The Easy Way to Master Alternate Picking!

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@TheRealisticEnd 4 жыл бұрын

As someone who could say they are pretty good at guitar for playing about 2.5 years not learning how to alternate pick from the start is gonna be the biggest roadblock in your progress and I still regret not learning it so early. Trying to learn alternate picking is like trying to learn how to play guitar again.

@Yeoldepube 4 жыл бұрын

Trace Kilpatrick it’s just down up down up? Or am I missing something?

@jjj-qj8lu 3 жыл бұрын

@@Yeoldepube yes youre missing a lot of things. Its easy to alternate pick slowly but when it gets faster its harder. Alternate picking is the most important lead guitar technique. You have to work on it no matter how good you are. Improving alternate picking is an endless process.

@user-ql3rm2ci3w 2 жыл бұрын

Same shit

@Mecha-ddafi 2 жыл бұрын

As a former drummer/okay guitarist, alternate picking kinda reminds me of practicing on a drum pad, working on paradiddles and all that stuff. Seems so pointless reading and playing Rs and L's all day until you get to the kit and things come 10x easier. Unfortunately, I'm just now practicing alternate picking since i ran into an issue with keeping up with songs i was trying to learn

@TontonTomConcon 2 жыл бұрын

I recently heard about alternate picking and i though it was a crazy technical thing on guitar. But now i'm feeling lucky to have it naturally because i've learned it from the beggining. For me it was just a basics.

@MrThiebaudjulien 5 жыл бұрын

James Hetfield wants to know your location

@ivancheshmedjiev4291 5 жыл бұрын

James Hetfield disliked the video.

@MrMcGear 5 жыл бұрын

Ivan Cheshmedjiev OMG!

@bangbob7851 4 жыл бұрын

Haha lol

@IceCubeNETWORK873 4 жыл бұрын

Is James hetfeild Self taught? Or someone taught him? Does hetfeild alternate pick? Does He all just do downpicking?

@triad5766 4 жыл бұрын

IceCubeNETWORK. - No he doesn’t only down pick. That’s just an internet myth.

@karannsyt 5 жыл бұрын

I've played guitar for 2 years My worst habit. Not caring about alternate picking. It's affecting me as I recently got into electric guitar.

@JumpingShroom 5 жыл бұрын

Karan Sreedhar yeah I’m in the same boat dude. Really kicking myself in the ass hard.

@Pr3stig3july 5 жыл бұрын

Sameboat as well, its a pain

@aa-de2jw 5 жыл бұрын

SAME

@soproparmvfx6269 4 жыл бұрын

Very relatable, I find this very frustrating

@sohibconner6926 4 жыл бұрын

same, welcome me to ur boat

@1x56 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so used to fingerpicking on a classical guitar....Alternate picking is going to take a lot of practice!

@willkoestner4159 3 жыл бұрын

Try alternate picking basic chords as arpeggios for practice.

@Iheartdgd 6 жыл бұрын

I’ve improved my picking more this week than I have in my entire life while playing guitar , together w a few of your videos. Thank you very much , I’m definitely looking forward to more. Been more of drummer throughout my life , but I’ve recently picked up the guitar again and I wanna take if further. Been studying theory and scales and techniques, and practicing every moment I can. Looking for more exercises

@barkwhoop8052 4 жыл бұрын

This is so much better in form than a lot of guitar lesson content, the speaker is super concise in what he’s talking about, the way playing is interspersed is super functional, AND there’s a separate camera for playing which makes it really easy to jump to the clips that should be referenced for technique. Good shit.

@sinjon Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. This guy is one of the best guitar teachers on KZfaq. He’s very concise and tells you different ways to make learning a technique easier

@Rhinestoneshark 3 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when you only learn Metallica songs

@user-ql3rm2ci3w 2 жыл бұрын

It's about me😄 but what about fight fire, battery, other stuff?

