Wahay! Guess who's back...

yes, i'm back...
I'm now a festive lay about, enjoying/ working hard, through my christmas break...

I've not had change to get a metrenome and practice on speeding up my playing, but hey i've got a damn good excuse...
I'm actuaully half-assedly working on some of my own material, but that's all in the pipeline, which happens to be in the not so distant future.. but i've grown really distant from the "guitar crowd", i'm becoming more experimental and starting to drool over studio and dj magazines for their beat boxes/ fx/ recording techniques etc etc... but that has meant i cant really find anyone to play with... but to be fair i've been too busy, trying to stay on top of work and maintaining a socail life..
Does anyone have an hints on how to really speed up my fretting hand when it comes to basic picking?
How's everone been, and what've i missed?

Social Life, who are you trying to kid, Welcome back!....

you missed alot man! well, not really...but hey, welcome back.

I was wondering what happened to you.

Welcome back.

you missed my returning
oh and yeah, welcome back!

as for speeding up i've got the same problem

Dude,

You totally just need to play a lot of variations on the charomatic scale exercise to improve your fretting hands speed, or just play using it wihtout picking when doing stuff. Play whole solos legato and try and make them sound good. It's insane to do and get it to sound good.

One of my favorite exercises to do is one that involves all pull offs in this order

2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-4-1-4-1-4-1-4-1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-1
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3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-2
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Just pull off wihtout using your right hand do this over and over again up and down the strings and fretboard.

Hope that helps you out a bit dude.

'Sup film!
I too was wondering whatever happened to you.
I mean,God forbid,but if someone who comes here ws to die,all we'd notice is that theydon't anymore.It's not like your girlfriend or something knows you come here,and even she did,I doubt she'd be bothered to let it be known.
Wellcome back.

you might be holding the pick awkward (sp?), which will slow your **** down. i dont know how you hold your pick, so i can't really make this a long post.

oh, i'm holding the pick fine, I can play cerrtain pieces upto about 170/ 180 bpm, but i wanna go faster... I mean i'm not slow at the mo, but i wanna go faster... :)

Kingdavid: LOL, for the next five years i may as well be dead j/k.... I'm at medschool, and the workload is big, and this first term is as dull as hell, it's very chemistry based, but we do get some funky assed stuff, like abdominal examinations... unlike the old days where you wouuldn't get to anything clinical for the first 2 years... The american system is different, and so is the canadain (or so i've been told by canadian dan on my course)...
I'd like to really improve my techninque just to create different sounds.

Thanks for the exercise by the way Sekieo! I can do the legato stuff ok now, but i just wanna improve my picking, and sweep picking, i should really search this site...

hey im back. i havent been here for like a year. surprised im still logged in!

Originally posted by educatedfilm
[Band this first term is as dull as hell, it's very chemistry based[/B]

Dude, Chemistry RULES. Where else do you get to blow stuff up?

hey man,
good to see you're getting back in the groove.
i can really just give the basic shpiel for improving speed: start slow and get faster. but there's not whole lot else to say now is there? repetition and gradual acceleration is really the only medicine for slowness. i suggest going to the guitartricks home and going to metal and finding some good speed exercises (i've found some very helpful ones). i think you can also search for speed at the homepage too. i hope that the exercises, with gradual speed increase and repetition, help you to get a lot faster. it's been working for me the last month when i started using all three.

Originally posted by Raskolnikov

Originally posted by educatedfilm
[Band this first term is as dull as hell, it's very chemistry based

Dude, Chemistry RULES. Where else do you get to blow stuff up? [/B]

Naahh,PHYSICS rules.
Where else do you get to blow stuff up?
Cape canerval(sp?).
And there,physsics rules.