The Spider (Guitar Lesson TE-002) How to play

[kuzco523]

Good Job Just Change The Quality

[VisContigo]

Is this exercise really important when learning fast alternate picking?

[Demoras]

@VisContigo To be fast, you have to be accurate. To be accurate, you have to exercise your right hand, the left hand and syncronizing the two. This exercise is pretty good for that, yeah.

[weblogik]

Justin rules.

[firelord189]

am i the only one who hears an awsome jazz solo when he does this?

[sirgreggins8824]

this is hard but if you really practice is works



[TeoDogueri]

thank you.

your lessons are very helpful.

[tasosdream59]

Justin i think u're sad in this lesson!! :( i'm used to see u smilee!!! come on matee! :D

[5kYz3r]

@Zepp2012 He created the spider CHORD :D not the spider exercise

[Zepp2012]

Doesnt Dave Mustaine of Megadeath use this techique?

[andy70sok]

Very clearly explained as always! Thanks.

[ragdemus]

thank you a much needed lesson, well explained.

[TheEnemyHasB]

Mu-tan!



[Esudao]

nice technique, i 've been playing for a year now and the playing is easy to learn, but it's a neat style for practicing finger accuracy, which you can never have enough of.. so thank you.

[85rickee]

love this exercise and awesome for beginners or even non beginners, ive been playinh awhile and its even helped my technique.

[baaford]

I had a nightmare with that tune in last night, Justin was chasing me with a strat plus screaming TRANSPOSE TRANSPOSE while the spider played in the background. It was like an episode of Sapphire and Steel.

[Chimpaliciousness]

I still don't understand star wars

[ExcretumNecris]

Hi there!

I am a total beginner and not even able to do this workout in a speed half as fast as you do it (when you do it slow!). My question is:

How long will it probably take until I can work through the whole exercise in a speed similiar to yours at 3:15? I practice about an hour a day.

[Escatrax]

@ExcretumNecris

You practise untill you're able to do it.

[Demoras]

@ExcretumNecris Don't think in time frames. That's probably the least important thing to worry about. Just practise this every day and just notice what you need to improve on, and what you have already improved on.

[ExcretumNecris]

@Demoras

Thanks for clearing things up. I am always very critical when it comes to judging my own performance, maybe that's why I lack the patience to just not think about it and practice with a clear mind.

And even if I commented one year ago, this issue is just as recent for me as then. Mainly because of "delays" regarding my health and me concentrating more on drumming.

[Demoras]

@ExcretumNecris Oh yes, I know how you feel. Like you, I'm also incredibly critical about my performance, and I've been kicking myself for quite a while for not knowing my scales. I used to really dislike the idea of having to learn all that, but at some moment I just decided to stop thinking about it and just do it.

In the end it comes down to having to overcome that feeling of (initial) uncomfortableness.

How is your progress with drumming? Drumming's probably the ultimate rhythm exercise!

[ExcretumNecris]

@Demoras

Well, with the drumming I definitely feel more comfortable, but I had more practice there. Don't know how much, but improvements are happening for me. Though I am only practicing finger control at the moment with some slight pattern stuff, etc.

I am aiming for Progressive/Technical Death Metal, so it's going to be a hard way until I reach my goal. But as much as this makes me tremble with despair it also drives me to want to improve :D

[lostpearl95]

master of fingers

[kublewagen61]

I understand the 500+ likes ....I'm guessing the dislikes came from people who hung their heads in shame and gave up trying to do these excersises. Justin, you are the best guitar lessons vid/site I have seen on the net. Thanx for all your help, and keep it up!!!!

[markfly11]

You are one on youtube.com who can teach not only easy and funny

He have very special temper and energy!!!

I playing the guitar 3 years and now i realize that i developed very bad technique and after your explaining i want to make my technique anew ... my right hand is paining when i plaiyng many riffs and solos ... and synchronisation becomes out of rythm ... but i hope and believe that i can change everything after some time doing right exercises !!! Thank you!

[GSVC1985]

Awesome man! You are great! By the way, what guitar is that?? I just loved. Nice sound, and really beautiful!

[petar1987]

this is confusing me :(((

[RockinFool]

Man this is gonna take a while to get down but like justin says. Practice!! I'll get it soon enough :)

[wojtekmetal]

This could be great jazz piece!:) You should place it on your album:)

[TheLPGuitars]

there probably isn't even a jedi!

