Now, here's a little trick if you're ever trying to play fast. It may seem like your fingers can't actually move that fast, no matter how hard you try, but in general, it's actually not a muscle problem. It's actually a muscle memory problem. Recently I've been working on Donna Lee:
A rather quick bebop tune, as well played by Jaco Pastorious, originally written by Charlie Parker, it's great stuff, and a great song to learn how to play fast. The key to doing so, though, is to start slow. Maybe as slow as 80 bpm, or even 60bpm, I personally started at 100bpm since I've worked on a few other fast songs. It gets easier as you learn more fast tunes, but you have got to start slow and speed up slowly. Play it at one tempo perfectly for 3 or 4 times in a row, and then move it up two clicks.
Anyways, that's my spiel on playing fast. I mostly learned this because, in my sickness, I was forced by my weakened body to play slowly, and it definitely helped overall.
Keep jazzin
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