#230 - The worst guitar player I have ever seen

I've been looking for this lesson for so long. This same wall of bad technique habits have kept me on and off the guitar for the past few years. I subscribed a couple of weeks ago and I'm already doing noticable progress. It's hell fixing what has been learned and practiced wrong for so long but these instructions and exercises help a lot. Great content, man! Thanks! :)

Nikola Botev

Great idea, thank you for that! I can suggest it on the next voting for sure :)

Bernd Brodträger

Hi Bernth Just suddenly got an idea of a fun vid.. The vid is you playing the same passage maybe a fast passage but using many kinds of pick, thick and thin small and large.. And the take away we all can observe how it affects your playing and your tone and how much the type of pick matters.. just an idea.. thnx for your work Bernth..

nersonangelo

Welcome Adrian, thanks so much for leaving a comment! Hope you have tons of fun getting started :)

Bernd Brodträger

New member here! Love your content and you make it easy to learn! Can’t wait to start using all your content to start actually relearning guitar the right way after my wrist surgery!

I must say, the "progress jump" from 13 to 14 is still impressive, even knowing that you played a lot and worked on solos. Funnily, I started playing with 14 years with a guitar teacher, but I think I reached that level after maybe 5-7 years of practicing songs I liked. My playing really improved when I joined a band at 21 and I guess that was the time when I was roughly at the level you were at 14. So: Kudos to you for actually working on hard stuff and improving so much during your teenage years. I tried the same but my awful technique (I also used your banana-grip, but used thumb, index and middle finger to clamp the pick for alternate picking) limited me much earlier and I could not break through that bareer for many years. While it is somewhat discouraging to see, how much better I could have been if either I figured out these things earlier or had a teacher that actually did more than playing Green Day and powerchords, I am still happy and thankful to at least have found this community now :-) Maybe, one day...

Fhynix

Nice video! I still make some of those mistakes, like the fingers position. I don't know if it is because I have small fingers, but I struggle to have my hand in the right position and press the strings with my fingertips. When I try to, my wrist hurts a lot... I guess I have to keep on trying...

António Mota

I love this so much

jaz

Great video Bernth, it shows that if you persevere you can reach your goal. Its inspiring.

Steve Shaw

Great video, my friend! I can already see where some of your observations and comments are going to help with my journey.

John Jackson

Fortunately this nightmare player made it to a professional musician 🙂 Nice pretense Bernd to move the spotlight back to some basic exercises as a learn control 👌

Stefan Halbritter

Nice video. Thx Bernth

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