The 6 WORST Guitar Technique Mistakes (and 6 exercises to FIX them!)

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Opening the guitar case and taking the guitar out is usually my first mistake.

I learned all this over 18 years, you are learning it in 13 min. Lucky bastards.

One of the best advice I got was to never practice the wrong way. For example if you find your self playing a riff wrong over and over, just stop. Slow down. Do it correctly. It's muscle memory

To refer to later: Thumb technique: 2:46 Wrist technique: 4:37 Wrist angle: 6:46 Finger Position: 8: 51 Vibrato / String Bending: 9:43 Hand Synch: 10:52

Grabbing my guitar now. You pretty much pointed out most of my problems in this video

1 exercise: yeah, i can do that 2 exercise: WELL, THAT ESCALETED QUICKLY

Been learning guitar for a month now & I am slowly appreciating the skills of these guitarists! Makes me appreciate music more too.

I have been a Siberian potato farmer for the last 57 years, often practicing my squire Stratocaster for 3 mins in the last bits of daylight that shine Through my mud stained sheets that cover my windows. With the help of your videos I can now play the theme song to the golden girls using my remaining 2 fingers that I did not lose to frostbite. Thank you I will now start my next life mission and learn the intro to love boat.

Hello Bernth , I am 62 years old , been playing guitar for 50 years and You’re proving a theory of mine which is you never realize that technique and rhythm continue on, it is not finite. It pleases me to see how you are covering everything with your YT videos. I would say good luck but it’s not needed . Take care , your channel is now My Saturday afternoon with coffee ! Thanks

My first mistake was thinking I could play the Damn thing.

Being self-taught and casually playing for a few years now, I noticed improvements from those exercises in minutes 🤯

I think another mistake is not challenging yourself too. I struggled not learning one song for a month or two because I thought it was too difficult for me to play, but really it just took memorizing the notes and practicing it enough to muscle memory.

“It’s not really about the size of your hands” says the guy with a pinky the length of my arm! 😂

There was a few techniques that I was learning from these guitarist: Doug Aldrich - the only technique he said to learn and practise every day was the vibrato. Paul Gilbert - getting the note near the tip of your fingers. Carlos Santana - you need to put your soul and feel in every note/string you hit. Yngwie Malmsteen - when you do your leads, it’s just your thumb and index finger holding the pick that moves. I stick to these advices and it kinda make sense. But what I’m amaze is Doug Aldrich’s thumb which is always missing during his lead playing. 😂

When I first started learning how to play, my biggest mistake was thinking because everyone in my family taught themselves how to play guitar that it was going to be easy for me. That was a huge mistake. I talked with my brother and found that it took a good year to get to the point where he was able to randomly play a few basic songs. My daughter took longer. I'm not sure how long it took my father. He always played in bands as long as I can remember. That being said, I am going on 3 years now. I can play quite a few songs now, but I find myself still finding places to learn something. You never know what you don't know until you start checking out things people are teaching. Nice video, thanks!

I stayed 10 years without playing guitar and now that I want to get back playing again, this channel is helping me so much to remember import things

My pinky does seem to have a mind of its own

This is really great stuff, delivered with no BS or arrogance. Will help thousands!

I just started practicing #3 and quickly realized one of my problems with transitioning is focusing on wrist movement rather than arm movement. Allowing my thumb to slide on rather than grip the neck has made this activity easier. Thanks for your tutorials and for sharing your knowledge!