Do You NEED Sweep Picking? I thought I was DONE With It But This is Cool

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Sweep Picking has a certain sound and I think most of us who spent time on it learned quite similar arpeggio based stuff which doesn’t actually tend to sound either very melodic, or can sound quite predictable. This little thing I stumbled on last night is a bit more like what a piano player might play and sounds pretty nice I think?

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25 thoughts on “Do You NEED Sweep Picking? I thought I was DONE With It But This is Cool”

  2. Sweeping is great in the context of economy picking absolutely terrible in the context of just ripping through the same transposed arpeggio voicing (at least from a pedagogical point of view, so many people learning it seem to get trapped in that one mode of use).

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  5. (Not meaning to sound like Harry on GH's page!) Doing little cyclical 2 1 2 sweeps of pentatonic in major third's tuning gives some incredibly fast and melodic Eric Johnson-ish stuff!
    Here's a thing that I've been trying recently: tuning in major 3rds with the G and B the same flatten the top E then repeat all of that an octave lower for the bottom three strings so a low G etc. It's been a revelation! I might even try and stick with it, chords are mega simple! 😃

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  6. Frank Gambale is the be all and end all of sweep picking, it was always about lines as much as arpeggios, it's just that a lot of metal players don't utilise the full potential.

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  11. Great vid, as usual! I realized that one of the reasons why I think your vids are so useful is because you actually do a lot of major stuff as opposed to minor blues and rock. Really appreciate that. On that note, I would love to see a lesson on how you approach runs in general.

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  13. A couple of things that also helped me with Sweep Picking is avoid any more than 2 notes ringing at the same time. I do that by sort of rolling off the fretting fingers in sequence. Using the picking hand middle finger for the highest note when skipping over a string can make Sweeping more versatile and give access to other unusual, unexpected, voicings and patterns. Thanks

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  19. The melodic line here reminds me of a song called you enjoy myself. Treys use of a similar sweep picking melody is an excellent example of this technique in action. Or animals as leader, Tosin employees 4 note arpeggios so fluently

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