The Spiderman Crawl Exercise
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How to Do a Spider Walk Benefits. The spider walk targets the muscles in your shoulders, chest, upper back, arms, and the muscles of your lower Step-by-Step Instructions. Before you get down on the floor, make sure the space around you is clear of any debris or Common Mistakes. The most common.
spiders also utilize silk and natural wind in a special locomotion called ballooning. Walking. Spiders walk by alternating two pairs of legs. While two pairs of legs are in the air, other two stay on the ground and support the body. The amazing part of spider walking is that spiders are able to walk on both horizontal and vertical surfaces. How.
In this video, I show the unique “Spider Walk” guitar exercise and I talk about the value in doing it for even just 30 days. This exercise is best practiced in two ways. The first is a “fixed.The Mysterious Way Spiders Can Walk On Walls And Why You Can’t Duration: 3:55. Seeker Recommended for you.
I Did the “Spider Walk” for 30 Days (THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED!) Duration: 14:39. creativeguitarstudio 2,310,450 views. 14:39. 50+ videos Play all Mix Spider Routine (Do This DAILY!) YouTube; 30.
Master the Spiderman Crawl exercise with 30-Second Fitness trainer Jeremy Shore. It might feel silly to go from walking to crawling, but this move is really effective! Subscribe for New Episodes.When walking and running, spiders alternate their four pairs of legs.
While two pairs of legs are in the air, the other two pairs are on the ground for support. At the ends of the spiders’ legs are many special hairs that have microscopic feet that allow them to grip onto horizontal and vertical surfaces.Spider Strength.
Wolff wanted to find out how the banana spider (Cupiennius salei) could generate enough sticky force to keep from falling while also being able to detach quickly enough to catch and eat its prey. An attack usually lasts less than a quarter second, and a fleeing spider runs up to 1.6 feet (0.5 meter) per second.All eight spider legs are attached to the cephalothroax for a good reason. Each leg’s outward movement is controlled through the cephalothroax, which regulates the hydraulic movement and pressure hemolymph. Spiders don’t need extensor muscles because they can use fluid movement/hydraulics to “push” out their legs.
Start in a push-up position with the hands shoulder-width apart and the legs straight out directly behind the body about hip-width apart. Push the toes of the left foot into the floor and squeeze the left thigh and glute while moving the right knee forward to the outside of the right elbow.How to practice Start out slow, real slow and play through each exercise a couple of times until it feels comfortable. Once you can play the exercises slowly without faltering try playing along with a metronome. Again begin real slowly and gradually increase the tempo of the metronome.
The biology of a spider walking is very simple this is like having a balloon and straws attached to it,Spiders have what is caled an open circulatory system, their heart is a simple tube the heart.Face the wall, straighten your right arm in line with your shoulder and place your fingers on the wall. Inch your fingers up the wall by walking them like a spider moves his legs one or two.While small spiders don’t look hairy to the naked eye, their feet are covered in tiny hairs.
In fact, even their hair has hair the little hairs on their feet are covered in even smaller hairs called setules. A spider has more than half a million of these setules, all of which end in a triangular tip.Stand about a foot from the wall with your back to the wall. Put your hands on the ground and one foot on the wall. Slowly, walk your hands closer to the wall as you walk your feet up the wall, until your stomach is touching the wall and you are in a handstand position.
Keep your head neutral but look at your hands with your eyes.
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212 comments
Thank you so much. Wish I’d found this before trying (unsuccessfully) to decode it from nature videos.
This video has been exceptionally helpful to me! Fantastic job!
When you do these daily remember to stretch… I hurt my hand doing these with an acoustic everyday and playing like 6-8 hours a day… Now my hand needs a surgery.
Please, slow down your way of speaking and executing the exercises to make it easier to follow the instruction.
is there any work of 1 and 2 finger or is it for support????
I’ve got rid of all the flies in my house while practicing this but im still shit on guitar.
Was looking for a good technical exercise to practice daily, this is great. Would you recommend also going back down the neck?
