Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In his second landmark instructional video, Intense Rock II, the amazing @paulgilbertrock plays a terrifying lick while also advising that you NOT try to count it. This, from the man who launched a thousand metronomes. Why?! Cracking The Code instructor Tommaso "Tommo" Tufarelli explains. Go Tommo!

Master the power of hand synchronization in Cracking The Code's latest instructional release: The Synchronicity Seminar. Check it out here!
troygrady.com/sync

Film yourself in slow motion with the Magnet!
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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
2:25 Constant Picking Speed
3:50 Mixed Groupings in the Wild
4:27 When the click... gets weird
5:26 Metronome Method 1: Tempo Map
6:36 Metronome Method 2: "Stupid Fast" bpm
7:39 Metric Modulation
8:40 Do we even need a click?
11:16 Chunking
13:00 Chunking and Speed
14:30 Chunking and Sync
15:51 Mixed Groupings Demystified
17:53 Non-metronomic Creativity
18:55 Synchronicity Seminar Overview