Sweep Picking I

[Ian Marshall]

Oh ok I gotcha. So the triplets, eighth notes and so forth...
What do you struggle most with? Presumably the transitions from lower frets to higher frets like in the last time through (4th)

I struggle mostly with speed in the 3rd from 85-100%. Then switching in the last part of the 4th. Thanks for your help BTW. Wish I had someone to practice with.

 

[Felipe Oliveira]

How can I download the backing track?

 

[William B.]

How can I download the backing track?

I don't think it's downloadable

 

[Calvin Phillips]

How can I download the backing track?

You can't. Syn and pg would rather not give you dowbloadavke files. Because then when wouldnyou come.back to the site? You want the back track.. simply come to the site. Otherwise it makes no sense to even supply it with the school. One other student downloaded it himself and started advertising giving it away.. id imagine it takes away the idea of using the school to learn.

With that said.. they are easy to identify and record yourself. Make them up your self.

 

[erickkasecamp]

Do you hold your pick the same way when your sweeping as you do for economy picking?

and should you rest your elbow on the body while sweeping or just play free handing?

 

[erickkasecamp]

Honestly, I don't really hear those notes so I think those are a mistake in the tab

Those notes are part of the next triad your switching to. It’s really a way to transition into the next one, kind of like blending it together in a way

 

[erickkasecamp]

Thank you @Ids Schiere !! I finally got it

It’s good but your picking the strings individually. it needs to be a more fluid motion

 

[erickkasecamp]

anyone know which part of his hand is muting the strings played?

 

[idssdi]

anyone know which part of his hand is muting the strings played?

Typically for sweeping you heavily really on fret hand muting so that's using the fret hand to mute the unwanted noise. One of the ways to do this is the rolling motion for the A-shape and the E-shape where you roll you finger and use the fleshy bit to mute the strings.

 

[erickkasecamp]

Typically for sweeping you heavily really on fret hand muting so that's using the fret hand to mute the unwanted noise. One of the ways to do this is the rolling motion for the A-shape and the E-shape where you roll you finger and use the fleshy bit to mute the strings.

I meant which part of his picking hand, cause usually it’s a mixture of both. I keep bouncing back and fourth from using the left side of my palm to the right side. Not sure which way to go, not wanting to get any bad habits.

 

[Lindsey]

I meant which part of his picking hand, cause usually it’s a mixture of both. I keep bouncing back and fourth from using the left side of my palm to the right side. Not sure which way to go, not wanting to get any bad habits.

Someone, answer this please?

I've heard about muting with the pickinghand for sweeping too but I'm not sure about it all.

 

[William B.]

Someone, answer this please?

I've heard about muting with the pickinghand for sweeping too but I'm not sure about it all.

it's both hands
someone shared a video with a lot of muting techniques from Ben Eller
I don't know where it's at now. It's a long video but one part he explained it nicely I think
I think it's called play stacatto
it was like 20 minutes long

 

[Adin Shepherd]

it's both hands
someone shared a video with a lot of muting techniques from Ben Eller
I don't know where it's at now. It's a long video but one part he explained it nicely I think
I think it's called play stacatto
it was like 20 minutes long

I think that was one I shared.

 

[William B.]

yeah i think someone eater egged it in a comment

 

[Lindsey]

Thanks @Adin Shepherd @William B. It's at 21.00 in the video.

My problem when I try to mute with my pickinghand is that I mute the strings I want to play.
So I guess for sweeping you have to mute with the part of your palm that's closer to your wrist rather than with the side?

 

[William B.]

I think so yes and you mute it as you move down to the next note. In one of the advanced lessons I think PG talks about resting the pick on the next string getting ready for the next note. I think getting this technique down you'll get the mute for cleaner sounding sweeps easier
and in non musical context pick raking I think it's called with mute practice helps, it did for me, to get the feel

 

[Lindsey]

Thanks @William B. I’ll try that. So far I only got bad sound and a blister

 

[idssdi]

I typically use the right side, as in the fleshy part really

 

[Lindsey]

Is bar 46 tabbed right, or should it be played on one string instead?

 

[William B.]

Is bar 46 tabbed right, or should it be played on one string instead?

it's correct