#200 - You're Probably Using The WRONG Picking Angle!

Saite!

Pedro Marcos

Hi. Do you still use this technique nowadays ? Wondering because it seems that the angle looks the same on 2024 vids

Richard S

I love the lesson! But what angles do you use when descending?

Ben Gilsdorf

Should I be able to palm mute in both angles? I suppsoe yes but for angle 2my hand moves away from the high strings

Giannis Roussakis

Great teaching, thank you!

Ronnie

I too would also like to see this, look forward to seeing this

Robert Waterfield

I'd love to do more on this, I'll add it to the next lesson voting at the end of the month, let's see how the community decides! :)

Bernd Brodträger

Hi Bernth, I've watched several of your videos about picking angle but yet I still cannot see the difference between angle 1 and angle 2. I was hoping you could do a more dramatic illustration - is it really the angle of the pick in terms of the direction it is pointing? LIke angle one basically points a little bit toward the neck but angle 2 really points toward the bridge? Maybe I'm just missing what everyone else here can see, but these picking angles just look near identical to me even though I know they are not. If you did a video with a gopro where we got a birds eye view of the picking hand I think it would be easier to visualize and super dopamine.

Christopher Byrum

Great question Marco, I'd love to do another sweeping video! I'll add it to the upcoming video topic voting, thanks for the input :)

Bernd Brodträger

Guys, since this a video about pick angle my question is kind of related, what is the optimal pick angle for sweep picking?? Lately, I've been tinkering with my pick angle a lot while practicing sweeps but I cannot find an angle which would feel natural to me. Any suggestions are welcome :D

Marco

I was struggling with this and didn't even know I was struggling. Thank you so much!

Chri

Ah, what a bummer. When I started playing electric guitar in 1987 I soon found out that switching the picking angle depending on what run I was playing led to great results. But back then I didn't know why and everyone was like "Oh my god, never switch the angle, you need to be like a robot." Well... thanks for sharing, Bernth!

Oliver Cwiek

Saite!

John H

Thanks for asking about that Matt! I'm using the Toontrack EZmix2 plugin on the channel this month :) It's featured a bit more in-depth in the recent home recording course, hope this helps: https://www.patreon.com/posts/199-best-guitar-58253038

Bernd Brodträger

I'm really liking this lesson, it's helping me with my left hand as well. What are amp are you playing through to get such a tight low end? I need to tweak my AX8 high gain patch

Posterboy

I've just been practicing this and has exactly the same question because on exercise 2 I naturally start on a downstroke on each string, although I'm finding the picking angle from exercise 1 pretty effective for this :-)

Tom F

saite!!

Jon Hew

SAITE!!! Such a good lesson. I think I finally understood and I think this will help a lot. Thanks Bernth!

Daniel Timm

Bernth u really rules! This lesson is like gold for me! Thanx a lot!

max cocco

Thanks, I am not a professional musician but my main area of research is deeper learning and deeper practice and of course this affects everything I do like the way I think and go about practicing the guitar. One of the reason I enjoy your channel so much is that you seem to have a similar understanding of deliberate practice, automatization etc. I believe that this maybe the reason your videos are so useful.

Oliver Meyer

Yes, I'd love to go more into thumb placement/position - great topic, thanks for the input! :)

Bernd Brodträger

Economy picking is an awesome technique as well! I'd love to go into more detail about this, I'll suggest it on the next lesson voting, let's see if I get to do this :)

Bernd Brodträger

That's some great input Oliver, thanks for sharing! Something to really think about :)

Bernd Brodträger

this is a truly great lesson because not only do you explain the different pickslanting angles and use great videos to illustrate them, you actually offer examples AND show where you make that transition which brings me to my question: when I practice, I often wonder why nobody has yet come up with the idea to somehow indicate the picking angle (what you call angle 1 and 2) or the change of picking angle inside their tabs. I think that would be extremely useful and nobody does it, so how about it? You could simple use 1s and 2s or use italics to indicate when to change picking angIes etc. I am convinced that this would make your lessons even more valuable. It certainly would make my practice routine more efficient. Thank you so much, Oliver

Oliver Meyer

I'll be playing a Harp or shoveling hot coals before I'm ready for the 2nd lesson in this shredding series, but the bit on pick angle is very helpful for this beginner. Danke schön...SAITE.

I have a question I am not an alternate picking guitar player I use economy picking (Always a downstroke when ascending and vice versa) how can I practice this way of holding the pick?

Enrique Peña

I'll definitely be around for another 200 episodes!

Michael Latham

Great stuff. Although oddly enough...with all these picking exercises I've noticed that when we move around the neck quickly my thumb placement is not following as quickly and slowing me down on these. Maybe another video in the future?

Ben Gilsdorf

Awesome 🤩!

Stefan Schönebeck

Thank you master!

Pau Saez Lopez

this lesson is a game-changer for me, really appreciate it!

João Kamradt

Thanks so much for letting me know Andrea, I replaced it in both folders :)

Bernd Brodträger

I love how you can watch the white flakes of plastic "shred" off of the pick and accumulate on the black guitar body! 🤘

Kevin Charles

Kein Objekt ausgewählt gesehen. Mein Fehler 🤦‍♂️

Paul McDonough

Ich habe auf dein Monitor „kein Objekt ausgewählt“ das würde ein großartiger band Name sei! Great lesson! I’ve had trouble with string switching, particularly fast switching and switching more than one string. This should help! Congrats on 200! Here’s to 200 more!

Paul McDonough

Can't wait to try these. I wish a company would send you an 8 string multiscale so you could do some tutorials on picking angles on the 8th string. It's very different then on a 6 or even a 7. Thank you for making such great content, Bernth. It's helped me tremendously, like you're psychic even. Every week, it's like you know exactly what I plan to address.

R C

Fantastic lesson Bernth, congratulations on #200 lesson.

Steve Shaw

The 2nd most important thing I learned after taking up the electric guitar again. I actually learned about these things from another resource roughly one year ago and it really changed my way of playing (and finally helped me speeding up a bit). One question remains: was this common knowledge back in the 90s? None of my guitar playing friends nor my teacher ever talked about this then. My strong impression is, that some people figured this out or did it intuitively, but nobody talked about it. Are here any other "old guys/gals" who might share their memories?

MF

Sauber und sehr ausführlich erklärt. Echt super. Genau was ich gesucht habe dieses Thema wird sonst kaum angesprochen

Oliver Ullmann

Hi Bernth, your lessons are awesme and this one is not an exception!I downloaded all this lesson files, but it seems that slow playalong of exercise 4 is corrupt

Andrea

#200 🎉🎉🎉 With a really tasty topics, Thanks a lot for all these course Bernth, you are the most carefully people that I know. You realy share your maximum and it's realy cool. 🎉🎉🎉 We did it 🤘

Gabriel Feno

#200. What an achievement! Thank you for 200 great lessons.

Michael

Absolutly amazing video! I can´t imagine the amout of time you spent to make such a perfect tutorial. It helped me understand some mistakes I do that prevent me of getting faster and cleaner. Thanks!

António Mota

bernth you seriusly read my mind. I was thinking about it today

Martin

You read my mind man

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