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#200 - You're Probably Using The WRONG Picking Angle! (Patreon)

Published:
2021-11-10 18:19:39
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2021-11-10 18:20:13
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2021-11

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200 episodes in - and we're STILL barely getting started :) You guys and girls voted for the topic of string transitions with fast alternate picking, so I'm happy to deliver one of my favorite lessons ever today!

Get all your practice files here (backing tracks with/without guitar, video play-alongs, tabs, guitar pro files): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aNZWLxcGjnw_o9WaWb6CAlX6T6xJ8xrc?usp=sharing

The special twist with today's lesson starts with licks 3 & 4 - the first time we look into licks and exercises that force you to switch between picking angles at high tempos! This is a huge challenge so please make sure to take it slow with the practice files. I'd love to explore this some more, let's see how the future lesson votings go!

Since we reached this special milestone today, I also wanted to say THANK YOU! All this wouldn't be possible without all of you and your support means the world to me. Let's do another 200 of these :)


P.S.: Here's a Dropbox file in case Google Drive doesn't work for you: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ezvrqpktxxwrdsd/AABzKwyeXpVMIIO4tpJI9BTMa?dl=0

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You're Probably Using The WRONG Picking Angle!

Are you making THIS guitar technique mistake? Get your tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks, and video play-alongs for today's workouts here: https://www.patreon.com/bernth Using the right picking angle makes a huge difference with your alternate picking! It will help you with mastering string transitions and with speeding up your playing :) Make sure to get your practice files on Patreon to start working on this! Subscribe because you will miss videos otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/bernthguitar​ Get my new album ELEVATION: https://bernth.myshopify.com/ Here are the links to the Toontrack products, thanks to the guys over there for giving them to me for the videos: https://www.toontrack.com/holiday-sales/ https://www.toontrack.com/product/ezdrummer-2/ https://www.toontrack.com/product/ezbass/ https://www.toontrack.com/product/ezmix-2/ My 10-week online guitar courses '10 Steps to Modern Shredding' and 'Sweep Picking Masterclass' can be purchased here: http://bernth.at/ Get the YouTube merch here: https://teespring.com/stores/bernth Instagram: https://instagram.com/bernthofficial Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bernthofficial 00:00 Intro 01:08 Mastering Both Angles 01:32 Lick #1 02:42 Backing Track #1 04:02 Lick #2 04:45 Backing Track #2 06:48 Lick #3 08:31 Backing Track #3 10:08 Lick #4 11:13 Backing Track #4 12:15 How To Start Practicing Thanks so much to all my Patrons for making these videos possible! #bernth #guitar​​​​​​​​​ #guitarlesson What awaits you in this video: guitar, electric guitar, guitar lesson, guitar tutorial, guitar exercises, guitar practice, guitar practice routine, alternate picking, string transitions, guitar speed, guitar picking lesson, guitar picking technique, metal guitar lesson, and much more :)

Comments

Anonymous

I love the lesson! But what angles do you use when descending?

Anonymous

You read my mind man

Anonymous

bernth you seriusly read my mind. I was thinking about it today

Anonymous

Absolutly amazing video! I can´t imagine the amout of time you spent to make such a perfect tutorial. It helped me understand some mistakes I do that prevent me of getting faster and cleaner. Thanks!

Anonymous

#200. What an achievement! Thank you for 200 great lessons.

Anonymous

#200 🎉🎉🎉 With a really tasty topics, Thanks a lot for all these course Bernth, you are the most carefully people that I know. You realy share your maximum and it's realy cool. 🎉🎉🎉 We did it 🤘

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, your lessons are awesme and this one is not an exception!I downloaded all this lesson files, but it seems that slow playalong of exercise 4 is corrupt

Anonymous

Sauber und sehr ausführlich erklärt. Echt super. Genau was ich gesucht habe dieses Thema wird sonst kaum angesprochen

Anonymous

The 2nd most important thing I learned after taking up the electric guitar again. I actually learned about these things from another resource roughly one year ago and it really changed my way of playing (and finally helped me speeding up a bit). One question remains: was this common knowledge back in the 90s? None of my guitar playing friends nor my teacher ever talked about this then. My strong impression is, that some people figured this out or did it intuitively, but nobody talked about it. Are here any other "old guys/gals" who might share their memories?

Anonymous

Fantastic lesson Bernth, congratulations on #200 lesson.

Anonymous

Can't wait to try these. I wish a company would send you an 8 string multiscale so you could do some tutorials on picking angles on the 8th string. It's very different then on a 6 or even a 7. Thank you for making such great content, Bernth. It's helped me tremendously, like you're psychic even. Every week, it's like you know exactly what I plan to address.

