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Posted at April 27, 2016, 10:06 pm:

Simple question really...how many times can you hit the string with your right hand per second..i think my right hand is FAIRLY fast, but wont know until you guys answer this poll.



I can play 12-16 per second, btw.

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i'd answer .

However many you use.

This fast.

I'm so confused, what do these numbers mean?

i'm so fast, i can play brain stew.

12-16.

Brain stew is really slow.

hmm, does it have to sound good, or can it just be a bunch of crap as ...

yeah dude, that's sound a bit like bull****.

no.

I can plast fast enough.

i can play a note 1234523452345623452345x10^983274619238746192387461 ...

HE CAN IVE SEEN IT! .

someone saying 16+ per seconds ?????????????????? i wanna hear that, y...

holy ****, can you tech me to play that fast?

12-16 doesnt seem that fast =/ Maybe Im just getting my timing wrong

that means your playing a note every .

Yeah, there is no way you can play 16 notes per second.

i can hardly do 9

I guess my timing was wrong

sorry boys but classical thum is only around 10 in the fastest parts.

For frame of reference, 16 notes per second would be 16th notes at 240...

The people saying 16+ are lying.

I can maybe do 5/6

Byron Santo can do 224 bpm 16ths

i can just hit 7 notes sitting down, and get up to 9-10 standing up (2...

Apparently I can do 7, with like 1/5th of the 8th hit in before I reac...

see, that's a believable claim (sorry if that was insulting Acerbic)

Well, you didn't say anything about being in any kind of a beat during...

I can only hit 12 half asleep right now, I've done more and I know it.

5 or 6 slapping 8-10 fingerstyley

This seems kinda like ur other thread Myung "I play fine witho...

About 8, after 2 minute warm-up.

and if someone can show me proper method of counting seconds and picks...

i dont know and i dont care.

4 3 fingered triplets isnt that hard for most bassists, and that equal...

Well, i think it would be better to say in which timemeasure and which...

How does anyone know how many notes they can do a second? There wil...

and the basis for this bull**** its .

Recordings please!

Got it, just over 14 notes a second.

Okey dokey, I'll try and find a pick.

im fast enough

yeah, that formula is sound , i just spent a few mins thinking about ...

Somewhere between 8 and 10, I think.

so you bull**** about yourslef, then your "friend" jks jks ...

This just get funnier, The worlds fastest guitar players, John Mclaugh...

this thread should be closed.

As requested here is a recording.

Have you taken into consideration that he MAY have made a mistake in t...

Ok, props to you, that was ok.

pretty impressive, but i hate to be the one who tells you, and i truly...

I am not lying about the guy, he can pick that speed although not perf...

It didn't sound like a computer generated instrument? Isn't that a ...

Ok, if you are adamant you arent lying then I can only assume that you...

it did.

Maybe he is telling the truth? It's not impossible is it? How ver...

What are you talking about? Are you talking abotu the little beeps in ...

1 finger = about 10 using both sides of the finger 2 fingers = 12ish ...

Perhaps it is narrow minded, but theres fast, and then there is 300bpm...

admit it, when you first read it you thought it was hard to believe as...

now, guys, why don't you all go pounce on Left Shoe for saying he can ...

No.

Well I put myself in the 8-12 category because my mic is broken so you...

Thats only through legato, when people talk about top speed playing, t...

I remember seeing this clip of that guy with long hair! Grr, he was a ...

Ah I see, I assumed when he said 21 notes, he meant trem-picked.

i know, theres another set of beeps that comes in after the metronome ...

I am not lying, if you don't believe me then fair enough, I never beli...

Yeah that's his name!! How the hell does he do it.

I never believed him til she showed me, but the guy showed me and told...

Finger dyslexia.

i am truly sorry dude, but 16ths at 320 bpm does sound a like bs .

from quickley working it out it looks like i can do 15 in a sec with 3...

Lol, thatguy who pointed it out must have been joking though.

I understand your position as I was in it for a while til he showed me...

Where did his story change?

Simply cos I said she instead of he by accident.

that is all fair, but i'm still inclined not to believe you until i he...

i only pointed that out in a light-hearted kind of way, i knew it was ...

As I said fair enough, and the guy is in london at the moment so I can...

well i'm gonna go, it's 11 over here in aus, and i'm goin to the footy...

Cya.

And can you point out where you put jks jks? Cos it isn't in the post ...

Hey, for sure! Do you have MSN? Add me on: bob at dubyajoe dot com and...

P.

Oooh, I see.

empty post

Did it taste like an old womans feet?

I'm not too fast, and am even slower now that I am using flats (I can'...

.....I've never eaten an old womans foot. ...yet It w...

Your stomach might contest that.

12-16.

I checked.

I can do 12-16, not 16, but 12's not my minimum.

Picking with my fingers I can barely manage sixteenths at 150.

Like Yo-Yos! That is what you meant.

lmao, I don't use a pick often but I exercise my picking technique all...

Yes.

I'll be lucky if i get 5.

I love to yo-yo I yo-yo'd in an elevator once And sorry to Riouke...

i can do like 5/6

ok using fruityloop i did 16th at 320bpm.

hxxp://s52.

Wow, what a stupid thread.

Ah, if only you were a mod

11.

haha 960 bpm!

