Originally posted by Metalic Dude
DUDES! I think speed is a matter of time...but you need to worm up to do some exercises...Right?
Well, you warm up by playing slow and increase the speed little by little. If you need warmup (wArmup :) ) get the book "rock discipline" by Petrucci, a whole section is about that... It's based on atonal sounding crap like:
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-12----------12----------15----------------------------
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Then, you might play something like
----------15----------15----------11-------------------
-------14----------13----------13----------------------
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-11----------11----------15----------------------------
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etc... Changing the stretch between each finger.