how fast should I be able to play

Hi guys.
I am using metroneme to increase my palying speed.
Let's say I play G scale!

Can any body tell me what should be my speed target?

I mean how fast is good?


Right now I can play with speed of 270 .

Is there any site which can help me

Thanks

Originally Posted by: darakhshanHi guys.
I am using metroneme to increase my palying speed.
Let's say I play G scale!

Can any body tell me what should be my speed target?

I mean how fast is good?


Right now I can play with speed of 270 .

Is there any site which can help me

Thanks

It doesn't matter how fast you go.
It's how good you sound getting there.

You're already doing the best thing you can do to achieve better speed. There is nothing else that can help you. Quarter notes(picking a note on the click) at 270 bPM is quick but not blazing. To find your PPS or potential picking speed, just alternate pick (up/down/up/down) tremolo style ie as fast as you can at a consistant pace on one note. That is how fast you could presumably pick even fretting notes or switching strings. Now all you have to do is train your fretting hand to keep up. Like I said you're already doing what you can to improve that. there is no better way. Make sure you are playing the scale as clean as possible, perfect in other words before you move up in speed.

Originally Posted by: schmangeIt doesn't matter how fast you go.
It's how good you sound getting there.

There is no better advice than what's quoted above!!!! Period.

Speed is a by-product of good technique. Speed for it's own sake will probably result in sloppy playing...

Practice practice practice. 16th note triplets (4 notes per beat) at 200 is a decent target - that would be 840 notes a minute vs what it sounds like you're doing now which is 270 notes a minute. If you want a target to aim for, 4 notes a beat at 200bpm - don't do it right now though, you might snap!

Style is more important, but speed has it's place. It has to be clean though - you can sound fast without actually going that fast as long as you get all the notes out...

you don't need a site to help you, just patience... :D

I always thought 1 note per beat was a whole note, and 4 notes per beat were quarter notes. :o :(

Originally Posted by: elklanderccI always thought 1 note per beat was a whole note, and 4 notes per beat were quarter notes. :o :(

No... For example, in four/four time 4 quarter notes makes a complete measure. A quarter note takes up 1 beat. A whole note takes up all the beats in a single measure (regardless of time signature).

So if the time is 4/4, these would be true? :

1 whole note- 4 beats
2 1/2 notes- 4 beats
4 1/4 notes - 4 beats
8 1/8 notes - 4 beats

Yup pretty much but it would sound better if you put it equaled 1 measure rather than 4 beats.

Oh ok. So what about 3 note per string scales, is that where triplets come in?

yea, 3 notes per beat vs. per string, would be triplets. you cant really distinguish it "by string". you can have as many notes as you want "per string". for example, playing A Minor Scale, sometimes i play it in "triplets" meaning three notes per beat...but the scale is only notes per string....i could also play it in quarter notes, one beat per string.

make sense?

like they said above, each "beat" or "click" on the metronome equals a quarter note...4 quarter notes make up one measure. one measure is a whole note.

1 note per beat is a quarter note (4 quarter notes = one measure/whole note)
2 notes per beat is 1/8 note (8 1/8 notes = one measure/whole note)
3 notes per beat is triplets (12 triplets = one measure/whole note)
4 notes per beat is sixteenths (16 notes = one measure/whole note)