The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39538   Message #561508
Posted By: John Hardly
29-Sep-01 - 05:09 PM
Thread Name: How can they play that fast?
Subject: RE: How can they play that fast?
Funny, the most obvious hasn't been offered up.

You may want to arrange around your weaknesses.

Bryan Sutton and Scott Nygaard (both of whom can rip it up quite well) both claim to a better left than right hand. Therefore they depend more on hammer-ons and pull-offs to give them the speed. They've both said that, even on pieces they can accomplish with right hand, up/down pick speed, sometimes is a set or long song their right hand just gets tired.

My right hand sucks so I do simple things to imply more speed...triplet hammer-ons (especially at the beginnings of passages where they can be easily substituted.