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#206 - TECHNIQUE MISTAKES 89% of Guitarists make & how to fix them! (Patreon)

Published:
2021-12-21 15:01:02
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2022-02

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Today I'd like to talk about one specific technique habit that unlocked playing fast and fluid legato lines for me - it's something I never thought about that much (and we never talked about it so far), but once I paid attention to it, I started to play so much better!

As always, I made some exercises for you that focus on the thumb movement described in the video, here are your practice files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l456ebgKMei9DxpTUQuQ07NNRUFtFsRx?usp=sharing

In addition to these exercises, I can also really recommend revisiting the 30-Day Legato Course over the holidays in case you didn't work on it yet: https://www.patreon.com/posts/184-ultimate-30-54171102

I hope that helps on your journey to 'perfect' guitar technique, happy holidays and see you next week my friends!! :)

P.S.: Here's a Dropbox folder in case Google Drive doesn't work for you: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gekvgi2h6lhbpxu/AABIaT6DxLvkuBWAtjwmw724a?dl=0

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TECHNIQUE MISTAKES 89% of Guitarists make & how to fix them!

Let's work on guitar technique today! Get my 30-Day Legato Course and all your practice files for the lesson here: https://www.patreon.com/bernth In this video, I want to show you some important fretting hand technique mistakes and exercises that will allow you to greatly clean up your legato playing - make sure to check out the latest course on Patreon to learn more about it :) 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 Intro 00:34 Finger Technique Basics 00:58 Exercise #1 01:21 Exercise #2 01:34 Exercise #3 02:40 The Worst Mistake 03:36 Tip #1 04:23 Tip #2 05:31 Exercise #4 06:30 Exercise #5 Thanks so much to all my Patrons for making these videos possible! #bernth #guitar​​​​​​​​​ #guitarlesson What awaits you in this video: legato, guitar technique, hammer on, pull off, guitar exercises, finger exercises guitar, bernth, guitar lesson, and much more :)

Comments

Anonymous

89%. So how do you come up with those numbers?

Anonymous

Wish you, your family and friends all the best for Christmas and the new year

Anonymous

This lesson is nearly tailor made for me! So grateful for this one; christmas came early! :D

Anonymous

As always an excellent lesson Bernth💪Could you please upload a guitarpro file for the exercises🙏Merry Christmas🎄🎁

bernth
>>74126623

Thanks so much for the input Daniel, I just added a file with all exercises in the video to both Dropbox and Google Drive 🤘

Anonymous

You are the best, thx🤘

Anonymous

Hi Bernth, funnily that's exactly what I have issues with in the Legato Workout (currently am on Day 21), but because of my playing position. While standing up, I have to hold my guitars weight with my left hand to prevent it from "sinking" into a horizontal position. And that effectively makes it impossible to have such a light grip. Is there any trick or can you simply not do this while standing, if your guitar is not perfectly balanced? Have you maybe done a video on playing position (standing/sitting) or could you talk about this in the future? :-)

Anonymous

Bernth is a "schlimmer Finger" xD

Anonymous

THUMB CAM! 🥳🥳🤟🏻

Anonymous

without a doubt, it's not the finger, but the thumb! I've been working the 30 day legato, this will be a great transition for me I think!

Anonymous

thanks

bernth
>>74132665

I'd love to, I can put it on the next wishlist/voting for January! :)

Anonymous

Another great lesson with more invaluable tips, Merry Christmas to you Bernth, looking forward to more surprises in 2022. Thanks for all the lessons in 2021.

Anonymous

I don’t know how much this varies person to person but I can feel tension in my hand if my thumb is behind my middle finger. There’s no pain or a lot of tension but an easily noticeable amount. When my thumb is behind my index finger there is zero tension……should I get used to the middle finger slight tension? Or go with behind the index while still retaining proper grip?

Anonymous
>>74188390

Do you perhaps point the thumb slighly sideways normally? I notice that I more often than not end up with my thumb pointing towards the head of the guitar, with most of the thumb flat against the neck, unless actively thinking about it. I think this feels the most normal for me at the moment, just like playing "weirdly" with the pick did earlier too. I then swapped picking style and now my old playing style feels really odd, and I suspect the same will occur with the thumb once I get used to it as well. :)

Anonymous
>>74188390

The biggest downside with my current thumb style is that my finger has too much friction against the neck, making it "difficult" to move it and staying relaxed. So I know what I'm doing wrong, just need to make it second nature. Regarding your pain; Are you using your pinky a lot or mostly the first three fingers? Also - do you anchor your index finger? I found that while doing wider spreads and lifting the index finger it kind of makes more sense to center the thumb behind the hand, otherwise the pressure is uneven and the pinky has to work harder (with possible flying pinky finger to boot) :)

Anonymous

hi Bernth! Did you block me on your youtube channel? Have I written something bad?(( I`m sorry if so

Anonymous
>>74188390

My thumb is actually quite vertical and not pointed toward the headstock. There is also no pain whatsoever I can just feel tension in my hand and forewarn and I position the thumb behind the middle finger where I don’t have any behind the index

Anonymous
>>74188390

I absolutly think the possible thumb position really differs (a lot) from person to person. I myself am having a real hard time when positioning my thumb behind my middle finger. And yea... this even can hurt when staying in that position for too long even if I am focused and relaxed. So I don't try to do this anymore. One of the first things they are telling you is, stop when it hurts and that's it. Also the more I am moving to the higher fretting positions the harder and more hurting it gets to hold my thumb behind my middlefinger. Around the 17th fred it's also just impossible on my guitar to hold the thumb at that position cause the neck is getting thicker. That may differ from guitar to guitar too of course. Indeed I never payed attention to this on other guitars.

Anonymous
>>74188390

Yes definitely guitar to guitar. I have a hagstrom that is more of a “rock n roll” guitar that can’t go too much past day 15-17 with the proper grip but then a Jackson that I can play at the 24th fret with proper grip.

Anonymous

Great video Bernth!!, I would love a string skipping masterclass !! A hug

Anonymous

The legato exercise 1 scale seemed familiar... since i've been practicing it on the Emperor Song "Curse You All Men". I

Anonymous

No tabs with the exercises? Checked all of them but I couldn't find any including pdf-tabs.

Anonymous

Very helpful as allways ! I want to thank you for the mug i use it every day now :)

Anonymous
>>74412872

Howdy - I did see that too. But if you load up the gp5 files into TuxGuitar or Guitar Pro you can then print them out. Hope this helps!

Anonymous
>>74188390

I would say that any pain/discomfort in your hand is not good. If it's something that you feel is holding you back, then Bernth has a FB group you could post a video up to. Also in there's a secret FB group if you're a VIP member as well. A video is much better than trying to explain it and get an answer via text

Anonymous

Awesome! You nailed it with my hand pain! Thanks for solution to monster gripping pains! Now I know how to fix this!

Anonymous

Doing the pull-off snap with my pinky is so uncontrolled and sometimes I even hit the higher string. I guess I'll just have to practice for hours :)

Anonymous

No PDF for this one, Bernth? Tks

Anonymous

Thank you for this video. It turns out my legato was so greatly hampered by my thumb positioning. With proper technique, I am improving so much.