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#204 - How To Build Guitar Speed FAST + ALTERNATE PICKING MASTERCLASS (Patreon)

Published:
2021-12-07 15:01:02
Edited:
2021-12-08 17:10:44
Imported:
2022-02

Content

It's practice time! We focused on a lot of technique explanations and tricks lately, now it's finally time to put it all into action. This workout routine is perfect for building control and speed with your alternate picking, especially when it comes to string transitions :)

I also made an Alternate Picking Masterclass for you, the next course package - here are all your files (instructionals, video play-alongs, backing tracks, tabs, guitar pro): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BcrraeVlwEblQI8feWODYFY5yywkvksD?usp=sharing

As always, you can find the files for the workout challenge in the final folder! Hope you have tons of fun with this, happy shredding :)

P.S.: Here's a Dropbox link for the course as well: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/128necthldbj7ug/AADarR9YUtl2-qs-cxNy0hyba?dl=0

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How To Build Guitar Speed FAST (Just Practice THIS!)

Let's work on picking technique today! Get my brand new Alternate Picking Masterclass here: https://www.patreon.com/bernth In this video, I want to show you an amazing alternate picking workout that will greatly improve your speed. We start at 50BPM and move all the way to 160BPM in 12 levels - can you complete my alternate picking challenge? Don't forget to get the full masterclass on Patreon, this will help you a lot with getting there faster :) Subscribe because you will miss videos otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/bernthguitar​ Get my new album ELEVATION: https://bernth.myshopify.com/ Stream ELEVATION on your favorite platform: https://fanlink.to/gxsY 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 Workout Explanation 01:51 Workout START Thanks so much to all my Patrons for making these videos possible! #bernth #guitar​​​​​​​​​ #guitarlesson What awaits you in this video: alternate picking, guitar picking, picking technique guitar, guitar workout, guitar picking exercises, guitar exercises, guitar alternate picking, guitar practice routine, guitar play-along, bernth, guitar technique, and much more :)

Comments

Anonymous

This course has really helped me with my picking. I have taken a bit over two months on it. Now I'm about to start with the final stage. I've also switched up my picking grip. At first I was really struggling with my left and right had syncing with this new grip. But now I am playing a lot faster than I have been able to in all the years I've been playing guitar. I really want to play death metal and this was the key to it. I can't quite get all the exercises to that 100% speed. But I have noticed that I can play some of the death metal songs I've learnt a lot better. Thanks a million. ❤️

Anonymous

My brain seems wired to do the day 11-15 exercise with inside vs. outside picking - I can very easily keep up with the fastest play-along with an upstroke on the first note and a downstroke on the fourth. (It's frustrating because I switch to inside without meaning to :/) But when I focus on maintaining outside picking I definitely encounter a lower 'speed limit.' So now I'm treating it as an 'outside picking' exercise. Is that the intent?

Anonymous

This course has been a regular part of my practice routine as well as a hand full of others here and I've never made this much progress in such a short amount of time.

Anonymous

Hey all wonder if anyone could give me some tips here, I am pretty new to guitar (few months in of serious practice). I am 2 weeks into this masterclass right now. I hover around 100 bpm peak with the first workout and 90 bpm peak with the second workout at the moment... I am wondering if I should spend another week on workout set number 2 or would it be ok to move to the third and circle back later? It feels like my main challenge is keeping up with the fretting hand vs the actual picking technique since if I just use open strings I can get 10-15 bpm faster pretty consistently if that makes a difference.

Anonymous
>>109579428

I'm in a similar boat and I've just been moving on and then revisiting the older exercises occasionally and I'm still getting faster despite not explicitly practicing exercise 1 for example. Can't definitively say that this is the "right" way to be doing things, but I personally prefer to go until I plateau, throw something new at my hands and take it from there.

