EPTDoes anyone have any tips on sweep picking?
Sweep Picking experts!
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
Does anyone have any tips on sweep picking? | ||
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Romance_us
Seychelles1806 Posts
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Sewi
Germany1697 Posts
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h3r1n6
Iceland2039 Posts
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?s=sweep picking&w=lessons | ||
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ulszz
Jamaica1787 Posts
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
as i said before, try easy triads on the g b and high e strings, with only a straight sweep up or down, then progress up to longer sweeps, then add in hammers, taps, alternate picking strokes w/e. try to steer clear of dim7 chords for now, some of them are annoying because they span 5 frets, but you could always transpose them to different locations if you really wanted to. i suggest starting off with easy stuff like majors pm me if u want some more info or some ptb's with some basic exercises OH also i suggest watching players like frank gambale, a talented fusion guitarist. muhammad from necrophagist sweeps alot in his leads, theres some easy ones in the epitaph that you could try at a slower pace Try this site http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/arpeggio.php , type in the root, pattern and intervals of the chord you want to sweep and itll generate it for you | ||
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himurakenshin
Canada1845 Posts
you will get what i mean | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
---------------------12--17-12----------------------- -------------------15------------15------------------- -----------------14-----------------14-------------- ---------------15----------------------15---------- --------12--17--------------------------12-17---- ------------------------------------------------------ What im trying to do is pick the first 12 then sweep 17, 15, 14, 15, 12 then pick 17 and go back up and pick the last 17 to end it. should i just slowly practice 15,14, 15 or like 17, 15, 14? | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
--------------------------12-12--------- -----------------------15--------15------- --------------------14---------------14------ -----------------15----------------------15--- -------------17-----------------------------17- -------------------------------------------------- over and over and over and over and over. I can do it semi fast, but i an still just* pick it faster so i have alot of work to go. --; | ||
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DvDYaR
United States2 Posts
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
if you are constructing them from scales, try some of the modes such as the lydian (major scale with a #4, pleasant sounding) or maybe harmonic minor (i think yngwie uses it alot) | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
I almost have it ill post a video soon. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
u can sweep down and up, but try to do one, stop, then do the other, otherwise itll be much harder to get btw are you playing with a metronome? anyways, sweeping gets alot easier once you have that timing right, there are a few different patterns that can be used to play pretty much all maj and min chords (u can shift them around the frets a few times to get different intervals of the scale), stuff like dim chords have fairly easy fingerings | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
What i want to be able to do is go down one chord then up a different one then do 2 more so its like a quad set of sweeps lol. Ill just keep trying to get the motion down i guess. thanks guys | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
just a question what style are you playing anyway? | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
ah sweet online metronome! thanks man | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
cant say im really interested in them but GL also i dont know if your into this sort of stuff or not, but you can transcribe / look at tabs of some coltrane songs, in some of his more bop songs theres arpeggiated chords that can be swept | ||
boesthius
United States11637 Posts
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
On July 22 2008 14:32 JohnColtrane wrote: yeah man screw buying one, online are just as good cant say im really interested in them but GL also i dont know if your into this sort of stuff or not, but you can transcribe / look at tabs of some coltrane songs, in some of his more bop songs theres arpeggiated chords that can be swept Let me get the technique down then ill bust into the dif chords haha. thanks alot though good advice from all!! I had to work from 1130 to 7 today then went bowling and then it was too late to play so i couldnt record anything. tomorrow im jamming with my band so maybe ill try some stuff then. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
btw if u are gonna be detuning, you may as well buy a cheap 7 string, like an ibanez universe or an rg7321. that way you are still tuned 5 semitones down, but u also have that high E string still (BEADGBE). i think going any lower than that is really going to sound stupid and fuck with the bassist | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
Drop C is what i like to play in, but drop B is cool too. I also play in drop D sometimes.. I need to find a good way to record guitars (Mbox2 i found is good but it costs 300 bucks so i have to save.) for now i am just making music electronically with Reason and my keyboard which acts as a synthesizer. | ||
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
let's keep this blog going! can u guys elaborate on how u finger/ where do u place your thumb on higher frets, mine just kinda dangles wherever; without any specific location | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
Oh yea guys check this out: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7340213 listen to "The Butcher". amazing sweeps in that song. and All Shall Perishes new song "Never Again" has sick sweeps. myspace.com/allshallperish I can sweep faster than i can pic both ways now!!!! Almost got it! | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
heres what i can do so far please critique my sweeping | ||
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