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Metronome is the key to your success. You can play hundreds and hundreds of exercises, but without the metronome you’ll never get faster. Download it from any website. There are hundreds of free ones. Now there is a lot of stuff like 6th note, 8th note, 16th note. But I will go the easy way. Between each beat of the metronome you can play two notes, three notes, four notes- eight notes. You can vary the speed say from 40 beats per minute to 200+. But as i said in my first Speed lesson the key to play fast is to learn how to play slow

Exercise 1

4 note per beat pattern (16th note pattern in musical terms).

|——————————————1-2-3-4–5-4-3-2——————|
|———————————-1-2-3-4——————5-4-3-2———-|
|————————–1-2-3-4———————————-5-4-3-2–|etc
|——————1-2-3-4—————————————————–|
|———-1-2-3-4————————————————————-|
|–1-2-3-4———————————————————————|

Ok set your metronome to 40 bmp. In every time interval (beat) you have to play 4 notes. Here you have to play 1 2 3 4. So when you hear the beat play the first note with greater impact, and then the next three at slightly lesser impact.This is what we call as accenting the note, this way you will know where you are specially when you are playing at lightning speeds. You can play the next three notes with less impact. This takes a little time to get used to. Dont change your speed play atleast 5 to 10 mins at one perticular speed.When you feel comfortable with 40 bmp, increase it by 10 bmp to 50. This way go till the point you cant get any further. Say you are stuck on 100 bmp.You can do this in 2 ways.

1) Play at say 80-90 bmp for a while. Take a break. Then the next day when you will play at that speed you will find it much easier, this happens as your fingers get used to that speed.

2) Another way- Try playing 100 bmp as hard as you can. It does not matter if you fail to do so. Then go to 95 bmp, it will feel really easy. Then go back to 100, and again back to 95. Do this until you get comfortable with 100.

Exercise 2

3 note per pattern

A Major Scale
e|——————————–7-9-10—————–|
B|————————–7-9-10———————–|
G|——————–6-7-9——————————|
D|—————6-7-9———————————–|
A|———5-7-9—————————————–|
E|—5-7-9———————————————–|

Now the 3rd excercise will help you cover almost the entire fretboard. You can also go diagonal after 6789 till 12th fret instead of going up.

Exercise 3
D U D U
|-1234———————————————-6789–|
|——2345————————————6789——-|
|———–3456————————–6789————|
|—————-4567—————-6789—————–|
|———————5678——6789———————-|
|————————–6789—————————–|

|—————————————————4321—-|
|-8765—————————————–4321——-|
|——7654——————————-4321————|
|———–6543———————4321—————–|
|—————-5432———–4321———————-|
|———————4321-4321—————————|

Exercise 4 and 5
D D D D
|———————–4——————————-|
|—————4—–3———5—————6—–|
|——-4—–3—–2———4———5—–5——|
|—–3—–2—–1———3———4—–4——–|
|—2—–1—————2———3—–3———–|
|-1——————————-2———————|
UUUU
|-1——————————-2—————–|
|—2—–1—————2———3—–3——-|
|—–3—–2—–1———3———4—–4—–|
|——-4—–3—–2———4———5—–5—|
|—————4—–3———5—————6–|
|———————–4—————————-|
Do the picking as i have mentioned, some people call it economy picking/wrong picking. This style will really help you in playing Arpeggios ie using Sweep picking.Last excercise to help you guys gain some speed. I will be putting a lot more excercises and soon we will also be putting videos by great Guitar gurus to help everyone out. Visit the Guitar Heat Community for further great tips on how to improove your playing style.

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