Timings of faster playing (16th notes vs triplets)

Jetfire

So, Im working on some alt picking basic exercises at the moment and as they are 3NPS type exercises, they all tend to be in triplets (or groups of three) and it makes me wondering how much faster stuff is actual in that triplet style or is it more 16th note stuff that they tend to go for? 

Examples welcome here! 

mike_l

3NPS fit a triplet-timing perfectly. try (in G major/Eminor) low-high

3-5-7

-----3

then

5-7

---3-5

etc

JAYJO

mike_l said:

3NPS fit a triplet-timing perfectly. try (in G major/Eminor) low-high

3-5-7

-----3

then

5-7

---3-5

etc

I dont understand this explaination Mike?

mike_l

Sorry, bad explanation.

taking a 3NPS G major low-high

3-5-7

3-5-7

4-5-7

4-5-7

5-7-8

5-7-8

so play (* indicates to change string)

3-5-7 (lowE) *3 (A)

5-7 (E) * 3-5 (A)

7 (E)* 3-5-7 (A)

right up, and back down. (Hopefully better explained)

JAYJO

mike_l said:

Sorry, bad explanation.

taking a 3NPS G major low-high

3-5-7

3-5-7

4-5-7

4-5-7

5-7-8

5-7-8

so play (* indicates to change string)

3-5-7 (lowE) *3 (A)

5-7 (E) * 3-5 (A)

7 (E)* 3-5-7 (A)

right up, and back down. (Hopefully better explained)

Thanks Mate! much appreciated.

mike_l

JAYJO said:

mike_l said:

Sorry, bad explanation.

taking a 3NPS G major low-high

3-5-7

3-5-7

4-5-7

4-5-7

5-7-8

5-7-8

so play (* indicates to change string)

3-5-7 (lowE) *3 (A)

5-7 (E) * 3-5 (A)

7 (E)* 3-5-7 (A)

right up, and back down. (Hopefully better explained)

Thanks Mate! much appreciated.

I should also say to use this in each scale shape, and in each key.

ThePrettyDamned

Both are useful.

I've recently been practicing going from 16ths to triplets and back, to give a 'fast, less fast, fast' sound. Works vice versa - 16ths to sextuplets. Gives the feel of a burst of speed.

So I try to pick logical patterns. I recently posted a Paul Gilbert video here that gives an idea, but working with, in octaves, 2nps ideas in an arpeggio or pentatonic style, then using a full scale triplet run down and 3nps gives a pretty cool sound. Sort of, climbing up with, say, root, third, major 6th, then down a full modal scale (not sure what a minor scale with major 6th is called...).

Lastly... Just to confuse things

I LOVE groups of 5. Works great in pentatonic - descending e minor from 15th fret high e down to 14th fret g, then 15th fret b down to 14th d and so on, using pick, pull, pick, pull, pick, pick, pull, pick, pull, pick etc. Much easier to see than write!