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that's ace. I like how you stuck to your guns and just blazed away throughout! Very tasty playing as well (and you're right - sometimes the audience do actually like a shredding solo!)
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that's wicked playing as ever. I must dig out your Shredz At An Exhibition CD again!
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Nowt wrong at all with not being a fast player or being a fast player either. I think it’s the coming to terms with where one is at that is the thing really.
I was big into fast playing so I’d get a little green eyed watching certain players do certain things. But I realised I just don’t have the mentality/talent (well, I’m lazy really!) to sit and try and reach certain speeds or get certain technical things down. Then came a period of rejecting it all a little bit too but over time I reached a bit of a middle ground. I just work on being the best version of me these days (whatever that is) and just go with wherever my head is at musically.
In the spirit of sharing fast(ish) playing, here’s a thing I did for a friend. I initially sent something much more in line with how I play generally. But then I got asked for more notes so I think I was just about able to pull something out of the bag but I was right on the edge.
https://soundcloud.com/brad-edmondson/eastern-promise
Wow'd !!!
The Yngwie stuff is incredibly hard to nail because the timing is extremely free.
With the sweeps I think the best way is to get the shapes under your fingers and then try to play the "right" first note on each beat and the rhythm should work out on their own.
That's why Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish are such very different riders.
Guitarists with a more fast-twitch physiology will be able to respond to practice and build a faster top speed than people that don't.
Sometimes you find players with a natural affinity for speed telling slower players things like, 'you just need to practice', 'speed is a by-product of accuracy', 'just start slow and speed up' etc etc etc. – without really appreciating that people with a different physiology will face different limitations.
The problem with starting slow and building up speed is that the muscle movements for playing slow are very different than playing fast. The recommendations now are try playing as fast as you can, even if it’s sloppy. If you can get it sloppy but if it feels smooth then stick with that motion.
If you just can’t play fast then use lots of legato and tapping and, most of all, enjoy your playing!
I actually auditioned for an artist last year and all the solos on her songs were stupidly fast! I managed to keep the dynamics without the need to play that many notes but could not get the gig. She kept the same kid on guitar that had all the speed but was lazy and would play the stuff like the record 1 out of 5 times.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Here's my tiny contribution, which is non-existent at all compared with the majestic musicians we can see today.
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Once you build speed your fingers almost naturally start to stay closer. Also, watching the clips on this thread there's some great speed without the fingers staying ultra close, provided you can get your fingers to land in time.
I think with picking it's worth doing it slowly to begin with just due to everything involved - to get the pick up/down moving strictly alternately, accurately, and using as little movement as possible, and then coordinating that with the left hand. That's partly as I never looked at alternate picking when I was learning to begin with, so my technique is a slightly messy hybrid of economy/alternate which I'm trying to rectify.
I found sweeping really easy to get into; it's just something I took to as soon as someone showed me how to do it, but making it sound interesting and musical is harder but cool.
I do seem to have really quick hands, but I think this is to compensate for the rest of me, which is definitely not quick; I've always been rubbish at any sport, cannot run fast, and have terrible hand-eye coordination
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