[Franco55]

i do the spider first thing whenever i pick up my guitar. it's difficult and i hate it. i can really notice how much faster i'm getting though. i can't tell whether i'm alternate picking or economy picking though since i'm so used to economy picking.

[Franco55]

i do the spider first thing whenever i pick up my guitar. it's difficult and i hate it. i can really notice how much faster i'm getting though.

[dreamquarter]

I've been doing this spider thing for about three months now, for at least 6 days a week and it's really helpful. It's crazy how much you can develop your technique by just doing those kinds of exercises 15-20 minutes per day.

Thank you :)

[danbrown4life]

OMG petrucci uses that in "light fuse and get away"

[colemanthesoulman]

I should probably use alternate-picking more. Also, I try weird sounding triads and things similar to this spider exercise often.. but... do you ever play a pattern similar to this in the middle of a song, or while remaining in one key?

[gaara10171]

lol i can do the advance one but not the basic very well lol how awkward is that

[gruvsyco]

Wow, it's a trip to see something I taught myself (and thought I made up) being done by someone else. One of my teachers had me doing exercises which were like E: 5678, A:5678, D:5678, G:5678 B:5678 e:5678 and back using an alternating picking pattern. I started doing this as a variation of that for something different and, at the time I thought sounded kinda like Buckethead (whom I was obsessed with back then). Very Cool!

[HammerCOB]

He uses triplets right?

[aviv1010]

Great lesson. Sounds like Robert Fripp. All this time I thought he was an original thinker, it turns out he was doing finger exercises!

[mark616crnjak]

excellent...great exercise for swap picking...

[personaltip]

Hello Justin. I have one question for you. If I want to be a good accousitc guitar player or a good rythm play do I have to learn the classic guitar. Or what do you think of classic style.

[19stuart73]

really excellent teaching technique and guitar of course :) you are the clearest instructor ive ever found on the net ...

[bumbumeris]

may you're days be merry and bright thanks!

[nabplayer]

Cant you economy pick this?

[renatovcortereal]

Thanks a lot

[ceridawn]

god picky fuckers!!! justins site gives brilliant courses and information for free!!!

[link182ava44]

it sounds so weird haha.

[whynottalklikeapirat]

"everything but particularly this"

[lagunacat]

I agree, I can't find the PDF anywhere on his site

[skibufoons]

Excellent. Only thing that could make it better would be using the term fret hand and picking hand rather than left/right so as not to discriminate against lefties ;-)

[fearnpol]

Christ get a life, discriminate bye saying left or right bloody hell grow up.

[EmberUK]

Fuck up!!!!

[popomczowzow]

the guitarist in the mclovins uses a similar kinda thing in the purple trees solo but instead he stays on the same 3 strings or so and moves it up the neck, getting progressively higher.

[Autonom4ever]

alter ich verhedder mich da total

[digittydog]

This is not the spider exercise by most definitions. It is a common exercise though.

[Justin011794]

Thanks alot, great lessons, they always helped me so much! Could you please do a sweeping lesson? Like a very easy one, i always had such a hard time trying to sweep XD

[pretourious]

Awesome information! Thank you!

[Fiarzen]

you can do it backwards aswell (i.e start with your pinky)

[WeeklyIntegrate]

GREAT FINGER AND FRETBOARD Exercise!

one thing you MUST learn and do the alternate finger picking. It is essential to getting this right!

[bap2best]

awesome lesson justin, sounds rly funky~

[nellings6]

Great lesson, I loved how you also showed the picking position.

[XXlpqadXX]

thanks justin!!

[EnSvettFot]

buckethead lesson..?

[huliheaden]

Yeah, i thought of Buckethead too, when i first heard this. Buckethead incorporates the spider in some of his solos (;

[Ihatecoldnnnirror]

@EnSvettFot LOL ^^

[PoOhBeAr1901]

uhh...you lost me! haha.your awesome though!!

[eschelar]

great stuff. Reminds me of the underworld parts of mario world.

very good exercise.

Sounds even funkier on a uke! heh

[danstevensguitarist]

awesome

[NisseEricsson]

Justin is the man, free lessons is great.

[elperrogato]

man this is hard but I started making up my own patterns as well

[crokiller7]

thx awesome video hope its gonna improve my picking

[metallicamaiden01234]

didnt get it at first but its so cool once u get it

[JJizLegit]

striking.

