Hey dude, what's the name of the first song you name in "Examples"? I know it's from the Return to heaven denied album, but I don't really understand you saying the name :/ sorry dude :P But yeah please help, sounds epic :D
thanks for the lesson. it's really helpful. after some years of playing i started learning sweep picking yesterday, to fast to begin and sloppy as shit but a metronome and starting at 50bpm like you said really seems to help
@Morgotheenslaver doing that is REALLY helpful. It's sort of a twist on the "straw that broke the camel's back" thing. You can always go A LITTLE bit faster, eventually you'll hit a wall, but if you keep going slowly you'll get to a higher speed than you would straight out the gates.
I dunno if its just me, but it took me like 1-2 weeks to master a few simple patterns. I´m not able to do jazz sweeps or Allan Holsworth stuff but i'm able to do the minor, major and diminished stuff. I dunno why someone would need 2 months to master something like that...
yeah, my webhost went out of business or something and I haven't gotten around to getting a new one yet. PM me your e-mail and I will send you the file if you want.
@MagusGod you got yourself a deal bitch, this was the first videos i ever watched to learn sweep picking. thanks luke :P I actualy learnt how and for u magusgod. I accept your challenge.
@P5ych00 Have a little post-teen angst you need to vent out there? You're so bad ass, going on youtube and insulting guitarists younger than you in an attempt to compensate for your incompetence. Fine, I'll upload a video showing you I can sweep. Then maybe you'll realize what a complete moron you are.
@MagusGod you know what? I'm tired of this childish banter. I'm blocking you from further comments, and anyone that responds to your previous ones will have theirs removed.
Not all your fault, but I don't appreciate the bickering in my comment space.
wow this helped a lot.. ive been looking everywhere for black and white.. and even though its monotonous and repetative.
in just over a month i managed to start doing basic stuff and now its just about a week before my second month.. and i can do this shit easily. its like clockwork now.
dude this is bullshit, i can tell by how you play those that you can play those pretty damn fluently. start from scratch not knowing wtf sweep picking is and then tell me how long it takes to perfect. it took a long time for me to get as good as i am at it.
I never said that I'd never done them before, but I was great at it.
If you had payed attention you'd notice that I asked for anyone who has never done them before to try this and document their progress, as it would be interesting to see how good they could get in such a short time if they practice it correctly and regularly.
I still maintain that it's not a difficult technique reserved only for guitar masters. It's fairly basic.
i agree, i mean after about a week i could sweep just as good as the average famous guys who would throw a sweep in their solo every once in a while. ive actually had alot more trouble with alternate picking and two handed tapping
lol yeah i think this is a gd method...im gonna try this tmr...i wound try it today but my last string broke haha...ill try to master the art of sweep in 1 month....ill practise it 2hrs a day.... god i hope this works cause i wanna do sweepings during my comming gig next month XD
Gah, I looked at all the video guitarist on sweep picking and holy crap, I'm subscribing to you. Screw all the other people. You're a perfect guru for a guitarist! Im still learning how to do it, pracitcing 15 minuets a day like you said. And i just bought a Ibanez Gio too, can you teach how to make a pinch harmonic or natural harmonic? That'll be great!
no no no, try practicing an hour a day. Trust me if you're into guitar and find it fun, it wont even seem like an hour. With only 15 minutes a day you aren't going to get very far.
i've done it and got in within the 2 months, but i had a litte experience, so it doesn't really count as 2 months..i posted a videoreaction..if you have anny commment on how i'm doing it and if i'm doing it right, it would be nice!
I hate guitarist who base a guitarist skills on their ability to sweep or shred. I personally am a rythm/melody guy but I am ready to take the plunge into this stuff. I should probably get a metronome. Ive been using my foot lol.
I wish I would have seen this video when you first posted it, I would have attempted it with you. I'm probably right at the point where you were when you started this. Sometimes I can sound faster, but it's very messy. I'm going to try your method, I'll let you know how it turns out.
youve got a great attitude towards playing i recently broke my freting pinky and hope to get it back in shape for playing next month .ill problably take up sweep picking and interpreting arppegios which i still dont fully understand
I love how none of you people responded to southern "Great after he called sweeps "Homosexual". By the by, I have been playing for yrs and am pretty good at sweeps, but as always, could be better. I am gonna try out this challenge..., it is good to see that you are one of the people trying to use the Information Highway for learning and the betterment of people and art in general kudos. LAT
Thanks alot man for the tabs and showing me how to do this stuff. I am decent at sweeping but want to become faster and try to get cleaner. Thanks dude
Hey man, you have really inspired me to learn sweep picking and to practice more rigorously in general. I have never sweep picked before, and after practicing for about 30 minutes I can already play them pretty darn fast. Shows what focused practice can do.
