Dave’s Blog

I practiced more this week and have improved mostly in consistency. 100bpm is proving to be a tough barrier. I could play the chromatic exercises at 110bpm reasonably well, but still would think of 100 as the clean speed. I changed the sweep picking exercises to arpegios.

Here’s my improvement over this last week, first figure start of week and the last figure the end of the week. All tempos are playing semi-quavers.

Diatonic scales and modes, Ionian to Ionian
100bpm / 100bpm

Chromatic exercises
100bpm / 100bpm

Alternating string arpeggios (1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3, 1)
65bpm / 70bpm

Non-scalar string skipping alternate picking (1, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 3, 1)
65bpm / 65bpm

Arpeggio sweep picking exercises (new)
40bpm / 65bpm