[Etni69]

Hey that's a good exercise. I've usually

finger pick and I started using this and I'm getting

better at changing strings and picking. Thanks

[kogazor]

That's wicked. Gosh, I'll probably be able to do that in 5 or 10 years if I start right now... and get mental along the way. -__-'

Thanks for the lesson, Justin !

[kogazor]

I almost forgot : it strikingly sounds like 80's Contemporary music, don't you thnink ? :P

[Jacob00002]

Can you do more Shred lessons?

[Aberinkulas]

Thank you so much for your time an dedication, man. You're fantastic!

[netruno]

The sound reminds me of Buckethead's finger nubbing.

[SlashRocks145]

thats exactly what i first thought

[tylerrocks321]

exactly what i thought.

[JMcG92]

GAH! WHY DO YOU TORTURE MY HANDS JUSTIN?!

Also, great lesson.

[u2focused]

Thanx Justin...I shall commit myself to the shed and work this thing out...!!

[mabitazan]

sounds weird and has very different meaning lol... :P

just kidding mate

[JustinSandercoe]

@ aphalga --- poor spiders :) LMFAO

[aphalga]

You genius and wonderful！

I sincerely respect you！

[VelocityRhythm]

@aphalga said it all.ur simply amazin.

[AzureFlight]

sick nasty

[theslacker56]

practice practice practice!! :D

[ViolentRiC]

This is doubly frustrating as I *have* to get this technique nailed before I can play that damn crazy melody!

[wallyball60]

Youve got a great website... and your a good teacher Justin..THANKS Leon

[35596123]

capo--..!!!! you play the guitar so good...!!! thanks of argentinian

[outhouse124]

sounds a bit like buckethead's finger nubs

[Noterunner]

Reminded me of Buckethead also. Also in a strange way reminded me of Ween.

[ultramansato]

SOME GIRL SCREAMED!! 2:31 OMG GHOST!!

[LIFE4DEATH101]

wtf i heard that haha

[knotsable]

yep indeed, you've got sharp ears!

now all we need to find out is why justin is keeping girls imprisoned in his cellar :)

[23TheMerchant]

very very faint

[xDAHVEEDx]

dayum this is a bitch lol

i cant get the strumming down lol

[TheP0e]

this looks ridiculously difficult :D

[blinkiboy89]

Thanks man I know this will help me a lot.

[dumhole327]

This exercise is a bitch. It definitely sounds kinda Buckethead-ish.

[MaskedEmrys]

Definitely sounds like something buckethead would play, reminds me of Bucketheadland 1 & 2 and maybe some of his other older stuff like giant robot?

[dawe383]

i agree

[MatthiasIamthatis]

sounds like a mario tune

[freakonaleash3112]

sounds like something between the buried and me would write

[ownall1000]

the begening sorta sounds like the solo from jordan by buckethead

[LasPlagas174]

it sorta sounds like one of the boss themes from Zelda

[kurisurokku]

Thanks a lot for this, it is a great explanation

[afroninja1111]

lol thats a cool exercise. if you played it faster and like an octave higher you could pass it for a buckethead solo.

thanks man

[wachman]

i think i've heard parts of this in an old metallica solo off the kill 'em all album.

[UrbanUproar]

u hit the nail with that one I think it's 'the fourth horseman' or something like that :-), the very beginning of the solo

[annaelise2]

should you leave your pinky on the right hand planted?

[RtL594]

It doesnt really matter, i tend to put all of my fingers in towards my right hand and rest the meaty part of my right hand on the bridge of the guitar.

[weedgamer420]

no, the guy who says it doesn't matter is stupid

[slimshady94]

really good one..

[jmjunkie]

Thanks Justin, another great vid. See you next year, when I have this down. LOL

[gatman134]

this is the best exercise i tried, i actually have to practice it...

[Pagannnini]

hell! damn! great exercise folks!!!!

[loutopdrummer]

I FUCKING LOVE PLAYING THIS!!!

[guitarpenguin666]

dont b a fag

[pharaohanakaris]

"dont b" a troll.

seriously? that comment got praise?

oh, yeah, i forgot youtube applauds illiterate jerks.

[Asthaar8]

Ah, great.

[nicholas987]

Does this help you to prevent "Flying Fingers"?

[ryanlim94]

I cant do this :(

No wonder my picking is horrible :((

[Jwofl]

practice practice practice :)

[cjam496]

man I wish I could go to the other side of the atlantic for private lessons and Guitar Institute

[AussieKid1980]

The sound is way too annoying.

