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Sweep Picking Practice

Me playing some sweeps. Here’s the tab for the first sweep picking lick in this video. Or rather the figures I use in it. You’ll have to listen to the lick if you wan’t to play it the way I am but it’s more fun if you just use the figures and make up your own lick. (the lick I play in the video is more or less improvised). E——–13-17-13——– B—–15———-15—— G–14—————-14— D—————————- A—————————– E—————————- E——–12-15-12——– B—–13———-13——- G–12—————-12—- D—————————– A—————————– E—————————– E——–10-13-10——– B—–11———-11—— G–10—————-10— D—————————- A—————————– E—————————– The second lick is taken from the song Silent Night, Bodom Night by Children of Bodom. (Without the alternate picking as you can hear)

Sweep Picking – Sweep picking lesson – Arpeggios

  1. mrjakmusman
    November 27th, 2009 at 18:31 | #1

    ive just started to sweep, i do the first sweet you do, took me like 3hour learn it, cant do it as fast as you, but can do it fairly fast now, been practicing them everyday for a week or something and also a 6 string sweep

  2. TheBish1993
    December 7th, 2009 at 02:38 | #2

    hey could you please tell me if your picking every note or is the 13-17-13 a pull off :o

  3. Vanhallo
    December 8th, 2009 at 21:19 | #3

    It’s a hammeron-pulloff. Merry Christmas!

  4. TheBish1993
    December 9th, 2009 at 16:32 | #4

    thanks alot :D and you too.

  5. kairisbrother
    December 19th, 2009 at 19:31 | #5

    how do you get it clean? i can do a sweep, and get the speed, but whenever i go to switch from one tring to the next, when my finger pulls off the string ounds ever so slightly and it sounds horrible. thanks

  6. phoxey67
    December 23rd, 2009 at 15:57 | #6

    Hey man This kid sucks at sweeping. no offense but if you want some heelp let me know and ill be more then happy to help you

  7. nic95
    December 25th, 2009 at 03:09 | #7

    damn i rlly need a metrnome. I keep forgetting to buy one when i go to the guitar shop.

  8. ixcaliber
    January 2nd, 2010 at 08:53 | #8

    ever heard of google, search up a metronome, then just listen to it from your comp

  9. progrhytmer
    January 22nd, 2010 at 21:51 | #9

    sux!!!! ||||

  10. L7dreamtheaterfan
    February 5th, 2010 at 23:31 | #10

    three string sweeps sound really nice when played clean like this. good job.

  11. chay100372
    February 12th, 2010 at 00:21 | #11

    @L7dreamtheaterfan lol dumbass its not clean, its the amps fault but its not clean

  12. L7dreamtheaterfan
    February 12th, 2010 at 00:44 | #12

    no need to be hostile because it just makes you seem like a doushebag.

    Anyway, I meant his playing is clean not his amp… and if that isn’t what you meant, then how is this not clean for only playing sweeps a short amount of time? Like you could’ve have done any better when you had started playing? This was good, especially relatively. So don’t be a doushebag.

  13. chay100372
    February 12th, 2010 at 02:45 | #13

    @L7dreamtheaterfan i know itgood i say it not cleanis all . anditdoesntmakesense ifu callme a douche bag because you donteven know what it means,part of is his playing but u have no idea what ur talkin about so

  14. L7dreamtheaterfan
    February 12th, 2010 at 04:37 | #14

    I hope there is something wrong with your space bar. Also, a doushebag is actually a slang name that refers to someone being similar to a douche, which was something women use to clean their vagina. Also, your sentence phrasing is fairly bad, so I can’t understand all of what your saying. And actually, I’m pretty sure that your original statement, was saying that his amp made it bad. His amp doesn’t affect his playing at all. It only affects the sound. and I was referring to his playing.

  15. Redhotnirvanalover
    February 13th, 2010 at 02:24 | #15

    i dont know or care what youre saying but that was bloody good mate!

  16. chay100372
    February 26th, 2010 at 02:26 | #16

    @L7dreamtheaterfan I already said that his playing made it not clean either dumbass. And my grammar is better than your’s. You can hear open string noises, i dont think thats very clean dumbass

  17. CallingCorruption
    March 16th, 2010 at 23:57 | #17

    dude u suck thats fuckin slow.

  18. Vanhallo
    March 17th, 2010 at 18:16 | #18

    Can you teach me to play better and faster then? Pleeeaaase?

  19. historyofmetal
    April 5th, 2010 at 00:34 | #19

    sounds good dude! thanks for providing the patterns. i’ve been starting to work on sweeping and this is exactly what i need :D

  20. sdjoon
    April 12th, 2010 at 02:52 | #20

    lol u suck :P

  21. OrionLong
    April 12th, 2010 at 23:32 | #21

    pretty good pretty clean :D but you should invest in a better camera O_o haha

  22. Vanhallo
    April 14th, 2010 at 18:15 | #22

    @OrionLong Lol, you’re right. That was just a standard digital cam with a video function.

  23. HellCrasherPorter
    April 23rd, 2010 at 03:06 | #23

    man dont tell people they suck and they are slow this kid already has it down pretty good by the time he hits 30 he wont even have to try and will be doin it in his sleep.
    Good practice vid dude. When I was yer Age I was doin stupid eddie van halen licks.
    keep it up
    goo on ya mate!

  24. MrVoodoo72
    April 25th, 2010 at 16:56 | #24

    How many hours of practicing only this technique do you estimate that it took you to get as clean/fast as you are on the vid here?

  25. boxtrap21
    May 31st, 2010 at 12:23 | #25

    dude, thats crazy!!!

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