Yeah you're right it is easy. After watching this video i'm thinking about spending several weeks to practice sweep picking. The most I really need to work on are hammer-ons/pull-offs. I can pretty much get certain patterns down unless they involve hammer-ons/pull-offs. I have a question if you don't mind me asking.
Do you know any other hammer-on/pull-off patterns?
im starting after i leave this comment. i know exactly where your coming from when you say people judge guitarists ability off of sweep picking. ive had a couple people tell me your not a true guitarist unless you can do it. so here goes nothin.
yo man, I guess you already did this about a year ago but i'm definitely gonna take up your challenge mastering sweeping in 2 months. I've always messed around with sweep picking and set up some of my own exercises but i never really got any sweep patterns worth practicing often . So thanks for the inspiration and your advice on techniques man.
Hey thanks alot, i found this video super helpful. Im in something of a similar situation now (i can sweep a couple patterns but not too cleanly or quickly). How often would you recommend practicing (this or any other form really) for the time to be worthwhile i.e. to see results?
The important thing is that you practice regularly. Think about it like working out. If you work out a little bit each day, you'll see results. Work out a bunch at odd intervals you're not going to see anything!
Thanks a lot for this video :] I think I would like to do a similar thing to learn how to sweep, so far I've been having some trouble particularly with the picking (it's basically like I pick every note, instead of a clean sweep) and it's not as coordinated as my fretting hand. :/ I'll work on it though.
when he said at 2:32 he says u want to pick the not..wrongo! u want to sweep the pick or else its just picking i want to sweew ur pick down the strings...hense sweep picking
If you were paying attention, you'd realize that the point of that exercise is to synchronize your hands at a fundamental level. I include it BEFORE I ever talk about the actual technique.
Maybe if you paid more attention you would learn something.
Yo man, I recently started sweeping, actually i only got taught a few formations yesterday. so im new to it as can be. im very familiar with how its done, i jsut stayed away from it for some apparent reason. im willing to give this a shot. i use the metronome i have in Guitar Pro 5.0. whcih i could also put the formations in and it would play with me. i can play a fewe formations very slow to show you exactly wher ei am at with sweeps. and ill post in 2 months i guess.
Yes, I started working on a lot of seventh shapes when I did my own (out of preference for the 7th chords), but the shapes in the tab are what seem to be the most common.
I have done sweep pickign for 6 months now i am very good ill try and post a video of what i've done and a few pointers, although i didn't use a beat machine and it took me a month to get really fast.
dude i will practice this and show in 2 months just because you showed me how to do this so i will post a video comment on how i do it just starting and then another after 2 months
This is a great idea, and I'm going to try hard to stick with it. Question though. When you say to practice just hammering on at 50bpm, do you mean just one shape over and over for 10 minutes, and then a new shape? Or different shapes throughout that 10 minutes?
dude i am with you definitely, i can do anything but sweep pick lol, a lot of the songs i play have sweep picking somewhere in there so i cant do the whole song, im dfinitely with you on mastering i two months, ill keep you posted
Thanks for the video... I've always wanted to know how to sweep pick and thx for the pdf... oh I've NEVER tried it before at all... so in two months I will post a before and after of me sweep picking to show what I've learned from you...
my sweeps suck. i understand the concept, i can do them slow, but speed is where i fail. either my pick is too fast of my fret hand is too fast. so im gonna take this challenge.
yo man i respect that. you are realy determind and thers not alot of muscians like you. props dude i will try to learn from the tips you gave me. keep rockin and and make more videos like that thanx
ya i am going to go ahead and give it a shot. a hour a day for the next 2 months. i dont have a webcam but i can notify you about it if you want to hit me up.
Nice video man, it'll be awesome to see how you progress over the 2 months. This has shown me that you don't just pick up your guitar and hope to hit notes that sound "good enough", but to start crazily slow and work your way from there.
I've been doing Sweep Picking for about 2 and a half months and I mastered the 3-string arppegios and added tapping to them. Once you get the idea down, it's more easier to make to 5 string arpeggios and some Jeff Loomis shit. If you need to know a master at sweep picking, check him out. :D
fuck man, i tried uploading my response, i got one of the shapes down real good, i've only been doing it a week and it's pretty fast, abit slopy but it's only been a fucken week... fucking camera... :(
SO I GET THE FUCKEN ENCODER ENCODE THE MOTHER FUCKER RE-UPLOAD THE VIDEO FUCKEN GETS TO 100%... ERROR 500 WHAT IN THE FUCK IS ERROR 500... fuck computers all they fucken do is piss me off cause 5 million computer programers are unable to write a decent god fucking damned operating system!
