I Did the "Spider Walk" for 30 Days (THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED!)

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I did this 30 days. Guitar store wants to know if I will buy guitar.

I did this for 30 days and lost 17 pounds!

Beginner guitarist here. Just did this for 20 minutes, took a break, did another 20, break, 20 and now I’m done. I can now do it at 80 BPM comfortable and 100 BPM if I focus more. The challenge is kind of addicting.

I did this 30 days. The spiders have accepted me as one of their own.

It's kinda funny how the spider walk is taught by Dr Octavius..

I tried this for 3 days and have come to the conclusion my guitar is arachnophobic.

Thank you so much! As a 41 year old striving towards my life long dream of being a musician, I will always remember this lesson. And I will share any chance I get. Well done sir.

I am a self-taught guitarist who has been playing for 15+years, I have always struggled with technique I just freestyle mostly but this is the most well-described beginner method I have ever heard. This will help me improve my technique, thank you 🙏

Been practicing this technique for a week. Now I can walk with my fingers.

i tried this for 10 seconds and went back to learning van halen riffs.

As a 76 Year Old I have hardly touched my Guitar in more than 16 or so Years. This was due to being Forced into Retirement and Life interfering. Now I've decided to start playing again as I Know that it will be good for my Old Head as well.
This Lesson is very inspiring and being clear, concise, fully explanatory, I believe it is the best way to get back on track again.
Thank you for this, you are very kind and it is much appreciated. Greetings from South Africa. 🇿🇦

OMG! I have been playing for over 35 years and I can shred my butt off but I struggle with learning certain songs and timing. I just tried to do this spider technique. I SUCK AT IT! My "stationary" fingers are flying all over the place heedless of my desire for control. Going to practice this on the regular.

I did this the spider walk exercise for 30 days and I became an incredible spider walk exercise player.

I did this exercise for 30 days... girlfriend is having a blast.

It's very clear to me that this is an essential exercise if you want to play lead. I'm gonna work really hard on not putting the cart before the horse, and take my time.

I've been playing for years, and thank you very much for reminding me that basic technique cannot be overlooked. Will practice as much as I can. I'm sure it will help tremendously.

I'm the serious comment y'all looking for that actually does this.
I'm in ABRSM classical guitar grade 7 and I can say this exercise is very effective for making your playing cleaner and more legato(reducing gaps between notes). It also provides greater control over each individual finger without affecting surrounding fingers.

Day 30: Still trying to find a serious comment that tells the results of doing this for 30 days.

This exercise helped me a lot after practicing just a little here and there. I always played the note as my fingers did the walking so I knew right away that I was getting the right clearance and tone. Thanks for making this video.

Congratulations. You are the first electric guitar teacher I've seen on KRplus to use a strap when sitting down. Therefore you are the only electric electric guitar teacher on youtube who has an efficient position for holding the guitar.

I did this for 4 days straight. I am now out of meth.

Is it mere coincidence that I found this “Spider Walk” on the “WEB”??

Thank you so much! As a 21 year old striving towards my life long dream of being a spider, I will always remember this lesson. And I will share any chance I get.

Rick Derringer taught a similar thing back in the 80s. This was very thorough teaching. Thanks.

Me: index finger, go!
Index finger: sir, yes, sir!
Me: middle finger, go!
Middle finger: sir, yes, sir!
Me: ring finger, go!
Ring finger: ... sir?
Me: GO!
RIng finger: unable to comply, sir!
Me: ...
Me: pinky finger, go!
Pinky finger: sir, yes, sir!

Good exercise but I stayed for the comments, they're gold

thank you I've been really struggling with reaching other chords instead of cowboy chords and this exercise along with stretches helped an amazing amount I was really surprised at how good this is

I was introduced to this exercise as the “Drill Sergeant “ and I wish I would’ve took it more seriously. This video added a great new way to practice it that breaks up some of its monotone so thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

Been doing fixed finger spider since January after watching this video, started at 60bpm painfully hard, now I'm at 100bpm relaxed, I do 5min of it every day as part of warm up. I can go up 140bpm, but 100 gives me more precision. My finger placement, alternative picking and finger movement fluency definitely improved. Thanks and cheers from Russia!

I suffer from arachnophobia...even in guitar techniques...

