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How Many Notes Per Minute (For Real)?


RedBarchetta

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Alright, there is no need to lie on a forum. As far as I'm concerned, that's one of the lowest things you can do: lying in a place where people can't even see you and nobody knows who you are.

 

That being said, how many notes can you play per minute? In order to submit your answer, you must be able to play at that speed with the following criteria:

 

1) You can go up and down 2 full octaves (1 positional box) 4 complete times.

2) You cannot make a mistake.

3) It has to sound acceptable and smooth.

4) It must be measured via a metronome.

 

I'll start it off and put mine out there...a humbling 336 notes per minute. I've been playing for 12 years, that's what makes it sad. :facepalm:

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You must seek a feeling of incredible lightness.

 

The only way to attain such beauty is to play veeerrrry ssslllooowwwlly.

 

The Jonas Brothers are on the path...

 

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I'm not one for political correctness, so I'll gladly say that I have had my playing measured by Willie Jordan, who you've probably read about in Guitar World's recent issue on guitar speed. He slowed down one of my guitar solos, and counted the notes in one second of the fastest part.

 

Alternate picked, it's 14 notes per second, very clean and even.

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I'm not one for political correctness, so I'll gladly say that I have had my playing measured by Willie Jordan, who you've probably read about in Guitar World's recent issue on guitar speed. He slowed down one of my guitar solos, and counted the notes in one second of the fastest part.


Alternate picked, it's 14 notes per second, very clean and even.

 

Tell us your secrets. :thu:

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i can do 16th at 120bpm. i have been trying to work on my alternate picking my goal is to make it to 160.
:)

 

Same here, but my goal is more around 180-190.

This is going to take a while. :p

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Is this on a good day or a bad day? :)

 

When I didn't have a job and could practice all day, I was around 18nps alternate picked and a bit faster legato style. Faster still if sloppy {censored}e was allowed, but that's a given ;)

 

These days the real world has taken its toll :lol:

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It's good to be able to play fast if you need to get there from here quickly.

 

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The intro to that song is so cool.

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Music is not a sporting contest about speed. Listen to David Gilmour.

 

 

But then listen to, say, paganini or django reinhardt, or metal, or some folk....

 

You have to be able to play as fast as what you want to play is.

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it's not how many notes you can play per minute, but what you can do with the ones you do play..

 

 

Well obviously people don't learn to play fast just to play scales (I hope). If your playing has no substance then it doesn't matter how fast you play.

Speed and substance are not incompatible!

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Speed is the enemy of emotion.

 

 

Depends on what emotion you're talking about. Go and express aggression, excitment or joy by playing slowly. It may not be the case with you, but that's typically the argument of someone that doesn't want to play anything but blues music. You rarely (never) hear these argument from jazz, metal or classical players.

 

You have to play what makes sense with the music, whopping out your shred arpeggio's over a blues is going to sound stupid, playing blues licks over aggressive metal riffs is equally going to sound stupid. Sometimes fast playing is what makes sense with the music, if you like that sort of music, you're going to want to play fast... I don't understand why some people find that hard to understand?

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