This is one of the few channels that actually teaches you to play with good instructions
All spiders should be terminated. I scream like a wee girl whenever I see one. Now I have to animate one though…
When you get it going it really does look like a spider. It’s both glorious and repulsive
Thanks for the video and tutorial! Very helpful. I was wondering is it possible to set the metronome to a slower speed, if so, what BPM would you recommend to practice the sixteenth notes the four picks per note routine?
hey mike…just recently started learning guitar during quarantine 2020…this seems a really good exercise for me but I am really having trouble with weak fingers especially in my pinky finger. Any suggestions?
Hey, great lesson! I’m almost there at the 16th notes but I struggle with down-picking, when strumming the next string the pick sort of gets muddled up in the previous one and prevents me from being accurate even though my hand is quick, I feel I might not be doing the right downward movement, much easier when going upwards, I don’t know why… Any tips? Thank you!:)
You are my favourite guitar teacher…How can I contribute to you financially?
I get this weird thing when I transition from my third to my fourth finger, it’s like my hand just doesn’t want to make the simple movement of pushing the fourth finger down into the fretboard. I think I have a weird hand but maybe other s have simerler problems?
can u do a windmill tutorial with more details or tips? part 3
I may have to animate a 3D spider for a short film i’m working on and this is super helpful, thanks.
The big problem with this exercise is there is no finger independence Iinvolved. This is not correct technique unless playing legato
Hi Mike, I recently found your channel and I gotta say it’s the only one that I has got me hooked practicing daily. Quick question: whenever I play, I tend to find myself placing my right pinky in my guitar’s pickguard. Should I avoid this? I’ven been playin for years, but never put any attention to that until now. Thanks for putting up such amazing content bro!
Really great exercise. This really helps to build finger independence.
I’m not sure about this, but isn’t the spider walk actually meant to let the rest of your fingers lay down on the strings while moving up to the next one instead of taking them all of?
I’m 7 months old and just started learning guitar. I can already play the 007 theme tune.
Awesome! Thank you.
I’ve been wondering how to get chops as fast and accurate as a classical violinist and I’m sure that exercises like these and more are the key. Thanks again
You suggest this as coordinating the movements between R and L hand techniques but give no specific guidance on pick direction. I see you’re alternating your picking through the full exercise demo at a tempo that would allow all down picks for an intermediate level player, and in the initial explanation it looks like you’re using all down picks. This exercise is very commonly shared by a variety of teachers/players with different suggestions about the pick direction. I think it’s worth clarifying your specific recommendation if you intend to provide entry access for beginners. Remember, the beginner knows/understands nothing and is easily confounded. Thanks for the share! Be well always!
Super bro…do more technical videos for beginners like me…it’s very useful
I do this in a new workout circuit I started to build up to do a walking handstand. This helped to make sure my form was right, thanks allot!
Hey sir, I just bought my first guitar last week, I never played one before I was wondering if is this something I should start practicing as the first exercise or are there some other more important exercises for a beginner? And I have a problem with my ring finger it is so hard to control it
I’ve changed my tactics recently and do the last one at YouTube’s 0.75x playback speed. Mike sounds so hammered though!
Oh, the anguish! You know a exercise is good when it turns your brain into scrambled egg.
Is this Richard Williams? He just passed away recently,:( he was such an amazing animator.
My left hand between the middle and ring finger naturally falls so close together that i barely clear the fret. will this exercise help me separate these fingers it really messes with my sound and it keeps me from learning more.
Hey Vincani can you do a 1990 and a headspin tutorial? It’d be a lot of help thanks
Your not suppose to take your other fingers off the fret board when going to another string
If you want a serious comment, you’ll have to give me 30 days.
I’ve seen at least three versions of the spider walk now, idk what to practice now, lol.
thank you vincani tv….u have teach me new steps..thanks very much
This is a lot harder than it looks thanks Mike it really helps
I will be trying to post my daily progress here just to hold myself accountable and to inform you guys of the effectiveness.
Warm up Day 1: 5 minutes of exercise. starting at 110bpm and playing each note as and 8th note (rhythmically: so basically like 220bpm if I played each note at quarter note level)
But I have to stop between each set of strings before going to the next bc I still have to think about the pattern.
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Yup I really did the 30 days spider walk see the result https://youtu.be/Ficor1pjEDk
This is really a very helpful exercise. I do highly recommend it. The exercise will assist in developing dexterity. It can’t replace playing with feel as opposed to technical. There really is no practice for that.. just play as often as you can. Don’t practice, PLAY!