I'd say the problem rests in the fact that you're using wmv, which means you're probably using Windows Movie Maker, which is a HORRID program. Find something else and you might not have these problems.
it's not that, it was in avi before, that didn't work, so i converted it to wmv, that didn't work, then i tried mpeg 4 and fuck man of course that didn't work, it's in the right dimensions and everything... what ever i'm happy wiht meh progress
i watched a herman li video about his sweep picking methods and it really helped me with the technique and i can actually sweep pick now. but others may not catch on as quick as i did.
you should include the "rolling finger" technqiue in your sweep picking practice. Just a recomendation, i didnt noticed if u did it in the shapes you showed, but if not, u should practice it man. Good luck on your quest.
I had somebody else ask me about that earlier today. Personally, I don't see it come up that often. I can do it though... perhaps I'll do a quick bit on it later this week.
I'll definitely do this. I don't really have a camera to post much but I'll try to work something out with that. I have NO experience with sweeps whatsoever. I'm forming a band with a friend that is amazing at sweeping so I need to get this down so I don't drag the rest of the band down (I've been wanting to work on it anyway)
well, if you check out some of the updates, you can see that I've improved quite a bit since I started (nearly proving my claim that it isn't that difficult of a technique)
So stay optimistic, and make sure to keep regular and rigid practice routine and you should have it down in no time (just don't get too excited and jump ahead speed-wise, it's worthless if it isn't clean!)
this is pretty cool! im ok at sweep picking but your totally right about the practicing. practice makes perfect. i actually stopped sweeping for a while and im not as good as i use to be. fuckin A. HAHHA PRACTICE!
im in too, i've been playing guitar for about half a year and want to move onto more advanced songs like canon rock for example, i can play everything exept the sweep picking in it so im gonna try this 2 month challenge even though 2 months seems like a long time i learn most my stuff with in 1-2 weeks. well anyways i cant do it at all so wish me luck!
I wish I found out about this earlier, well staring tommarow Set 15 - Nov 15 I should be sweep picking great,yo the funny thing is that NOV 15 IS MY BIRTHDAY! lol but thanks for putting this video up cuz now I got something to work towords, hit be back up so we can keep in touch ^^
Dude! I'm in. This is great to set a mark and a goal. What a great challenge. I have been playing guitar sometime, but I've noticed that people put so much measurement of a players worth into sweeping. I don't think that's completely fair, but that's the way it is. You are the best man! For teaching and then the challenge. No one on youtube has done that.
hey man u can def learn sweeping in 2 months i learnt it in like a week its easy
tooleytim 9 months ago
awesome man. now i thought i had to put a sock around the neck to mute the strings =0
imawesome89100 11 months ago
Hey dude, what's the name of the first song you name in "Examples"? I know it's from the Return to heaven denied album, but I don't really understand you saying the name :/ sorry dude :P But yeah please help, sounds epic :D
WelshLane2k9 11 months ago
@WelshLane2k9 "Moonlight"
LukeSniper 11 months ago
@LukeSniper Awesome! Thanks!
WelshLane2k9 11 months ago
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easy my ass man. you dont know what the fuck you are talking about.
480borat 1 year ago
thanks for the lesson. it's really helpful. after some years of playing i started learning sweep picking yesterday, to fast to begin and sloppy as shit but a metronome and starting at 50bpm like you said really seems to help
TheMetalwarrior91 1 year ago
youre a great teacher
zepallica123 1 year ago
i learned it in about 3 weeks after about a year of playing guitar. but i practiced for about 8 hours a day
DietGrape 1 year ago
the key to sweep picking is using a metronome. A lot of people are sloppy when they sweep pick.
bobangel87 1 year ago 6
you seem like a really cool guy. just sayin...
ryankuisti 1 year ago
[u answered my Q on Yahoo] I havn't thought of timing each segment of my practice for 10 minutes. Good advice.
Morgotheenslaver 1 year ago
@Morgotheenslaver doing that is REALLY helpful. It's sort of a twist on the "straw that broke the camel's back" thing. You can always go A LITTLE bit faster, eventually you'll hit a wall, but if you keep going slowly you'll get to a higher speed than you would straight out the gates.
LukeSniper 1 year ago
I dunno if its just me, but it took me like 1-2 weeks to master a few simple patterns. I´m not able to do jazz sweeps or Allan Holsworth stuff but i'm able to do the minor, major and diminished stuff. I dunno why someone would need 2 months to master something like that...
HeavyMetalDude1988 1 year ago
the pdf is broke :(
tr0yhasfallen 1 year ago
@tr0yhasfallen
yeah, my webhost went out of business or something and I haven't gotten around to getting a new one yet. PM me your e-mail and I will send you the file if you want.
