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Our Daily Shred: Hand Synchronization Workout!

🕑 Added 2024-02-21 14:47:03 +0000 UTC

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Chris

Why can I only see the latest post and not a long list off all the posts?

JadusVonMetal

Damn this is a burner! The pulloffs are especially difficult. Love these Uncle B

eriklessons

Any more Daily Shred's coming? This is a great workout. TY.

J Sayre

so much harder than it looks. are you using active pups?

eriklessons

I really appreciate all of your guitar workouts. It's difficult to find play along workouts online.

Matt Nelson

i never realized how hard going backwards was.

Wes Chandler

thanks, Nick....this is why we can't have nice things. take your sermon elsewhere, dude. this is NOT the forum for it. go rage someplace else besides a PAID patreon account.

Paul Baglio

Great workout... I'm instantly feeling the benefits and will be using this daily 👍🏻

Nick Castelluccio

i don't recommend making "light" of the Word of God... choose a different series title.

Harry Doyle

I love this idea Uncle Ben, "Give us this day our daily Shred" has a great ring to it, more better than "Just a Bit outside"

SEHK

I love this idea! Gotta say though, was a bit sad that there was no celebratory "YAAAAAAAAAAAY" at the end of the midi ;(

Ben Eller

haha glad you noticed that!!

Jamie Gordon

Loving the name. Also great set of exercises, was an awesome way to warm up today!

Steven Michael

So cool on the backing tracks how you used different sounds for legato vs picked.

Adam Tremblett

Love the inclusion of the Guitar Pro file! With GP8 I was able to sync up the backing track and easily adjust the tempo. This is a killer workout! Thanks Ben!

Paul

This is really challenging. I can definitely see where I need to work on fingering the fretboard, and building strength in my left hand. What you're doing on screen and which fingers you're using and I definitely will see improvement once I get this down, this is great! Thank you, Ben!

Matt Nelson

weird how i can noodle for hours but when i do this exercise my hand starts hurting near the end of the course. not a bad thing but i am not conditioned well enough for these repetitive movements so it gives me something to work on!

Pavel Kvapil

Great workout! Can´t wait for next one :)

Ty

Great video, love those drums too :) I always like learning about soloing over chord changes Marty Friedman style

Eric Bullington

Lots of fun!!!!

Brad Spalding

Would love to see an Eric Gales style “up the stairs, down the stairs” pentatonic workout.

OldDogNewShred

Pedal tone workout?

papa barwis

great exercise Ben. I was hoping you could maybe do a video on a subject Troy Grady touched upon (I know you're a fan of his) which is 'string hopping' as he calls it, or inefficient picking motion. I've been struggling with breaking certain speed barriers (around 120bpm 16th notes) as my picking technique just goes all over the place. Maybe some exercies to combat that?

Joel Alain

Great video. Hand synchronization is definitely a weak point (among many) for me…I’d love to see some string switching/skipping stuff on Our Daily Shred. I can play a few of your single string alternate picking exercises at 180-190bpm (sixteenth notes) but as soon as I start trying to play 2 note per string pentatonic runs like our most holy Father in shred, Eric Johnson, I top out at 140-150bpm.

Shahar Bar

EXHAUSTING!

Gaclav

Will try it right now! Regarding next Daily Shredhs, maybe some "unorthodox" techniques like two-hand tapping, hybrid, slapping&spanking?

Michael Kintzer

Good stuff! Managed it at 35 bpm (wanted to make sure I had at least one successful run at it). At that speed it's over a 10 minute workout, so I got that going for me at least. Thanks!

Paul

This is excellent Ben. Brilliant. Your a genius Gump! Thank you. Just give us enough time to learn, and actually internalize these lesson before moving on too quickly. I want to commit to these lessons cause I know it will improve my playing. 🎸

NYCM&AHole

Wills yous tries its on a grandpas guitars? https://youtu.be/Kwpfi39DCDw?si=DnU1KnYHk6kEwU1L

NYCM&AHole

This is a great idea

NYCM&AHole

Thanks, shred-uncle Ben! I was also thinking something similar along the lines of Ritchie Blackmore’s pre-chorus triplet string skipping in man on the silver mountain as another hand sync exercise. That one’s been vexing me but it’s also mainly hand synchronization. Similarly vexing are the fills post first-chorus of nevermore’s the river dragon has come.

SpaceChimp

Such a great idea. Can't wait to get stuck in. Thanks, Ben!

Ben Eller

love that idea, totally doing that!!!

Ben Eller

ah, excellent! Those kinds of discoveries are just what I was hoping people would find with this workout.

Peter B.

Really love this idea, Ben. Mini lessons that we can play along is great.

Diogo Camacho

This was great. Gave me a few ideas. For example, do this over 3 strings: alternate pick on 1 string, legato on the next string, alternate on the next, and the go back. Pretty cool workout, Ben.

Christopher Henry

Sweet!!! I know what I'm doing after work🤘🤘 thanks Ben!

Shveta Stern

Okay, I just tried round one on half speed; I definitely need to work on my pull offs and also found that it’s much harder for me going back down versus on the way up!