A shadow would be helpful, so can see how many legs are on the ground so can get an idea about how much the body bobs up and down…
Can anyone recommend practice routines for intermediate players to enhance their playing?
If you really hate yourself and want to strengthen your picking hand do the whole thing by downpicking. Good luck.
I’ve always been curious about this; you wouldn’t think that many legs would be able to move so precisely and gracefully.
Here’s the result after 30 days.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ficor1pjEDk
Very helpful. I wouldn’t have thought it is actually such an easy scheme.
Would be nice to display a tab as to the fingering placement and strings
You are a great teacher, no doubt about that. You will do well in a classroom. I know. I am a teacher of English Literature.
Pretty close to what I learned from my first instructor, except I was only allowed to move one finger at a time from one string to the next.
My first lessons (circa 1980) was a series of “spider walks” (1-2-3-4 up, down, 4-3-2-1 up, down, 1-3-2-4 up, down, 4-2-3-1 up, down… etc etc)still love ’em!
What if you suck and you cant strum 4 times on a beat? Or stay on the beat for that matter…
When you do this spider exercise, and you are going from fret to fret are you on your fingertips? it doesn’t look like it but as a beginner, I’m taught to be on my fingertips. But when i see you play or any experienced player, it never looks like just their fingertips are touching the strings. So I’m confused about this. Thanks
I’ve been playing guitar for only two months, with a lot of pauses in between due to school and work, and man, everything beyond the second set is too much for me ��
Hey, I’m new to the channel, man, your lessons are fantastic and very much appreciated ��☘️☘️☘️
I did this Spider Walk technique for 30 days and it worked fine. On day 31, I did it while wearing a t-shirt featuring 3 wolves. My life changed forever! The strings started to glow and I knew something had happened. When I drove to Walmart for more Mountain Dew and Flaming Hot Cheetos, every vehicle on the road was pulling to the side (this includes oncoming traffic and traffic in my lane). I looked around thinking there was an emergency vehicle and there wasn’t. Each traffic light I came to turned green immediately. Also, the cross streets’ light would skip yellow and go straight to red so that I could proceed without stopping. Naturally, this resulted in some massive box car pile ups around me, but I didn’t care because I was on cloud nine. When I pulled into Walmart, I was searching for a parking spot when I saw a Walmart worker waving at me and then she took out a hacksaw and cut down a disabled parking sign. She then guided me into the spot. I got out and asked her why all this stuff was happening. She wouldn’t make eye contact, and she ran away screaming, “I’m not worthy!” Upon entering Cheetos aisle, I heard asthmatic breathing and wheezing. It was like a siren song to my heart. There I stood with four bags of cheetos in my arms. There she sat in her motorized cart with a case of Mountain Dew in the basket. Our eyes locked and not a word was said. She had a hoodie featuring 2 wolves and she immediately recognized my dominance. I asked if she wanted to howl at the moon that night, and ever since then I’ve had her howling at the moon, the sun, rainstorms, whatever. This spider walk technique makes her howl like none other as long as she can get a good enough breath in between hits of her inhaler. Plus my Cheeto stained fingers leave a road map of where I’ve been so there isn’t any guesswork while I make my way over her fretboard…I mean fleshboard. Thanks!
I’m 54 years old and I started playing guitar when I was nine.
I don’t play guitar because I’m good at it.
I play because I love to play music.
Very little talent, whole lot of want to!
Your video’s have definitely helped make me a better guitarist. Not a great one, but better.
Thanks for your videos!
It’s fine but the pinky is still high. Very tricky to fix though.
Nice. How your right hand plays the same excersice? Using two fingers only or four? Thanks
I’m a beginner, and this exercise is awesome. I’m 56, an old fart, lol, with no dexterity at first. After spider walking for awhile, damn, this is a must for beginners. You can learn the fret board, and get great individual finger movements. Thanks creative guitar.
By far the clearest explanation of spider exercise. Thanks. Will check out your website for more good advice.
very nice video Mike..I’ve been playing for 20 years and I still do these exercises daily..I just subbed your channel and look forward to more helpful videos..also thanks for taking time and making these videos for us fellow guitarists.
