Sweep Picking - Sweep Picking Exercises and How To Sweep Pick on Guitar
Free SWEEP PICKING SUCCESS GUIDE featuring all the TAB, examples and important sweep picking tips from this guitar lesson!
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Sweep picking is one of the most popular guitar techniques used by todays rock, metal and fusion guitar players. This lesson will show you how you can learn how to sweep pick, avoid many of the sweep picking problems guitar players encounter and learn and do it right.

Here's a summary of what's in the video:

0:37 The importance of sweep picking basics and three string sweep triads and arpeggios.

2:15 What is sweep picking? A basic explanation of sweep picking mechanics and why you might use it. The advantages of sweep picking over alternate picking when playing certain types of passages. How to avoid and overcome many problems guitarists encounter when they start trying to learn how to sweep pick.

3:22 How to sweep pick in one continuous down or up pick with the plectrum. Try not to let your sweep be several small up or down picks. Make it a single smooth glide or sweep stroke with the pick.

3:55 Picking hand guidelines for sweep picking. Your hand should be relaxed and free of tension. Try to pick from the wrist rather than elbow or arm as well. Pick firmly enough to get a clear, solid note from the string but don't pick too hard. This will give your sweep picking a harsh and un musical sound.

4:30 Some guitar players like to angle the pick slightly as they sweep as they find it helps them cross the strings more easily. I don't really do this but feel free to experiment and find the pick angle that you prefer the most!

4:46 Often with sweep picking players put a lot of emphasis on their picking hand but the fretting hand has a crucial role to play if you are to develop great sweeppicking. Your fretting hand fingers need to roll on and off the notes as the pick passes through them. Don't hold down a fixed or locked chord shape and sweep across it or the notes will ring together and be unclear. This will only come from slow and accurate practice.

6:14 Three string sweep arpeggio shapes and fingerings for A minor, G major and C major.

9:10 One of the best ways to practice sweeping these shapes is to break them into two parts. Then you can focus on perfecting each half before joining them together. Use a metronome and focus on getting your sweeping really in time. Check the notes are lining up with the click of the metronome so that you know you are in time!

13:40 Joining up the two parts of the sweep to play the entire shape. Watch your timing and cleanliness here - it is absolutely crucial!

14:45 How can you build up speed in your sweeping? Here I'll show you how to using a simple practice method (like I demonstrated in Ask James Guitar Show Episode #2). This will help you really supercharge your sweep picking big time! Take your time with this and increase the speed of your metronome more gradually than I do here!

18:20 Here's a complete sweep picking study or practice exercise for you to learn and use to hone your sweep picking chops! It uses only the three shapes we've seen so far but we're going to move them around a bit to get F major and Bb major triads as well.

23:30 Here I demonstrate the sweep picking etude at a few different tempos taking care to stay in time with the metronome at all times.

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