@MSt_fighter 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ql3rm2ci3w I can only down stroke and when I was playing Fight Fire my hand was so painful🤕

@cristi9213 2 жыл бұрын

Literally the reason i clicked on the video,was tired of playing metallica

@antonymalko2009 2 жыл бұрын

Lol, learning am I evil

@fortefatale5695 2 жыл бұрын

For whom the bell tolls 😩😩😩

@timrussell1559 3 жыл бұрын

As a greenhorn newbie to guitar i first thought that alternate picking was just something the pros did to show off. Then i decided to try to learn the riff to thunderstruck. I quickly realized that alternate picking isn't for showing off, its a fundamental necessity!

@edreed5571 Жыл бұрын

What is gren horn

@Kaleke09 Жыл бұрын

@@edreed5571 Inexperience, He was saying he had no experience playing stringed Instrument's.

@aquatichighs 7 ай бұрын

Thunderstruck is merely the path to the gates.

@sandeepsreehari9188 2 жыл бұрын

I have been using only single picking so far. I am not able to achieve much speed although I can contemplate some good riffs and solos to play. This video helped me as it gave me a foundation as to how to start off with alternate picking. Thanks a lot man 👍

@apno7234 5 жыл бұрын

I can't see his picking hand because of that obnoxious banner

@AM-we8hj 4 жыл бұрын

which banner? have you tried adblockers?

@nehemiahzo_ 4 жыл бұрын

A M the one that says click the link in the desc

@rustbeltgypsy3713 3 жыл бұрын

E string, Down Up, down up , A String down up pick and .....just switch index faster back to E and repeat...if you go higher in pitch, (up to i.e) . G string, going down in pitch it's backward, up down , up down

@sinjon Жыл бұрын

Hats off to this guy for being one of the best guitar teachers on KZfaq

@JohnOhkumaThiel 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for covering that so thoroughly.

@EnigmaticAnamoly 4 жыл бұрын

I wish someone gave me this advice 15 years ago. I was self taught and i was always the guy who looked for shortcut ways to alt picking instead of just taking my time to practice it slowly. That's the only way to get good at it. Took me forever to learn Crazy Train because the 16th noted on the muted A in the rhythm, I never could play it, I never took it slow, just bent my pick and played it like crap lol

@wolfgangwolfdogplaysguitar701 3 жыл бұрын

This video is what I definitely need because I can't alternate pick and I'm a beginner I do know a few chords but I'm working on alternate picking because that type of picking is required for solos

@rustbeltgypsy3713 3 жыл бұрын

Reminder to Relax . Nice! ..and slow defined moves in relaxed felt better on hand/arm/wrist/fingers and most importantly my brain. Thx for the tips. Learning alone is difficult sometimes/no help for first hand in my area that doesn't charge big $$. Working on buying some lessons soon.✌️

@celica6661 7 жыл бұрын

Good lesson- and great sound !

@scottybandicoot6347 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this lesson ❤️

@adamcogan211 7 жыл бұрын

First guitar world vid i've ever seen with good sound

@thatOneSexySonofaBitch 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tutorial!

@ColdAssRanch 7 жыл бұрын

Great lesson! Thanks!

@gaysquirrels6915 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome lesson!

@geoffwhitemusic 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent instruction

@eeejayseven 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. In depth explanation!

@000Skill 6 жыл бұрын

Best teacher ever

@therepairguys6862 4 жыл бұрын

Good teacher, thanks brother

@dtechx7124 4 жыл бұрын

Steve, you are an excellent instructor. Please do a video that shows how to achieve palm muting.

@peterklein5861 2 жыл бұрын

The main riff in Fear of the Dark by Iron Maiden is a really good exercise for this too.

@nylonsteel 7 жыл бұрын

There is no easy way to Master anything

@lewisbirkett4428 7 жыл бұрын

apart from mastur bating

@ctnicetune141 5 жыл бұрын

practice and patience.

@chazbono5991 5 жыл бұрын

eh, easy and hard is subjective. i bet someone like yngwie would say that mastering alt picking came easily.

@minutesagoedited9761 5 жыл бұрын

I can bate like a master! mastur? where's the dreams that ive been after.

