What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

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Simpler or well practiced patterns such as runs up down and across the fretboard and speed drills, yes... but not "here's 20 bars of of open low E string", nope.

Call it idle curiosity. Thx


CLARIFICATION: PICKED NOTES PER MINUTE... NOT METRONOME SETTING/BACKGROUND DRUMBEAT KEEPING TIME
 
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Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Maybe 100. But it would be an exercise in utter boredom if I tried it.

As speed goes up, interest goes down.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Probably 300bpm.

I assume we're talking whole notes, right?
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Blille said:
Probably 300bpm.

I assume we're talking whole notes, right?
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The same note value accorded to a "beat".... so,"pick strokes per minute", if you will

Or pick/finger strokes if you include bass
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

AlexR said:
Maybe 100. But it would be an exercise in utter boredom if I tried it.

As speed goes up, interest goes down.
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Doubtful

For comparison, fast speed metal songs are a nominal 200-220+ "bpm" (quarter notes), but feature guitar solos with eighth and even sixteenth notes aplenty ... so 400 - 900ish notes per minute top speeds


4 times slower, maybe, but 9 times slower? Seems like you meant eighth or sixteenth notes at tempo (quarter note = 100 bpm)... so actually 200 or probably 400
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

At one point I could do most of the semiquaver (quarter-note) exercises in Troy Stetina's Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar close to 190 bpm, so let us say just over 700. At that point I thought that the speed was losing the cool factor, and I shall not claim that it was always equally clean. But I did do fast well at one point, and I have managed to build up again some of it.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

I have no clue and I don't have any desire to find out. With the nerve damage, it's just a blessing that I'm playing again. I'd sooner enter a johnson measuring contest than worry about bpm.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Darg1911 said:
I have no clue and I don't have any desire to find out. With the nerve damage, it's just a blessing that I'm playing again. I'd sooner enter a johnson measuring contest than worry about bpm.
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Thats in fact more sophisitcated than this thread.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

They only time I feel the need to worry about how many notes I can pick a minute is when I'm tremolo picking. Other than that I find all those extra notes just crowd up my phrases.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Sirion said:
At one point I could do most of the semiquaver (quarter-note) exercises in Troy Stetina's Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar close to 190 bpm, so let us say just over 700. At that point I thought that the speed was losing the cool factor, and I shall not claim that it was always equally clean. But I did do fast well at one point, and I have managed to build up again some of it.
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This is my experience as well. Once you are able to do it, it's no longer fun.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Playing hair metal means you need to fit as many notes into one solo. Solos tend to be between a measly billion notes to a couple septillion. And faster = better. 6000 bpm in cut time is my favorite.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

My top speed of “several” beets per minute is not sustainable, due to its reliance on fossil fuels and non-biodegradable petroleum-derived plastics.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Chistopher said:
They only time I feel the need to worry about how many notes I can pick a minute is when I'm tremolo picking. Other than that I find all those extra notes just crowd up my phrases.
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I don't care to measure right now, but tremolo picking the high E (and to a lesser extent B string) are my Achilles' Heel at the moment- I'm much faster on the bass strings for some reason.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Silence Kid said:
I don't care to measure right now, but tremolo picking the high E (and to a lesser extent B string) are my Achilles' Heel at the moment- I'm much faster on the bass strings for some reason.
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IME it's harder to be consistent with thinner strings or less tension. The string "wiggles" too much. Maybe try to go up a gauge.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

These days I honestly don't know and don't really care. Before I got bored with metal, one of my rhythm guitar practice drills was to play along to Master of Puppets on repeat and see how many times I could play through the song without getting tired. I managed to get up to 3-4 repeats with no breaks before deciding that it just didn't interest me anymore.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

250-300. I have some songs in that range.


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Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

I can do the Yngwie 6 note (16th triplets) pattern at 100bpm. Any faster and it starts to fall apart.
 
What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Silence Kid said:
I don't care to measure right now, but tremolo picking the high E (and to a lesser extent B string) are my Achilles' Heel at the moment- I'm much faster on the bass strings for some reason.
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Look up Troy Grady’s “cracking the code” series on you tube. It’s amazing.

I’d be willing to bet that your picking mechanic is different on the lower strings.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

I don't know how much bpm's I can play but I know one thing for sure that it's not 2000 bpm's.;)




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