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The habits that ensures fast alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, January 24, 2019, In : Alternate Picking 

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Simple alternate picking trick to melt peoples faces

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, December 16, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 


Inspired from a non shredder. I have an old friend who is not a shredder at all but in all the bands he's been playing in is he still the one to take the solos and I noticed a lot of people are inpressed with them even though he never really 
studied the guitar for soloing using scales and arpeggios but he found a simple thing that always works for him when he wants to impress.

So he has this short little alternate picking phrace he does every time he needs to intensify the solo and it works l...
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Cobra turbo alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, December 1, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 


Cobra turbo alternate picking or just high quality fast alternate picking What I refer to with this crazy name "that I got from the movie Cobra, when Stallone is in he's car pressing a turbo button and he's car drives about one percent faster" is to the concept of reaching your top speed and then with force getting just a few percent speed more.
The problem with that, with those very few extra percent you lower the quality of the sound quite a bit, with pop outs and  losing the stamina. So i...
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Alternate picking enlightenment

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, November 29, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 


Make sure you drill all the situations that you will ever face when you are using the technique for improvising and not just one little detail in the technique.
Obviously you can do both as long as you dont exclude the all the different aspects of the technique, get more into detail
in the video
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Alternate Picking The Secret Technique

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, February 18, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 


Alternate picking - the secret technique
Obviously its not a secret, the inside outside technique, but what im presenting to you here is a very sxrutinized look at what exactly goes on when you play alternate picking and giving you a example on how to clean up your sound with a specific way of practicing

Why does my alternate picking sound like crap?
Some of the explanation could be what im describing in the video because as I also have noticed that even some great guitarsists has this problem...
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Alternate Picking Help

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, February 11, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 



Alternate picking
A large part of developing the perfect Alternate Picking technique is a numbers game, and few people ever develop a good enough technique making them able to play really fast and clean alternate picking.

How to practice alternate picking
Once you are one hundred percent sure that you are playing the alternate picking correctly, you know you always without exceptions play an up stroke after playing a down stroke and vice versa and all the other little but critical elements, for...
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Alternate picking secrets part 2 and the hidden dampening technique

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 20, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 


Palm mustin

Palm muting as commonly known by most guitar players out there and in many a situation palm mustang is just great and also enough to get the job done, for example for rhythm playing and lines of hammer on's and pull off's. but to get that clean alternate picking sound that we know and love palm muting just is not enough, so we need something extra to clean the sound up thoroughly

The hidden technique

So if you have whatched the complete video you will discover that to clean up your ...
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Alternate picking secrets

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 13, 2018, In : Alternate Picking 


Perfect technique enables speed

In order to get the speed up in any technique you need to have the best leverage to get there, you will never be fast and clean without great technique. 
So how do you find out if you have great technique? its quite simple really, do you play fast AND clean? if you can't give a loud and proud YES to this question then you probably don't have great technique. 

The first alternate picking secret revealed

So the first step to get great technique is as I explain in t...
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Another Trick That Makes You Practice Consistently

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, December 18, 2017, In : how to practice 


Take what you already know and get the most out of it

As you can also see in the video I take some techniques that I already know and bunch them together to a new and fun pattern. What I also do is I identify what techniques or patterns I need to work on and make sure they become a part of the new piece I practice. So for me for example I want to practice some descending alternate picking and also a few triad arpeggios that always needs attention to stay on the edge.

Chances are that you at s...
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How To Master The Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, November 11, 2017, In : how to practice 



How to master the guitar
This is probably a phrace  you heard many times before but it is certainly a concept that is much easier to obtain than you may think and not at all impossible as it may seem. As important is it to understand it can be a wonderfull experience and an enjoyable process once you find you nitch, the road to mastery

Find your voice
The most important thing in mastering the guitar is becoming completely clear about what it is you want to achieve on the guitar and the awesome...
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Easy Scale Licks Implementation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, January 7, 2017, In : Alternate Picking 


Implementation
Obviously the idea of this video and blog is not the lick in it self but more a concept to use when you are soloing in the scales. And let me just apologize for the old url on the video, the video is not completely new but I find the info and idea very relevant and its some time ago I posted some Alternate Picking lessons. The idea is to take a basic concept or a pattern you want to play within the scale pattern and repeat that in the next or previous scale pattern, this is an e...
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How To Play Fast - what everybody ought to know about playing fast

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, January 14, 2016, In : beginner shred guitar 