Anonymous

11.6.23: 70 BPM

Anonymous

14.6.23 80 BPM

Anonymous

19.6.23 90 bpm

Anonymous

90 bpm

Anonymous

28.6.23 90 bpm

Anonymous

06/26/23 90 BPM was a little sloppy, 100 BPM was bad

Anonymous

06/27/23 110 BPM a little sloppy, 120 rough (less so than 100 was on day 1]

Anonymous

06/28/23 120 reasonably clean, 130 rough (but again, less so than 120 was on day 2)

Anonymous
>>111771658

For reference, I majored in music (voice) in college almost 20 years ago, but my guitar playing has always been self taught and I've learned primarily from choosing a new song, learning it and then applying those techniques to my own playing, which I think is pretty common. But this is the first exercise I have actually practiced in my 23 years of guitar playing. I'm also going to start the fretboard visualization masterclass today and do 30 mins/day on each masterclass. I think my substantial classical training (even as far removed as I am) has helped me to improvise well enough in the past, but I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I have never bothered to apply even basic music theory to the guitar. Just plugging in and ripping. Already playing faster than I expected 3 days in

Anonymous

06/29/23, made it to 140 BPM relatively clean. 150 rough, pick hand is there but hands weren't in sync.

Anonymous

should my wrist be making a chopping motion, or more of a twisting while picking?

Anonymous

I am at 7 days and at on 105 somewhat clean. I fumble it when picking the high e string back to the b string, seems i double pic if i ply it at 115. Keeping a positive outlook though as i have seen improvement though

Anonymous

This is the hardest exercise possible to speed up I have ever done. 140 Bpm now. A bit like flight of the bumblebee. Great exercise.

Anonymous

Omg. It took me almost two weeks to hit 100 bpm. It took me almost a week to touch 50. Now I'm confident I can hit 150. I only wish this exercise was a bit musical :P

Anonymous

When doing the 30 day course, how should I practise those excercises ? Because one playalong has 3 minutes and I am supposed to train 20-30 minutes a day. Should I just play it over and over again or is there some different method ? Anyways, this patreon is the best spend money in my life. <3

Anonymous
>>126162478

You slowly try to increase your tempo on that one workout and he recommends 20-30 minutes a day of practice. Good luck practicing.

Anonymous

Should I combine the 30 Day Master Class with the Theory from #200 Switching the Picking Angle? Because the Exercises from the Masterclass seems to have a slower Tempo for the Beginning

Anonymous

Cool! I am actually working on #173. Are they similar in topics covered or should I complete 173 first and then move on to 204? Or do both in parallel? :)

Anonymous
>>73258630

Yes, I was wondering the exact same thing. I am working on #173 also. ?

Anonymous

Me - wakeup, make coffee, sit to watch new Bernth video, unable to find new line command 🤟🏻

Anonymous

Omg omg omg! 😩 *Adding to playlist*

Anonymous

Danke schön!

Anonymous

Happy noises ;)

Anonymous

07.12.2021 start :D

Anonymous

7/12/2012: Start! Starts to get difficult at 70BPM as the pattern is not in my fingers yet... Curious to see how far we'll get in 30 days! @bernth, I just read your advice here about better doing one package at a time... I should have had this advice 2 weeks ago, as I'm now working on #173 (Picking Workout), #178 (Sweep Picking), #184 (Legato Course) and #191 (Hand synchronization) ... I'm practicing about 2-3 hours per day and spending +/- 20 minutes for each 30-day-workout. My wife is getting crazy (I'm at day 12), but I feel that it's paying off already! Tnx for the extra course ;-)

Anonymous
>>73286263

This is me a few months ago. Not this many but I did have 3 running courses at one point. I switched to a max of 2 and only if I'm in the last 2 weeks of one of them but I only have 1-2 hours max and not every day available. Appease the wife though! No sense in alienating your biggest fan ;)

Anonymous

Day 1 12/7/21 - started at 30 bpm to learn it, worked up to 62 bpm in 1/2 hour practice.

Anonymous

Day 1 - 70 bpm (the biggest problem is remembering the lick... :D )

Anonymous

Looking forward to getting started on this exercise tomorrow after work!

