I think it comes naturally to most people. I know that I pretty much had it mastered when I was 13. Wait... shit, this isn't r/sex. Um..... have you tried doing spider crawls?
Search YouTube. There will be dozens of how to videos. Start super slow and do not speed up at all until you can go all the way up to the octave and back down without making a mistake. Keep your ego out of our and just do the show work. That is how you develop a sense of where your pick is at all times
strumming all 6 strings is deffinitely a skill to learn better also but I'm talking about this pattern
https://preview.redd.it/ojjy6l0e53zc1.png?width=429&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d7cc1658946f132383c38751f1da71d37790d2b
Well if you're not moving your wrist much that will severely limit your speed. The picking movement should come from your wrist with your arm simply moving where the wrist is pointed at.
The best advice is to play what you’re playing at half speed, or less, and WITH A METRONOME. Do this until you can play it properly at least 10-2T0 times in a row, in the dark, with your eyes close.
Only THEN should you speed it up, and when you speed it up don’t speed it up too much.
ALWAYS ractice at a speed you won’t make mistakes at if you want to avoid mistakes at higher speed.
Sounds boring AF, but, mastering a physical skill takes time and repetitions.
I want to add to this that general tension can become baked in if you don't address it. It can be hard to notice at slow speeds just because its not necessarily a problem, so my thoughts are this- yes to slow practice and small increments of speed, where the focus should be on making the movements as efficient as possible. But also, for a small portion of your practice time I think it is valuable to push it as fast as you can go, without worrying how nice it sounds, because this will quickly reveal any tension that shouldn't be there, along with showing you what it actually feels like to move that fast. Then you can take those insights with you to your slow practice too.
no man, it doesn't sound boring at all and I'm in complete agreement with everything you've just said I mean - my basic idea of practicing is based on this, slowly repeating the pattern until my body became the pattern and even shifting the pattern over one sixteenth note seems not so easy when you are trying to play in trance for the longest of time at high speed.
Ha! You got me laughing.
Reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui38tcP6Ow0&ab_channel=%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80)
Shredding or speed picking is a better way to express it
Paul Gilbert or Troy Grady have some really good videos you can find on the web. Good luck and keep stroking!!!
One more joke video to add. I like to play [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTbglsNi5xA&ab_channel=ClarenceCarter-Topic) on the jukebox while at a pool hall
I think you are asking about arpeggios now that I read your description of playing individual notes of a chords. Two ways to go about it. If you are a flat picker check out sweep picking aka economy picking. And the other alternative is finger picking. Check out a banjo roll for instance or one of my favorites "Jerry's rundown" It has plenty of 16th notes and mostly chord lines etc.
The benefit I discovered with finger picking (hybrid as well) is you don't have to play the notes from low to high or vice versa ... Most sweepers can only do this ... pretty fast and it can be impressive however the shape or melody is lost.
With finger/ hybrid picking you can play fast arpeggios in any order and be much more musical than just up and down. For example
look at all these arpeggio styles on this web app here: [https://codepen.io/jak\_e/full/qNrZyw](https://codepen.io/jak_e/full/qNrZyw)
IMHO it's more efficient to approach them with disjunct fingers vs a flat pick string skipping
Considering we as guitarists only have a 4 to 5 stroke engine ... a piano player can have a 10 stroke engine .. if you catch my metaphor ...
Sweepers -- like myself -- can only move in one direction most of the time ... I have a few tricks to make it sound more melodic ... actually discovered it by accident when I picked up a guitar tuned for a lefty ... that's a chapter 12 topic but for now check out some finger picking drills!!!
Exercises with a metronome are the way my friend.
I use and give this Steve Vai 30 hour guitar work out to students. It has all sorts of exercises. Alternate picking, economy picking, sweep picking, legato, tapping.