LukeSniper 1 year ago
Liers bragging.
JAMESLeadGuitarist 2 years ago
Don't listen to magusGod he's a phony sweeping possible take 1.5 years to 2 years.
JAMESLeadGuitarist 2 years ago
@JAMESLeadGuitarist Or you're just upset that a 16 year old can sweep pick fluently and you can't?
MagusGod 1 year ago
So what? I learned sweep picking in a week.
It is easy, 2 months though? Come on.
MagusGod 2 years ago
No matter how much you practice it, a week is not long enough to commit something to muscle memory.
Just a fact.
LukeSniper 2 years ago 5
I can do it flawlessly though... :P
MagusGod 2 years ago
i agree sir.
Guitarbeast6666 2 years ago
@MagusGod You have learned it in a week. But you more than likely sucked balls at it...it takes scores of hours of practice to get it down fluently.
asdfkennethb13 1 year ago
@asdfkennethb13 Haha, actually I do a solo for my band with a diminished sweep arpeggio progression.
Flawlessly.
MagusGod 1 year ago
@MagusGod LOL, I learnt to be a guitar virtuso in like a day, like come on Im just pro... you're def not a guitarist
P5ych00 1 year ago
@P5ych00 LOL? I am? Whatever, whatever helps you sleep at night. Test me if you want.
MagusGod 1 year ago
@MagusGod you got yourself a deal bitch, this was the first videos i ever watched to learn sweep picking. thanks luke :P I actualy learnt how and for u magusgod. I accept your challenge.
P5ych00 1 year ago
@P5ych00 Have a little post-teen angst you need to vent out there? You're so bad ass, going on youtube and insulting guitarists younger than you in an attempt to compensate for your incompetence. Fine, I'll upload a video showing you I can sweep. Then maybe you'll realize what a complete moron you are.
MagusGod 1 year ago
@MagusGod it's the video titled arps in the responses, it could be cleaner but I did it in one take, we'll see if u can top it
P5ych00 1 year ago
@MagusGod Lmao !!!!! yeah sure yu did
bergAgreb 1 year ago
@bergAgreb Thanks for the compliment. You just make my accomplishment sound that much better. :D
MagusGod 1 year ago
@MagusGod you know what? I'm tired of this childish banter. I'm blocking you from further comments, and anyone that responds to your previous ones will have theirs removed.
Not all your fault, but I don't appreciate the bickering in my comment space.
LukeSniper 1 year ago
wow this helped a lot.. ive been looking everywhere for black and white.. and even though its monotonous and repetative.
in just over a month i managed to start doing basic stuff and now its just about a week before my second month.. and i can do this shit easily. its like clockwork now.
i can play the leper messiah solo.
and i am going to attempt
eye of the storm (solo) - bfmv
i find that 5-6 string sweeps are fun
but 3-4 are more challenging.
Thanks Mate
bobsmith 2 years ago
dude this is bullshit, i can tell by how you play those that you can play those pretty damn fluently. start from scratch not knowing wtf sweep picking is and then tell me how long it takes to perfect. it took a long time for me to get as good as i am at it.
rebrules 2 years ago
I never said that I'd never done them before, but I was great at it.
If you had payed attention you'd notice that I asked for anyone who has never done them before to try this and document their progress, as it would be interesting to see how good they could get in such a short time if they practice it correctly and regularly.
I still maintain that it's not a difficult technique reserved only for guitar masters. It's fairly basic.
LukeSniper 2 years ago
i agree, i mean after about a week i could sweep just as good as the average famous guys who would throw a sweep in their solo every once in a while. ive actually had alot more trouble with alternate picking and two handed tapping
rebrules 2 years ago
I picked up sweep picky very easily. I got into necrophagist and learnt some of there shit.
techdeathdude1 2 years ago 2
hell yeah thats how i learned my sweepintg techniques.
MyNameIsErr 2 years ago
your so right. i got it down in a couple weeks, but it takes quite alot of practice.
madtappingskillz 2 years ago
I wish I had found this earlier, it seems like a cool little series to follow. Well at least I don't have to wait to see how it turned out.
retardedhampster 2 years ago
lol yeah i think this is a gd method...im gonna try this tmr...i wound try it today but my last string broke haha...ill try to master the art of sweep in 1 month....ill practise it 2hrs a day.... god i hope this works cause i wanna do sweepings during my comming gig next month XD
HAIKELzambri 3 years ago
Gah, I looked at all the video guitarist on sweep picking and holy crap, I'm subscribing to you. Screw all the other people. You're a perfect guru for a guitarist! Im still learning how to do it, pracitcing 15 minuets a day like you said. And i just bought a Ibanez Gio too, can you teach how to make a pinch harmonic or natural harmonic? That'll be great!