Hey so I can play this exactly the way you teach it. I was just wondering would it be worth doing the exercise where you keep your fingers 3 out of your 4 fingers on the string above as you go down onto the neck string? So for example, 2 3 4 (on the top E string)…The numbers representing your fingers. Then…. 3 4
1 1 2
Instead of 1234, Index finger goes down onto the next fret and your fingers lift off to go down quickly onto the next string.
Fast, to-the-point, precise and informative.. Thank you very much!
I did this exercise for 30 days… girlfriend is having a blast.
8 to 10 hours per day practising? Sorry, but that’s absolutely unecessary. Every guitar guitar teacher I’ve ever heard discussing this issue agrees that you need to practice at least 20 minutes per day, but not 8 to 10 hours! It is much more important to practice every day rather than long extended periods of time. Ridiculously long practices can actually have an adverse affect, physically and mentally. This has also been my personal experience. When you get to a certain point you hit a wall, and almost everything you do after that is wasted time. I would agree with most teachers that 2 hours divided into two sessions should be the maximum practice time per day.
I lost all my picks. Now I have to do this with a plastic coin. Yay.
Aren’t you supposed to leave the fingers not in use on the last string? Like when you finished on the low E string you start to put your index finger on the A string, but the other fingers rest on the low E until they need to be used on the A string. And then you put your remaining fingers from the low E to the A string one by one? I think this makes the exercise way more difficult.
Hey Vince, you should finish your windmill tutorials by uploading part 3!
been doing this for weeks without feeling much improvement and then i realised i wasn’t keeping my fingers on the fretboard moving up (as soon as i played with my middle finger i would lift my index), trying it properly my arm aches already… room for improvement ahah, thank you for this and all the lessons!
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Nothing to see hear just so I can skip everyday now have a good day everyone
I joined your course because of this lesson. I really hope you create more follow-along lessons like this.
I learnt this move a long time ago… I forgot it and never use it… Thanks for uploading it to remind me to add to my footwork vocab!
I thought I would have trouble with the pinky, but surprisingly is my ring finger that is kinda slow and uncoordinated. Right now at 81 bpm and slowly making my way up (sixteenth notes one pick per note)
ive been trying to get good at the guitar and i keep coming back and watching this video but i think its time to finally put my foot down and break my hands doing this
After about a month I’ve gone fro, not being close to playing the 16th notes at the end to having something comprehensible. Goes to show it really does help. Thanks mike
Lol, this is so funny, I could do it fine working from high to low, but try going the other way? Ha ha ha…in fits of giggles here, trying to get my middle finger to coordinate with my pinkie does NOT want to do it I’m having to look at my finger and concentrate hard on willing it to move. It’s like it’s not part of me, trying to train a stubborn puppy or something… ����
I have a little problem with my picking hand so I kinda struggle on the four pick notes more but that will probably change
I get the occasional stare at the gym, I won’t lie. Who cares though
Practice 8-10 hours a day? I’m lucky if I can do that many hours in a week.��
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I’ve seen this done with all four fingers fixed to the fret board, my hand can’t hold the position and mutes strings unless my hand is in the perfect position. Is that something that is necessary to accomplish or should i just spider walk like shown and let hand position develop in time for a fixed finger spiderwalk?
You’re doing the spider-walk wrong. You are supposed to leave your fingers on the previous string until it’s time to play that particular note; not remove all your fingers at once.
The big flaw in doing this is that you only ever switch strings with a downstroke from the pick, which in the long run is bad if you really want to have good alternate picking. You need to also be able to upstroke on string switches fluently. There are variations on this exercise that do this
Coudn’t believe that so much information could be put into less than 2min…
Thank you! Having a hard time with keeping my fingers down:(
I did this exercise for 4 days straight…I’m now out of crack
i had been doing these and have told ppl they were bear crawls lol
My 16th notes sound like I’m having a seizure but it’s better than not trying at all lol
Let me just start by saying… I’ve played guitar for a number of years. Having played this for 10min, my forearms hurt.
i’m actually gonna try this for 30 days and see how it goes.