@David-hl9iv 4 жыл бұрын

apart from snorting coke

@johnw1566 4 жыл бұрын

Damn I used to dread alt picking at first but after I sat down and really dug in with it I can't see myself playing arpeggios with all down picking again😂

@danio-LP Жыл бұрын

Danke schön! Das hat mir sehr weitergeholfen. 👌

@Raziel6523 7 ай бұрын

this is a really good lesson. I actually used to have my pick at a high angle to the string, almost perpendicular... no more swishy sounds lol thanks

@starlodear2987 5 жыл бұрын

I noticed breathing slowly helps me relax and focus.

@pinoymetaltv1882 5 жыл бұрын

I'm playing guitar for 11 years and i play lefty .and i want to convert into right handed playing. So i am starting again This tutorial realy helps me .. Thanks dude

@joetroutt7425 4 жыл бұрын

I thought about doing that too.

@morgangerminario9336 4 жыл бұрын

Why do You Want to change? Im right handed but im wondering, it Is because there are not many guitars or is It more difficult

@pinoymetaltv1882 4 жыл бұрын

@@morgangerminario9336 its hard to find cheap left guitar, and i cant play along in any occasions,

@miky8788 7 жыл бұрын

hey... nice quality in this video (and great video too)

@brodieross1868 4 жыл бұрын

Insert James Hetfield joke here:

@mrnohax5436 4 жыл бұрын

*Kicking Jason newsteed out* I’m not laughing

@Mr.Nichan 5 ай бұрын

The most important thing I learned from this video is that you can go faster by turning the pick sideways (lol), though he's right it doesn't sound the same. My main issue is getting the control so that pick actually goes through the string every time instead of sometimes just hitting it or going over it, and yet doesn't have enough force to pluck another sting after the one I intended to.

@Mr.Nichan 5 ай бұрын

Well, in another video, Steve legitimizes my idea that maybe I shouldn't be trying to speed pick with super-floppy picks, not that I don't also have control problems of course. I thought that felt a bit like cheating, because thicker (or harder) picks have a different timbre (louder noisy attack I think) also, so being able to speed pick with either soft or hard picks would give you more options, but I guess there's no harm in starting out with harder (thicker) picks. He even suggests pointier picks, which I don't think I have any of right now.

@jaydenanderson53 4 жыл бұрын

Bro Steve Stine is the GOAT

@maximrahman 5 жыл бұрын

There is an easy way to master building a rocket but not alternate picking

@davidefrasca8062 4 жыл бұрын

Trying in these months to improve alternate picking, it's ridiculously hard, also after years of guitar playing, you really need to put all your attention on it!

@Would_YouKindly 2 жыл бұрын

Please watch Michael paouris!!! He mastered everything!!!

@mr.yellowstrat3352 6 жыл бұрын

Damn Steve.. shittin' on the pick slanters! 🤘😈🤙

@sweetgyy 7 жыл бұрын

Steve rocks

@avocadocommander Жыл бұрын

i have been playing for like 22 days and when i go a bit faster when alt picking i tighten my thumb on the pick and it just hurt thank you for this i think this gives me an actual idea on how to alt pick

@alekrous6650 5 жыл бұрын

Damn you explan good bro I practice that since on year

@grabsmicug7622 2 жыл бұрын

thanks my hand gets tired when doing only down strokes when playing dumpweed by blink 182 very helpful video

@edwardheins2930 2 жыл бұрын

love your aproach i appreciate you im 58 self taught wait i meant self scewed up .Man its harder to unlearn bad habits so listen to Steve kiddies. Stevie Ts dad lol !

@selection5072 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but my hand seems to be too stiff when picking, cause my pick sometimes gets stuck on the up-stroke...

@sourbrothers73 3 жыл бұрын

Alternate picking between strings is no problem playing scales and chords, or just open PM'd strings. As soon as I try to learn a song, all my picking progress goes out the window. Idk why I cant do it. The first 10 years of my self-taught guitar career were on an acoustic, and I hardly used a pick. I _picked_ up some bad picking habits. Now that i own a proper left electric, re-learning to use a pick, and not wailing on my instrument has been challenging. Electric guitar is far more gentle of an exercise, believe it or not.

@agentsnyper6354 6 жыл бұрын

That Ibanez Jem look’s cool

@_tor 7 жыл бұрын

course no longer available.

@maxsterling5247 2 жыл бұрын

Do I need to alternate pick 100% of the time? Or there are some cases you need to upward or downward pick?

