Guitar Lesson - Picking Excercise

Heres sort of a part two to my picking lesson. If you have tried the new picking technique this is a good way to enforce it. Play the excercise and some varients on it and it should build up a good technique.

Cheers

Ben

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[slashrox]

I've been playing since 2004 and around the 3rd year mark I ended up getting really lazy with my playing and I never really learnt scales, modules, shapes etc and now my techniques are sloppy and feel like its trapped in one location and doesn't sync with my right hand right when it comes to picking certian things. So I've decided to re-learn everything.

anyway long story short: I'm trying the stretch shape from this video, is it normal for your hand to get tiredish/sore?

[benwilshire]

@slashrox

hello man

With anything new and fairly "physical" on the guitar you will feel some degree of tiredness in your hands when youve been practicing for a while. Your muscles will get used to it once you play more often and regularly.

Benni

[RuairidhLowe93]

Great lesson mate, really helpful, just wondering if you have any tips or exercises for developing a legato technique as my hammers are fine (as far as i'm concerned) but my pull offs are 'lacking'.

[benwilshire]

@RuairidhLowe93

Hello man

I think the most simple way to get legato down is to learn all of your different shapes and then practice fertting everything without picking. Try and get the notes to ring out aswell as they would when picked. This will develop a much stringer fretting hand so that when you come to do legato you dont rely on picking each note. For pull offs just pick a scale or shape with 3 or 4 notes per string and pull off the notes with out picking up and down the neck.

Ben

[RuairidhLowe93]

@benwilshire

Cheers for the reply mate, just a quick question, would it be a good idea to practice the legato exercise with a metronome?

[benwilshire]

@RuairidhLowe93

Hello man

Its always good to practice to a metronome with everything you play. I always found it a bit more interesting to practice to a drum beat/loop or a backing track/song. Just makes practice a bit more interesting and keeps you motivated. But of course whatever works for you :)

Benni#

[benwilshire]

@RuairidhLowe93

Hello man

Its always good to practice to a metronome with everything you play. I always found it a bit more interesting to practice to a drum beat/loop or a backing track/song. Just makes practice a bit more interesting and keeps you motivated. But of course whatever works for you :)

Benni

[mirekkoz]

good technique doesn't mean good music, shred is boring

[joakorush2112]

sorry but this isn't that helpful at all. Great technique though.

[a1993h]

Grean video, ben. It's helping a lot so far!

You could also do a bluesy run like:

A B C D E F (index, ring, pinky, index, middle, ring for y'all beginners)

[MetalManiac0]

Great Technique man, but I didn't understand one thing: When you're moving down the scale and you change of string you do an up or down stroke? I think you do an up stroke but I'm not completely sure.

[Casteanguitar]

Rolex like Yngwie! =)

[highintel]

Awesome!!! I request a video of your favorite malmsteen lines ;)

[schalke1905]

Hey Ben, may I ask you a question?

How fast do you get with your picking? How many BPM to you take for sextuplets?

Would be great to hear an answer.

Greetz Doron

[tallicaboy100]

hai ben, first of all i wanna say you're a master in playing the guitar :D but i got a question about the picking, you start on the low e string with a down up down, what is you picking on the a string then? i wanna learn to shred but my picking is crap :D i hope you can help me. grtz

[ThrashMetal669]

your lessons are really helpful man thanks!

[raulgx]

hi, i was wondering if someone could tell me if i´m right:

Ben uses his wrist to play through fast scale patterns, and he uses the movement of the thump and right fingers for slower licks, is this true??