Nice job, fellas! Whew!
Luke & Timothy Lindblom banjo and guitar duet
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That was awesome!
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Sounded like you were telling him to be different from me 
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Never know, soon you will be on course to becoming “catch me if you can!” 
like both of them. (to me, it looks you already are! ) Who is the fastest here - Michael? - 270bpm (or 540bpm)??!!
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Depends on whether the tone is allowed to be terrible or not. I can rip it pretty fast after a 30 minute warmup but it sounds a bit thin 
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I bet everyone can though.
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Probably people like your age or less can! But even at being terrible or “muddy” if I were to borrow from Archie, I find reaching speed is somewhat challenging! 
Compared to you guys I spent much less time, that could be a reason too.
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I can go pretty fast but I’ve got some tone work to do. Not sure if it’s me or my $100 guitar. Probably a combination of both
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Yep, better guitar and picks definitely makes it bit easier to reach for more! It may not have made much difference with Banjo picking, but Blue chip for guitar flat picking improved accuracy and speed in my case!
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I’m using a thick beveled edge pick which has improved my tone for sure.
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My max speed is 150 BPM, or at least it probably would be on average if I could play the actual same tempo as the metronome without pushing/pulling and “technically” being in time
OK, what is Ben’s BlackMountainRaginC speed? Is that 110 bpm? I thought it to be 220 bpm. If so, I understand your 150 bpm. Because I remember you said you do 170 bpm a few years ago. So, your 150 must be 300 bpm in the tef file metronome!
Cut time. 
As far as 170 BPM, I might have been talking about banjo, but I don’t remember
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Oh ok, a new vocabulary! But isn’t bpm beats per minute and not beats per measure. In what way, the time signature to do with bpm? Correct me if I am wrong, I thought an down and up stroke constituted a beat??
Time signature: number and type of beats per measure
Tempo: rate at which those beats occur
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I think I get it… That blackmountainrag is 110 bpm then. 150 bpm is pretty fast!! I’m only touching like 100, 110 bpm but even with that I’m not very comfortable to be clean with that speed.
I thought you mentioned guitar speed but that was like 3-4 years ago.
Btw you guys discussed at going at 180 bpm etc…
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I recorded myself a while back (without a metronome) to see how I could play in short bursts:
I definitely can’t sustain that speed for every song or for most improvisation. Nor would I really want to listen to it very much
As if we thought we would end up actually recording anything, at any speed
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Wow… You are too fast to time it out! I think sustenance comes from familiarity. Once familiar, I think your hand will cooperate for long/extended bursts.
Our fastest band song is at 155. I can’t play clean much faster. Sometimes if I’m really warmed up I might be able to push 160.
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160 really? That’s incredible! Or do you mean 80 bpm?