Need Help getting speed

I wondering if anyone has some good excercises I can use to help get some speed. I no speed doesnt come over night, but I feel as though I'm at a stand still. I use the online metronome to help me practice. If someone has some tips for me, let me know. It get frustrating every now and then, but I can hang in there.

When I want to get faster, I just play stuff I already know......but faster. You just have to keep practicing. But that's true for getting better at anything, so I don't even think there's a point to this post. And I know I could just not post this at all, but........oh nevermind.

Use a metronome. I don't know if it works, because I'm not the fastest. I try to play for sound not for speed.

I'm not playing for speed niether. But there are some cool sounding fast licks they I would like to add to my music. I mean I'm not trying to be Yngwie or anything, I just want to get my left and right hands synchronized a little bit better, maybe that what I should have said at the before. I think speed will come easier after complete sychronization. And I'm using a meternome as of right now, I was just wondering if anyone ran into any cool exercises.

well I'm not the fastest but I can give you few pointers. Practice your scales a lot and try to keep your fingertips less than half an inch away from the strings when you raise them up so you need less time to bring them back down. Getting used to this is actually surprisingly hard. I'm working on it now myself. Also do a lot of those excercises that go up and down the neck for warmup. Here is a link for a Yngwie Malmsteen website that has a lot of those excercises. Go through the ones titled need for speed.

http://www.yngwie.com/Articles/

The important thing is to be able to synchronize your hands so that you pluck the string at the same time moment when your fretting finger comes down. If you don't do this your notes will sound sloppy. Only start increasing speed if you are comfortable playing whatever you are playing at a slower speed. Don't just try to go as fast as you can. That's how you get really sloppy sounding stuff.

hope that helps

good luck

If ya wanna play fast, try playing with a light touch. Not so light that you dont get a sound out of the strings or something, but light enough that you have the time to move them to the next fret or string better.

i would say that a lot of speed comes from how well your pick hand is moving. if you are moving your elbow, then that will make you slow as hell, and as said by the jonezter, moving your elbow is only for strumming and lifting your beer. try to concentrate the pick movement into just your wrist and then just into the fingers, and incorporate that into your playing. make the smallest strokes possible so that you dont have to move it too far back into the string.

by the way, are you alternate picking, or are you just using downstrokes. cause alternate picking is the backbone to fast picking. if need be, check out what a bunch of people have to say on here about alternate picking, The Jonezter has a good thing about it.

oh and just keep practicing, cause you'll figure out how to blaze through things with just enough practice.

jesse sutton (canada kicks ass)

thanks. I'm definetly using alternate picking. Another tip someone gave me was hold the pick at a 45 deg anlge instead of flat which helped me out alot.