@BigStarch96 7 жыл бұрын

God i want that guitar so bad.

@joshuamichael4312 7 жыл бұрын

BigStarch96 an Ibanez jem with EMG pickups. It's definitely a hotrod.

@jayvalentine2046 7 жыл бұрын

BigStarch96 yeah its a real JEM 😉

@mridulsagar4106 5 жыл бұрын

it looks like acid was dropped on it

@unlshtb4524 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds so good doesn't it... Maybe its about the amp though

@CosmicHarmony58 4 жыл бұрын

@@unlshtb4524 ya, amp and the EMG pickupzzzzz

@wlmirand 3 жыл бұрын

Is a good habit, alternate even if im going to play notes in two different strings? After playing with attention, I noticed i use up and down, but not 100% alternate.

@maxwestfall1873 3 жыл бұрын

thank u bro

@TKD187 3 жыл бұрын

Damn I love you guitar 🤘🏻

@giannislymperopoylos5574 4 жыл бұрын

the question is one master..please answer... when we have pull offs and hammer ons ..why we break the up down sequence...?when we have 4 16ths and the first two notes are a pull off we pick up the third down ...so we have two downs and an up.... breaking the second nature sequence..isnt this a headache...?is it necessary to play with alternate pickin if we want to reach a descent level?if you answer YES...i ll do it...promise!!

@cc12yt 5 жыл бұрын

Who knew that Arthas Menethil played guitar

@mohamadfhazril7876 5 жыл бұрын

He did in the game credit

@vladionescu8222 4 жыл бұрын

Who knew Ricardo Milos searches for metal stuff

@emmanuelsabado6580 3 жыл бұрын

Wow fans here

@cuagg1 3 жыл бұрын

Joke funny

@expired_pomegranate8717 4 жыл бұрын

Holy shit bruh this guys a genius

@Ava-fx6dq 2 жыл бұрын

How do u get your guitar to sound like that is it the way you tune the amp or is it how the guitar is made

@Brosky1998 4 жыл бұрын

5:45 haha that was wicked

@TheRealKirkHammett Жыл бұрын

What I want to know is, does anyone use alternate picking on every note? Also, just want to say that I love that version of the JEM. That's the best one they ever made in my opinion. The mody paint is awesome and the mirror guard. Everything about that version. I believe it's the JEM 7?

@JohnHWelch63 5 жыл бұрын

When I first started learning to play guitar alternate picking just came to me as natural and logical. It never had to be explained to me. I started doing it right from the start. When I started taking lessons I learned the practice patterns and stuff but the idea of alternate picking was something I started to do naturally.

@TKD187 3 жыл бұрын

I'm here because I have to learn cowboys from hell solo and I have a problem with alternate picking I can do it on one string but when it comes to alternate picking a whole scale I get messed up

@crisoliveira2644 3 жыл бұрын

Now I understand why I can't develop my playing. Thanks!

@kingbaconvi2650 3 жыл бұрын

First warmup: AlTeRnAtE PiCk ThIs LiCk Me: *Does Hammer ons* “ Also Me: “I’m not getting any better at this”

@bananaclipper9343 2 жыл бұрын

Turning your pick is super beneficial in some circumstances. Two-way pick slanting is pretty common in technical death metal

@mauritsp4420 7 ай бұрын

Why do I automatically pick the string I just upstroked when going to the string below?

@matheusgarcia8975 5 жыл бұрын

2:15 that is what Paul Gilbert does and it sound metal af

@scottautoprep94 Жыл бұрын

Been practicing this using this video for 4 years and still can’t get it at all😑 people say use your wrist instead of fingers but I found that slows you right down

@FrancoAguileradonillan 4 жыл бұрын

What is the guitar model?, its a jem, but which one ?

@malakaimillsap4484 2 жыл бұрын

My issue is I usually miss a note so I'll hit three in a row and then miss the string and then back and forth.

@joesmith5617 Жыл бұрын

I can do one or the other it’s more switching between the two

@FirstLast-zv5od 3 жыл бұрын

"As opposed to just picking down." Shit...I've been picking at a 57° angle in an upwards jerking motion this whole time.