I do this as a warm up every time I practice and it has helped me improve dexterity! Thank you so much for this:)
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Have you heard of the punisher exercise? Its brutal but it really helps you to pick in either direction.
I’m going to give it a try, but with all this COvid stuff, I may not have 30 days
Welp, im an idiot. I have clearly been overthinking this. Thank you for such a clear and simple way of showing this it will help me a lot.
this one is awsome. but I call it the salamander “the lizard”:)
so mutch more then pushup..
if its hard. start doing regular pushups but do the “knee movement” and back..
then when you feel stronger after a while, start moving forward:)
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I’m a girl & my guitarist friend gave me his acoustic guitar so I’m using it to practice.
But Idk if my hand is small or the guitar is too big. I always messed up the pinky part. Especially the 1st to 5th fret bc it’s wider. I’ll still practice this anyway. Thank you for the lesson. I appreciate that you actually doing it with us.
Hi I just want to thank you for this simple and yet so useful information. You got my sub.
Awesome my friend, I will start tomorrow on my acoustic guitar. Never heard of the spider walk. I really need finger and fret coordination.
i’ll start practicing it today.. i’ll come back in a month and leave my review of this exercise
That Exercise is wonderfull! i use it to warm a little before a playing session and exerising, of course:D
God Bless you Mike!
WTF fingers DO AS YOU’RE TOLD! Great exercise, will keep it up for a week if I don’t break my guitar in the process
Thank you for making this so I didn’t have to study actual spiders.
The flat hand of Andrea Sawatzki looks elegant and the flat hand of Christian Berkel looks cool
Idk if it’s my arthritis or some deformity of my hand but I cannot separate my fingers to go on different frets at the same time. My fingers will not do it. If I could video it you’ll see what I mean. I’m a very determined person but I cannot do what I’m unable to do.
Thanks a lot for this illustrating video. I have improved a lot my spider animation thanks to you. +1 Sub
Hi there, quick question, what is that thing you use at the top of your fretboard? what kind of bone nut is that? Thanks
Now I know why I love spiders but also know why they are creppy crawlies
Is anyone else using this to animate a 2D spider from a front perspective? Just me? Okay.
try saying sorry to your guitar every time you hit a note you didnt want to or your articulation goes awol…helps me somewhat…
p.s.
Ty for this very very much Mr Mike!
Wow this is a straight workout for sure!!! I love your videos man thank you
OMG. I need a freaking tranquilizer after trying to play this exercise. I’m about to throw my guitar through my dining room window. AARRRGGH
Damn, I now realise my pinky is pretty much glued to my ring finger!
God, this guy can gas on forever. It takes him a very long time to get to the point. Puts me to sleep.
Is there any exercise that is actually musical? It seems to me that most spider walks don’t have real application in creating music, other than warming up the fingers.
is it important for the exercise that your hand is elevated above bridge at all times or is it just your preference?
Because it seems like your wrist doesn‘t rest on the guitar
Cool!
There are so many spiders, this one seem to make sense 😉
Thumbs up!
Practicing this on an classical acoustic is interesting to say the least.
Thank you! I shoud watch this earlier.. (my little finger never worked how i wanted, but now omg thx!) btw i play guitar for 5 months now and i improved so much with only these videos.
How do I do four picks per note on acoustic?? it just won’t work lmao
Who the F*** created this exercise �� this is the real punisher exercise. Really helpful
This is fun to do, I like to spider walk and then throw my legs over my arms into spider freeze and hop around. Good combos for good moves.
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I tried this excersise in my very first days with bass guitar. I was so frustrated how difficult it was that I almost toss my bass through window!
I just returned to this after six month of playing bass, it’s still difficult but so much easier then in the beginning.
do your fingertips touch the pick? or is it just past the tips? It looks like it’s just below your fingertip, which I find to feel like I’ll drop the pick
I Did the “Spider Walk” for 30 Days (THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED) My elevator music band kicked me out and I now give free guitar lessons on YouTube.
This will be incredibly helpful when I get adequate time alone with my guitar.
I was really expecting some Dave Mustaine ‘spider chords’… I scrolled way to far down in the comments to find none:|
Every time I watch your video, I remember Mr. Beans lol! But you are a great teacher, there’s no question about it.