Andrew, one other element of this exercise is the picking hand, doing alternate picking (up down) and moving between the two strings... important to do this and keep tone consistent... or in triplets at a more advanced level

thank you for the upload,i play for 7 months now and the one thing i struggle the most is picking precision,i got the timing,the ear,some things comes more easy than others but i'm sure this will help me a lot.thanks again it's truly appreciate

After one month I can now play Stairway using my thumb and balls. Thanks!!!

Started this about a month aho myself. I've done about 10 minutes a day with my own complex variations. I've noticed a significant difference in how well I can play without making unintensional noises or missing the note. 10/10 my favorite exercise.

This is awesome. Great teacher, has to be one of the best. Really good stuff!

Best online lesson I have ever learned. Thank YOU!!

I'm 97 and just started learning guitar . I can already play the 007 theme tune .

This is the song that plays when spiders crawl across your room at night

Practice is invaluable and this is just what I was looking for. Just excelent! Thank you for sharing this.

Thank you for this - from one teacher to the next - you’re killing it!

This was one of my first exercise when i started learning guitar, very useful, really trains your brain and hand muscle, not an easy exercise for a beginner, but worth every minute of it

I was skeptical at first but I’m actually shocked at how well this works after doing it only 15 minutes. My fingers are already finding more efficient movements while doing other exercises. Only 15 minutes in! 🤯

This was a genuinely interesting learning experience. I can’t wait to try this and see what it will do for me!

Day 1 struggling with the first exercise and can’t do the second exercise AT ALL.
Day 2 spider walking messily
Day 4 spider walking with a few mistakes
Day 5 I’m messily picking up the second exercise.
25 to go!
Thank you for sharing your teachings. I really appreciate it. 🙇🏾‍♂️

It takes three weeks of consistent practice to integrate whatever you practice as a secondary autonomic 'muscle memory' thing. The more you practice set pieces the less you actually have to consciously 'think' about them and the more they become like singing. The more of these that you practice the less you consciously have to think about them.

I did this for 30 days. Now I turn on the news and we’re in the middle of a goddamn pandemic!

Never heard of this but honestly? This guy is the lick, his first lesson is what every guitarist needs to know and that right there will do two things, make you see if you are serious about playing the guitar and help you stay interested in guitar. I gave up for years because I just couldn't get out of the Intermediate slump, I didn't know how scales worked, how to solo or even what to improve to play barre chords. Now with KRplus and guys like this I've advanced more in a few weeks than I have in the last decade. Don't give up and rock on guys!

Thanks so much for sharing this exercise man!

This technique is often used by traditional bass players to develop dexterity and find walking patterns over a four finger fret spread. On major chords, always lead with the second finger, so your first finger can go to the major third on the next string. Ingenious to use it for guitar too!

Instructions were unclear. I accidentally summoned an Eldritch spider God instead.
pls send help

Hey Andrew, thank you so much! Great stuff.

Such a wildly helpful exercise, thanks so much!

Great lesson brother. After just one work-out I can tell this lesson will help me lots... and I've been playing 22 years!

My dad taught me this when I was learning years ago, it really paid off when he started teaching me scales

I will certainly be giving this a try, thanks for uploading!

Just started guitar lessons- this is great !!! Thanks

I’ve done these for 15 minutes each practice session for only a week and I can already sense a difference. Definitely do these!!

I have always been impressed with the amount of knowledge and how well Andrew explains and teaches. His knowledge of theory and all that good stuff boggles my mind.

I practiced this exercise for 30 days and now I play the harmonica!

Thanks Andrew! Great exercise! I will be recommending it to my students and will plug your video.

OMG, I can't believe how hard that is to do. My third finger is telling me, "Sorry, not going to happen dude."

This looks like a phenomenal warm up exercise, something you can work on for 10 minutes every day and then see progress. Thanks man

Thanks for sharing the knowledge.definitely will be trying this out

Very informative and I’m definitely going to try these exercises. Thanks for sharing!

only been playing for a couple months but after doing this everyday for a couple weeks i feel so much more comfortable finding the strings and hitting them. Going to keep it up for 30 straight now!

The spider walk is used in the Call of Ktulu by Metallica

Sick man! Works great, I love this exercise!

I have been playing for 7 years and doing pretty well... .I thought these exercises were difficult at first, but very useful..Thank you for posting it...

This works well going up and down the fret board.