Anonymous

Ich habe auf dein Monitor „kein Objekt ausgewählt“ das würde ein großartiger band Name sei! Great lesson! I’ve had trouble with string switching, particularly fast switching and switching more than one string. This should help! Congrats on 200! Here’s to 200 more!

Anonymous

Kein Objekt ausgewählt gesehen. Mein Fehler 🤦‍♂️

Anonymous

I love how you can watch the white flakes of plastic "shred" off of the pick and accumulate on the black guitar body! 🤘

bernth
>>71566165

Thanks so much for letting me know Andrea, I replaced it in both folders :)

Anonymous

this lesson is a game-changer for me, really appreciate it!

Anonymous

Thank you master!

Anonymous

Awesome 🤩!

Anonymous

Great stuff. Although oddly enough...with all these picking exercises I've noticed that when we move around the neck quickly my thumb placement is not following as quickly and slowing me down on these. Maybe another video in the future?

Anonymous

I'll definitely be around for another 200 episodes!

Anonymous

I have a question I am not an alternate picking guitar player I use economy picking (Always a downstroke when ascending and vice versa) how can I practice this way of holding the pick?

Anonymous

I'll be playing a Harp or shoveling hot coals before I'm ready for the 2nd lesson in this shredding series, but the bit on pick angle is very helpful for this beginner. Danke schön...SAITE.

Anonymous

this is a truly great lesson because not only do you explain the different pickslanting angles and use great videos to illustrate them, you actually offer examples AND show where you make that transition which brings me to my question: when I practice, I often wonder why nobody has yet come up with the idea to somehow indicate the picking angle (what you call angle 1 and 2) or the change of picking angle inside their tabs. I think that would be extremely useful and nobody does it, so how about it? You could simple use 1s and 2s or use italics to indicate when to change picking angIes etc. I am convinced that this would make your lessons even more valuable. It certainly would make my practice routine more efficient. Thank you so much, Oliver

bernth
>>71663435

That's some great input Oliver, thanks for sharing! Something to really think about :)

bernth
>>71650032

Economy picking is an awesome technique as well! I'd love to go into more detail about this, I'll suggest it on the next lesson voting, let's see if I get to do this :)

bernth
>>71617364

Yes, I'd love to go more into thumb placement/position - great topic, thanks for the input! :)

Anonymous

Thanks, I am not a professional musician but my main area of research is deeper learning and deeper practice and of course this affects everything I do like the way I think and go about practicing the guitar. One of the reason I enjoy your channel so much is that you seem to have a similar understanding of deliberate practice, automatization etc. I believe that this maybe the reason your videos are so useful.

Anonymous

Bernth u really rules! This lesson is like gold for me! Thanx a lot!

Anonymous

SAITE!!! Such a good lesson. I think I finally understood and I think this will help a lot. Thanks Bernth!

Anonymous

saite!!

Anonymous

I'm really liking this lesson, it's helping me with my left hand as well. What are amp are you playing through to get such a tight low end? I need to tweak my AX8 high gain patch

bernth
>>71908437

Thanks for asking about that Matt! I'm using the Toontrack EZmix2 plugin on the channel this month :) It's featured a bit more in-depth in the recent home recording course, hope this helps: https://www.patreon.com/posts/199-best-guitar-58253038

Anonymous

Saite!

Anonymous

Ah, what a bummer. When I started playing electric guitar in 1987 I soon found out that switching the picking angle depending on what run I was playing led to great results. But back then I didn't know why and everyone was like "Oh my god, never switch the angle, you need to be like a robot." Well... thanks for sharing, Bernth!

Anonymous

I was struggling with this and didn't even know I was struggling. Thank you so much!

Anonymous

Guys, since this a video about pick angle my question is kind of related, what is the optimal pick angle for sweep picking?? Lately, I've been tinkering with my pick angle a lot while practicing sweeps but I cannot find an angle which would feel natural to me. Any suggestions are welcome :D

bernth
>>74570830

Great question Marco, I'd love to do another sweeping video! I'll add it to the upcoming video topic voting, thanks for the input :)

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, I've watched several of your videos about picking angle but yet I still cannot see the difference between angle 1 and angle 2. I was hoping you could do a more dramatic illustration - is it really the angle of the pick in terms of the direction it is pointing? LIke angle one basically points a little bit toward the neck but angle 2 really points toward the bridge? Maybe I'm just missing what everyone else here can see, but these picking angles just look near identical to me even though I know they are not. If you did a video with a gopro where we got a birds eye view of the picking hand I think it would be easier to visualize and super dopamine.

bernth
>>76123289

I'd love to do more on this, I'll add it to the next lesson voting at the end of the month, let's see how the community decides! :)

Anonymous

I too would also like to see this, look forward to seeing this

Anonymous

Great teaching, thank you!

Anonymous

Should I be able to palm mute in both angles? I suppsoe yes but for angle 2my hand moves away from the high strings