Fast Down Strokes: Why You Can't Do Them

Fast Down Strokes: Why You Can't Do Them - Guitar Mastery lesson

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@EpicTetsu 4 жыл бұрын

James Hetfield was like the King of Down picking. I always thought it was cool but not necessary, then I realized what a difference it actually makes when playing certain riffs vs Economy picking. Thanks for the tips claus 🤘

@Sublight77 4 жыл бұрын

If youre playing any kind of metal oh yeah its necessary. When recording the difference between alternate picking verses straight down picking is big. Strong downpicking sounds a lot more solid. Theres a reason master of puppets sounded so strong. Every note articulate. Downpicking is the root of strong rythmn playing

@jameshetfieldtm8887 3 жыл бұрын

oh yeah, baby!

@WillGGG 2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean was?

@brix5047 3 жыл бұрын

2:34 me every 3am

@bannedfrom992 Ай бұрын

Shut up

@bannedfrom992 Ай бұрын

Your mom

@hoangduong4981 2 жыл бұрын

my gosh you dont know how much this video has helped solve my problem with right hand picking that has bugged me for MONTHS!! I have practiced for a couple hours after watching this video and it has helped me found the long lost sense of rhythm already!! Proved to me that don't just practice hard, PRACTICE RIGHT!! I'm gonna start practicing using this method and will come back to let you know the progress!

@hoangduong4981 2 жыл бұрын

I have finally unlocked my right hand thanks to this video!! Thank you so much Claus!!

@Bdb83 4 жыл бұрын

Lol I think all of us guys are very familiar with that arm movement lmao. Let's just say my down stroke game is on point

@Evan.c_24 8 ай бұрын

Only reason I can play elimination 😭😭

@guyshaddock7110 4 жыл бұрын

You're an exceptionally good teacher Claus! I have been taking guitar pretty seriously for a few years now. Practising, playing for a couple of hours almost everyday. I've taken one on one lessons, and watched a whole lot of video's on KZfaq. But recently, I have been following your video's and can honestly say that I've noticed accelerated improvements. I attribute that to your teaching/explanations . Thanks!

@manngamwangsu2869 4 жыл бұрын

I need that guitar stand😂

@adolfohuet3974 4 жыл бұрын

Great. I'm not practicing down strokes but you just reminded me to practice with groups an accents an I'll apply it to a lick I'm learning. Thanks Claus!

@muzerino Жыл бұрын

One of the most insightful videos I’ve seen on the subject. What a great teacher. 🤘

@Hilai619 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful lesson, Claus u are marvelous !

@vasilevichav 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is surely one of the most underrated guitar teachers on the planet

@Sublight77 4 жыл бұрын

Recording and live, downpicking is the heart of strong guitar playing with metal. It sounds far stronger, more solid. Theres a reason the best metal bands often have strong downpickers. Strengthening downpicking will strengthen your guitar playing period. Great lesson man! I am setting my metronome now!

@scottbronder 3 жыл бұрын

Genius.. I've forever gotten to a point and then just went to alternate picking. The tip for accent ws all I needed. When I get the upper bound that accent forces my hand to drop whatever tension was in it from the previous 3 downstrokes and I can keep going. Thanks

@ELGRINDHEIM 3 жыл бұрын

This helped me so much!!!

@SFabianB 2 жыл бұрын

Great lesson. Much thanks 🙏

@jm3280 3 жыл бұрын

Mad props to all the first people who figured these fast techniques out! Thank you metal gods for breaking this ground so that we weenies can learn from you

@Alex-ze9tv 3 жыл бұрын

The grouping aspect is awesome. Thanks for the tips.

@blackmamba5659 2 жыл бұрын

Wow man thank for the tip, you helped me a lot

@yair_pupe 4 жыл бұрын

it's really helps! thanks

@gabrielchiang90 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff

@kubickrock572 6 ай бұрын

you are awesome! Thanks a lot

@14hkluis 3 ай бұрын

wonderful teaching👍👍

@MattyPS 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for covering this subject, I know I asked about it!

