yeah - arps are a funny lil way to play at lightning speeds which you can hardly accomplish with regular scale-noodling. once you got them down you can do pretty fast things.

you know that i´m normally not realy into this shred kind of thing.. but sometimes even i get bored. :D

here´s a lil nonsense-thing i recorded for a buddy of mine who didnt believe me that guitarrists can play very fast.

its only a 5 second segment. the end consists of a few lil simple arps chained together


E||-----------15-15-------------------17-17-------------------19-19-------------------17-17----------|
B||--------15-------15-------------17-------17-------------15-------15-------------17-------17-------|
G||-----16-------------16-------18-------------18-------16-------------16-------18-------------18----|
D||--17-------------------17-19-------------------19-17-------------------17-19-------------------19-|
A||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|



-----------19-19-------------------21-21-------------------19-19-------------------19-24--|----||
--------19-------19-------------17-------17-------------19-------19-------------19--------|----||
-----20-------------20-------18-------------18-------20-------------20-------20-----------|----||
--21-------------------21-19-------------------19-21-------------------21-21--------------|----||
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----||
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----||


doesnt make much sense at all - just wanted to try how fast i can possibly get. out of curiosity i programmed this arp into guitarpro and turned up the speed untill it sounded the way that i played it. i dunno how accurate it is for at such speeds its hard to make out anything, but according to guitarpro those are 36nd notes at 280 bpm which is 37.3 notes a second.
too bad that there is no musical situation where a thing like that makes sense. LOL
http://mind-gate.com/GT/arpcrap.rm

(the red cross is due to my video software - its just a trial version *LOL*)