Originally Posted by: AkiraI have to disagree there.

You should use a metronome and start from slow, gradually building to a tempo with which you are comfortable with, then slowly push a bit further every now and then. You don't want to try blazing away at it straight away as it wont give your fingers the chance to build up their muscle memory.

I agree with Akira, muscle memory is what gets you speed. If you go at it too fast from the start you end up hitting a plateau pretty quickly and you pick up all sorts of bad habits along the way. I agree with the exercices though, three and four note per string runs are the best way to get the left and right hands in sync. I'd stay away from the sweep picking untill you have alternate picking down though.