Hey guys, posting this clip I found earlier with TQ and MM talking about speed and their experience in building up their technique. Worth a listen given all the talk about speed in the past few weeks. It supports @Troy 's idea that the speed isn’t really built, it’s just cultivated.
Below is a bonus image I saved a while back with Tom Quayle talking about speed on a forum. I forgot where I screencapped it from:
it gets a lot into semantics doesnt it? when someone says “I want to play faster”…we know what they mean lol.
reminds me of my friend who was a personal trainer. People would always come to him and say “I want to work on my stomach.” Being a real smartA$s, he would say “you need a doctor, but if you want to work on your abs I’ll help you” or “the stomach? thats that thing way inside you where food goes.” lol
So when people say “I want to be faster” are we gonna now say “you are already fast”? lol
Yeah it really depends on a lot of things, personal goals of the player, genre, etc. Picking 150 BPM 16th notes will make you just right for any rock song, but metal or flamenco or whatever is another story. That’s another challenge with teaching, the language you use can be taken to mean a million different things.
yeah, I WISH it were as easy as saying “I want to be fast” because the truth is much harder. The truth would be more like “gee, I want to be ultra-coordinated at a times on dozens and dozens of patterns that have nothing to do with each other”
ouch lol