Anonymous

08.12.2021: 110 bpm. Bah, that's exactly where the problems with #70 (Mid Tempo) arise. But i think here the string transitions are easier and more fluid. I'll see where I'll go :-)

Andreas Urban

Thanks Bernth, this class is exactly what I am looking for! :)

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, any chance for a Dropbox Link, Google drive doesn't work for me :-( many thanks in advance :-)

Anonymous

stopped at 80bpm for today, can go faster but it's not clean and my middle/ring run together, so it ends being the same note some of the time. Expect to get 100 clean tomorrow

Anonymous

Day 2 12/8/21: 62 to 79 bpm (couldn't quite get 80 bpm 100% clean) in 1/2 hour practice. I can predict my upcoming struggles: 1) the turn-around descending part; my left hand isn't as fast descending (pinky, ring, middle, index). . . yet 2) My fastest clean 16th notes picking (just right hand) is about 140. I'll be happy if I can raise that, though!

Anonymous

Bernth, you've done it again! This course is going to be fun and I'm sure challenging. I haven't been able to keep up with your posts lately but I'm excited to be able to tackle this with everyone. Day 1 I'm with you at 150bpm but a little sloppy at times. I'll tighten that up this week.

bernth
>>73365243

Awesome thanks for sharing this David! Killer results for day 1, congratulations :)

Anonymous

Do you have any advice where to position your left elbow? I feel like that makes a big difference on how you position your fingers on the freboard and I'm finding keeping my elbow closer to my body seems to help, especially on the higher frets.

Anonymous

the slow tempo is too hard and i haven't even had a go yet haha

Anonymous

Day 3 12/9/21: 75 bpm to 80 bpm in 1/2 hour practice Actually having trouble today with the B -&gt; G string on the descent. I maybe wore myself out jumping back to 75 and climbing from there. Regardless, I guess I need to isolate that trouble spot and loop it there...? Anyone's thoughts on how they break a sticky spot?

Anonymous

No RGA ? Studio looks well nice brother 🤙🏼

bernth
>>73401444

That's a great question! This is something that comes quite naturally for me, but it would be great to try this out for a video (different positions and the effect on finger technique). Thanks for the great input :)

Anonymous

10/12/21 after going through day 1 to 25 blocks i got this workout up to 100 bpm decent , and playing this has helped tremendously with that damn #167 speed block ....and descending scales( one of my main week spots ) , hand sync ,timing, melodies and everything in between . thanks so much bernth

Anonymous

Edit: just watched the above video. I thought everyone was talking about the masterclass. 😆🤦‍♂️Forgot to comment yesterday. 110 bpm for day 2. I find my pinkie finger tends to hit the high e string when coming back down the runs. More noticeable when using distortion/gain on my tone.

Anonymous
>>73473554

OK. so doing the actual exercise in the video, put some time into it and got some clean 90bpm runs!

Anonymous

Day 4 12/10/21: 79 bpm to 87 bpm (1/2 hour practice) Interesting...my trouble spot was not the B-&gt;G turnaround today, but now I'm getting to my descending speed trouble spot. I did crash and burn a few times and would just 'restart' the lick cycle (using Guitar Pro), but I was quite surprised and happy that I walked up to 87 bpm. Now I'm on to some other excercises...

Anonymous

Day 5 12/10/21: 85 bpm to 95 bpm (1/2 hour practice) I found if I focus on my technique (left or right hand), I stumbled a lot. If I just focus on 'the piece' and 'let it play', I do much better. At 95, I am lagging just a bit - it sounds like two instruments when I play with GP; at slower speeds, it sounds like just me playing along.

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, I've just joined your Patreon community. I'm super happy to have discovered it as its exactly what I've been looking for to help improve my shred guitar playing skills. I love the play-along workouts. Anyways, I'm on day two of the alternate picking master class and I've noticed that I tend to lift my fretted fingers really high above the fret board when playing sometimes. Where as, observing you playing in the video, your fingers don't seem to move up and down very much at all. Is this something I should be trying to do as well? Do you have any tips to help do this?

bernth
>>73558053

Hey Nathan, welcome to our community! :) Great to have you here. Yes, economy of motion is very important for building speed, this will really help you out! Here's something to get you started right away: https://www.patreon.com/posts/161-this-is-why-49190212

Anonymous

Day 5 12/11/21: 85 bpm to 95 bpm Was feeling good a couple of days ago and managed to feel comfortable up to 95 bpm. 12/12/21 was band rehearsal day, so 4 hours playing set list songs. Day 6 12/13/21: 90 bpm only Today was rough. My left forearm is just fatigued from all the playing over the last week. I guess that's a good thing, but I wonder if, like lifting weights, I should take a day off from heavy left-hand/arm workouts?