CptFoxMcCloud 3 years ago
no no no, try practicing an hour a day. Trust me if you're into guitar and find it fun, it wont even seem like an hour. With only 15 minutes a day you aren't going to get very far.
350drifting 2 years ago
if i master sweeping i master everything u need to do for the guitar muahahaha now to practice!
HayatoFernandes 3 years ago
ive been doing for a week. i have it down... NOW FOR THE SPEED!!!!
trexatron7 3 years ago
good job
dude
rock on
fallenrider304 3 years ago
i have no skills sweep picking yet so im interested 100% i have played all types of guitar music and i have played 2 years so i need to learn this
foxguitarman 3 years ago
hey!
i've done it and got in within the 2 months, but i had a litte experience, so it doesn't really count as 2 months..i posted a videoreaction..if you have anny commment on how i'm doing it and if i'm doing it right, it would be nice!
Redjekoene 3 years ago
dude, you're the fucking truth.
i love sweep picking, it makes people think im sick, when i'm not that sick.
WolfKeeper32 3 years ago 2
sweep picking is fucking hard.
i quit tryin
SpinosaurusReece 3 years ago
You only think it's hard! It's a really simple technique, just take it slow and steady and you'll have it in no time.
LukeSniper 3 years ago
the link for the tabs isnt working? can you send me one?
BloodOverBullets 3 years ago
Seems to work just fine for me.
LukeSniper 3 years ago
I hate guitarist who base a guitarist skills on their ability to sweep or shred. I personally am a rythm/melody guy but I am ready to take the plunge into this stuff. I should probably get a metronome. Ive been using my foot lol.
DeadlyDonut360 3 years ago
thanks for the idea
I successfully completed your challenge although it took almost 3 months but now I can sweep like a motherfucker!
KevDan67 3 years ago 2
Hey
I'll try with you
I just started today so maybe
lol
but I got like 2 or 3 pretty clean so far
if I do em' JUST right
Acidlegion14 3 years ago
i wanna sweep pick but ive been playing for a year,how long have u been playing?
funnydude666 3 years ago
I wish I would have seen this video when you first posted it, I would have attempted it with you. I'm probably right at the point where you were when you started this. Sometimes I can sound faster, but it's very messy. I'm going to try your method, I'll let you know how it turns out.
ibanezrick 3 years ago
Well please, record your progress!
A few people did videos showing the beginning but I haven't seen any results vids yet. You can still be the first!
LukeSniper 3 years ago
Wow, you have a lot of patience. Its good to see that some people have rock discipline.
MiKill93 3 years ago
I mainly play blues rock sorta stuff & was never too interested in this technique...
However you did explain it really clearly so i might give it a go...
Destructopodx 3 years ago
Although i guess the right attitude is "i will do it"...
You can never have enough knowledge or skill & it seems like a good challenge so i'm definitely gonna give it a try!
Do you have the tabs for the Major & Minor shapes that you were using..?
Destructopodx 3 years ago
youve got a great attitude towards playing i recently broke my freting pinky and hope to get it back in shape for playing next month .ill problably take up sweep picking and interpreting arppegios which i still dont fully understand
p1anonymous 3 years ago
What do you mean "interpreting arpeggios"?
Send me an AIM message and we can talk about it if you like.
LukeSniper 3 years ago
whats your aim name?
DeadlyDonut360 3 years ago
LukeSniper, it should be on the channel page in the about me section.
LukeSniper 3 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how none of you people responded to southern "Great after he called sweeps "Homosexual". By the by, I have been playing for yrs and am pretty good at sweeps, but as always, could be better. I am gonna try out this challenge..., it is good to see that you are one of the people trying to use the Information Highway for learning and the betterment of people and art in general kudos. LAT
VengeanceRising1 3 years ago
I'll try it out if it will help me improve.
anewdeth 3 years ago
Thanks alot man for the tabs and showing me how to do this stuff. I am decent at sweeping but want to become faster and try to get cleaner. Thanks dude
skillzthatkillz510 3 years ago
hell yeah dude your right, patience is the key! other than practicing it.
hormones93 3 years ago
Sweep picking is for homosexuals. Friends don't let friends play sweeps. I learned 3 string arpeggio sweep in an hour. Which aren't that hard.
southerngreat1 3 years ago
Then it sounds to me like you really lack any sort of creativity.
It's a powerful tool if you've got something worth saying.