A simple system that often seem complicated
This video presents to you the do's and dont's of learning to play fast. Learning to play fast is actually simpler than you might think but what you first of all need to know is to cut through all the talk and hype about learning to play fast. I have been teaching guitar for twenty plus years now and again and again I hear students that first come to me talk about stuff they read or saw on the internet that should be the "trick" to learn to play fa...
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Shred Guitar for Beginners Alternate Picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, December 26, 2015, In : beginner shred guitar 


About
This lesson can be used both by beginners as well as for the advanced player who already are mastering the Alternate picking technique who just want to use the lessopn as a lick. But the video is created in such a way so a beginner will get a success certain way to master the alternate picking technique and more importantly get a way of practicing that will get you to your goal every time you want to learn something new. As I also state in the video its all about the mental game and wi...
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Creative practicing Neo Classical Shred

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, August 31, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar 


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This lesson is a piece I have had a lot of benefits from practicing now for some weeks. This is the awesome thing about composing a piece that makes use of all the things you want to be able to play in any situation. So for example if you need to work on either your Sweep picking, your Alternate picking or you 8 finger tapping, this could be a good example of a put together piece that will work on those, so identify what you need to work on and put together a cool piece or by all mean...
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Chopin Etude Alternate picking lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, June 21, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


About
The first thing that I need to mention here is that once you have played through the lesson the first time and if you have played Alternate picking through the whole piece you will start over with the opposite type picking stroke. This means that if you started with a down stroke you will play the second time round with an up stroke. This certainly created a few challenges for me, but thats great, this means that you will improve you Alternate picking technique both starting with and up...
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Inspiring Shred Guitar Techniques

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, May 31, 2015, In : sweep picking 8 finger tapping 


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Make sure that you practice the Tapping technique where you tap back and forth between the long finger and the little finger while holding the pick between the thump and index finger because this particular technique can really slow down the rest of this piece. In general the Tapping technique in this whole piece could use some pondering on what fingering will help you achieve perfection and speed as quick as possible. And also make sure that you try to drill especially the Tapping par...
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Effective practicing

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, In : exotic scales 


About
Other than a cool little musical piece presenting some interresting scales and modes like Major raised five, Dorian, Locrain and Eight note scale used as a dominant, plus the awesome Major seven raised fifth Arpeggio, this video and blog is about creating a nice and inspiring environment for your practicing. Because if you are like me it can sometimes be a little tough being alone with just the guitar and you racing mind, so what really works great for me and helps me keeping my focus ...
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Creative Shred Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, May 4, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


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This video is about getting your own creativity flowing regarding shred guitar and shred techniques. I really feel that once I started to create my own licks and sort of created my own techniques like Sweep picking 8 finger tapping and Sweep picking combined with Extreme and Advanced Tapping I became much more creative and what was awesome about that was also that it gave me many more reasons to practice as much as possible. Im not saying that no one else was doing this in the world, b...
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Neo classical shred guitar lesson 3

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, April 25, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar 


About
This is the third contribution to the Neo Classical Shred guitar lessons or Neo Classical Metal lessons that I have been creating in this period and it is the full pice so there's a lot of Tablature in this one. This one is in a way a little more basic because I only use Sweep picking triads and Alternate picking in six tuplets. There's a lot going on in the backing track so I hope you can still hear whats important, the guitar. There are a few points that does not start on a downbeat w...
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Alternate picking improvisation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, In : how to improvise 


About
This video is a little different than the chops I have posted and the only reason I created the tablature for it is only so you can see exactly what I did. I also need to say that this is of course not a lick that is extremely interesting but the system to create it is extremely useful and interesting. So now that you have seen what I do I really encourage you to start using the system yourself and create som really cool runs and licks that fits well into the scale patterns because it th...

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Harmonic minor Alternate picking speed

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 29, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


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In a way this is just a simple Alternate picking lesson, but again there's so much to be able to be fast and clean in the Alternate picking technique. But once you get the fundamentals down in the technique you are able to play fast in everything that is build from the scales with the three notes per string concept, that's also the reason that it looks so easy for the players who really master the Alternate picking technique and who has a strong basis in the three notes per string concep...
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Alternate picking speed Formula

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 27, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


About
So as the video explains, I get some great benefits from just practising fifteen minutes every morning. So first thing in the morning I stretch my fingers a little bit and then start slowly with the first lesson. As I also state in the video it's not really the material that does the trick but more the idea of getting really deep into the technique every morning and I don't even try to play any of the pieces I practice fast, or try to reach my max. Whats important in this idea is to get...
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The 5 critical Steps to fast Alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 27, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