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow

Anonymous

Day 7 12/14/21: 90 bpm to 95 bpm Fatigue in my left hand instead of left forearm today. Just couldn't get 96 clean enough to call it good. Several crash &amp; burns where I had to actually stop the GP loop and start over. 😁

Anonymous

Day 4 for me. Masterclass got up to 130bpm before it got sloppy. Was able to increase the video challenge to 105 and had a couple clean ones in between the messy ones.

Anonymous

Day 8 12/15/21: 93 bpm to 98 bpm Definitely did a bit better by warming up with some other exercises before going into this one. Had some pain in my right hand, so didn't push as much as I would have liked to. I sure hope I'm not stuck with sub-100 bpm speeds, though!

Anonymous

Day 5 - no metronome. Just sat drilling the masterclass and the video challenge while watching tv with my wife. Felt faster than day 4 though.

Anonymous

Day 9 12/16/21: 98 bpm to 100 bpm Focusing on going over the first bar, then the first two bars, I could hit 100 bpm cleanly. I was able to go through one cycle of the exercise cleanly (i.e. 1/2 of the exercise) at 100 bpm, then crashed and burned with some pain in my left hand. Figured I'd better call it there.

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow ... Day 4 - 120 bpm, now I feel comfortable and clean at this rate, will push harder on the exercises to reach 140 next week

Anonymous

Day 10 12/17/21: 100 bpm - 101 bpm Just stuck with 100, then 101 bpm for the 20 min or so practice on this. I should be able to pop up to 102 tomorrow, I think. Honestly, one bpm increase per day is where I am, it seems. And some days are better than others.

Anonymous

Day 6, worked on exercise 2 in the master class for a while, comfortable at 100 bpm. Did the video challenge at 100 for a while but my fingers were definitely tired

Anonymous

The second bar always throws me off. The speed isn't the main problem for me (at least, I could go up 20 bpm) but I'm stumbling at the repeated notes. Arguably, this is me not being confident in the melody or not being fluent enough, but I'll get there.

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, I noticed one thing in the Masterclass Lessons: In Day 11-15, the "Cover Slides" of the Exercises say 50, 100 and 150bpm, while the file names (and the actual BPM in the Videos) are 50, 80 and 100bpm ;-) ...and i was wondering why I had such issues with the 2nd Level with just a metronome :D

Anonymous

day 3 120bpm. where can i find the alternate picking master class?

Anonymous
>>73974017

Yep, I know what you mean. Keep at it, of course! One thing I did was isolate that section with a loop and just played it (slowly) over and over until my hands were in sync and I didn't have to 'think' about playing it.

Anonymous

Day 11 12/21/21: 95 bpm Took a couple days off from the challenge riff and ended up taking a big step backwards. My left hand "pinky muscle" is so tight and on-fire (in a bad way), so I'm just calling it good with this exercise for today. :(

bernth
>>74119124

Thanks for asking Karlo, the link is in the post above (either Google Drive or Dropbox, what works best for you)! Hope this helps :)

Anonymous

Day 12 12/22/21: 95 bpm - 101 bpm Back up to 101 bpm today; did drills of the first two measures up to 103 clean and 104 'almost'. :) No pain in the left hand today! I started with Bernth's "Finger Independece Exercise", which is a legato exercise designed to help create a lighter grip and keep the thumb moving with the hand up the neck. It's a great warm up for this challenge!

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow ... Day 4 - 120 bpm, now I feel comfortable and clean at this rate, will push harder on the exercises to reach 140 next week ... Day 8 - 130 bpm, it is cleaner now but still struggle with the alternate picking motion at 140 or higher.

