[marshallrocks80]

Ok so I am left handed and I play guitar right handed. I started out about fourteen years ago and have been playing ever since. About three years ago I decided to build my electric chops up. I started practicing fours hours a day, and while my left hand got faster my right hand did not. I can tremolo pick sixteenth notes at about 104 bpm, this is after years of hard practicing. I was goofing around and turned my guitar upside down and tried to pick with my left hand and noticed it was so much faster. I've never played lefty before so I practiced for like fifteen minutes and turned the metronome on just to see how fast I could go. I sustained sixteenth notes at 185 bpm and could push it to 200 bpm for a few seconds. This is without me tensing up or anything. I played snare drum in high school and college and used the same basic motion with my left hand, so I'm guessing that's where the speed came from.

My question is two fold. Is it possible to increase your maximum picking speed or have I hit the ceiling with my right hand. Also Michael Angelo Batio talks about potential picking speed. Is the fastest you can go from day one the fastest you will ever be able to go? It seems this way with my right hand.