Idea for a group effort:

[Thorsten]

Hi guys,

Sorry, I indicated the picking for this asuming your all righthanded so I reversed the pickstrokes.
Of course, I´d start this with a downstroke too.
Just try out your own version. Whatever feels comfortable and works for you is fine.

Using 16th note triplets I can play this at about 140 bpm cold. Warmed up and in "ready to go/ stage playing mood" (with the adrenalin giving me an extra boost) I could speed it up a few inches more...
I´d stop if I couldn´t hear the notes coming out cleanly anymore. It´s better to play slow and clean than fast and sloppy.

I can play a few chords on a lefty stringed up guitar, everything else just sounds like free jazz...
That´s great cause everytime I want some outside sounding stuff I just play my normal licks on a lefty guitar and there you have it ... instant free jazz! (just kidding folks! )

TK

[szulc]

Thorsten,
Is that 140 mark for strict AP or your EP version?

[Thorsten]

That´s the EP version. If anybody can do this with strict AP I bow down..."I´m not worthy, I´m not worthy..."

Seriously, I think even PG or Yngwie wouldn´t play this strictly alternate picked. It wouldn´t sound good at that tempo.

TK

[szulc]

Thorsten,
You said 140 as sixteenth triplets, that would be 240 for the exercise the way I have it tabbed, Right?
Do you not have to slow down a little for the DGB and GBE string groups?

Just for comparison purposes, what BPM could you do this at with strict AP? 200 maybe?

[Unhorizon]

Who can play that at 140 as sixteenth note triplets??

[Thorsten]

James, no problem with the DGB and GBE groups. Once you have the fingerings for the patterns memorized, so you don´t have to look at the fretboard anymore to know you´re hitting the right notes, you can really concentrate on the picking. In fact, I find the upper strings a little easier to play, maybe due to the fact that I´m lefthanded, I don´t know...
But you´re right, the DGB group is really hard to memorize, that´s just because we all know the guitar is such a weird tuned instrument.

Also, yeah, I think 200 bpm at strict AP is a realistic goal.

For anything faster you´d need a drill...

TK

[szulc]

Using 16th note triplets I can play this at about 140 bpm cold. Warmed up and in "ready to go/ stage playing mood" (with the adrenalin giving me an extra boost) I could speed it up a few inches more...

This is a quote form a few messages up posted by Thorsten.

I have heard him, and I believe him. That is 840 note per minute or 14 notes per second! That is a formidable speed that anyone would be proud to achieve.

[Unhorizon]

I'm still trying to break the 100 bpm barrier for sixteenth note triplet runs

[Spin 2513]

Alrighty, i came up with a Power Tab of the C major patterns , the only way i can really play them , i don't do wide stretches , i used to, but i don't stretch 2 whole steps in a row ,i'd have to go and get an Ice Pack , if i did. so this is the way i'd play those scales

[Bongo Boy]

Yeah...a lot of automatic weapons don't have cyclic rates that high.

[Danster]

I'm confused about what constitues a beat. If we decide to think of szulc's tabs in 3/4 and each measure has three eighth note triplets, then 100 bpm means 100 quarter note bpm, or 300 notes per minute? If we think of them in 9/8, then 100 bpm means 100 eighth note bpm, or 100 notes per minute?

[Carvinite]

I think i really just realized how much i suck at guitar/music right now by reading all of your posts.....Ok i have a question i have been playin about 31/2 years to 4..should i know what triplets sextuplets are..... ......should i be able to play this at 140 BPM?

I am playin it in the 3/4 time later on guys,

Ryan

[Unhorizon]

Well, I don't know if after 4 years you should be able to play that at 140 bpms(I'm guessing as sextuplets), but after 4 years of playing, you should probably know what triplets and sextulets are. If you don't, triplets are basically 3 notes to a beat, and sextuplets are 6, pretty straightfoward.

[Carvinite]

OK I KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.....i just didnt know what they were called!!!..lol

[The Bash]

Not to sound pessimistic, but I don't ever expect to pick 16th note triplets at 140 bmp.

But I'm gonna try this anyway, cause after ya all see how slow I am your gonna feel a whole better about yourselfs