Author Topic: Picking speed (Read 22221 times)

_tom_ · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2006, 07:03:34 PM »

Quote from: sambo

^ what tom?

Picking on your mousemat? What?! Doesnt make any sense.

sambo · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2006, 07:07:43 PM »

like making the picking action but on my desk not on a guitar.... duhhh...

makes perfect sense

lepersmeesa · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2006, 07:16:24 PM »

picking on a mouse mat and picking on a guitar, in time, are completely different things.

sambo · « **Reply #18 on:** March 26, 2006, 07:24:37 PM »

not THAT different.... but i did say earlier that it would probably knock a lotta time off (picking on the guitar that is) so it'd probably be closer to 150 on a guitar

donovan.x · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:05:57 PM »

Sambo, that is some fast picking mate...thats Vai ground...many congrats.

_tom_ · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:24:58 PM »

You gotta fret the notes aswell though sam, so using the mousemat is the most pointless thing ever :lol:

donovan.x · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:29:37 PM »

Perhaps Sambo has a "special"guitar!!!

willo · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:42:03 PM »

Hey sam, that means you're picking at something approaching 15 notes a second (unless my maths is incorrect)...erm, I don't mean to rain on your parade but it's a lot different with an actual guitar

hunter · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2006, 08:56:33 PM »

I've never practised scales in 17 years playing. But as I'm taking lessons for the first time in my long live, I've started with 70 four noted a tick 4 weeks ago and I am at a clean and controlled 100 now, which actually has improved my whole playing, since I've been quite inaccurate before.

Practising chromatic scales sucks, but it helps you with everything believe me.

My guitar teacher (who studied at GIT London) makes 200 by the way. How depressing is that :?

sambo · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2006, 09:09:52 PM »

ok... need to clear some things up - teehee :lol: - first of all... i wasnt playing any scales like hunter- just picking one note/fret as fast as i could....

secondly.... on my mouse mat i WAS at 208.... and thats that... but i dunno how much it would decrease by on a guitar..... a fair bit i spose..

hunter · « **Reply #25 on:** March 26, 2006, 09:38:19 PM »

oh you mean just the right hand ... have to figure that out, will give it a try when I have time. Quite confident I can go 200 with the right one though ... what slows me down is the left one and proper string skipping.

On the other hand I give a shitee on speed ... hmmm ... at least that's what I'll say as long as I'm not really fast :D

But honestly, saw Stevie Morse recently with Deep Purple - and although his technique is hyper impressive and his sound just blew me away, I was really missing that blues feel of Blackmore's original studio recordings. Not that Morsieboy couldn't do that, but he just didn't show enough of that on the concert. So in the end, what's the speed all about despite impressing some chicks?

Searcher · « **Reply #26 on:** March 26, 2006, 09:51:15 PM »

Quote from: sambo

ok... need to clear some things up - teehee :lol: - first of all... i wasnt playing any scales like hunter- just picking one note/fret as fast as i could....

secondly.... on my mouse mat i WAS at 208.... and thats that... but i dunno how much it would decrease by on a guitar..... a fair bit i spose..

If you can play scales on your mouse mat I'd love to hear it. :P Hey, I can scratch myself faster than I can pick.

Wait, that doesn't sound good either . . .

sambo · « **Reply #27 on:** March 26, 2006, 09:55:57 PM »

^ lol exactly...

yer my left hand speed sucks.....

so are you saying your confident of 200 bpm with four notes per beat or just one note per beat?

hunter · « **Reply #28 on:** March 26, 2006, 10:19:05 PM »

think playing the _same note 4 times a beat I could do 200, no left hand action no string skipping ...

But need to confirm that ...

sambo · « **Reply #29 on:** March 26, 2006, 10:24:02 PM »

^yer see!!! ITS DOABLE!!!!! you filthy non-believers... (ok now you have to prove me right hunter or im dead.... if yuo cant do it just lie and say you can....)

LOL searcher i didnt realise that.... scales on my mousemat.... theres a possible kick-arse signature in there somewhere but cant find it....

and yes... the scratch thing was dodgy...

and my "lol yer exactly" was not to your post but to hunters above it lol