Playing faster
I’ve been playing tenor banjo in Irish trad for about 15 years, and know a lot of tunes, but despair in the fact that am a slow player. Part of the problem is that I try to play really clean and include interesting ornamentation - it may sound better, but it slows me down. Even when I leave out some notes and drop the ornamentation I still struggle on reels faster than about 105 BPM, if that. Some advanced players I’ve asked have said that ‘you can’t rush it, you can’t force it, it just comes over time’. What do you think?