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Alternate picking can be such a frustrating technique because you develop the speed in another way than with many other techniques, in Alternate picking we develop the speed in quantum leaps instead of gradually getting faster. So a lot of people give up because they don't see the improvement they expect. But check out these five steps in this video and adjust any possible "wrong" way that has not taken you to the result you are after

Step 1. Practice at a pace where you have total cont...
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Alternate picking study 12

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


About
Hi there here is cool little alternate picking run that is very reminiscent of something Paul Gilbert used to do in the eighties and probably still does, there´s no doubt that the three notes per string alternate picking ideas from the Classic Intense Rock really inspired me and a lot of other guitar players out there and created the basics of playing fast alternate picking. The idea of starting an alternate picking run from the low E string and continuing it through the scale patterns ...
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Neo Classical Capricci 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar 


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Here is the second contribution to the Neo Classical Shred Guitar Caprice. This one makes use of three different invertions of the E minor triad sweep picking arpeggio and also of the Harmonic minor scale in the second and first position. This is again a piece that can easily be divided up into all the sweep picking arpeggios and then also the final sixtuplet alternate picking pattern. Apart from you making faster technical progress on something like this, this is also a really cool ways...
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Neo Classical Capricci 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 21, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar 


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Do you love it ? Well I do ! This little caprice kind of thing is in the key of B minor and is obviously executed in the Harmonic minor scale so if you dont know the seven scale positions in the harmonic minor scale then it is definitively a great contribution to learn stuff like this because it will give you a great over all view of the patterns that´s going on in stuff like this. I find that if im learning stuff that is making use of patterns like scales and arpeggios I know then I le...
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Alternate Picking Basics part 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


About
Hey there, I made this video because I got some feedback regarding the previous video touching on the subject of the right hand picking method. So I realized that the previous video was not thorough enough and its funny that whenever I go into detail on a subject that seems quite simple to the untrained eye "such as my own" then I suddenly conceive that there is much more to the case that I first thought. So in this video I will go more into detail on the ways to hold the pick. For me pe...
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Alternate Picking Lesson 7

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


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This alternate picking idea is pretty cool in the way it makes use of re using a lot of notes and this way you in a little area play a lot of notes but it still sounds like a lot is happening so to say. the same concept is used in three spots with the little turnaround as I like to call it where the first is pivoting on the A string. The pattern is also being executed in the third position of the Major scale and the key is C minor which is sharing the same notes as the E flat Major scale...
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Alternate picking Paul Gilbert style

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, March 12, 2015, In : paul gilbert 


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Shred Guitar Lessons in Alternate Picking Three notes per string like Paul Gilbert and even using the ideas and concepts in your own playing. In this video I give you the tools to start doing just that

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Paganini Alternate picking speed lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


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This little piece I use as an Alternate picking technique lesson is taken from the Nicolo Paganini masterpiece Moto Perpetuo. Mind you, Moto Perpetuo exists in more than one version so you might even have heard a different version than this

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Alternate picking adjusting the pick part 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 9, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 

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Alternate picking adjusting the pick part 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 9, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 

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Alternate Picking Basics

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 8, 2015, In : Alternate Picking 


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I did this video a while ago with the intention of starting a site with only beginner guitar stuff. I saw the video through and I think the video has some important knowledge if you want to learn how to play guitar shred guitar and lead guitar style of course. I go through all the pitfalls I believe there can appear when you want to play fast alternate picking such as where to establish your control of the right arm and hand. The first point of control of the movement actually starts in ...
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String skipping Alternate picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 6, 2015, In : string skipping 


About
Hey guys and dolls ! here is another shred guitar lesson, this one is string skipping and as I also explain in the video the obvious inspiration is of course Paul Gilbert but also that I prefer playing alternate picking all the way through instead of combining alternate picking with hammer on and pull off as Paul Gilbert does. There´s no doubt that this way of using alternate picking all the way is way more challenging since you have to be really quick with the picking hand to avoid spa...
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Paul Gilbert Shred Guitar Alternate Picking

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Saturday, March 16, 2013, In : Alternate Picking 


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Shred Guitar Lessons in Alternate Picking Three notes per string like Paul Gilbert and even using the ideas and concepts in your own playing. In this video I give you the tools to start doing just that

Tablature 
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