LukeSniper 3 years ago
No, I definitely play arpeggios. Just Sweeps are over used and abused around these parts.
southerngreat1 3 years ago
Well I'm not sure if it's this video, but I do mention in one of them how easy it is for sweeps to be corny.
LukeSniper 3 years ago
i must learnnnnn
i'm doing this :D
Sk8er720 3 years ago
hey bro i so up for the challenge your an awesome inspiration rock on \m/
metallicaownzu 3 years ago
check out my video :P
i've been sweeping for month now
rexshredder 3 years ago
Hey man, you have really inspired me to learn sweep picking and to practice more rigorously in general. I have never sweep picked before, and after practicing for about 30 minutes I can already play them pretty darn fast. Shows what focused practice can do.
mason7373 3 years ago
Yeah you're right it is easy. After watching this video i'm thinking about spending several weeks to practice sweep picking. The most I really need to work on are hammer-ons/pull-offs. I can pretty much get certain patterns down unless they involve hammer-ons/pull-offs. I have a question if you don't mind me asking.
Do you know any other hammer-on/pull-off patterns?
Oh yeah what kind of metronome do you recommend?
bongolow07 3 years ago
im starting after i leave this comment. i know exactly where your coming from when you say people judge guitarists ability off of sweep picking. ive had a couple people tell me your not a true guitarist unless you can do it. so here goes nothin.
JoshBaumgardner 4 years ago
yo man, I guess you already did this about a year ago but i'm definitely gonna take up your challenge mastering sweeping in 2 months. I've always messed around with sweep picking and set up some of my own exercises but i never really got any sweep patterns worth practicing often . So thanks for the inspiration and your advice on techniques man.
nirvanaGstring 4 years ago
hey man youre awesome, Ive been sweep picking for 3 days and I can 3/5 of these shapes quite well!
mikeisapro 4 years ago
nice lesson dude :D
love the kitchen timer :D
Maxv4 4 years ago
ayy
cheers 4 this vid man
im starting as soon as i have left this comment
guitarman33 4 years ago
Hey thanks alot, i found this video super helpful. Im in something of a similar situation now (i can sweep a couple patterns but not too cleanly or quickly). How often would you recommend practicing (this or any other form really) for the time to be worthwhile i.e. to see results?
hijackn2890 4 years ago
The important thing is that you practice regularly. Think about it like working out. If you work out a little bit each day, you'll see results. Work out a bunch at odd intervals you're not going to see anything!
LukeSniper 4 years ago
Thanks a lot for this video :] I think I would like to do a similar thing to learn how to sweep, so far I've been having some trouble particularly with the picking (it's basically like I pick every note, instead of a clean sweep) and it's not as coordinated as my fretting hand. :/ I'll work on it though.
Loser612Tc 4 years ago
Well if you practice the way I outline here, you'll get better.
In the words of George Zimmer (founder of the Men's Wearhouse): I guarantee it.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
what are the common formations ??
rasengannaruto5 4 years ago
If you click more info, there is a link to a pdf with those 5 shapes I used in the video.
I've found those 5 shapes (or incomplete versions of them) to be the most common.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
great! youre damn right when you say its useless to play quickly without playing correctly. got better with your vid thks!
vanulrix 4 years ago
when he said at 2:32 he says u want to pick the not..wrongo! u want to sweep the pick or else its just picking i want to sweew ur pick down the strings...hense sweep picking
clowns
TheIloveyoukid 4 years ago
If you were paying attention, you'd realize that the point of that exercise is to synchronize your hands at a fundamental level. I include it BEFORE I ever talk about the actual technique.
Maybe if you paid more attention you would learn something.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
Yo man, I recently started sweeping, actually i only got taught a few formations yesterday. so im new to it as can be. im very familiar with how its done, i jsut stayed away from it for some apparent reason. im willing to give this a shot. i use the metronome i have in Guitar Pro 5.0. whcih i could also put the formations in and it would play with me. i can play a fewe formations very slow to show you exactly wher ei am at with sweeps. and ill post in 2 months i guess.
oh those picks are great.
williethenewguy 4 years ago
Hey hey, I cannot sweep pick at all so im gonna start this Asap and when i get a metronome.:D HOw often should i report back on youtube with a vid?
fastfretjazz 4 years ago
As much as you can man. I still haven't seen any results vids, so any progress you can show would be terrific!
Good luck!
LukeSniper 4 years ago
Madness, so its just them shapes in the pdf file in the description?
fastfretjazz 4 years ago
Yes, I started working on a lot of seventh shapes when I did my own (out of preference for the 7th chords), but the shapes in the tab are what seem to be the most common.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
I am starting the sweep pick challenge!
oh, and Jazz IIIs are the bomb!
CodyPettengill 4 years ago
Hell yeah they are!