@danielbrennan5872 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@tommyyoung7391 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@j.wo86 4 жыл бұрын

I got a whole different point of view now! Thanks for the video!

@Taguit 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the insight claus. I notice that when I listen to songs on the radio playing air guitar my brain feels like it’s connecting with every rhythm that I put on. However imitating on the guitar I fail at times. Back the the repetition lol thx again

@thordurinn 2 жыл бұрын

you know what.. this was actally a really helpful video. Great insight! Thank you! Love the "dadadada" pronounciation analogy!

@scipio123 3 ай бұрын

As someone who has long struggled with tendonitis as a result of bad downpicking technique I gotta say - this video has been hugely helpful to me in developing a much safer and comfortable approach to playing. Thanks so much.

@Realmegamatt 2 жыл бұрын

This guy made such a informative video but when he said about practicing it whilst you’re talking to people it had me crying

@e.strukov Жыл бұрын

This is the best video about the speed work on the whole youtube! Seriously.

@florianbonnet 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@urbsurbisf 4 жыл бұрын

Get the metronome, nowNOW!!! Oh the poetry of that order :) Thanks for the clip. Looking forward to finding new ones. Cheers from Slovenia.

@user-ge3dk2ks9e 3 жыл бұрын

Magic 😮🤘

@ianscreamsvideo 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy. Been working on my accents. My right hand goes in and out of relaxation, it's so much smoother and more controlled when it's relaxed. Gotta focus on that

@b.maximebk 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I can’t wait to try this.... downpicking has been a struggle for me....I haven’t been able to do continuous 8th notes above 140 bpm

@nickweiler3693 3 жыл бұрын

@guitarmastery How do you do the rotational pendulum movement while also palm muting? The palm mute seems to require keeping the wrist static against the bridge/strings while the pendulum requires moving it. I have yet to figure out how to integrate these two seemingly opposed motions. Thanks!

@SteveFisherMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, I literally played the song I was working on at full speed 5 minutes after watching this video. Just thinking about the accents did it for me. I have been playing this song (very poorly) in a band for years. "Dancing With Myself" (all ...well mostly down strokes)

@brewmasterflex3425 Жыл бұрын

First time on your channel great vid , I struggled with this and it’s embarrassing I felt I had rhythm playing mastered but kickstart my heart humbled me.

@Tonjit41 2 жыл бұрын

2:04 He instantly realized and switched lol

@antsinyourpants4095 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you man that metallica song(you know which one I'm talking about)has got me beat with those down strokes

@AceFurley 3 жыл бұрын

the ramones only downpicked, and when doing auditions after dee dee leaving, johnny refused to consider anyone who didn't down pick exclusively! PS: your system makes sense, but keeping your fingers loose as a pendulum doesn't work when palm muting. which is done about 90% of the time when downpicking (since is usually only done while playing chugging metal.)

@ccs333 3 жыл бұрын

is there some lesson to make the guitar float like yours?

@ianmusicstein 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Claus, one thing with downstroke picking more so than other techniques, is the need to warm up. Jumping straight in to 8th's at 200+bpm will damage you.

@doomkid02 Жыл бұрын

Everyone always talk about Hetfield but is no one gonna mention Doyle from the Misfits? Dude plays pretty fast as well.

@CruciatusVXS Жыл бұрын

I've just been wondering where Hetfield could have got that from, as it's rather unlikely that he was the first ever to downpick that fast. Thanks for enlightening me.

@acanova2001 4 жыл бұрын

It’s strange that some days I can play master of puppets no problem other days I can’t. I think I figured it out. The days I get lucky and play with good technique I can do it lol.

@umyes5246 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent. 6:09

@thomaslanwehr2147 3 жыл бұрын

Tears in my eyes from laughing!

@ajrosales047 2 жыл бұрын

It's been 10 years since I last played Master of Puppets and Through The Never that I can't keep up anymore with the downstrokes cleanly. Thank you for this!