Anonymous

Day 1 12/7/21 @ 62 bpm ... Day 13 12/23/21: 100 bpm - 101 bpm Still can't break 101, but could hit 103 for first two measures. One day I'll break 101, I just know it! 😆

Anonymous

Day 14 12/24/21: 100 bpm - 103 bpm Despite some pain in my left hand (pinky muscle), I was pretty happy with a couple of runs at 103 bpm. Gee...this practicing something everyday just might work...hopefully I won't see a squirrel... 😁

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow ... Day 4 - 120 bpm, now I feel comfortable and clean at this rate, will push harder on the exercises to reach 140 next week ... Day 8 - 130 bpm, it is cleaner now but still struggle with the alternate picking motion at 140 or higher. ... Day 10 - 140 bpm, now I feel that I can keep it up to this tempo, 150 is at 80-85%, 160 is 60%. I have 2 more weeks to go yet!

Anonymous
>>74340425

You should try doing 5 bpm steps instead of 1, and start from a little below your current bpm, say start with 2 repetitions of 80, then increase to 85 and two more reps, then 90, and so on, pushing as far as you can still getting 70-80% of accuracy. For the pain, you should relax your hands and fingers the most that you can (use the lower bpms reps to train your hand to stay relax, minimize the motion) and keep that will increasing bpms. You should notice a faster progress.

Anonymous

Hi Maestro Bernth you save me life, with this routine program, now i can say that i found the best guitar tutor in the world!!! Again thank you soooo much

Anonymous

Day 15 12/26/21: 99 bpm So, I backed up a little and will stay at 99 bpm until it's clean, fluid, and relaxed. Thanks, José!

Anonymous

The tabs on the video playthroughs have the picking pattern, maybe I'm being too picky, but sometimes I just play the PDF along with a metronome. It would be nice if the PDFs had the upstroke/downstroke noted on them please!

Anonymous

Day 16 12/27/21: 90 bpm - 95 bpm Rather off day with right-hand/left-hand coordination. I did a few bouts at 100, but not very clean.

Anonymous

Day 7 - holidays got in the way. I'm clean on part 2 of masterclass and the video challenge at 100, beyond that is sloppy. Got my booster today so I'm also tired.

Anonymous

Day 17 12/28/21: 95 bpm - 100 bpm I feel like a broken record here, but my 100bpm is getting quite clean and relaxed...almost, but not how I want it, yet. And no pain today! Woot!

Anonymous

I'm on day 11-15, and I notice my picking pattern changing once I get to 70bpm. I'm ending on a downstroke because I hit a double upstroke switching from the G string to the D string. I do that to keep up with the speed. I can play it consistently and cleanly at speed. It's been really frustrating to try to fix. Do I need to keep working at it or is it ok to play it like that? Its driving me nuts

Anonymous
>>74585273

I'm a little torn with my opinion, to be honest. That's a great question. On one hand, the point of the exercise is to practice alt picking and string transitions. Thinking of it that way, I've been trying to practice strict alt picking throughout. However, the other point of the exercise is to play fast, so if a different picking technique (other than legato, I suppose) gets you through the exercise, I see nothing wrong with that!

Anonymous

Day 18 12/29/21: 95 bpm - 105 bpm Finally a jump in speed! I finally felt quite comfortable with 100, so I bumped to 105. Lo and behold, I can play it 'fairly' cleanly 2 times through the exercise (i.e. 4 times through the run). VERY happy to see this progress! I still have 12 more days to strive for 160...

Anonymous

Great content Bernth! I've been keeping a log of my BPM maxes on all excercizes. We need an app to track progress and see where other people are compared to us. Take a look at StrengthLevel.com I would be this but with guitar excercizes.

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow ... Day 4 - 120 bpm, now I feel comfortable and clean at this rate, will push harder on the exercises to reach 140 next week ... Day 8 - 130 bpm, it is cleaner now but still struggle with the alternate picking motion at 140 or higher. ... Day 10 - 140 bpm, now I feel that I can keep it up to this tempo, 150 is at 80-85%, 160 is 60%. I have 2 more weeks to go yet! ... Day 16 - 150 bpm, I got it in a 95% and the lower bpms now feel cleaner, I hope to get 160 next week

Anonymous

Day 19 01/04/22: 100 bpm - 105 bpm Back at it today; didn't lose anything over my short break (and I still played every day, but for a couple). Dipped my toe at 110 and was surprisingly close!