I taught myself so there’s so much I don’t know.. finding techniques like this to practice makes a huge difference for players like me. Great video! Thank you.

Dude, that is a great lesson. I can see how it can help with chordal playing if you hit the notes, like at @4:00, since you have to clear the other strings.

Awesome! Thank you for this great exercise🤘👍

outstanding as usual...big big thanks

This is an excellent exercise to keep from just repeating the chromatic scale over and over again. Truthfully, the part where you pre-fret all four fingers and then individually move to the next string while keeping your other fingers fretted and not allowing any other movement REALLY helped my accuracy and tightened up my finger movements incredibly...thank you so much. You are a great teacher.

I noticed the improvement from this exercise after a week. It’s so important because actually building muscle memory in fingers (or any other muscles) takes time and actually is maximally effective when a person gets enough sleep. That’s is where the muscle memory consolidates first.

coming back to guitar after many years. I will use this to get back in shape. thanks

Very cool. I haven't focused nearly enough on proper finger dexterity and note accuracy.

It’s awesome when your videos blow up! Half a million in 5 days? You deserve it! Thanks for the knowledge

Great video...I am looking forward to putting this into practice!

I’m goin to practice this!thank you!

Man I really can't believe it. I struggle with some songs still after, well let's just say, many years of playing. I've noticed in my old age that my hands aren't as quick and true as they used to be in some regard. This exercise, which I have committed to for 30-days, has helped my dexterity and precision after only 2-days. What??!!! Whenever I pick up the guitar I run through it. I think it's also a strengthening exercise. I think my relationship with the spider will go on long-term, well beyond the 30-day challenge. Thanks. I'm a long time subscriber but just found this two days ago.

Always looking for something good and useful to add into my practice routines. I love to play, but I need to practise. It took me a while to realise the difference.
Thank you. The spider walk is going to help.

I recently started to play the guitar again. and this is exactly the exercise I was trying to remember. Thanks for the video.🎸👍🏻😎

I remember years ago going over a sight reading book where exercises were presented for reading rhythm on a page. As extra practice the author suggested reading from right to left, and from bottom to top across each bar. I loved that idea because it allowed me to influence my own development. Applied to spider walking across the strings, changing up the order of the fingers from say 1,2,3,4 to 1,3,2,4, or, whatever you can think of, and then working your fingers from 6th string, to 4th string to 2nd string, then 1st string, 3rd string and 5th string, and any number of other variations, is a great way to extend that practice. Personally I also practiced in other time signatures, like (6th string) 1,2,2,3,3,4,4, (5th string 1,2,2,3,3,4,4, (4th string etc). works like a 6/4 time. Or, you might want to try, (6th string) 1,2,3,2,3,4,3,4, (5th string) 1,4,1,2,1,2,3,2,3,4, etc. Great for developing independence.

Will definately be using this in my regimen!

Your right man, good job teaching, keep up the awesome exercises🕺🎸🏆

Thanks for the lesson. I've already noticed improvement

Thank You so much for this lesson 👍🏼👏🏼

Never heard about this before. So simple and so powerful! Thank you!

Thanks so much Andrew! Now I understand why your playing is so smooth and so perfect /precise sounding when you're playing. This exercise is crazy good. I'm going to do it for 30 days.

Loved it. Thankyou! Great upload!

It's very good explanation covering the basic & exuberanting that's there's no magic learning a skill. Thank you sir!

Thanks! My teacher said there were many kinds of spider exercises. I really think yours is just right! Not to easy, not too hard, plenty of room for improving technique.

I’m glad my guitar teacher taught this to me 15 years ago when I was buy a wee lad, and that he said never forget this.
Now he is in heaven and I have absorbed his guitar playing powers fully.

I am amazed at how my ring finger doesn't want to behave when lifting my index and or my middle finger! Thanks for posting this one, I am always looking for different exercises & this one is spot on!

Andrew,
That exercise would certainly build hand strength and finger independence.
Thank you.
Dennis.

Great exercise. It's always remarkable how relatively simple exercises to improve fundamentals of finger control, independence and right-left hand coordination can make a big difference in overall technique.

Great tip - I will definitely incorporate this technique into my practice regimen - cheers!

Brilliant exercise thanks ❤️🤗 it surely needs some time to get used to but it feels good and easy to understand.