinion?
Sure. You don't even need an attenuator: ruclips.net/video/0LR0haLKyng/видео.html
@@MrPolevaulter thanks. im trying to get this guys EVH and randy sound-> ruclips.net/video/-kdNQA-TvQM/видео.html Im not planning on using pedals except if i find and old mxr dist+.
Next goal, play an Eric Gales solo Eric Gales style 😁
If you haven't see it yet, there are a few really interesting videos by Ryan Burke about the sense or nonsense of the handedness of guitars. He has a couple of interesting thoughts on the topic and on playing the "wrong handed" guitar.
😀
Interesting results for sure.
My current rut comes from information overload and not knowing where to start since i'm self taught. Don't really know where to pick up theory-wise and there's a gazillion pages of information out there and by the time i found something, I already used up half of my time of practice. Any good books on theory for guitarists you'd recommend, Elmo?
I used something called Monster Scales and Modes back in the day.
If Eric Gales can do it….?…. This guy… is me! You on the other hand, That Guy 😂 you know, the Koad guy.
:D
Mycket spännande video som tydliggör hur stor utmaningen faktiskt är att först behärska och sedan bemästra sitt instrument. Men frågan jag har: blev du mer tacksam/förlåtande mot dig själv och ditt spelande när du satte dig och spelade "rätt" igen?
Det hade nog ingen inverkan på det 😀
I'm left handed for most things - like writing etc. Playing guitar with my left hand is..... extremely difficult and my brain cannot comprehend it. I assume you felt the same haha.
Yeah, it was a bit tricky :D
Oh man. Left handed. Kiko is left handed but learned right handed which I can't imagine. ♥️😂
Great idea sir. ♥️🤘♥️
This will be interesting. 🤘🤘♥️
I wish you great luck sir.
You are doing better. Much. Keep it up.
Great insights man.. ♥️
My mother used to practice writing with her left hand and she can write with either hand just as well and has very nice hand writing. ♥️
Never stop. ♥️🤘♥️
Be safe sir.
Hope all is well and the Russians haven't over run your city yet trying to escape military conscription. 😂
Cheers man!
you are so crazy...great
Thank you 😊
@@MrPolevaulter i bought microcube gx which is on budget, instead of the older version, could not find a clean one but, through your objective comments. thanks.it saves the day...
I actually think it is much harder for you to learn to play with your non-dominant hand then it would be for a new player to learn using their dominant hand. Unless you happen to be one of those very few people that actually can use both equally. Kudos for giving it a shot though. I can only imagine how frustrating that must be for a really good guitar player lol.
It was fairly frustrating, yeah :D
Haaaa..I played more than that when I started, like 6 hours a day but I had rock star dreams.. but in that time,after a year I knew all my major and minor scales, tons of exercises, was pretty proficient at Bends and speed..if I was a teacher I would want my students to do more time or get out of Dodge, but if they're paying I'd them take all the time they want.. cool video, hey, who said you could reproduce.. kidding,I got 3 kids grown up now..
Cheers!
You now have improved you chances of not getting dementia as soon 🧠but what i want to know which i get … what is that buzz on the low end strings. Is that fretting errors or a plucking issue… it happens to me and never sure if its a guitar fret level issue or just me
Fretting issues, as I didn't have problems when playing right handed.
@@MrPolevaulter thanks…well one day could you explain that in detail…because it drives me crazy when i go evaluate guitars and never sure if its me or indeed guitar has a fret levelling issue or too low of an action….yet i could pass same guitar to friend and cant do the same and get the buzzes i find….Exactly what is the correct way to “fret”
Years ago (~20) I got few months at music school learning guitar. Then I lost ring finger on left hand🤕. And this february decided to recall guitar playing - buy LH Danelectro. This is 8 months result, 160 bpm is well for that kind of excersise: ruclips.net/video/FnveMFHXSA4/видео.html.
Yeah I don’t run your specific routine, mine varies depending on what specific skill I’m trying to develop, but I find that I tend to progress faster with shorter practices where I focus on proper technique. Trying to force it by “pushing through” is almost always a waste of time for me.
My daily practice is usually 15 minutes focusing on isolated skills like scales, chords and chord transitions, tremolo picking, etc and then usually somewhere around another 30 minutes to whatever amount of time I can squeeze in just goofing around learning one song or another. I got my raw tremolo picking speed up to within spitting distance of Dick Dale with 5-10 minutes a day over a few weeks (still working on controlling it).
Cool :)
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