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow ... Day 4 - 120 bpm, now I feel comfortable and clean at this rate, will push harder on the exercises to reach 140 next week ... Day 8 - 130 bpm, it is cleaner now but still struggle with the alternate picking motion at 140 or higher. ... Day 10 - 140 bpm, now I feel that I can keep it up to this tempo, 150 is at 80-85%, 160 is 60%. I have 2 more weeks to go yet! ... Day 16 - 150 bpm, I got it in a 95% and the lower bpms now feel cleaner, I hope to get 160 next week ... Day 19 - 150 bpm, reaching 160 at fairly 80%

Anonymous

Day 20 01/06/22: 105 bpm - 110 bpm Started working at 110 today. Not very clean, but that's what the practice is for!

Anonymous

Just joined the community and this is the first one that I starting with. I've played for a long time, but am not a shredder. I can tremolo pick cleanly as fast as I need, but I'm pretty certain at the end of the 30 days I'll be in the group of those stuck around 120 BPM on exercises like this, so looking on recommendations for my approach. Once I finish should I just start over and repeat the 30 days over and over until I am at a target speed, or switch to something else and come back later? What should be the goal before moving on? The thing I am a bit worried about if switching things around is being able to do all of the classes, but not being where I want to be with any of them, or being stuck on one of them for all eternity. What would you recommend?

Anonymous
>>75177524

Welcome Joe! Great questions...I'll be in your same boat. I'll be happy if I even hit 120 in my next 9 sessions. I hope some folks pipe in!

Anonymous

Day 21 01/07/22: 105 bpm - 110 bpm Not a great day. Let's just say that.

Robert Swanson

Day 1 - 100 Day 5 - 120 Day 6 - 84 Day 10 - 104 Day 11 - 55 Day 15 - 72 Day 16 - 50

Anonymous

At every bpm i have problems on the way back with the accuracy and of pinky and second finger grrrrrr also still truying to place my thumb in the middle of the neck which gives me other issues and the best way of picking (pick placement between my thumb and index) to be as accurate as possible, even at 50 bpm...

Anonymous

This exercise made me realize where I lose it. I've found that as the tempo increases, picking hand technique is the staple. I think my hand tries to compensate by moving my thumb and pointer finger and consequently change the picking angle and it kills the consistency needed to maintain that speed. Gotta really focus on keeping the right hand technique the same in every tempo

Anonymous

Day 22 01/09/22: 100 bpm - 110 bpm Mainly worked at 110, including just some drills to sync left and right hand. No pain today, which is nice!

Anonymous
>>75317628

I hear that! I've been working on my pinky/ring finger technique and pick placement as well. Concentrated practice is really helping though! I started at a sloppy 62 bpm and am almost comfortable at 110.

Anonymous
>>75317683

Yep - the faster I try to go, the more spastic both left and right hand techniques become. I did some drills today to focus on left/right consistent synchronization.

Anonymous

Phew.... don't know what day I am at since I took a guitar and sports break during holiday time... something between 16 und 20 it should be (as said with a break, a little over a week long) My biggest problem is, by far, getting the fretting fingers to the right notes at "higher" tempos. Indeed it's not too common to get this straight and right even at the first bpm takes. Just because my finger don't seem to like the way they have to fred here... curse you, you not well functioning muscle memory of mine! The best run I barely managed to get at least one line (without the repitition) is around 90/100 bpm. Everything above really seems totally impossible and my fretting hand is losing more and more touch.

Anonymous

Day 23 01/10/22: 105 bpm - 110 bpm 110 is cleaning up, but nowhere near ready to try 115. Still too tense and spastic at 110.

Anonymous

Day 24 01/11/22: 105 bpm - 110 bpm 1/2 a step back today, but focused drills on pieces of it to clean it up at 110.

