Dudes! This sucks!!!

Dudes you gotta help me! I don't feel like I gain any speed! and I want to play those mega speed solos! HOW THE HELL DO I GAIN SPEED?!?!?! how did you gained speed?! what should I do?! I'm getting diapointed..sometimes I feel like I'll never succeed...please tell me what to do and even tell me how much time should I do it in a day?

PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

On what on what on what?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!

Practice scales going up and down the neck using double picking. A metronome will allow you to focus on tempo. Slowly build up the speed. To get 'crazy' speed like Satch, The Jonezter, Vai, Marcel Coenen or whoever, it's going to require massive discipline. As your muscles develop, your speed improves. The picking hand and the fretting hand must be in complete unison; one cannot be faster than the other. Hope that helps.

Practise clean as well. Distortion can hide mistakes and string noise. If you elimate them and play it perfectly when clean, then put distortion on later, whatever your playing will sound really sweet.

practice everything..whether it be fast or slow it will develope ur muscles which sooner or later will increase in speed..scales and arpeggios are good to play to increase speed

Thanks...could you give me some good scales to work on?

any..i cant think of any in mind..just look up scales and play them even if u dont like them..i prefer the spanish soundin ones tho.. like the harmonic minor and the gypse scale(spelled right)

could you give me one spanish scale pleeeaaasssssseeee.....
ANY spanish scale...

Minor pentatonics are fun, and major and minor scales too.
Here is an A minor pentatonic;

-----------------------5-----
-------------------5-8-------
---------------5-7-----------
-----------5-7---------------
-------5-7-------------------
---5-8-----------------------

And here's an A blues scale;

----------------------------5------
-----------------------5-8---------
-----------------5-7-8-------------
-------------5-7-------------------
-------5-6-7-----------------------
---5-8-----------------------------

Or an A Major scale;

---------------------------4-5---
-----------------------5-7-------
-----------------4-6-7-----------
-----------4-6-7-----------------
------4-5-7----------------------
--5-7----------------------------

Or an A Natural Minor Scale;

------------------------------5---
------------------------5-6-8-----
------------------4-5-7-----------
--------------5-7-----------------
--------5-7-8---------------------
--5-7-8---------------------------

Or an A Minor Harmonic Scale;

----------------------------4-5----
------------------------5-6--------
------------------4-5-7------------
--------------6-7------------------
--------5-7-8----------------------
--5-7-8----------------------------

Or an A minor Melodic (play this one this way ascending, then descending, play the natural minor scale);

-------------------------------5---
-------------------------5-7-9-----
-------------------4-5-7-----------
---------------6-7-----------------
---------5-7-9---------------------
---5-7-8---------------------------

Play these clean, with a metronome, like everyone else said. If I've made any errors with these scales, someone let me know.

PS- This is the way I play em, so they may be a bit weird. there are probably better fingerings out there.

Edit-I had to correct the Natural Minor scale, I made a boo boo. Its all better now. :)

[Edited by Josh Redstone on 07-27-2003 at 09:44 AM]

Oh yeah, those are all transposable, so move them around and play them in different keys as well.

Thanks dude.

Chromatic Scale!!!

If you look on this site, check out the "Bumble Bee" thing (sorry, can't remember the exact name), its basically a chromatic run at like 280 BPM or something insane like that. It's hard to explain it, but it really is something!

But who needs speed, anyways? You could just play the blues...

*Oh yeah: If you don't know, the chromatic scale is, using every single note. Meaning.....

E 1 2 3 4
B 1 2 3 4
G 1 2 3 4
D 1 2 3 4
A 1 2 3 4
E 1 2 3 4

and then going down.

[Edited by Incidents Happen on 07-27-2003 at 01:21 AM]

Originally posted by Incidents Happen
... But who needs speed, anyways? You could just play the blues...

Try "Lord, Mr. Ford!" by Jerry Reeves. :p

Or an A Natural Minor Scale;

------------------------------5---
------------------------5-6-7-----
------------------4-5-7-----------
--------------5-7-----------------
--------5-7-8---------------------
--5-7-8---------------------------

I'm pretty sure that the A natural minor (Aeolian) contains a G(8) on the B string, not an F#.

Should be like:
------------------------------5---
------------------------5-6-8-----
------------------4-5-7-----------
--------------5-7-----------------
--------5-7-8---------------------
--5-7-8---------------------------

or

------------------------------5---
------------------------5-6-8-----
-------------------5-7------------
--------------5-7-9---------------
--------5-7-8---------------------
--5-7-8---------------------------


Correct me if I'm wrong. Sorry, not meaning to nitpick.

[Edited by Pantallica1 on 07-27-2003 at 12:15 PM]

Yep, your right, my mistake.
I did those from memory, without my guitar, so I had a feeling I'd get a few wrong.
I'll fix it.

It's cool man, pretty good job from memory :)

I think that you should practice arpeggios across two or three strings, this will improve the coordination between your right and left hand and will improve your stretches with your left hand and your picking with your right hand. I have posted an exercise which I would recommend to anyone wishing to improve their dexterity, I still practice it today between all the shredding mayhem. This probably did more for me than practicing scales but I recommend that you do both and make up your own exercises along similar lines.

http://www.guitartricks.com/2000/trick.php?trick_id=6670

Thanks dude, I'll use it.
anyway...I gained alot of speed and it's very cool!
I never thought I could play like this, I just played today and...it was so cool to play so fast and I played not only fast, but good. I think it's cuz I practice alot...

[Edited by Metalic Dude on 07-28-2003 at 04:20 PM]

Just get a metrinome and play ascending and descending patterns in different scale positions to build strength and speed with both the left and right hand. Play in every key possible. Don't get stuck just learning one really well. Start at fret one and move down the fretboard doing the same thing with the same scale starting from the next position down half a step once you go down and up a few times on the strings.

Do it with all those crazy scales that the other dudes posted and use the charomatic exercises.

Utilize a metrinome and various note patterns and rhythms. Say triplet patterns doing one triplet pattern using 3 notes in a scale 4x in a row.

ex:

--5-----5-----5-----5------
----8-7---8-7---8-7---8-7--
---------------------------

continued throughout the scale. There and back again.

That will build speed mighty fast. Just do it slow a lot to build strength and coordination for greater speed and accuracy.

Practice all the time for like 30 minutes straight at least a day. In a few months you should be mighty and powerful on the guitar.