Myung isnt that fast, Gary Willis is much faster

1, 2 and tha 3.

Haha, wow, I made this htread before i went to bed, now its 100+ inste...

I can probably do 16 with thumbing

Could you do a recording please? Not as proof, but jsut out of interes...

^.

True.

i'd go for 2 triplets then i'm tired and on 6.

8-12 with 2 fingers, 16+ with 3-finger triplets.

I gotta learn that, great song.

lol I take no insult in it at all edit- plus its 5 or 6 not playing t...

I can downstroke 8th notes at 215bpm (just under 8nps).

Probly 7-8-9

Agreed

Hard to time it, but using the clock on my wall I got about 10-12

Yeah.

Yeah speed is overrated.

But one thing some musicians have to grow out of it is the logic of th...

Absolutely when used in the right way but a lot of people will love so...

The idea that there are songs of speed and nothing else isn't true in ...

Actually there is some stuff that's just speed.

Fair enough, your right, I retract my comment about that.

but some woudl enjoy that.

I know what you are saying.

Oh and about the Yngwie comment, I like some of his music but some son...

Yeah you can enjoy it, but it's not music.

Yeah.

http://s4.

Don't get me started The people over on the Pearl forum tend to be q...

8to12

On one string, one note, two fingers, I can play 8 per second (that's ...

These threads are so incredibly stupid.

Some thrash bands.

The fastest I can do is about 5-6

For example.

Only thing I can think of off the top of my head is damage inc.

I still bet at least 90% of bands playing that fast will be using pick...

Yep, point being?

This thread is about fingerstyle speed, please stay with the program.

People here are saying speeds by their fingers and thumb style, and us...

Oh, fingerstyle? I thought he meant like slapping.

playing any faster then 16th at 220 bmp the notes start to become undi...

Using double thumbing isn't really like using a pick at all.

They're still distinguishable, it just sounds like tremelo picking.

Ah righty.

I don't know how picks and DT got dragged into this thread anyway, but...

Why is it useless though? And for the record it's not just metal ...

Very true.

but you just said that he's never play it live? dont you think there i...

Key words here.

Well he plays the extremely fast run in Black or White live! The so...

It's a pretty unfamous song, it's just an album track.

You don't NEED to paly that fast with finger-style.

18 times if I'm backlashing my triplets.

I was thinking along similar lines.

Hey who cares if people fall out with you! You should see the negative...

I am just too damn diplomatic.

Hey, I can be diplomatic! Here's an example of my diplomacy.

empty post

I think I'd probably want to play two notes in 60 seconds and make it ...

You're clearly nowhere near as l33tT as me, cos I wrote this bass line...

123, good diplomacy

holy **** .

Sorry just never understood ur post.

now that i think of it, either do i .

empty post

**** Right.

I didnt really understand the "I mostly use plectrums" optio...

Woah, I bet if superman was a bass player even he would have trouble w...

Yeh, well: Me > Superman.

Yeah, he asked how fast is your right hand.

I don't; each sweep with a plectrum takes a whole wrist movement.

good point well i'm off, my little brother wants me to teach him Brai...

A few months ago I joined a band that called for me to use a pick as f...

I am mainly a finger player, I rarely use a pick, but I find I can go ...

Well what I generally say when a pick argument arrises is this: The...

probably sounds like crap.

^^ Who cares?

Whoever posted that crazy formula is well.

so I said 5-6 before as a guess, but when I whipped out the online met...

It gives you a beat every second but how the hell do you count accurat...

i can play fast when its necessary.

The numbers show how many notes you are playing per second.

i can do 5 triplets a second, so 15, but what the hell does it matter.

exactly, you'll probably never need it anyway .

well i know that in iron maiden the song - i play 82 32nd notes at 73 ...

one thing that really pisses me off is these people claim to have 'the...

I can't, and what does it matter? If he can play fast, he can play fas...

first, ^^^ not true.

I am ok with my right hand but I still need to get better, proficent, ...

Im guessing 8-12 notes for me.

its slow for her pleasure

HAHA, ur so full of ****.

one can post once every 20 seconds there for, it would take 180 second...

i cant play fast enough yet.

how is it possible that such an intelligent and cultured person such a...

I'm left handed, and my left handed is this fast.

Um.

soo you're saying justin chancellor, flea, bootsy collins and timmy c ...

dude, wtf.

And Wooten and Jaco, too.

didnt know wooten used effects

I can play as fast as I need to.

He uses them a lot.

Kind of off topic.

mmmmm funeral for a friend

What does it matter? If you can't co-ordinate the amount of notes you...

But you don't always have to do that much with your fretting hand even...

I thought someone might say that.

Well what if you are writing your own music? Then, when you are writin...

since when is 1/16th of a second .

Yes I know you're not getting what I'm saying.

Unfortunately, you can, but it's best to keep both hands up to par wit...

I suppose people can, but in order to be a diverse musician I "pe...

Exactly how I feel too man.

Phew.

liar.

donna lee with one finger

donna lee with my thumb

Urban, I never disagreed that fretting hand speed is important - of co...

Kids today .

It depends on how good Jenna Jameson looks in the shot.

wow, i thought i was one of the only ones to bass to ****.

I'm Harris fast, doubt i'd need to get much faster but we'll see

Moron.

From the little i've read from you, I think what we have here is simpl...

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