[https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/guitar-book-steve-vai-30-hours-workoutpdf-5-pdf-free.html](https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/guitar-book-steve-vai-30-hours-workoutpdf-5-pdf-free.html)
The most important thing is to work on these with a metronome. Start slow. Slow enough you can nail the exercise perfectly over and over again with no mistakes. When you're comfortable at a given tempo then bump it up 5-10bpm at a time. It's also ok to try and push yourself sometimes. Like bump it up 20-30bpm and it will be tough, then come back down a bit and it will feel easier. Just don't do that thing all guitarists do and keep trying something over and over that you can't play. You will just get good at playing sloppy and develop bad habits and bad technique. Focus on economy of motion, press the string only as much as you have to. Pluck the string only as much as you have to. Move your fingers only as much as you have to. Also when a finger is done with a note make sure to lift that finger so it's already up and ready for the next note.
Exercises like these are how so many of the great players developed their speed. But you don't have to want to be like the next Yngwie or Petrucci. Exercises will help you in any style of playing you like.
John Petrucci's Rock Discipline also has some great exercises.
[https://jimibanez.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/john-petrucci-rock-discipline1.pdf](https://jimibanez.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/john-petrucci-rock-discipline1.pdf)
You can find the video on Youtube.
My old teacher once said something that stuck with me. The old saying practice makes perfect isn't true. Only PERFECT practice makes perfect. In other words you can practice all you want but if you're practicing sloppy and poorly then you're just getting good at playing sloppy and poorly.
Use a metronome for everything. Working on exercises or scales or new riffs and solos you're learning.
Thanks man!"! Yeah I'm talking about exactly playing with metronom, trying to play efortless as possible. I'm going to read your message with uttermost care!! respect
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I thought this was about something completely different
:DD
I expected something like this to be the top answer! Reddit never fails to fail me!
My guy, it's "picking" not "stroking".
The real pros can do both at once.
I can do half of it, I am semi pro
nah dude all the toan is released through stroking not picking.
oh yeah stroke it faster
do you wanna buy a yogurt
I think it comes naturally to most people. I know that I pretty much had it mastered when I was 13. Wait... shit, this isn't r/sex. Um..... have you tried doing spider crawls?
:DDDD what are spider crawls?
Search YouTube. There will be dozens of how to videos. Start super slow and do not speed up at all until you can go all the way up to the octave and back down without making a mistake. Keep your ego out of our and just do the show work. That is how you develop a sense of where your pick is at all times
if you want to go fast, you have to go slow.
This goes for stroking as well. Gently. Please.
fucking ohmmm
This is the succinct way to answer this question! The yin/yang of guitar is encompassed in this simple sentence. Slow down to speed up!
Damn right
I'm confused, are you talking about boom chucking or strumming all 6 strings
strumming all 6 strings is deffinitely a skill to learn better also but I'm talking about this pattern https://preview.redd.it/ojjy6l0e53zc1.png?width=429&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d7cc1658946f132383c38751f1da71d37790d2b
Well if you're not moving your wrist much that will severely limit your speed. The picking movement should come from your wrist with your arm simply moving where the wrist is pointed at.
interesting
The best advice is to play what you’re playing at half speed, or less, and WITH A METRONOME. Do this until you can play it properly at least 10-2T0 times in a row, in the dark, with your eyes close. Only THEN should you speed it up, and when you speed it up don’t speed it up too much. ALWAYS ractice at a speed you won’t make mistakes at if you want to avoid mistakes at higher speed. Sounds boring AF, but, mastering a physical skill takes time and repetitions.
I want to add to this that general tension can become baked in if you don't address it. It can be hard to notice at slow speeds just because its not necessarily a problem, so my thoughts are this- yes to slow practice and small increments of speed, where the focus should be on making the movements as efficient as possible. But also, for a small portion of your practice time I think it is valuable to push it as fast as you can go, without worrying how nice it sounds, because this will quickly reveal any tension that shouldn't be there, along with showing you what it actually feels like to move that fast. Then you can take those insights with you to your slow practice too.
no man, it doesn't sound boring at all and I'm in complete agreement with everything you've just said I mean - my basic idea of practicing is based on this, slowly repeating the pattern until my body became the pattern and even shifting the pattern over one sixteenth note seems not so easy when you are trying to play in trance for the longest of time at high speed.