NO room for sloppy pick technique... if it's anywhere short of perfect, you drop the pick!
LukeSniper 4 years ago
is that an order or is that what happens?
cuz I'm self taught and I do it similar to the "right" way to do it but not exactly
and I'm probly gonna have to start tomarrow cuz my guitar is under construction
CodyPettengill 4 years ago
I have done sweep pickign for 6 months now i am very good ill try and post a video of what i've done and a few pointers, although i didn't use a beat machine and it took me a month to get really fast.
190908 4 years ago
dude i will practice this and show in 2 months just because you showed me how to do this so i will post a video comment on how i do it just starting and then another after 2 months
stevenguitarmaster8 4 years ago
Jazz III picks, yessir.
Pyrofries 4 years ago 2
This is a great idea, and I'm going to try hard to stick with it. Question though. When you say to practice just hammering on at 50bpm, do you mean just one shape over and over for 10 minutes, and then a new shape? Or different shapes throughout that 10 minutes?
Thanks
obsydian1 4 years ago
Same shape for 10 minutes.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
dude i am with you definitely, i can do anything but sweep pick lol, a lot of the songs i play have sweep picking somewhere in there so i cant do the whole song, im dfinitely with you on mastering i two months, ill keep you posted
GunzNRoses88 4 years ago
Thanks for the video... I've always wanted to know how to sweep pick and thx for the pdf... oh I've NEVER tried it before at all... so in two months I will post a before and after of me sweep picking to show what I've learned from you...
someguywithaspirin 4 years ago
Please do, so far I've gotten 4 video responses, but nobody has posted a vid showing how much better they got.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
my sweeps suck. i understand the concept, i can do them slow, but speed is where i fail. either my pick is too fast of my fret hand is too fast. so im gonna take this challenge.
skedadleboarder2 4 years ago
Well if you're patient enough to actually do something painfully slow, you'll be rewarded with results.
The common thing is for people to think "Oh but it's easier to do it fast, I can do it great at this speed!"
Well if that's the case, sorry, but it sucks. If you can't do it slow, you're not in control.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
Great practice utility, thank you for posting this.
MUSICALCHIMP 4 years ago
i have barely any experience sweep picking, i can do it barely too, i am definately trying this challenge
imaguitarhero92 4 years ago
yo man i respect that. you are realy determind and thers not alot of muscians like you. props dude i will try to learn from the tips you gave me. keep rockin and and make more videos like that thanx
jamesloer 4 years ago
Sweep picking is only good in certain limited situations, usually for only a short period of time. I never bothered to learn it.
gairabad 4 years ago
ya i am going to go ahead and give it a shot. a hour a day for the next 2 months. i dont have a webcam but i can notify you about it if you want to hit me up.
tyrhermod 4 years ago
I think I can do it now. I'm gonna send a video response.. Is it right? o.o
Ephitaph 4 years ago
i'm really trying to learn how to sweep and i'm gonna do this. haha
kevinissXe 4 years ago
I thnk i might start this tomorrow..I can not sweep at all..
fastfretjazz 4 years ago
thats a great idea, i have to see how it turns out now
biainrussell 4 years ago
im gonna take ur advice on this, see if your way works better
areureadytodie 4 years ago
it isnt that hard , i could do a rough example of sweep picking in about a month
schfifityfive55 4 years ago
Nice video man, it'll be awesome to see how you progress over the 2 months. This has shown me that you don't just pick up your guitar and hope to hit notes that sound "good enough", but to start crazily slow and work your way from there.
punkjake 4 years ago
Rock on man, I've just started learning this myself.
colosussbaine 4 years ago 2
man, you are a born teacher.
cocofuria 4 years ago 5
thank you man! I am really learning to sweep. Thank you.
cocofuria 4 years ago
I've been doing Sweep Picking for about 2 and a half months and I mastered the 3-string arppegios and added tapping to them. Once you get the idea down, it's more easier to make to 5 string arpeggios and some Jeff Loomis shit. If you need to know a master at sweep picking, check him out. :D
nathaniel6393 4 years ago
you didnt master it in one week. seriously think about what you say next time
devon3848 4 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
it took me one week to master sweet picking
Th3BigJb 4 years ago
Hey I posted an update to my first comment, but it's in bad quality, check it out.
Wyvernx 4 years ago
fuck man, i tried uploading my response, i got one of the shapes down real good, i've only been doing it a week and it's pretty fast, abit slopy but it's only been a fucken week... fucking camera... :(
P5ych00 4 years ago
SO I GET THE FUCKEN ENCODER ENCODE THE MOTHER FUCKER RE-UPLOAD THE VIDEO FUCKEN GETS TO 100%... ERROR 500 WHAT IN THE FUCK IS ERROR 500... fuck computers all they fucken do is piss me off cause 5 million computer programers are unable to write a decent god fucking damned operating system!
