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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  • 300 bpm

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  • 350 bpm

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  • 400 bpm

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • 450 bpm

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • 500 bpm

    Votes: 2 28.6%

  • 550 bpm

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  • 600+ bpm

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Total voters
    7
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Blille said:
This is my experience as well. Once you are able to do it, it's no longer fun.
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Well, I would take issue with your last statement, since I still enjoy to listen to and play fast music. I have just always subscribed to Stetina's philosophy that "Speed builds intensity", but have found there to be an upper threshold for this, above which too many other aspects of playing is sacrificed. Think George Lynch vs. Michael Angelo.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

ItsaBass said:
That's exactly what BPM are!
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The terminology IS fail

"200 bpm songs, SO EASY~... wait, eighth notes? Not so much....aaaah omfg there-s 16th notes here in the middle SOS~!!"
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

The last time I performed on a stage a couple years ago I believe I played at least a couple dozen notes over the course of the entire set.
Seriously, you fellas gotta start working on your vibrato and sustain!
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

This has to be one of the most unmusical and useless statistics to track. It’s possibly the only skill in music where any attempt to succeed no one wants to hear.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

beaubrummels said:
This has to be one of the most unmusical and useless statistics to track. It’s possibly the only skill in music where any attempt to succeed no one wants to hear.
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Skill and proficiency aren't something that you constantly use to the max...

Just because you CAN run a marathon or screw until dawn, doesn't mean you have to

However, if you CAN'T...then, should it be needed all of a sudden, you're doomed to fail if you try
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

DavidRavenMoon said:
I’d like to hear that without distortion


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I don't get that whatever-picking reference at the beginning.

And suspect a scam, who'd use a Line6 and crap stocking stuffer-grade Ibby for this? Also that distortion

AND the fact that picking at 2k BPM would be highly superfluous, imho. Tapping/hammers/pulloffs for such short notes
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

RorySquier said:
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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33 notes per second maybe we cant see his hand move cuz it soo damn fast haha


Btw that would be like hitting every note on the fretboard 13-15 times per minutes.... or every ~4 seconds. THAT id pay to see
 
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Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Adieu said:
Just because you CAN run a marathon or screw until dawn, doesn't mean you have to

However, if you CAN'T...then, should it be needed all of a sudden, you're doomed to fail if you try
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Those example just serve to prove our point. As a runner I find that 70% of people who run marathons do it once just to say they have run a marathon, the other 30% do it because they actually enjoy running long distances. You'll never need to run 26.2 miles in our modern society. The only time my long distance running has ever come in handy was when my car broke down and I had a half hour to run a bit over 4 miles to find a payphone before the mechanic closed for the night.

As for sex, a half in hour is fun, 45 minutes is good fun, anything more than that is exercise.
 
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Obsessive Compulsive said:
What's the point of being able to cram 1/128th notes in every bar, if you suck?
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Most people who have got to the stage of playing superfast have lost all sense of feel along the way. It becomes an arms race, where the only gauge of better is more.
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Chistopher said:
Those example just serve to prove our point. As a runner I find that 70% of people who run marathons do it once just to say they have run a marathon, the other 30% do it because they actually enjoy running long distances. You'll never need to run 26.2 miles in our modern society. The only time my long distance running has ever come in handy was when my car broke down and I had a half hour to run a bit over 4 miles to find a payphone before the mechanic closed for the night.

As for sex, a half in hour is fun, 45 minutes is good fun, anything more than that is exercise.
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Run 26? Nope... though Ive had to walk ~15 miles in Russian winter and run something like a half-marathon in Cali summer to save face (beware invitations from meathead jarheads lol), though. Sh!t happens.

As to sexual exercise, that can be fun too

Point is, skills can come in useful. And besides, if you can do more you can always slow down or do less, but if you can't, well then you just can't
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

Adieu said:
AND the fact that picking at 2k BPM would be highly superfluous, imho. Tapping/hammers/pulloffs for such short notes
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I tend to pick every note, but hammer ons and pull offs give a different feel. So I mix it up. I never tap. I’d rather figure out how to play something conventionally. I learned to do it back in the 80s and then never did it. Lol. Except for one song I recorded.

I really like players like Robert Fripp who has amazing picking technique, but I also love Holdsworth with his legato tone.


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

Dave Locher said:
The last time I performed on a stage a couple years ago I believe I played at least a couple dozen notes over the course of the entire set.
Seriously, you fellas gotta start working on your vibrato and sustain!
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You need to be able to do it all. All legato notes gets boring. As does all fast stuff. Make it a conversation.

I start lots of solos with slower melodic parts and then ramp up the note density. Lol it gives it an intro, middle, and an end.

What bugs me is the players that do that wide vibrato with the pick squeal on every run! That **** is old and cliché! Just do something original. Same with tired ass blues licks. It’s all the same thing over and over again. Like being an artist and painting the Mona Lisa every day.

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

This is where being able to play fast comes in handy. It’s a fast punkish song to start with. Then when the solo comes what are you going to do? Play slow bluesy bends? That would drag the whole song down.

Just to torture myself I double tracked the solo. Lol it’s fun to do live and successfully segue into the bridge.

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

DavidRavenMoon said:
I tend to pick every note, but hammer ons and pull offs give a different feel. So I mix it up. I never tap. I’d rather figure out how to play something conventionally. I learned to do it back in the 80s and then never did it. Lol. Except for one song I recorded.

I really like players like Robert Fripp who has amazing picking technique, but I also love Holdsworth with his legato tone.


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You never tap? Jeeez... how do you play eruption without taping? Do your hands stretch that far?
 
Re: What bpm can you maintain for a few hundred distinct, fretted notes?

PierceOkken said:
You never tap? Jeeez... how do you play eruption without taping? Do your hands stretch that far?
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Lol. I’ve never learned a single EVH song. But hey, he was copying Holdsworth, who doesn’t tap and reaches wide intervals.

I’m also a bass player so I’m used to stretching to reach notes.


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

My fingers are so fast that my playing is best measured in units of ear muff effectiveness.

I can't answer honestly because I always lose count after just a few seconds.
 
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