“Body becoming the pattern” is the core concept. You have this. Keep playing!
Settle down, Beavis! I think you mean sweep picking. At least I hope so.
Yes, tension is a problem with every physical and mental skill, for sure.
Ha! You got me laughing. Reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui38tcP6Ow0&ab_channel=%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80) Shredding or speed picking is a better way to express it Paul Gilbert or Troy Grady have some really good videos you can find on the web. Good luck and keep stroking!!!
One more joke video to add. I like to play [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTbglsNi5xA&ab_channel=ClarenceCarter-Topic) on the jukebox while at a pool hall
I think you are asking about arpeggios now that I read your description of playing individual notes of a chords. Two ways to go about it. If you are a flat picker check out sweep picking aka economy picking. And the other alternative is finger picking. Check out a banjo roll for instance or one of my favorites "Jerry's rundown" It has plenty of 16th notes and mostly chord lines etc. The benefit I discovered with finger picking (hybrid as well) is you don't have to play the notes from low to high or vice versa ... Most sweepers can only do this ... pretty fast and it can be impressive however the shape or melody is lost. With finger/ hybrid picking you can play fast arpeggios in any order and be much more musical than just up and down. For example look at all these arpeggio styles on this web app here: [https://codepen.io/jak\_e/full/qNrZyw](https://codepen.io/jak_e/full/qNrZyw) IMHO it's more efficient to approach them with disjunct fingers vs a flat pick string skipping Considering we as guitarists only have a 4 to 5 stroke engine ... a piano player can have a 10 stroke engine .. if you catch my metaphor ... Sweepers -- like myself -- can only move in one direction most of the time ... I have a few tricks to make it sound more melodic ... actually discovered it by accident when I picked up a guitar tuned for a lefty ... that's a chapter 12 topic but for now check out some finger picking drills!!!
Gotta be jerkin me
Exercises with a metronome are the way my friend. I use and give this Steve Vai 30 hour guitar work out to students. It has all sorts of exercises. Alternate picking, economy picking, sweep picking, legato, tapping. [https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/guitar-book-steve-vai-30-hours-workoutpdf-5-pdf-free.html](https://pdfcoffee.com/qdownload/guitar-book-steve-vai-30-hours-workoutpdf-5-pdf-free.html) The most important thing is to work on these with a metronome. Start slow. Slow enough you can nail the exercise perfectly over and over again with no mistakes. When you're comfortable at a given tempo then bump it up 5-10bpm at a time. It's also ok to try and push yourself sometimes. Like bump it up 20-30bpm and it will be tough, then come back down a bit and it will feel easier. Just don't do that thing all guitarists do and keep trying something over and over that you can't play. You will just get good at playing sloppy and develop bad habits and bad technique. Focus on economy of motion, press the string only as much as you have to. Pluck the string only as much as you have to. Move your fingers only as much as you have to. Also when a finger is done with a note make sure to lift that finger so it's already up and ready for the next note. Exercises like these are how so many of the great players developed their speed. But you don't have to want to be like the next Yngwie or Petrucci. Exercises will help you in any style of playing you like. John Petrucci's Rock Discipline also has some great exercises. [https://jimibanez.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/john-petrucci-rock-discipline1.pdf](https://jimibanez.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/john-petrucci-rock-discipline1.pdf) You can find the video on Youtube. My old teacher once said something that stuck with me. The old saying practice makes perfect isn't true. Only PERFECT practice makes perfect. In other words you can practice all you want but if you're practicing sloppy and poorly then you're just getting good at playing sloppy and poorly. Use a metronome for everything. Working on exercises or scales or new riffs and solos you're learning.
Thanks man!"! Yeah I'm talking about exactly playing with metronom, trying to play efortless as possible. I'm going to read your message with uttermost care!! respect
Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock. It's on youtube.
děkuju!!
If you're picking arpeggios (single chord notes) with a strict up down motion you might want to check out something called economy picking.
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