Yesterday I ended off with 100 BPM, and today I have worked my way up to 125 BPM. Its crazy how muscle memory works. I know my fingers can move at atleast 125 BPM but if I try to play something at that speed that isn't my ordered triplets (say if i went from 15-12 on the high e and then for the third note went to 12 on the b string, instead of what I'm practicing, 16-14-12 on the high e) I can't do it at that speed at all.
Its neat, what I'm sort of doing is making a certain part of the guitar playing automatic. I don't have to think about what comes next or how long to play it.
Well today I'm at 125 bpm with no problems. The journey to 125 wasn't as smooth as I'd like. The guide I posted yesterday recommended playing at each tempo for 60 seconds, but my left hand didn't have the stamina for that. I would play and then my left hand would start to burn as its muscles screamed for oxygen. So I would have to rest my hand. Surf the web a little, play something slower. When I came back to speed practice I found I could do the bpm I was just struggling with with ease. I could ramp it up and go faster, and faster
I'll be honest. It's addicting to improve. You see yourself getting faster and then you become impatient, wanting to see how far you can go one jump. I tried playing at 140 and I could do it, but it sounded sloppy and there was a lot of tension as I tried to keep my arms in sync.
So I'll slow it down, back to 120, then up to 125, and then push onward to 150.
25 more to go.
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