Sweep Picking II
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Don't worry man! just keep practicing slow and eventually you will get it! i couple of weeks ago i couldn't play the sixteenths on the alt picking etudes and now i can really play them ! so keep practicing hard bro!
@Ezequiel Romanko is right. With a little bit of practice every day and a lot of patience you can achieve almost anything guitar related (and probably most not guitar related stuff too)
When you try to play it is there a specific part of a phrase you have trouble with?
Sweeping is made up of half a dozen of smaller techniques, all must be learned in order for it to sound good. If you want to get better, I would recommend making a video of you playing and explaining in your own words things that you get stuck on
Sweeping is made up of half a dozen of smaller techniques, all must be learned in order for it to sound good. If you want to get better, I would recommend making a video of you playing and explaining in your own words things that you get stuck on
So I have been sweep picking for around 4-5 years in my technique and it was all self taught with supporting youtube videos at the time. Although I was using these videos as some nice practice, I realized that when I sweep up from the high e, i don't change direction until i sweep through the entirety of the arpeggio as it runs up, but in this video Syn changes direction a note before so he can sweep down entirely instead of in the middle, if that makes sense. My question is, is this all personal preference, or should I revise my technique? @Brian Haner Sr. @Syn Gates
Are you saying when you change from ascend to descend? I always try to change as soon as possible if I can.
I know exactly what you mean...I had to relearn it like Syn does it and it makes it so much easier...then you don't have to make this awkward string jump it just effortlessly slides into the downward sweep
It's tricky both my middle finger and pointing fingers can do it, my ring finger not because the string hits like the bit in between two knuckles and that hurts pretty bad.My fingers really struggle when it comes to playing the same fret across two or three strings when you "roll" your fingers across the fretboard. I'm almost there when descending the arpeggio, but when coming back up - I just can't get my finger to roll properly?
Any advice
It really just comes down to practicing in the end. First take two strings and go from there. For example take an Em in E shape A in A shape and B in A shape and alternate them. It's a nice sequence because it's a i IV V progression and hits to E melodic minor and at the same time you can use it to practice the rolling.
I think there's a mistake in the tablature at bar 47. It says it's a half step bend at the 19th fret of the high E string but it sound more like a half step bend at the 16th fret of the high E string.
Bpm stands for beats per minute. It's the tempo of the song, for example if you would practice a song at 120 BPM you would typically set the metronome at 120 BPM and a clock ticks at 60 BPM
Edit: oops, misread your question but yes it's 120
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It's 120...if you select recordings at the bottom of the video and change it to synthetic, you can change the bpm to be slower/faster. Hope that helps
The final segment on here gets me. He changes the direction of the sweeps suddenly so it’s up three then down two instead of up three down two. The rythem is a little different too. Just can’t seem to grasp it and when I slow the video down too far, the audio gets distorted. Any tips for mastering this last riff?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, to me all the sweeps are largely the same but just sped up. It's all 3 string sweeps, the only different is that in the last one with ends on a diminished arpeggio
At least that's what I pick up from it, if you could try to explain you're question a bit more clearly I can try to help you
In the tablature, the n mean downstrokes and ^means up. Every section has the turn around start on the G string(up on e, up on b, then down on the g, and back down) the final section has all up strokes, with the turn around coming on the b string once you start back down. Basically, the part I’m talking about (the final one) your doing three ups, two down, as opposed to the rest of the exudes that have two up, three down.I'm not entirely sure what you mean, to me all the sweeps are largely the same but just sped up. It's all 3 string sweeps, the only different is that in the last one with ends on a diminished arpeggio
At least that's what I pick up from it, if you could try to explain you're question a bit more clearly I can try to help you
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