I've watched you become a better guitar player, Claus. It's fun to watch someone that was already an excellent guitar player become even better. It's a reminder that practice makes perfect.

I think that will be extremely helpful in overcoming years of bad playing habits. Thanks a lot.

wow! mind blowing. I wish i would have learned this technique years ago when i first started playing. this is a game-changer for me!

There are many great tutorials on youtube on alternate picking but this explanation is next level which reminds us on how our brain works! Cool stuff! 👍

loooooove your approach....so clear, no excuses.

This and breaking solos into tiny sections= game changer. Claus makes it stupid simple so even I can understand. Thanks, subscribed!

Once I saw an interview by Phil X and they asked him what he practiced, and his reply was getting his left hand to talk to his right hand. At the end of the day that's all there is. These videos are a great help in trying to achieve that.

This might be the single biggest issue I've had in the nearly 40 years of playing guitar. Going to practice this today. This video opened my eyes to why I have such an issue with my picking accuracy. Brilliant.

Claus is the coolest. Thanks for the insight! Explained very well.

Great tip! Keep em coming please.

Good stuff Claus, thanks for sharing

Excellent video!! Can't wait for the next in this series.

Wow I needed this! Thank you that was a great explanation 😊

love the energy

EXCELLENT LESSON!! 😎🎸

My picking has improved ten fold in the last couple of months thanks to you !!

I'm really grateful o found your channel sir! 💯🔥❤️

A crucial piece of the puzzle, and you teach it so well! Thanks for a great tutorial, I will share with my students!

Excellent lesson! Excellent teacher! Bravo!

Great lesson! Thank you

Very clear and smart, congratulations

This made good sense to me thank you.

Thanks this really answers my question

So cool, first time im seeing a guitar that has a truss rod adjustment in the middle of a fret and they kept extending the frets beyond it. Small things like that are exciting for a guitar nerd like me.

Aaaaaaaaarg! …… I’m doing the first levels of ‘Ingenium’ and I WILL get this picking thing sorted but I am now thinking that I need to go to the gym and do martial arts as well! (6 or so years has made a massive difference since your early videos!!) Thanks for your inspiring motivation! 🤘🤘

This is another awesome guitar lesson right here man I love it.😃👍

Thank you 😊

💪👍 *Improved both my PICKING & **_PUNCHING_** technique.* 😉

Very cool stuff this also has been one of my big problems

Wow! Just found you! New sub here. Your logic is exactly what I needed in my playing! Thank you!

great talk!

wowww....mind blowing explanationn....thank youu sir...its reallyy2 help me alot

Tq.malaysia loves your simple clarity on how to alternate pick.control!

Your videos are the best in the biz man. Been struggling with fast alternate picking and trying all sorts of tweaks to my pick hand trying to get faster but turns out it’s sync/control

KZfaq surely have some kind of psychic abilities, i've been thinking about how to improve my articulation. And this pops up.

Thankyou Sir for this awesome video!!

LOL this was a great video. the karate analogy was hilarious

Seeing the first minute of this video, I thought that this would be nothing new, because I've seen videos and courses about this before. I haven't really thought about the difference between tremolo picking and alternate picking, and the little reminder of accenting notes did it for me. It will make things easier!

You're crazy ..i love you ..keep going ..thanks again...ill check for that as well.

Finally I found what I was looking for so long!

Tankyou so much for teaching me well

Thank you

You are an amazing instructor. 👍

I play for 34 years now and searched for many youtube videos. But man i Learn a lot from you. I love your channel

Very good explaination

This is life changing

not only a great guitar master but a marshal artist as well...

Nice video, makes sense in theory and is definitely part of the puzzle, will try it

most powerful guitar tutorial!

Thank you! I will experiment with this concept of throwing out clusters of notes starting with an accent.

Just found your channel and now I'm improving my alternate picking and martial art skills in one lesson! 😂🎸🤜🏻

Just Wow..Made me wanna do some wicked speed runs. 🤘

Buena exelente saludos de Venezuela hermano 👍🤝

Guitar lessons Plus a little bit of martial arts is awesome 👍😀❤️

best video ever!

I’m learning how to play guitar and throw a punch. 🤘👊🏻 Niiicceee

Im gonna try this ,i've never been really fast and accurate at the same time.i think this will be really helpful.

I Love the way you Love this 😂❤

Awesome video!!!! New suscriber here!!!

Very true sir

Wow! When I started playing I wish I KZfaq was around. I learned this after about 15 years of playing of trial and error. I guess I never really “learned” it I just figured out how to do it. But geeze this guy summed up in 10 minutes what it took me years to figure out

3:51 I want this guy as guitar teacher and gym coach

Have to try this. I think I already kinda do this and I've been able to learn really fast licks and can fly through scales but I think of the licks as 1 piece and connect them together

Hi Claus You are my favorite guitar teacher all the best Marek Zgrych

Thats why the metronome is good to sincronization because it use that higher beep.

Nicely put, thank you. "You can fire off” … Exactly. One may consider burst mode, as with a firearm 3-rounds with each trigger pull; to the fretboard, you can choose any number of notes to fire off, 3-note triplets, sextuplets or odd number groupings.

8:50 most important part..!! Thank you so much!! :)

Bruuuuuhhh thank you :)

nice

I did a million iterations of the 3 note per string over a month and now it is indeed way easier. Now I'm insanely skilled compared to what I was. I found I am disproportionately good at one position and string compared to other players though and I lack the ability to move my left hand from one place on the fretboard to another freely and now I'm putting work into normalizing position shifting and string shifting and then I hope I will have more time to think what I want to play.