The only thing I’d add is that the back pair “push” the body rather than “pull” like the front legs do. But this is a great way to learn the basic concept of their walks.
That was easy, you’re not actually doing the scale the right way….
AHHHHHH! I read the comments thinking everyone must suck then I tried it and this is Crazy! It’s harder than switching chords was when I first picked up a guitar over 25 years ago! It truly is like my fingers don’t belong to me or they are switched in my brain and refuse to move �� I’m gonna practice this for a week or so and check back but so far thumbs up!
I am a drummer trying learn guitar and your channel is very very helpfull.
Thanks
I can play this, but my fingers are short and fat. To keep all my fingers pressed down at all times, I “blunt” the strings next to the ones I am playing. This exercise was not meant for me.
My only problem is getting my pinky over, it sounds fine except sometimes the string buzzes. Should I keep practicing my pinky strength, or switch up my technique?
Thank you so much. This will help me build my spider robot as I now know how it moves, so I can tell the motors on each leg how to spin now. Thanks.
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this is my first day try this method.. its hard than i thought.. hmm i didnt get a clean sound when i move my finger
I have tried and tried and tried and I cannot even get all four of my fingers on the same string, I have very small hands and short fingers. Could that be the reason I can’t get my fingers on 4 frets on the same string, I even physically placed them there with my right hand but as soon as I let go, they each went a different direction lol. Help, how can I find a solution to this big problem? I desperately want to learn to play electric guitar. I did play acoustic guitar when I was a teenager and struggled with the F chord but with hours of daily practice, I finally mastered it. I wish I could show you a pic of what my fingers do when I try to do the spider crawl. Do you have any suggestions short of breaking my fingers and gluing them back together so they touch the string on all the frets? I can do the index finger and middle finger but when I add the ring finger, things go haywire. Should I just start practicing with the first two fingers and hopefully the other two fingers will get the message? Or are there specific hand and finger exercises to I guess stretch out the tendons? Those last two fingers have a mind of their own. But I can form most chords just fine. Thank you so much in advance for considering passing along a solution to this serious drawback.
This exercise just popped into my head and I thought, ” I wonder if this is a thing”?
Sure enough, it was.
Been trying the 16th notes for weeks with no improvement. I can do it slower OR faster but that controlled speed makes my hand totally spazz out and weak. I’m incredibly frustrated and don’t know why I can’t get that down.
I’m super bad at making all of my fingers reach all of the four frets at the same time. Hopefully this will help. Feels like gymnastics and disappointment in my own body right now for me.
(full of double entendres. Please ignore them) My fingers and hands are big. I thought large hands would be an advantage, but fuck, I cannot get the third and forth fingers down without making another finger touch the adjacent strings. When I look at this guys hands doing the walk, his second and third fingers are practically parallel, and the first and fourth slant slightly inwards. Mine have the first and second slanting inward and basically parallel to each other, the the third and fourth slanting inward basically parallel to each other. The second and third have like a 20 or 25 degree angle between them at the finger tips, and only want to separate a few mm when curled up on a string.
I’m like 50, is this just the result of 50 years of not playing a guitar?
Is it something that can be altered over time, or is the effort likely to cause damage. Because it is really painful after about 30 seconds of trying to twist up my hand that way. Its like every joint on the third finger needs to rotate 20 degrees.
So I was playing with my guitar tuned down and I forgot so it sounded horrible the entire time
I have just found your channel and love the name. Cry in the dojo, laugh on the battlefield.
I do this every time I play guitar starting at the 5th, ascending and descending till my index is at the 12th hehe
many thanks i was searching for reference and i finally got it for my 3d animation spider
I’m so confused, Ive watched Several videos of this exercise and they all did it completely different. I’ve seen like 5 versions of the spider idk who is the real spider??!
I get my students to do this as a warm up exercise, except when coming back up, I have them go in reverse seeing as the pinky is already in position, so 1,2,3,4 going from the low E downwards then 4,3,2,1 going from the high E upwards. I also get them to alternate pick throughout too, I find they learn the routine quicker that way
hello hello! if anyone is struggling with having a lighter touch I have an exercise to add on top of this one. when doing this exercise pay special attention to your thumb on your fretting hand and try to not touch it at all to the back of the neck while playing. helps a million!!!!
