SWEEP PICKING BEGINNER EXERCISES FULL
Shaun’s album Jazz Metal is chuck full of every conceivable guitar technique flawlessly and innovatively executed. Two of the best economy pickers are Frank Gambale and Shaun Baxter. This is quite a challenging lick so be sure to program the picking directions of the last section very carefully before attempting to speed it up. After the bend we ascend the Ebmaj7 arpeggio before descending again using a G minor fragment interspersed with fourth intervals. These shapes have a fresh modern sound that works in many different styles. This lick combines three different ideas Firstly we have an Eb suspended arpeggio (Ebsus2). Decide which one feels more comfortable and work on that. I picked all the notes, but it works just as well with legato where there are several notes on each string. Before too long you will be able to feel the five groupings and just hear the melodic line of the lick. It would be worth your time to loop one of the five note cell of the lick to a metronome to really ingrain the feel of the quintuplets.
SWEEP PICKING BEGINNER EXERCISES SERIES
Here we have a series of diminished arpeggios in E harmonic minor. To make the tapped notes less risky to reach for, you may like to perform the sweep picking technique with the pick over the high frets so that it’s less far to move. While this is effective, I’ve chosen to play it with a strict triplet feel to develop control. Many players will play these ideas in a rushed rhythmic feel so that the tapped notes are on the beat. By bringing the picking hand in to tap high notes we are able to extend the arpeggio without having to shift position in the fretting hand. Sweep Picking Technique Example 1įirst we combine one the 5 string arpeggio shapes from lesson three with tapping. You may like to practice economy picking by playing an ascending 3 note per string scale, but using down, up, down, down, up, down etc strokes so that you sweep into each new string.
Just follow the picking directions slowly and it should all make sense. The second two of these licks involve a little economy picking. Like its name suggests, economy picking reduces the amount of movement that the picking hand needs to make, taking less energy to play fast. For the rest of you, let’s get to it!Īll you need is a guitar, a metronome, your pick of choice, and an hour or two to kill… I lovingly call this one, 'The Whole Enchilada'.In last week’s article I gave examples of more modern applications of the sweep picking technique, and here would like to show you three more examples that show the potential of this technique.Įconomy picking is related to alternate and sweep picking technique, whenever there is a string cross to be made, the player sweeps whenever possible. I know it’s a bit on the advanced side and I’ve promised my readers some more beginner guitar lessons coming up soon. After writing several versions of this (soon to be published in the print version of the Modal Scale Workout), I finally settled on this Ultimate Alternate Picking Exercise. Within two weeks I was back to my old self and playing as well as I ever could previously. To say these exercises work is an understatement. This second book in three months resulted in a complete change in focus from finger-style to alternate picking again. The Modal Scale Workout was a pet project of mine that I had shared with my students to help with their own alternate picking problems. Let me be clear, playing classical guitar doesn’t hurt your picking technique, but the fact is, I just wasn’t working on my alternate picking because I was so into the classical guitar music from that book.įast forward a month or so and I started another book. The by-product of spending two straight months on Classical Guitar music was the negative affects on my alternate picking technique. In April, I started writing an ambitious Classical Guitar book which has been very well received and I’m very proud of it.
I’ve done more writing in the past two months than I have in two years. In late March all of my live guitar work kind of went down the tubes. The negative effects are as prevalent to guitarists and other musicians as they are to just about any other line of work or hobby I can think of excluding first responders and Health Care professionals. The COVID-19 stuff has really changed the fabric of our day-to-day lives.
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