Everybody, it's Will Kriski. I am going to be talking about Pentuplets today. In this case, it will be five sets of five notes. So instead of playing four sixteens per beat, per quarter note, we are going to play five sixteens. I got this idea from John Petrucci; I think it's on the Erotomania Song. The interesting thing on the guitar is that, if you use three fingers, three notes per string, so you use your three fingers, you go, One, two, three, four, five. So it's down, up, down, up, down. The next set of five notes is up, down, up, down, up. So I was picking those. Coming back to the same picking pattern again.
So you should probably start practicing this on one side of strings. If I go your high E string, so it's 12th fret, 10, 9, 10, 12. Then I go 10, 12, 15, 12, 10. So that's the up, down, up, down, up, coming back to... I suggest to use a metronome; I have got this Korg metronome. Now if you want to make it simple, you can just go chromatically, three notes in a row, just pick any three notes. You can go up to the next set of three frets. Once you get that up the speed keep in pacing the metronome.
You can try out different strings, so let's say two different strings, although doing this time to seven fret, doing it chromatically three notes in a row. You can also try skipping a string. So if you go up on the 7 fret again, from the 4th string to the 2nd string. You can go, so I can speed up this metronome and say, let's go up to 140. I'll just do it on one string.
If you wanted to do something like a Bumblebee, you can just go chromatically, three notes at a time, three consecutive strings like this. So have fun with that and let me know how it goes.
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