“Remember you don’t have to push into the wood.”
Acoustic steel string guitar: “am i a joke to you?”
So a couple questions: it does hurt when I do this. I feel it in my wrist and seems I can’t really find a comfortable angle where it doesn’t hurt while keeping all 4 fingers on the fretboard at the same time, especially on the Big E string in fret 1. Does that eventually go away? Also, my two middle fingers seem to be too close together. I can’t quite stretch them out to get them next to each fret. Do both of those improve with time…like does strength and flexibility improve? I can handle the pain for 3-5 minutes at a time.
My stupid pinky keeps muting the 5th string when my I use my other fingers:(
Thanks, great exercise, I was wondering, what are you using on your right fingers?
hello mike. I’ve been having weak fingers, especially my pinky, since I started playing a few months ago. I found this video and I didn’t originally think it would work my hand out as much as it did. I also realized I need to work on my techneque a little bit more. I don’t think you realize how much you actually impact people. Thank you for being one of the very few channels that makes things straightforward and not confusing.
Who’s watching while on quarantine 2020?? ^^ Have played guitar when I was in high school but just basic strums and songs and have not played since. I’ve always wanted to learn more advanced guitar playing. Tried this practice with my acoustic guitar and my hands hurt and with small/short fingers I have trouble reaching the upper strings after the 5th fret. I was thinking of subscribing in his website but think this is not for those with small/short fingers like me. T.T
Hey vincanitv can u put out a tutorial on taisuke critical?
I did this for 30 days and now I can build a house from the ropes that come out of my ass!
I’m trying to animate a robot spider for for my small game project I’m working on, so this video was really useful for me! thank you!:)
I’d recommend guitar players, and really everyone, get a browser app that lets you access the extent of html5’s video playback speed options. all html5 videos, which are most unless you opt to have adobe override them, have the built in ability to adjust video speed from as slow as.07x up to 16x speed in increments as small as.05x, and sound up to 4x. The app I use(video speed controller(firefox)) is set so A and D keys are and + in.10 increments, W flips between last set speed and 1x, and S goes to some preset speed I set but never use. youtube let’s you access a few of the html5 speed options, but it’s a pain to change and they don’t reset automatically
hi mike, maybe you won’t see this but i just wanna say thank you for making this video. It helps me a lot! i used to struggle to play while standing but i do this exercise everyday and now i can feel the improvement! thanks a lot dude, i wish you’re my teacher.
I did a few in my apartment and was like not too bad, then I stepped into a lengthy Hall way. This is plain nasty.
Ah man, thank you SO much. Doing game design and animating a spider right now. This helped. Like ridiculously much!
So nothing happened? Because this video is just about HOW to do it, nothin else
Yeah, I’ve seen the spider walk on Art of the Guitar website. Do it every day at least 30 minutes. Useful in jazz playing. Start with whole notes, then 1/4, then1/8 then 1/16. Then do it in triplets. Up and down the neck. You didn’t mention what picking technique to use. Alternate or up/down or single down stroke.
I thought the idea of the ‘spider walk’, was to not move the next finger, untill the previous finger was in position on the next string. This helps strengthen the independance of all fingers., and promotes better technique.,.. Otherwise, its not really anything at all.. just walking around
How do you even?! I’ve been playing guitar for 10 years, and this is just like going back to start! It takes minutes to go up and down the strings this way!
As soon as you said remember to breathe I almost busted out laughing because I realized I had been holding my breath up until you said that lol.
For anybody who doubts the importance of this type of exercise, just think; ‘How can you master the guitar if you have not even mastered the fingers on your left hand.’
I’m looking for walking spider references for a Spider like Mech I’m animating in Maya… Can’t believe there was actually a video tutorial on the subject thanks!
Thanks for this great lesson, big improvement after almost daily practice. That last exercise the 16’s are too fast still! We stick to it! Cheers!
My pinky finger is way too short, I really struggle with it.
Esp on the 1st few positions 6th string
Great exercise! And playing all along with you improved my picking. I always always anticipated the upstrokes, now I’m getting better
can you demonstrate the moves full speed at the beginning of the tutorial? Thanks!! Thanks for the tutorials!
