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27: 3 Easy Speed Techniques for Lead Guitar · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Guitar Jet Podcast, where you'll skyrocket your
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of theory, techniques, and fundamentals for guitar. Hey, it's
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  Speaker 1: your Chief Guitar Instructor, Miles, and today I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you about three easy speed techniques for lead guitar.
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  Speaker 1: And what makes these techniques easy is the fact you
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  Speaker 1: don't need to have a lightning-fast picking hand to use them.
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  Speaker 1: The first technique is single-direction sweeps. Usually, when we think
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  Speaker 1: about sweep picking, we think about sweeping down, then up, down,
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  Speaker 1: then up. And that can get tedious and difficult for
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  Speaker 1: both the right and left hands. But with a single
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  Speaker 1: direction sweep, you take an arpeggio shape, and then you
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  Speaker 1: just sweep in a single direction, like down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: or up, up, up, if you're using three strings. The
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  Speaker 1: second easy speed technique is tapping. Of course, when you're tapping,
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  Speaker 1: you take your picking hand and usually use your index
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  Speaker 1: or middle finger to play hammer-ons on the fretboard. And
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  Speaker 1: once you hammer-on using your picking hand, you'll pull off
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  Speaker 1: to a note on the fret hand and then hammer-on
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  Speaker 1: to another note using the fret hand, creating groups of three. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: that's how it works. But long story short, with tapping...
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  Speaker 1: You can do really quick hammer-ons and pull-offs combining the
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  Speaker 1: picking hand and the fret hand. And the final speed technique,
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  Speaker 1: the third speed technique, is sliding. You can slide up
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  Speaker 1: and down the neck at lightning-fast speeds, and it sounds awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really fun to slide in a minor
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  Speaker 1: pentatonic box shape. So let's say you're using A minor pentatonic.
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  Speaker 1: You can slide from fret 5 to 7 on the A, D,
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  Speaker 1: and G strings, and then slide from fret 5 to
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  Speaker 1: 8 on the B and high E strings. And it
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  Speaker 1: sounds awesome. It's speedy, and it looks really cool. So
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  Speaker 1: those are the three easy speed techniques. Number one, single
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  Speaker 1: direction sweep picking. Number two, tapping. Number three, sliding. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for listening to the show. subscribe to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, and I hope to catch you in the
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  Speaker 1: next episode, and you have a fantastic day. Thanks again
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  Speaker 1: for listening.