[itsumonihon]

kinda like your voice eh

[AussieKid1980]

sigh.

[RuneMo2]

give me thumb downs too!

[JonDeth]

An out of key sweep pattern played as a sour scale, lol. It's not really musical but certainly useful, I used to practice it as a sweep.

[shinningeagle]

thats really awesome

[mandowarrior123]

THE ALIENS ARE SCATTERING MY BRAINS! lol

[Bonfender]

juz talk a lot..

[DreamedOfHugeSpiders]

great job. thanks.

[theVman420]

this is not the spider riffing that dave mustaine created, but it's cool.

[sirmralexsir06]

his fingers are very manicured.

Great lesson.

[ModGyo]

Sounds like something from a video game.

[Xx0Mystic0xX]

sounds alot like the jordan solo

[lmaessedai]

yeah that's what i thought

[HaphazardJoy]

Only because Buckethead plays with a lot of non-traditional scales and intervals, most notably the tritone, which this excercise has repeatedly. The exercise surely isn't focused on intervals though, only on technique. Justin isn't ripping off Jordan or anything, and if you listen to a lot of Buckethead, you'll notice he solos a lot based on that same pattern anyway, if anything, he's ripping off himself.

[jm6445]

i can't :(

[Olpaj]

Dave Mustaine invented the SPIDER RIFF. Not spider excersise. Spider riff is about playing riffs without sliding, search for dave mustaine on youtube and 1st vid is the lesson with him, spider riff is somewhere at the end

[armitageshanx]

great lessons. decent that you explain everything clearly and slowly. will be checing out your site

[parkerman6]

No! Game Fan, dave invented it, before he even got hired before metallica.

[jjxto]

is good thanks

[gamefan101]

im not for sure but i think that dave mustaine created this during the time he injured his hand and needed to re learn everything i might be mistaken though lol

[mosconi13]

Good exercise!!!

And it sounds like a tim burton jingle ;-)

[gilbertini99]

nice

[lottagurls]

Good exercise for alternate picking. You can also play sweeping on it : 1 note up, 2 notes down, 1 note up, 2 notes down, 1 note up, 3 notes down, and so on...

[BlindTom61]

That's tasty -- it's been around since I was a kid, but this is the first time i have seen it explained. Good on ya mate! :- )

Tq

[flyingredd]

thanks! after finsihing the kind of 'begin guitar' kind of book (there are thousands of them) I was a bit lost but these videos give a bit of structure and a sense of progression.

These are definitely my favourite of this kind on youtube, from other teachers you have to watch the film about twenty times before you get it, they just go too fast.

Thanks!

[jaejedd]

thanks to those people like you here in youtube..who posted their videos and helped people like us in developing the guitar skillz and learn better...grt m8...

great job...now i could learn better and help boost myself up for the rockstar level.. no doubt ..ur no.1..keep up the grt work man...cheers!!!!!

[soricelluu]

number 1

[14videopimp]

you are amazing

[jamesaic1117]

great job!

[nollrunner]

This technique has helped me so much. I make sure to practice this at least 10 minutes a day now. Thanks Justin!

[MaliceGrind]

sounds so between the buried and me ahahah I like it

:]

[TEyey19]

Thank you so much for all help justin=D

The things you said in the 100th video really helped me out.. Thanks

[AlexxForPrez]

cool nice workout to build finger coordination.

thanks

[delpuckett]

and then you have the other "angle" (diagonal in the opposite direction) as well - cool idea but kinda difficult to insert into real music. no real tonal center. great for creating tension or playing over real tough changes ?? horror movie soundtrack? thanks for posting - drop in and say hi

[miraadams]

bodo la ko....bangang sungguh

[rupe3000]

cheers, thanks for passing it on..

[damlurker]

Thanks Justin, I'm now even more Arachnophobic than I used to be!! :)

[CraigBarduk]

Yeah that exercise sounds cool, it's got this weird sci-fi bizzare sort of sound lol.

[biboow24]

thanks

[tanteuschi03]

:-)

Satch Boogie is the Nick Name from Joe!

Best

[tanteuschi03]

I use this exercise all the time. I heard it from Satch Boogie!!

He heard the exercise from Steve Vai.

[TrueMusou]

I heard this from Joe too...but was it in the song Satch Boogie?