Instructions not clear:
Fingers now resemble a pretzel.
Salt not included, most upset.
Instructions not clear:
Fingers now resemble a pretzel.
Salt not included, most upset.
I noticed some larger spiders also tend to walk with the middle legs like a 4 legged gallop and the front and back legs just drag around and assist where needed.
Lots of exercises like this in the old Vinnie Moore instructional tape from Hot Licks.
Mike you are an amazing teacher I just got done watching the video and was barely able to make it past the first 16th notes exercise so I definitely need to work on my technique especially since I’m self taught
What kind of acoustic guitar has no hole in the middle? This is a joke!
Andrew….Love your videos and the comments below are a hoot!
Do this with a cool guitar tone loaded up, for shits and giggles lol
question for everyone; I’m like 15 or so hours into learning guitar, I can just about make it through the second exercise with like 10 mistakes or so. How on earth am I going to get to 16th notes?
How long has everyone been practicing and what the heck can I do to make it to the 16th notes? I literally cannot even do a single fret at 16th notes; my brain just falls apart.
This is just like “Smoke On The Water” but skips all those pesky half tones, and doesn’t sound like the background for ’68 dark shadows episode.
Should I keep all my fingers down on the previous string while only one finger moves to the next string? Some people are saying it’s wrong, some are saying it’s good, but I can’t do it without muting one the next string.
Best Guitar Teacher iv’e EVER seen Ever thank YOU cant praise you enought
Psh noob. Jk I subscribed. Im a professional animation dancer but I want learn this genre thanks
Hello, I have been trying to animate a three leged walk for sometime…but I’m unable to coordinate them together. It would a great help you share your tips on it…
Thanks for all the tutorials they helped alot and you should start posting on Instagram
Dude this what I did…the 7step, then spiderwalk then the hook….dude would u consider dat creativity.
Holy shit am I tripping or does my pick intentionally hide under my phone?
I did this once at the gym…. kinda awkward to see a guy crawling around the gym.
Well, I took this to another level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV4QM5Uz1Ho
this is more for lead guitar players as to rythem guitar players or finger movement practice to break in the use of all your fingers this has no place for changeing from chord to chord
good one bro but can you make it in other dimensional to saw all the details please
..thanks
Bear crawls and/or Spider man crawls: most underrated exercise in the world
Full body and cardio and no equipment necessary
Holy hand builder! Great exercise! So happy I found this. Slow and steady. It’s coming along. Great lesson and teaching technique.
When practicing this I can only get good sound on the next the string below if I lift my pinky on the string above. Is this bad practice?
Also check out Andres Segovia’s 8 Slur Exercises!!! They are great for your left hand and the last one is a type of “Spider Octaves” exercise, really fun and tricky! You can download the pdf with a google search.
Real mobility is doing the same exercise without lifting your body every step you take… belly to the ground always (equilibrium while you take the hand step because you do it slowly btw)
Do you accept the challenge? doing pushups while walking is good for strength but not completely useful when talking about movement… and it makes the excersice easier! push on the limits!
Regards
Great website, I like it, very informative, easy tips and direct to the objective/point. Kudos! Great job!!!
oh! he makes it look so easy. but that’s a lot of trace backs in animation!
Part 3 and 5 are brutal for me. I guess I need to continue practising.
Bodybuilding brought me here to see how it’s done. Thanks for the Demo.
Thx so much for this tip. Does this animation process equal for creatures like a millipede?
Make more videos. I want you to teach how to animate everything. You have a good way of teaching. Put it on Patreon if you have to.
The Spider Exercise that I’ve always heard of is actually a variation of this where you plant all four fingers and only move one at a time to the next string. It is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT and quite the challenge for those willing to put in the work. It is supposed to teach you to only move the finger when needed to play the next note. Susan Grisanti has a variation on this which is designed to stop fingers from “flying away” when you play-essentially economy of motion. You may check out her Spider Exercise vid on YouTube. Best of luck!
Just turned 60 and just picked up my guitar after a long time. “We’re getting the band back together”
This is definitely a WINNER Fun Exercise..TY for posting. Cheers ;-))
Just tried this… not for the weak! Back to good ol’ regular push-ups until I can do this without embarrassing myself, ha.