John McCarthy- Introduces Arpeggios- From Learn Rock Guitar Advanced DVD (Rock House)

[Maxx61]

A Roscoe S2000. I once owned several. 25-inch scale, 24-frets. Played like butta.

[thewiz098]

I WANT THAT GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



[ijakeii]

THIS GUY TAUGHT ME!

[cjrizzle93]

I know a lot of people that "can sweep" but can write music to save their lives. Go figure....

[misterreality]

John, Didn;'t recognize you. I remember getting your instructional stuff was back in the late 80's when you had the rock stash! Good to see you still doing the guitar education.

[Mattubic090]

no me gusto

[BOULDERDP]

I have been practicing them. Cant really do it yet but it helps to hold the pick very lightly (my pick is a .60 dunlop thickness) and turn it 45 degrees to the string so it does not bite into the string and get stuck or pluck too hard. It helps to roll and glide the pick over the string lightly.

[slipknot123456781000]

isnt that basicly sweeping?

[RemoKinga]

hes so cool

but i hate the setting these rock/metal dvds are recorded, its kinda dark, but also feels vintage

[IBZ93GRG250P]

How long usually people get to the level where people get to sweep picking..??

[tearsp07]

it took me at least a month

[HigherBecker]

the greatest problem about sweep picking is to synchronize both hands, for me, when i started practicing sweep to get synch took about six months or more to synch! always uise a metronome so your hands wont play "separately", once its synched it's very easy to raise speed with that technique!

good luck dude!

ps:. sorry 'bout the english, i'm brazilian!

[ITSjustanothercommen]

Depends on the person. How much they practice and how much control they have over their own hand. Took me a week to play sweep arppeggios.

[btfranco2]

im starting to sweep ive been playing about a year

[jakeplaysguitar7]

when i was an intermediate player i learned it

[mca1houn]

Very cool. Does this guitar remind anyone else of Mountain Dew?

[steppenchimera]

Really good! I can't watch John instructions without feeling a great desire for playing those lessons..ha ha it's great...

[DJCESP]

I wish I could post a sweeping vid. Out of all the techniques on guitar, along with good alt picking technique it definitely is one of the most infuriating to get right but one day it just sits :)

Try playing it along to a backing track, I always found that when i did it along to actual music it helped for some reason. I think it just puts you in the right frame of mind to do it :)

[riptyde4]

This is a great tutorial and all, but ive been trying to sweep pick since i started playing 2 1/2 years ago...it doesnt work...

[sprocket226]

I have a couple of Rock-House DVD's, John's a great instructor.

[Pho3niXnz]

I learnt this type of arpeggio a while back but I still can't get sweep picking down! Guess i'll just have to keep practicing it :P

[C0bfan666]

he looks like a girl..

[2ndwarlord]

sweet! i wish i could do that lol