Hello all,

I didn't manage to pull together the first of my "7 Days of 5.XX" videos, but I will.

Meanwhile here is one (at 5:33, apologies Pebber and Adam) showing 5.21, 5.22, and 5.23 at 40-50 bpm using quarter notes, eighth notes, and eighth note triplets.

Nice video all looks good to me. Its all about freeing up the hand, you just have to keep working at it, its amazing how hard these were even after 20 years of playing. keep up the good work. Need to get back on these myself.

Here's a video of just 5.23 showing a bit of progress since Sunday.

I've been reviewing 5.21 and 5.22 for a few reps before focusing on 5.23 more or less exclusively since then.

I worked on 5.23 several times yesterday, but ultimately reached the point of fatigue, where I couldn't make my 4th finger hit the right strings reliably above the most moderate speeds.

So I decided to sleep on it and try again today.

First thing this morning, I was able to work up to being able to get through 3-4 runs of eighth notes at 60 bpm, so that's 120 bpm on the 5.23 changes.

I'll work on it some more today and then see where I am tomorrow.

For anyone curious, I am doing basically 10-15 minutes of practice to a metronome, once every couple of hours. I am pushing myself rather hard, so after that short time my fingers start to get a little fatigued and I treat it like a muscular workout.

10-15 minutes of reps
rest
10-15 minutes or reps
rest

etc.

That's also quite a bit easier because I can't sit for 2 hours and work on things. But a few minutes here and there are easily manageable.

Looking good have you done these before and running over them again, or is this the first time doing them.
It takes time for those muscles and neurons in the brain to connect. I feel its good idea to try these in different positions on the neck also, seems to work those different little tendons. A day rest off from these can also work wonders, gives the hand time to reset. (not too much rest though).

I've done them casually in the past. This is the first time I'm dedicating most of my energy toward them.

Funnily, at lunchtime I went back to them and did some persistent practice until I got fatigued. Then I decided to do some chromatic scales and then G major scale practice, Scaletone 1 Form 2. It was a nice change from the spiders.

Then I put it down for about 4 hours and came back to it to do it again.

I'll do some moving around the neck on the spiders. That's a good idea.

Yea i find if i become fatigued in one position i can move to another and push it a little more,
Gonna try what Adam has mentioned going down and up and move up a fret.

I do a similar thing with jazz style spiders i start on the sixth (thick)
string to first and then back, start at the ninth fret all the way to the first fret and back, pretty much going through all the finger permutations
1234,1243,1324,1342,1423,1432, etc. all fingers must always be touching the strings. maybe overkill but i love this shit.

Please call me Darryn, Deltadiscos was what i signed up with as was running a disco at the time :)

Here's a little update.

First, we have Attack of the 5.21: