Advice On How To Play The Hardest Sweep Picking Guitar Shapes Fast
Do you feel like some sweep picking arpeggios are just too difficult to play realistically?
Reality is:
Even the most simple fast guitar licks were once insurmountably difficult when you first began playing. Any sweep picking lick can be learned and mastered.
So, how?
A great way to quickly play challenging arpeggio shapes is to use powerful practice approaches that help you effectively:
-Get to the core of what makes them so challenging and/or
-Make them even harder to make the original lick easy by comparison
Let me show you what to do!
Use these approaches to dominate tough sweep picking shapes in no time:
Play Every Note Of The Arpeggio Lick Using Speed Picking (Not Sweep Picking)
Rather than using sweep picking technique to play the pattern, use speed picking on every note.
As well as developing your tremolo picking skills:
This joins both of your hands in sync, making faster playing more easy overall. It also, makes playing arpeggios using just one pick stroke per string feel much easier too.
Let’s make it easier.
Try this:
1. Break it up by deciding to play just 2-3 notes at a time.
2. Tremolo pick every note.
3. Add one more note to the lick until you play through the entire lick.
Make Each Note Sound Amazing By Focusing On It Like A Laser With Speed Picking!
Speed picking distinct notes of an arpeggio is also a good
way to enhance your concentration.
How?
Simple:
It’s a lot easier to pick up on mistakes for any given note when you direct your attention on it more than any other.
Locate the notes in a given sweep picking arpeggio that give you the most trouble.
For instance, the notes on the strings between the lowest and highest note.
Use speed picking to target one of the notes in a sweep picking arpeggio, while playing the other notes of the arpeggio using sweep picking.
So, the approach looks like the following:
1. Begin sweep picking.
2. Arrive at the specific note or notes that you tend to
have problems with.
3. Speed pick the notes.
4. Carry on pattern by sweeping.
Make Things Harder On Yourself To Make The Original Arpeggio Seem Easy In Comparison
By playing your arpeggios in short surges of speed, it is less complicated to learn them and integrate tremolo picking to them to make a
huge improvement to your general technique.
This online video shows you how to perform a few notes at a time in brief bursts:
Now, it’s time to begin combining short bursts with random speed picking to improve your power to speed pick consistently with an instant startup (in between quick bursts without speed picked notes).
Use this approach to do it:
1. Blend the original two points in this guide together by breaking an arpeggio down into a handful of notes at once.
2. Then play the pattern by speed picking all the strings. Do this for many repetitions in a row.
3. Sweep pick the strings employing the quick bursts strategy. Do this for several repetitions in a row.
4. Sweep pick the notes and tremolo pick the highest note in the lick. Do this for several repetitions in a row.
5. Now speed pick the two highest notes in the lick. Do this for multiple repetitions in a row.
6. Tremolo pick all of the lick’s notes. Do this for several repetitions in a row.
7. Finally, add another note and carry on this process until you play through the entire arpeggio pattern.
You now know some great practice strategies using speed picking to improve your sweep picking.
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