@mackenzieray3493 2 жыл бұрын

I've been playing for 15 years and Everytime I've ever tried fast alternate picking my pick will get hung on the g string and it literally sounds like I'm trying to rip my strings off. I cannot comprehend the idea of it.

@oliverwilliamson6528 2 жыл бұрын

Try picking shallower and with the pick at a greater angle. That'll lessen resistance against the strings. Also use a thinner pick so the pick bends past the string more easily.

@Mattypantaloons 3 жыл бұрын

If I'm a first week beginner, and just learning my first scale, should I be using alternate picking or is down fine for now? Or would down picking only be creating a bad habit?

@willferrel3767 2 жыл бұрын

I've been playing for 5 years now and I wish as a beginner I would have learned alternate picking I can mow but yes it's a good thing to learn early

@TomyBach 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Yes! Yes! ❤️

@nicholas7781 6 жыл бұрын

i feel like i am actually progressing from your lessons, verses most teachers.

@ferdiaroalbert989 5 жыл бұрын

This guy is in the guitarzoom. Com channel too?

@READERSENPAII 4 жыл бұрын

Anybody else waiting for Paranoid by Black Sabbath to start playing after hearing him pick the E string so many times?

@mustard_poppa1742 3 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for that or Disposable Heroes😂

@dondeestacoconut 5 жыл бұрын

Google's URL shortener is saying you're violating TOS

@PulledPurk 4 жыл бұрын

I have a habit of manipulating bthe pick with my fingers instead of my wrist. I cant stop!

@Haltzo 4 жыл бұрын

Dat 6min47 riff tho 😍

@dariixxiv5371 4 жыл бұрын

Skwisgar Skwigelf has really been working hard on his American accent

@bluesatmosphere4659 Жыл бұрын

I always alternate picked and thought that’s normal, in my head alternate pick always was hybridpicking

@jamesluisculaway8041 4 жыл бұрын

tnx sir.. beginner here

@thesonicexplorer75 4 жыл бұрын

So your saying I didn’t even know what this was but I still mastered it

@jimcrossland3575 3 жыл бұрын

link does not work

@theguyof360 4 жыл бұрын

0:31 wait a second...

@erickim4832 5 жыл бұрын

Is it better to pick from the wrist or the elbow?

@purpley5164 5 жыл бұрын

Wrist

@nbcnbc8252 4 жыл бұрын

You mean locking wrist using the elbow. Not locking elbow using elbow. Great lesson 👍

@rizha5964 3 жыл бұрын

What guitar are u using?

@michaeljfox16 7 жыл бұрын

No link in description

@guitarworld 7 жыл бұрын

goo.gl/O6qmLd

@wildchild01ok 5 жыл бұрын

As always xd.

@skaterjoe1669 4 жыл бұрын

dude i always end up sweeping

@user-nv8my2tr2j 3 ай бұрын

the link to the tutorial no longer works

@thesabbath483 Жыл бұрын

As a guitarist, I can tell you alternate pick is definitely harder than downpicking. Yes, downpicking requires more strength, but alternate picking requires much more precision.

@marceli155 2 жыл бұрын

si nothing under this link! thanks !

@lukasmilan4758 5 жыл бұрын

i am doing only down to up picking, am i strange because no1 does that and am unable to do alternate picking :(

@justinhiss6839 5 жыл бұрын

nah bro everyone starts down picking. I'm barely decent at alternate picking and I'm making that my priority to learn rn

@VirtualBliss888 5 жыл бұрын

Justin Hiss nothing wrong with down picking.

@corryburton9252 6 жыл бұрын

kinda cool i didnt know guitar world was affiliated with steve...

@CHOPERUS23 3 жыл бұрын

This basically is a tutorial on 2 notes per string pentatonic playing, how about some real alternate picking strategies for example 3 notes on bottom E then 1 on the A string and then 2 on the bottom E string. That's an alternate challenge.

@adalbertusignatius4967 4 жыл бұрын

I never cared, because I always played legato like Joe Satriani does in nearly every song. But then I discovered Andy James and purchased his Backing Tracks and Tabs. Alternate picking is the only way to get close. Legato for example sounds totally different, because there is no attack.