A short fast-tempo piece from Angus Clark’s Neoclassical Rock soloing Truefire course. (It’s a bit altered from the tab that I was supposed to play).
Don’t slow it down because you’ll hear where I make mistakes 
I suppose that’s like a “Wet Paint” warning sign…
Oh my, oh my! That’s some playing… Something I’ll never be able to get even close to, no matter how hard I try…
Very impressive, really.
You been eating the blue smarties this mornimg?
Very impressive playing, Phil.
Fast and cool, brilliant playing Phil. You are ready for Canon Rock now. 
Very impressive Phil! Sounds really clean, lovely technique.
Geez, that was fast! 
Great stuff, Phil! Your fingers were moving so fast - and extremely precise to my ears - my eyes could not keep up. Really impressive. 
just wow 
I guess I can say there’s no arthritis in sight
Wow Phil, mighty impressive speed…and it sounded good, which is the main thing.
That was some impressive shredding, Phil
Wow, my fretting fingers are exhausted just watching! Great job.
Whatever you’re taking can you send me some please Phil. Wonderful.
That was amazing. I just don’t know how people can play that fast.
Well that was a jolly good romp. Mr Clark does provide some fast challenges in his material. Yet to nail one at full speed, so this was a pleasure watch. Boy done well !
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Thanks for the comments folks! It wasn’t the most melodic piece in the world - more of an exercise in 3NPS playing than a real tune, but it was mercifully short!
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I’ve been practicing some 3NPS patterns for maybe 15-20min each day for at least a couple of years, so a fair few hours in total. I’m still not an accurate player with fast pieces. I do the thing where you start slow at first so you absolutely do not have to think about the next note - you can do it with your eyes closed. Slowly cranking up the speed with this approach, I inevitably hit a ceiling. To get past that I do the speed burst thing, where you play fast with mistakes. I think the trick is not to do that too much - otherwise the mistakes become ingrained (“practice makes permanent” mantra!). But you do it just enough so that your brain gets used to communicating with your fingers in a slightly different way to the slower speeds. I don’t know how to explain it better, but it just feels different somehow. Alternating these two approaches seems to work.
What I’d like to do though, is be able to incoroporate the occasional fast flurry into improv in a melodic way. Haven’t got there yet!
Quite agree with the slow build approach. This is from one of the course that I’d put on the shelf but your post inspired me to wake Angus up this morning and spend some time on this one
Oh wow! so fast! And sounding great!
Awesome Phil, that was just so impressive.
Ditto from me.
Excellent Phil, the practice hours are showing. 