who knows how to sweep pick really well?

and what's the best way to learn?

plz and thx :)

Blazindave likes to think he can, but he no longer participates on this forum. Alvarez is probably the best at it out of the guitarists here. Learn by practicing tons, that's all guitar takes is time and dedication. There are thousands of tutorials online.

the best way is to either:

find a song you like w/ lots of sweep picking (everyone sweep picks)
or
learn some different chord patterns (ones with their root on the 6th string) then practice picking them as arpeggios

imho a great song to get you good at sweep picking is Eugene's Trickbag by Vai (aka the Crossroads Duel)
99.9% of youtube people can't play it for shit though

b8eymimAV8k

in fact it's a great all-round technical song
especially as there's a bunch of shitty tabs of it on the net with retarded stretches or fingering patterns

do this to a metronome

Th5oEvvlKOg

The last video had some great advice... people hear dragonforce and Ax7 and think thats what sweeping is. Thats more advanced and I recommend against becoming too enamored by them as it has been my experience guitarist become so technical it becomes them. They forget how to express themselves and become all technique.

however, simple sweeps can create emotion and be highly emotional. Start with something like a pentatonic scale sweep, here is the pentatonic scale.

-------------------------------5--8---
------------------------5--8----------
------------------5--7----------------
------------5--7----------------------
------5--7----------------------------
5--8----------------------------------

There is pentatonic... now using the 3rd finger on the 4th string (7th fret) and barring the 1st finger on the 5th you can sweep down these notes (sounds like stairway to heaven when played slowly)

----------5---
-------5------
----5---------
-7------------
--------------
--------------

Try to pull the 3rd finger up into the air around the 2nd string. This creates leverage and also creates a cleaner sweep as all the notes don't just ring out. When you reach the 1st string you can hammer from the 1st finger onto the pinky which is in the pentatonic scale as well... then pull off back to the index

----------5-h-8-p-5--
-------5--------------
----5-----------------
-7--------------------
----------------------
----------------------

this is a pentatonic or minor very basic sweep but is used by tons of blues players and santana uses the shit out of it. This simple sweep followed by a pinky on 8th fret 2nd string bend is one of the most used lead techniques I can think of.

You can add a little more degree of difficulty by trying to sweep backwards as well

----------5-h-8-p-5-------------------
-------5--------------5---------------
----5--------------------5------------
-7--------------------------7---------
-------------------------------7------
----------------------------------5---

Sweep picking works under an jazz/country style of picking known as "economy picking" If ever you play 2 notes on 1 string it will be down/up however when going in any direction the strings will be picked all the same direction. this would be D/D/D/D(hammer on so no upstroke here on 1st string)/U/U/U/U/U

We skipped the upstroke on the 1st string that followed the down stroke because we hammer on, on the 1st string. You can remove the hammer on and play the excercise without the hammer and just play the 8th fret with the down stroke then 5th fret with an upstroke also... like this....


----------8--5------------------
-------5--------5---------------
----5--------------5------------
-7--------------------7---------
-------------------------7------
----------------------------5---

or reverse like this

----------5--8------------------
-------5--------5---------------
----5--------------5------------
-7--------------------7---------
-------------------------7------
----------------------------5---


one last one... this is going Aminor, D minor, E minor, then C Major


----------5-h-8-p-5-------------------
-------5--------------5---------------
----5--------------------5------------
-7--------------------------7---------
-------------------------------7------
----------------------------------5---


----------5-h-8-p-5-------------------
-------6--------------6---------------
----5--------------------5------------
-7--------------------------7---------
-------------------------------8------
--------------------------------------


----------7-h-10-p-7-----------------
-------8--------------8---------------
----7--------------------7------------
-9--------------------------9---------
-------------------------------10-----
--------------------------------------


-----------8-h-10-p-8-----------------
--------8---------------8--------------
-----9---------------------9-----------
-10---------------------------10-------
----------------------------------10----
--------------------------------------8-

I'm going to reread this when I get home. I need to work on my sweeps.

people still sweep pick?

rQUFu58Mrbg

sure they do :D

YouTube - In The Hills Of Old Kentucky (http://youtube.com/watch?v=EE7-WU41-fc)
YouTube - Galveston (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tk3QI2zM0Nc&feature=user)
I wish this guy would say who he is.

Heat, fretkllr isn't anyone you would know more than likely. He is just a guy who plays clubs in long island. Just an everyday musician, I know so many guys like him that eclipse some of the talents that are signed, but they are content just playing music they love in small smoke filled clubs.

Probably so. He just sounds familiar.

I use a couple of sweep licks in my soloing.


-------7-8-7---------------------
-----8-------8-------------------
---9-----------9-----------------
-10-------------10-8-7-8-10-8-7-8
---------------------------------
---------------------------------

It's one of my favorites. The phrasing makes it sound pretty cool.