More help needed :)

[Pressure]

Well it's been 3 months since I started guitar. I'm pretty excited because now I can actually play whole songs. I'm a huge fan of metal musics so that's what I'm most interested in. If you know metal you know that the guitarists play fast, well at least in the metal that I listen to. That's where I need help, I can't keep up lol. I need to raise my BPM so I can play my favorite songs at the right speed. I need some execises that help build speed so I can keep up. There's some songs that just blow me away with the speed at which they're played. I've googled stuff for BPM execises and all I get is crap so if anyone could suggest anything or give me a good site I'd appreciate it.

 

[PoeticRocker]

Metal huh... The only speed exercise i know is this:

E -2-3-4-5---------------------------------------------
B ----------2-3-4-5------------------------------------
G -------------------2-3-4-5---------------------------
D ----------------------------2-3-4-5------------------
A -------------------------------------2-3-4-5---------
E ----------------------------------------------2-3-4-5

Go up and down on the fretboard and move it up the notes till you get the hang of it. Its tough but keep at it and it will get easier!

 

[Pressure]

Yeah, some of the songs are 185-200 BPMs! That's amazingly fast if you know what that means.

 

[sabre0001]

in an interview with J. Jordison (Slipknots guitarist), he said that to get better, faster and stronger at "scratching" (all downward strokes) play for 1-2 minutes at a time, no chords or notes and just scratch as fast as you can - ignore the pain...

Really its just practice.Learn something slow (use a metronome) and work up the pace til you can play it fast...

 

[Korgoth]

also just tremolo pick or whatever its called over and over until you get the control over it, just go up and down on one string real fast until you can do it comfortably... Guitar just takes hours and hours of patients and practice.

 

[Pressure]

Yeah, for like a month I barely played it if any at all. Now I'm playing it about 3-4 hours a day. I'm improving really fast lol. I got a little metronome for the computer and I use that to record how fast I'm playing.

 

[Hazar]

any instrument, practice practice practice

never played the guitar

 

[Pressure]

I do practice, I just wanna make sure I'm practicing the right stuff lol.

 

[Hazar]

heheheheh, that always helps too

 

[sabre0001]

go to www.ultimate-guitar.com often as well - they have some great lessons and columns...Worth checking out.

 

[Pressure]

Ok I'm having a problem with my E string now. When ever I hold down the first fret the string hits the metal bar between the second and third fret. So the only sound I get it the string hitting that. How do I fix this? I can't play my D Minor without this string!

 

[SimonomiS]

in an interview with J. Jordison (Slipknots guitarist), he said that to get better, faster and stronger at "scratching" (all downward strokes) play for 1-2 minutes at a time, no chords or notes and just scratch as fast as you can - ignore the pain...

Really its just practice.Learn something slow (use a metronome) and work up the pace til you can play it fast...

Joey Jordison is the DRUMMER of Slipknot, and a damn fine drummer at that. He does play guitar for Murderdolls but thats not really fast. Who you want to talk about are Mick Thomson and Jim Root. Bloody fast shredders. Dont really know any practices, just do whatever you can play, faster and faster. Shredding is viewed by most as either: Good playing that requires talent, or, stupidly fast noise that requires no talent. The latter will call it "guitar wanking". So er, yea good luck.

EDIT: Not a clue about your E string problem though.

 

[Pressure]

I found this nifty little program that helps build speed so I'm using that right now. I've already up my speed 10 BPM.

I'm going to the guitar store tomorrow to buy some more picks since I either broke all mine or lost em lol. I'm gonna bring my guitar and they'll fix it for free.

 

[sabre0001]

Joey Jordison is the DRUMMER of Slipknot

Very sorry head wasnt with me...

wierd that... and thanks for calling me on it :cheers:

 

[Hazar]

my guitarist friend just uses cut up old credit cards for pics

 

[Pressure]

That would be way too thick for me.

 

[MorneHeru]

I've already up my speed 10 BPM.

I thought you said you could play at 10 BPM when I first read that...Speeds I dream about

Can I have a link to the speed program please?

 

[Pressure]

Haha, 10 BPM is like really really slow. I lost the link but when I find it I'll send it to you.