Our Daily Shred: Hand Synchronization Workout!
Added 2024-02-21 14:47:03 +0000 UTCI'm so thrilled to start this series and share it with you! When i put out the idea for Our Daily Shred, you all responded so positively that i HAD to do one right away! Thanks for the positive vibes.
In the debut installment of ODS, we're gonna practice a KILLER workout to improve your hand sync! By playing the same licks with picking (RH dominant), legato (LH dominant), and a mix (both hands working together), we can put our hand sync to the TEST! BOTH hands have to have perfect groove for the best synchronization, and workouts like this will make it happen!
Let me know what you all think of the format of this video, and PLEASE let me know changes you'd like to see for future installments. I feel like this series could really help a lot of players, and get some great repeat views for my channel. Everybody wins!
Grab the TAB, practice tracks, Guitar Pro file, and MIDI file below and get after it! Hope you dig it, more coming soon!!
-BE
Comments
Why can I only see the latest post and not a long list off all the posts?
Chris
2024-10-26 22:10:50 +0000 UTCDamn this is a burner! The pulloffs are especially difficult. Love these Uncle B
JadusVonMetal
2024-05-31 01:45:51 +0000 UTCAny more Daily Shred's coming? This is a great workout. TY.
eriklessons
2024-03-13 16:58:10 +0000 UTCso much harder than it looks. are you using active pups?
J Sayre
2024-03-09 13:39:57 +0000 UTCI really appreciate all of your guitar workouts. It's difficult to find play along workouts online.
eriklessons
2024-03-07 20:28:27 +0000 UTCi never realized how hard going backwards was.
Matt Nelson
2024-03-05 03:47:46 +0000 UTCthanks, 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.
Wes Chandler
2024-03-03 15:54:01 +0000 UTCGreat workout... I'm instantly feeling the benefits and will be using this daily 👍🏻
Paul Baglio
2024-03-02 23:27:30 +0000 UTCi don't recommend making "light" of the Word of God... choose a different series title.
Nick Castelluccio
2024-03-02 03:36:47 +0000 UTCI 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"
Harry Doyle
2024-03-01 04:18:03 +0000 UTCI love this idea! Gotta say though, was a bit sad that there was no celebratory "YAAAAAAAAAAAY" at the end of the midi ;(
SEHK
2024-02-28 21:00:15 +0000 UTChaha glad you noticed that!!
Ben Eller
2024-02-28 15:10:36 +0000 UTCLoving the name. Also great set of exercises, was an awesome way to warm up today!
Jamie Gordon
2024-02-28 10:19:48 +0000 UTCSo cool on the backing tracks how you used different sounds for legato vs picked.
Steven Michael
2024-02-25 19:57:44 +0000 UTCLove 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!
Adam Tremblett
2024-02-24 16:18:00 +0000 UTCThis 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!
Paul
2024-02-24 13:33:19 +0000 UTCweird 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!
Matt Nelson
2024-02-23 16:32:15 +0000 UTCGreat workout! Can´t wait for next one :)
Pavel Kvapil
2024-02-22 07:49:33 +0000 UTCGreat video, love those drums too :) I always like learning about soloing over chord changes Marty Friedman style
Ty
2024-02-22 05:17:41 +0000 UTCLots of fun!!!!
Eric Bullington
2024-02-22 03:25:24 +0000 UTCWould love to see an Eric Gales style “up the stairs, down the stairs” pentatonic workout.
Brad Spalding
2024-02-22 03:13:23 +0000 UTCPedal tone workout?
OldDogNewShred
2024-02-22 01:15:01 +0000 UTCgreat 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?
papa barwis
2024-02-22 00:47:00 +0000 UTCGreat 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.
Joel Alain
2024-02-22 00:42:01 +0000 UTCEXHAUSTING!
Shahar Bar
2024-02-21 21:13:20 +0000 UTCWill try it right now! Regarding next Daily Shredhs, maybe some "unorthodox" techniques like two-hand tapping, hybrid, slapping&spanking?
Gaclav
2024-02-21 18:56:47 +0000 UTCGood 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!
Michael Kintzer
2024-02-21 18:24:37 +0000 UTCThis 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. 🎸
Paul
2024-02-21 18:06:49 +0000 UTCWills yous tries its on a grandpas guitars? https://youtu.be/Kwpfi39DCDw?si=DnU1KnYHk6kEwU1L
NYCM&AHole
2024-02-21 18:00:36 +0000 UTCThis is a great idea
NYCM&AHole
2024-02-21 17:57:45 +0000 UTCThanks, 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.
NYCM&AHole
2024-02-21 17:56:48 +0000 UTCSuch a great idea. Can't wait to get stuck in. Thanks, Ben!
SpaceChimp
2024-02-21 17:49:12 +0000 UTClove that idea, totally doing that!!!
Ben Eller
2024-02-21 15:31:02 +0000 UTCah, excellent! Those kinds of discoveries are just what I was hoping people would find with this workout.
Ben Eller
2024-02-21 15:30:46 +0000 UTCReally love this idea, Ben. Mini lessons that we can play along is great.
Peter B.
2024-02-21 15:29:41 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Diogo Camacho
2024-02-21 15:21:43 +0000 UTCSweet!!! I know what I'm doing after work🤘🤘 thanks Ben!
Christopher Henry
2024-02-21 15:15:29 +0000 UTCOkay, 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!
Shveta Stern
2024-02-21 15:03:58 +0000 UTCI will give it a try at my custom step-grandad speed. Thanks Ben.
John LaTour
2024-02-21 14:54:46 +0000 UTCYou’re my FAVORITE uncle 🔥🤘🏻
David Montgomery
2024-02-21 14:52:02 +0000 UTCGive us this day, our daily shred!!!
Daniel Shaw
2024-02-21 14:48:16 +0000 UTC