Anonymous

Day 1 - 120Bpm Day 5 - 150 Bpm Day 6 - 122 Bpm Day 8 - 134 Bpm Day 10 - 139 Bpm Day 11 - 75 Bpm Day 15 - 84 Bpm Day 16 - 92 Bpm Day 20 - 114 Bpm Day 21 - 102 Bpm

Anonymous
>>74046328

This got me at first too lol I put the click up to 150 just to see and thought damn that’s fast! I need to hear it and then I heard the video click and was like waiiiitttg a minute! That’s not 150 lol!

Anonymous

Do the mp3 files have DRM? I’m trying to use them on the Boss pocket GT. the browser won’t show the files in it file browser

Anonymous

Day 1 - 100 bpm, feels comfortable to this level, will try to hit 120 tomorrow ... Day 4 - 120 bpm, now I feel comfortable and clean at this rate, will push harder on the exercises to reach 140 next week ... Day 8 - 130 bpm, it is cleaner now but still struggle with the alternate picking motion at 140 or higher. ... Day 10 - 140 bpm, now I feel that I can keep it up to this tempo, 150 is at 80-85%, 160 is 60%. I have 2 more weeks to go yet! ... Day 16 - 150 bpm, I got it in a 95% and the lower bpms now feel cleaner, I hope to get 160 next week ... Day 30 - 160 bpm, Finally got to this level!!!, took me several tries and warm a lot before, but for now I feel satisfied.

Anonymous

Hi bernth. At exercise 3 i always fall into the economy picking at the string transition. So the next "package" i start with an downstroke. i have no problem with it, but its not like the requirement. is that a problem?

Anonymous

Bernth this I have to say... After little over a year being subscribed here and even started months before that training my guitar skills with great lessons of yours on a dedicated and regular, nearly daily basis but barely noticing any real progression in my overall skills sadly, I believe that THIS exercise, especially the day 21-25 section finaly helped my playing - at least picking and fretting hand wise. I am still a little frustrated seeing so many great guitar players rising in such a short time of their training compared to myself, but now I feel like making progress again... just a little... way to little after that long time of training though... but now I can feel a little breath of hope again for me and my skills. It may be not much, not nearly as much as I hoped for to be honest, but still! It is a good feeling. Thank you for that :)

Anonymous

oh man these BPM jumps on the exercises are huge!

Anonymous

Does any one success with the 150BPM? I'm stuck at 115BPM xD this wall is annoying lol

Anonymous

I reached 140 yesterday!!

Anonymous

I just started Day 1-5, but it seems this works out my left hand more than my right hand. Even at 120 BPM, my arm and hand are on fire after only a few runs. I've always avoided playing solos near the nut because I have short fingers, and it was more difficult to play there. Hopefully these exercises fix that.

