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7: 5 Sweep Picking Tips (Tabs on My Website) · The Guitarjet Podcast

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  Welcome to the guitar Jet Podcast, where you'll skyrocket your knowledge of theory,
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  techniques and fundamentals for guitar. Hey thereon, Welcome back to the guitar Jet
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  Podcast. I'm your host Miles, and today I thought I would help you
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  out with your technique by giving you five sweet pipking tips. And of course
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  you know this is my opinion. These are the sweet picking tips that have
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  really helped me. And this lesson is accompanied by a lesson on my website
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  guitarjet dot com slash sweep dash picking dash tips, or you can just go
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  to guitar dot dot com and type in sweet picking tips in the search bar
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  and it's accompanied by notation tabs. And I'll have a YouTube video up for
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  this soon. So let's go ahead and dive into the five tips. So
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  tip number one is to start with two string sweeps. And this just means
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  that you know, like a lot of guitar players will start with like a
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  five string sweep, but I think it's important to start with a two string
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  sweep so you can get familiar with simple motion such as like for example,
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  if you're going B to E and use a single downstroke, you're gonna do
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  a downstroke on B any that's gonna be one single motion, and then on
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  that high E you're just gonna do a simple upstroke, So you go down,
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  down, up and play a simple arpeggio like a G major R peggio,
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  which you can find in the tablature all right. And tip number two
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  is to practice sweeping in a single direction. So for example, you could
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  take a major or minor a peggio and I like to do this on the
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  GB and Highe strings, and you just sweep in a single direction so you
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  can get down that single motion direction. This is very similar to a strumming
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  motion, so you go down, down, down that it's all one motion.
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  And just remember that these notes all need to be played individually, which
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  means these notes will not ring together in harmony. And tip number three is
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  to learn three string sweeps in what I call the right way, which is
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  playing down, down, down, up, pull off on. So if
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  you're on the GB and high E strings, you go down down, down
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  on GB and high E and up pull off on the east ring and up
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  on the B and that way. After you've done that last upstroke, after
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  you've done all six motions, your pick is positioned again on that G string
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  to go down, so down down, down up, pull off up.
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  And what's really cool is you can say those motions to yourself even when you
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  don't have your guitar with you. Just remember the six motions down down,
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  down, up, pull off up, And kind of related sweet picking tip
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  here, it's like a bonus tip, is to watch your picking hand,
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  because when you're sweeping, you know, sweet picking technique is a picking technique,
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  so make sure you're looking at your picking hand and not just watching your
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  fret hand. So tip number four is to play tryad arpeggios across octaves.
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  So if you don't know, a tryad is a three note chord, and
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  when you break down a chord, you get in arpeggio. So a three
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  note chord played across octaves is far more effective than playing a cage darpeggio or
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  a single position arpeggio because oftentimes those single position are peggios are large and complicated
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  and have a lot of barring involved. So what I recommend instead is just
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  playing sweeps within a single octave, which take advantage of simple two strings.
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  Sweet picking shapes and motions that I kind of refer to in tip one,
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  so you'll just go down, down, up on eena, and then for
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  the next octave you'll be on the DMNG strings, and for the octave after
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  that, you'll be on the B and high E strings, and that's explained
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  in a bit more depth in the article. And then last but not least,
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  tip number five is to practice slowly, and so practice slowly so you
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  can accurately memorize your sweetpicking mode and common sweet picking shapes. And also don't
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  worry too much about muting when you're just getting started, and you see,
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  you can't move on to playing and practicing fast sweeps if you haven't learned the
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  motions and the shapes. So I guess overall, practice slowly and don't worry
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  too much about muting. And that's it for my five sweet picking tips.
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  and have a good day,