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Sweep Picking Lesson

Here it is… I’m sorry it took so long to get up… I have had a number of technical difficulties in the process, causing the serious delay… mainly my computer deciding it did not want to work properly… blue screen, black screen, stop and error codes, even my date and time resetting to 6:00pm Dec. 31 1987… every thing is obviously fixed now and i present to you… the lesson… enjoy i283.photobucket.com

Sweep PickingSweep picking lesson – Arpeggios

  1. Whamesl0l
    January 30th, 2010 at 18:13 | #1

    yes i have heard in sweep picking lessons to palm mute i actually heard it from one of alexi laihos videos and yes it is on youtube

  2. lftm1
    February 7th, 2010 at 16:14 | #2

    Alexi`s the best

  3. renrutyhtomit
    February 10th, 2010 at 06:52 | #3

    Dang. 13 seconds of useful information crammed into a 4:12 video. How do you do it?

  4. Warhear87
    February 10th, 2010 at 07:06 | #4

    Im an over achiever

  5. juswannawatchthings
    February 12th, 2010 at 19:34 | #5

    yeh…i can do that shit…just kidding good vid bro

  6. austyn1234567891
    February 13th, 2010 at 01:14 | #6

    too munch talking oo

  7. ReebHound
    February 13th, 2010 at 03:59 | #7

    subbed because of ur personality

  8. WarpedPennY
    February 13th, 2010 at 15:53 | #8

    Bro love your vids, and you said it best in the beginning of this video. I feel the same way. If your one of those people who can already do this stuff..move along, go watch some other vid (youtube has billions of em!) no need to puff out that E-Chest and make bad comments here. Your attitude rocks brother, keep em comin!

  9. BlacktoryProject
    February 22nd, 2010 at 21:52 | #9

    Some other pieces of advice I would personally give are:

    1) This might sound logical but if you’re going for leadguitar, get some fairly thin strings.

    2) Use the neck-pickup, not the bridge one. It will sound a lot less messy.

  10. djanged
    March 1st, 2010 at 10:44 | #10

    neck pickups are almost cheating, if you’re good at sweeping you will be able to make it sound clean through the bridge pickup.. eg. Alexi Laiho

  11. Warhear87
    March 1st, 2010 at 19:38 | #11

    1) thin strings doesnt really make as much difference as tension does. You’ll need a heavier gauge string to play lower tunings but you will have similar tension as the thinner strings

    2) Neck-pickups are taken for granted and djanged is correct. If you are good, you are able to play cleanly without a neck puckup. Neck pickups should be relied on for tonal diversity and not hiding mistakes.

    you are both correct

  12. razorman916
    March 4th, 2010 at 13:50 | #12

    Ha that joke in the beggining was genious! So true!

  13. jmanbgg
    March 5th, 2010 at 23:17 | #13

    @djanged well actually yngwie malmsteen uses the neck pickup when sweep picking bc it sounds cleaner

  14. matineesuxxx
    March 9th, 2010 at 03:25 | #14

    @Warhear87 omg man. you helped.. i have been frustrated so horribly cause i was constantly told to palm mute right *after* the note was played and it got insane when trying to do harder faster sweeps.. and i didnt even thinkof just doing a palmmute for real.. i thought it would kill the whole note

  15. qdsqd
    March 15th, 2010 at 19:49 | #15

    Hey mate, to be honost you’re totally right.
    I’m learning to sweep pick for over a year or so and I only recently found out it actually sounds how it should after I like tried a thousand combinations of muting it with the end of my palm. It’s really important.
    Good for you to tell so, now I just need to get rid of these small little stubby fingers to finish my sweeps -.-*

  16. EraOfBloodtv
    March 20th, 2010 at 03:41 | #16

    Love your fuckin shirt.

  17. chippymc12
    March 22nd, 2010 at 22:34 | #17

    HAIL ENSIFERUM!!!

  18. csteele81
    March 31st, 2010 at 08:04 | #18

    That was a good lesson not a lot of them talk about how to mute the strings for the sweep and its very helpful thanks

  19. Shyuum
    April 7th, 2010 at 16:46 | #19

    @djanged
    HAHAHAHAHAH
    That is the funniest thing I have ever read!

  20. DassCrl
    April 12th, 2010 at 02:09 | #20

    Palm mute, nice tip. Thanks.

  21. OrionLong
    April 12th, 2010 at 23:41 | #21

    Wow I feel like an idiot haha I never use the neck pickup when sweeping and now that I try it,it sounds cleaner -___- it makes me feel like Im cheating tho ahahah so Idk if Ima use it..I just wanna get them cleannn!!! Mine suck haha

  22. djanged
    April 14th, 2010 at 08:36 | #22

    @jmanbgg ygnwie uses a strat also not humbucker

  23. djanged
    April 14th, 2010 at 08:36 | #23

    @Shyuum explain..

  24. natetheinadequate
    April 27th, 2010 at 01:03 | #24

    awesome, now you should teach us those first licks.

  25. McSway92
    April 28th, 2010 at 00:11 | #25

    looks like The Wild Child edition which Alexi played before he
    was sponsered by ESP. i love Jackson. i have THREE lol

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