#163 - 10 LEVELS OF SHRED GUITAR | (beginner to pro)

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If he'd saw that video, he would probably say "Never show this to James and Lars" :D

DNRFOX

1:28 sounds like Kirk Hammet

Seth

Hey Bernth, why aren't level 9 and 10 in the video play alongs?

Thank you for your replies! I will research finger rolling and practice it now! :)

Bernd Brodträger

Yes, finger rolling really helps with challenging shapes :) I'd love to do an in-depth video on this, let's see how the community decides in the next lesson votings!

that is done with finger rolling

Quick question about level 8: The tab has an A followed by an E--both on the 14th fret. It's really difficult to see in the video what Bernth is doing to make that possible, but it _sounds_ like he plays it. However, you can see he doesn't barre the two notes (it would be much too fast to do that with a flat ring finger). I could see that A being a G on the 12th fret of the G string, and it being a tiny bit easier to make the arpeggio (changing it to a C instead of an A minor)... but you know.. that's a different chord. Still in the key, though. My finger isn't so enormous that I can get both the notes with the tip of my finger. What do y'all think? How did he do it? Did the distortion mask the note and it's fine because it's so fast (which is totally legit at those speeds--you do what you have to to make the music)?

Level 7...sweep picking makes my head overheat:)

Vincent Boiteau

Thanks Robert, I’ll try that.

Robert Duncan

I think it's meant more to help you evaluate where your skill is at. It could be used as a practice tool by doing what you said, lower the BPM and practice til you get each note perfect and smooth, then bump BPM til you're able to do the next level at a slow BPM.

Jimmy Grieve

Level 6 at slower speeds, but a long way away from Level 7

edwin

Hi Bernth i like this shred topic, yesterday i download a app from the keyboard player Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater verry cool shred app GEOSHRED check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHwSshPi-i8

Same here Bro. :(

Vincent Boiteau

Hi guys, noob question here. I'm using guitar pro on that one....are we supposed to stick to a level until we reach its prescribed bpm?

Bernd Brodträger

Thanks for sharing that Vincenzo! I replied to your message on this earlier, hope it helped! :)

Vincenzo

Hello everybody, I won't say that my level is...., because I'm restarting this guitar journey after 15 years studing, I stopped when I started doing Jazz lessons, too many hours of theory and practics. But if I have to say at what step of the # 163 exercise I'm having serious difficults, sure for me is the step 8th, sweep picikng is something with I have to work with deeply and give time to my brain to understand how to execute it clean. Now it's impossible for my skill go fast with this. About alternate pickicng no big deal, just time to make the pattern as my owne and it goes.

Joshiro Joestar

Wow, I am at level 3 barely at 90 bpm. I need to get working!!

Level 6 at slow Speed,about 70 bpm. I am tryng to increase Speed with 16th triplets

Papa Murf76

Been at level 6 for a little bit now. 120 BPM , 16th notes. I feel very comfortable at this tempo but I still have days when I get string noise. Practice, practice, practice. Thanks for all the help.🤘

Lauri Laurila

Whoah, that was intense. I'm certainly somewhere in level 4 and gradually pushing up the technic. I know my weaknesses; hand sync when decending on a single string, where you have to move your finger out of the, that's where index and middle finger don't change fast enough. Second would be tremolo picking with string transitions that always working on. Thirdly, overall finger control together with trying stay relaxed. Great things about your exercises is that they make you more aware and increases self reflection of ones skills. That's the most pleasing thing to notice. I know what I can do, and I know what I need to do next to get better.

Scott Walden

Level 7 at 80 BPM. But Level 8 is really hard since I'm still not very good at sweep picking.

Ormando Gomez Jr.

This is very useful! Thanks!

Patrick Schmitz

Somewhere around level 3. Have to increase strength and accuracy in my picking hand. I also need to improve synchronization when going faster, so it doesn't sound like an incoherent mess.

Sephiroth

Wow... as always. As for my Nemesis: I am still struggeling with sweeping... started learning it with your Sweep Picking Master class in august last year. Main problem still is speed. I am practicing for 180 bpm speed rolls and still don't really get there. 160 is manageable... but not what I would call good. In 8th triplets this is. For reaching this goal I am mainly using your speeding up exercises 3 and 4 from the week six. Just in one direction it kind of works at 180 bpm... but as soon as I am trying to combine the motions I get stuck at this tempo. To better get there I modified your exercises that I am speeding up into both directions for a few measures after some measures of just playing what you intended to. But well... I don't see myself arriving at this tempo any time soon. (with good and clean technique) and this after over half of a year working pretty consistently on it... that really sucks... Also I am practicing a solopart I rewrote for one of my bands songs into sweeping to have a practical exercise... this is with 16th notes - no triplets - and I have to reach the tempo of 135 bpm for it. Here I feel like getting pretty close since the last 2 weeks or so. Although it is techniquely the same speed as 8th triplets on 180 bpm and the whole lick is a little more complex than your "Switchting Exercises" but not pretty much though... toughest thing here is a short sweep over just the highest two strings at the end of an arppegio. Anyhow... I'm still on it hoping for better days to come... even when not seeing me getting real (creative) sweeping sections to play clean and precise at any day of my life...

kevin Dumont

Level 6 at 30BPM xD :p Whatever the technique (except taping, I haven't try yet to much to learn before) I'm stuck around 100bpm 16th note triplet. It's hard to pass the step but I'm still working on it. Regarding my nemesis: I would say when I play each note twice in alternate picking. I don't know why but when I increase the tempo, It is a mess, my brain try to count to be sure I don't add any note. xD

Arvid Richter

4 and 5 at the most. Maybe I'll skip the rest and go straight to level 11

Daniel Lager

I'm somewhere between 3 an 4. I just try to get much more accurate with hand sync. I just started with legato and sweep and I'm looking forward to my progress on that. If I'd reach Level 7 I'd ... One step after each other. I think accuracy and mastering one technique is better than sloppy playing of several different techniques...