That's great ! The principles .I appreciate this very much!

Yes I would say synchronization of pick and fret hands are necessary for control and fluidity. I believe legato traing of the frethand is just as important as picking technique. I also believe that you can only play as fast as your brain can create melodic sequence and phrases so your soloing sounds intelligent and not just a blister of notes. I have learned to pay more attention to hand synchronization and creating melodic phrases rather than see how fast my hands can move!!

Guy just scienced the $#!t out of alternating picking😁😁.

"Take a big marker, and write 'control' across your wall." xD xD Damn I am loving your vibe. I am a young woman who used to have major control issues that manifested in the form of an eating disorder. It was quite harmful to my body, so of course the primary goal was to heal that. But in healing and developing a healthier relationship with my body and mental health, I sort of disowned the parts of myself that really enjoyed being so in control. I embraced a much more flexible and soft way of being, that is more stereotypically feminine I guess. I silenced the "fighter" in me in a lot of ways, and when you started throwing punches in a guitar lesson, at first I laughed but then I got super into it. I have a massive capacity for control (barely eating and working out for hours is pretty difficult), but I was never encouraged to harness that ability and direct it towards something healthy and beautiful. I think the people around me a) viewed it as just an aspect of my mental health problems and b) felt insecure that I had stronger will power than they did. I am really excited about this. I am excited about someone describing intense control as something positive. It helps me appreciate that part of my personality and not see it as something inherently "disordered". I am in a much better place with my physical and mental health now, and I feel ready to reintegrate this lost part of myself. I just started learning guitar a couple months ago for the sheer purpose of making music. I never expected all of the other benefits it would bring to my life. Thank you :)

Intelligent: theory that's works : U R the best Sir thx

if she accepts to watch netflix at home 5:38

Puuut tha' picking daaaaaun... Naaaoouu!

Hi…What kind of performer guitar stand is this??is it available for others to find in stores ?

I figured just plan out alt pix and sweeps to minimize jumping over strings before you even start practicing. Cuz even then you might decide to change the pattern (same note, different fret/string) to accommodate a more comfortable pick sequence. If it sounds good and is easier than other ways, practice it that way. But only that way. I found that trying other patterns after youve already practiced it one way totally sets you back. It throws the picking all off. Establish how youre going to play the lick 1st, and only practice it that way. Practicing 2 ways without getting good at it 1 way only doubles your waste of time. At least thats how I do it, now..

I primarily wanted, as an old fart beginner, to just be able to play some slow but nice notes and some chords (just for me, no audience). And as I like a slow blues a lot and having stiff short ol‘ fingers, this mindset as a musically "untalented" person helped me to even start learning playing guitar on my own and to not easily give up. But later I imposed myself to learn to play fast and even very fast. Even though I don't want to use it constantly, despite the horrible sound when I attempt it….🤪😅 Why? There are two benefits for me: If the coordination of both hands have learned to work fast and therefore also more precise , I get a lot of "time" to build in some refinement and feeling in my slow played notes and sequences! And second benefit: I'll get more precise with my timing for each slow note. (I have BIG problems with timing! ) Those subtile things make a HUGE difference, if I sound just ok'ish or pretty much spot on and can communicate feel ! But to achieve that goal I need to practice more…😊 Just my 2 (Euro)cents…. Thank you Claus, for your lessons and motivation!!👍🏼👌🏼👏🏼 Greetings from south Germany, Rudy

Now I know box.Economy and alternate be ready !!!

I' m from Brazil

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Damn, im so motivated. I will write CONTROL on every wall in my neighborhood

1 bpm for day👍🤝

I like the guitar can you tell me the guitar model....?

Please Where i can take support lake you have that play without hang guitare

Crazy the trust rod adjustment thing is in the fretboard lol different looking guitar and headstock though hmm must be a boutique guitar

I bought a guitar neck with a square heel only to find out my guitar has a rounded pocket I really want to use the neck what should I do

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Clause I know this is an old video…I can play sweep picking and alternate picking etudes, but can’t implement them into something that sounds cool to impress anyone. Do you have any videos that can teach me to not play like a robot?

Did help train Rocky?

What's his guitar stand called?

Claus: Great video. I do see and have realized the benefits of using accents when practicing fast alternate picking. I also know you have talked about how important it is to control picking depth. When going fast, it's necessary to pick shallow. I try to feel like I am only barely grazing the string, picking only the thickness of the string itself, though I'm not sure that's even possible. But in any case, it needs to be consistent depth. Every pick stroke, whether up or down, needs to be the same shallow depth. How does one learn this??? Try to pick shallow and hope the brain figures it out? It doesn't seem to be working for me. When practicing, I can see the relationship between shallow picking depth and speed. But I can't get consistent depth. I miss some notes completely (I actually miss the string). Other times, I accidentally pick too deep and the pick gets caught. My playing almost sounds worse when I pick this way than when I pick deeper (though I realize this is slowing me down). What is the practice formula to get consistent shallow picking depth? Does practicing at slower tempos and only focus on depth help? In general, it doesn't seem that practicing slowly ever helps one develop speed. Perhaps this is an exception to that principle?

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What is the name of your guitar please ?

I am having problem playing with my left hand my picking is good. I can't move the fingers i want to having hard time playing with pinky

When Jean-Claude van Damme goes guitar teacher.

Very good - not only have I got faster, I also was able to punch our singer far harder than normal.

time out. is the truss rod adjustment at the 22nd fret on that guitar or am i seeing things?