Anonymous

so, 4 weeks of work and go until 150 but here´s a real f*** up breaking point

Anonymous

9 15 22 120 bpm then my fingers get all tied up

Anonymous

I was posting this daily on youtube but here is better because it's more active. This is my current progress. DAY 1: Less that 50bpm (Learning pattern) DAY 2: Managed to play 70bpm Perfectly once. DAY 3: Managed to play 80bpm Perfectly once. DAY 4: Managed to play 110bpm Perfectly once. DAY 5: Can play 100bpm a lot easier. Managed 110bpm a few times. These 5 days I focused on my left hand control. *going slow, leaving enough space between each note to execute the following: Relaxed all fingers&gt; press the one finger on the fret with the rest relaxed&gt; relax that finger again back to relaxed state&gt; press next finger in sequence...and so on. 120BPM is still too fast to play in an accurate and synchronized manner. DAY 6: 100bpm is easy now. Stuck at 110bpm. (I changed my picking technique to elbow since I can play much faster. I already have the picking speed for it from the elbow, but can't do both hands at the same time. so I focused today on my right hand picking and managed to play 120bpm once but wasn't clean or controlled. DAY 7: 100 and 110bpm is hard from the elbow but manageable - Working on technique. DAY 8: Focused on other Exercises today DAY 9: Almost achieved a perfect 120bpm DAY 10: Today I chose to ignore my fretting hand and focused only on my picking - specifically isolated wrist picking with elbow and forearm almost dead relaxed. My picking speed limit from my wrist was actually below 120bpm (112bpm) and I used to unconsciously incorporate my elbow to compensate, creating a change in technique to one that I haven't broken down intentionally for conscious control. (Foreign variables). In training my wrist picking control and top speed, I noticed that I couldn't even play the exercises as accurately as with my fretting hand joining. So I got to work on learning the exercise with my picking hand alone and found a domain with plenty of room for improvement. I could feel picking becoming independent, faster, and more relaxed. I can feel 120bpm coming! 😍 I will reach it in "Day 13" DAY 11: A breakthrough! so much practice... I'm dead. Hours.... hours of practice. I almost did a perfect 120bpm. I'm too tired to explain the ridiculously elaborate strategies I used today to improve my fretting hand accuracy. DAY 12: Almost a Crispy 120bpm! Focused on strengthening my fretting hand - squeezing hard on individual finger positions for strength. This was by far the most effective exercise. My finger felt nimble afterward. Weekend Break (2 days off) DAY 13: well.... I pulled off the perfect 120bpm... :D and not only that.. I almost got a 130bpm. (today I focused only on my picking technique. specifically the string tracking motion using my lats and shoulders for a sawing motion.) I am a LEGEND! 1 Week BREAK--------------- DAY 14: practiced it today but it was a bit sloppy. DAY 15: can do 120bpm but it's not always perfect and it requires a lot of focus. DAY 16: Got my guitar back from the shop getting serviced. Did perfect 120bpm's with little effort. AND managed to get a perfect 130bpm! (Super surprised) DAY 17: I'm a GOD! I almost got a Perfect 140bpm and 130bpm felt easy. (I'm So grateful and so SHOCKED. I had set 140bpm as my 2-month realistic goal. I never thought I'd reach this speed, let alone 5 days after reaching my big goal of 120bpm! whatever I'm doing, it's working)

Anonymous

This is unfortunate... I only just found the link to the instructional videos -_- ... I've been practicing daily without direction LOL! Will definitely try them tomorrow.

Anonymous

Took me the first day just recognising the pattern, found myself needing to focus intensely to get it right every-time but I assume it will come, at 70BPM on day two and managing.

Anonymous

Got to day 11-15, and Bernth said something interesting... "You're not going to get there by playing 2 bmp faster every day" or something like that. I'm like what? How else will I get there? Can anyone shed some light here? Sure in the beginning I'm building muscle memory and improve quickly, but then I start plateuing and can only push about 2-3bpm more each day.

bernth
>>92700172

Great question, I tried my best to answer it here - hope it helps: https://www.patreon.com/posts/167-extreme-in-5-50839230

Anonymous

Felt the same, but as Bernth said pick 3 different courses don't just focus on trying to perfect one as each technique intertwines and strengthens each other, spend about 15 minutes on one move on have to break. you'll find that over time it will just enhance on its own and start to feel natural, you won't actually notice but one of the days you'll try it and be blown away that you achieved it, it's all about patience and building the muscle.

Anonymous

This is the first course I completed after joining recently. I've made significant progress. All of the exercises tie in nicely to one another. Day 16-20 was also very helpful in strengthening my ring and pinky finger.

Anonymous

Hey Bernth, I love this but I'm getting really stuck on the first exercise. I can play all of the exercises fast, but I know you focus on CLEAN playing. On the first exercise when I hit the single note on the E string, and I come back down to play the 4 notes on the B string again, I constantly tap the E String with the pick and cause a scratchy sound. I do a downstroke on the E string, but that means I have to come back up and... over? the E string to get to the B string again? It makes the whole riff sound sloppy when I scratch the E string on accident. I can't find anything on advice or how to fix this. Any help?

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, Been practicing this for a few weeks now and seem to have gotten stuck on the final challenge at 100BPM. It feels like my fretting hand can no longer keep up with my picking hand and starts to tense up. Any Advice?

bernth
>>95723122

I really hope this will help: https://www.patreon.com/posts/167-extreme-in-5-50839230 Aside from that, the best way to improve is posting practice footage in the VIP Facebook group, it's hard to give feedback when I don't see you playing :)