@frigglediggle2 3 жыл бұрын

How did James get so good at this back when hardly anyone else was doing this? He practically invented the percussive style and then set the bar so high... Like was he just born with it?

@klauswigsmith 2 жыл бұрын

As great as James is, furious downpicking was done by Johnny Ramone and Doyle (Misfits) first.

@dubiousdevil9572 2 жыл бұрын

@@klauswigsmith Wut? Dave Mustaine taught him that and Slayer and Exodus were doing it before Metallica lol

@klauswigsmith 2 жыл бұрын

@@dubiousdevil9572 ok....and Johnny and Doyle were doing it before all of them. Did you mean to reply to the OP?

@dubiousdevil9572 2 жыл бұрын

@@klauswigsmith I did lol but Doyle and Johnny Ramone definitely weren't doing it with the speed and intensity at the time

@dubiousdevil9572 Жыл бұрын

@Isopropyl No, no he wasn't. Ramones songs were never that fast.

@GeneralMiller92FIN 2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't need to be necessarily metronome if the sound starts to annoys you. But it has to be some device or software which gives you the steady tempo. It can be some sample or some drum machine which you can make slower or speed up. Im often using DAW in which i will quickly record some basic 4/4 drum pattern. Usually with some good sounding VST drum set.

@ColonelRPG 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god 5 minutes into this video I'm already going from 90BPM struggling to 100BPM consistent, SOLELY on the position of the hand!!!!

@ColonelRPG 3 жыл бұрын

Really informative and insightful, very much appreciated!

@KJT3000 3 жыл бұрын

I really really really want that guitar

@vaudvillevillain_ 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I started learning songs while down picking, and I've kept that habit since. People always say "This downpicking bit is so hard", but I can play it easy.

@Flip_Offiziell 3 жыл бұрын

I use down strokes but want to get faster. Helpul tricks to take control, don't wanna lose it dadadada 6:10😂😂 Using a pendulum is very helpful!!

@diegofiorillo6412 3 жыл бұрын

learning creeping death...has a box of six.

@Mik.re87 11 ай бұрын

What’s that interesting device you use to hold the guitar?

@DragisaBoca 4 жыл бұрын

Did I just hear Claus play Slipknot...? :D

@FFxO 2 жыл бұрын

i want to buy that metronome

@fallout3freak360 3 жыл бұрын

1:50 when the boys come over

@bannedfrom992 Ай бұрын

Unfunny

@bannedfrom992 Ай бұрын

Normie npc unfunny

@bannedfrom992 Ай бұрын

Un funny

@bannedfrom992 Ай бұрын

Normie

@TheWV37 4 жыл бұрын

The struggle within

@michizer0 Жыл бұрын

How fast can you get?

@pirthos8806 Жыл бұрын

That lesson belong on Twitter for sure bro.

@marcelnoee1675 3 жыл бұрын

"Look how classical it looks 🤓" Haha, that's great 😂😂😂

@eagleeggs3862 Жыл бұрын

Bro, didn't you used to sale ShamWoW!?

@tpcardoso 3 жыл бұрын

6:09 at 0.5x speed

@kylefraunfelter1031 2 жыл бұрын

Where one or two lead weighted rings.

@noahsmith5339 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a downpicking record to beat? I can already downpick at 400 bpm. I want a challenge

@Dave_IRL 3 жыл бұрын

Usually they mean 16th notes my dude

@gowrisumathi2336 4 жыл бұрын

1:43 drrrrrrrrrrrdarraarara

@syntec1418 3 жыл бұрын

im pretty sure Freddie Mercury wrote Ogre Battle doing this on the guitar

@hotdoglover1573 3 жыл бұрын

I’m the fastest down picker in the west

@blakegilliam8223 3 жыл бұрын

Klaus, I'm hearing you philosophically speaking you know like what you were saying concerning the hand movements and why does it automatically just go because maybe the brain is the intention and it truly is we have it backwards though in this race of humanness so flip it like Klaus flips it and you will win