P5ych00 4 years ago
fuck i've tried everything, converted to wmv, form wmv 320-240 to fucking mpeg4, everything is to youtube's spec... still ERROR 500... goddamn
P5ych00 4 years ago
I'd say the problem rests in the fact that you're using wmv, which means you're probably using Windows Movie Maker, which is a HORRID program. Find something else and you might not have these problems.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
it's not that, it was in avi before, that didn't work, so i converted it to wmv, that didn't work, then i tried mpeg 4 and fuck man of course that didn't work, it's in the right dimensions and everything... what ever i'm happy wiht meh progress
P5ych00 4 years ago
LMAO....
cast390 4 years ago
i watched a herman li video about his sweep picking methods and it really helped me with the technique and i can actually sweep pick now. but others may not catch on as quick as i did.
TaGuitarGod 4 years ago
you should include the "rolling finger" technqiue in your sweep picking practice. Just a recomendation, i didnt noticed if u did it in the shapes you showed, but if not, u should practice it man. Good luck on your quest.
damageinchonduras 4 years ago
I had somebody else ask me about that earlier today. Personally, I don't see it come up that often. I can do it though... perhaps I'll do a quick bit on it later this week.
Thanks for watching.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
well, for me it comes very often, but that can vary in styles. It would be good to see you do them though. Peace.
damageinchonduras 4 years ago
awesome idea bro!
I'll definitely do this. I don't really have a camera to post much but I'll try to work something out with that. I have NO experience with sweeps whatsoever. I'm forming a band with a friend that is amazing at sweeping so I need to get this down so I don't drag the rest of the band down (I've been wanting to work on it anyway)
rainsolacekse7 4 years ago
well, if you check out some of the updates, you can see that I've improved quite a bit since I started (nearly proving my claim that it isn't that difficult of a technique)
So stay optimistic, and make sure to keep regular and rigid practice routine and you should have it down in no time (just don't get too excited and jump ahead speed-wise, it's worthless if it isn't clean!)
LukeSniper 4 years ago
yeah same here...I WANNA SWEEP PICK!! I'll join you as well
omen7 4 years ago
I'll join you, I've wanting to learn to sweep pick for ages.
Appollochan 4 years ago
i was going to learn n e way so now im way behind your challenge but im gonna do it anyway.
gibsonbfg 4 years ago
this is pretty cool! im ok at sweep picking but your totally right about the practicing. practice makes perfect. i actually stopped sweeping for a while and im not as good as i use to be. fuckin A. HAHHA PRACTICE!
nfhu88 4 years ago
im in too, i've been playing guitar for about half a year and want to move onto more advanced songs like canon rock for example, i can play everything exept the sweep picking in it so im gonna try this 2 month challenge even though 2 months seems like a long time i learn most my stuff with in 1-2 weeks. well anyways i cant do it at all so wish me luck!
TacoLuke 4 years ago
I wish I found out about this earlier, well staring tommarow Set 15 - Nov 15 I should be sweep picking great,yo the funny thing is that NOV 15 IS MY BIRTHDAY! lol but thanks for putting this video up cuz now I got something to work towords, hit be back up so we can keep in touch ^^
MechaM999 4 years ago
What guitar is that? Looks just like mine.
Niterogue 4 years ago
It's an Ibanez RG-520QS, year 2000.
LukeSniper 4 years ago
Dude! I'm in. This is great to set a mark and a goal. What a great challenge. I have been playing guitar sometime, but I've noticed that people put so much measurement of a players worth into sweeping. I don't think that's completely fair, but that's the way it is. You are the best man! For teaching and then the challenge. No one on youtube has done that.
strat68ca 4 years ago
Whoo! So awesome. Thanks for posting this. Cant wait till next month to see how you progressed.
lucasman85 4 years ago
I'll try this with you also, I've only been playing for a year now
Dmoonicus 4 years ago
Wow, that is really great to hear! I just picked up guitar and am self taught, so this is very helpful! Thanks for explaining it so well!
Saylow1 4 years ago
really good ideas. thanks man
dxmgEX 4 years ago
nice vid dude and unlike most of the dudes showing you how to sweep you're not a pretentious prick
ronnyjodes1 4 years ago
good vid dude
gooberthemechanic 4 years ago
I'd try this with you, I've always wanted to be able to do it, and I've heard it's easy and this is a good, motivated way to try. I'm on board.
seantawn 4 years ago
i did it ^_^
RabidxPanda 4 years ago
Did what? 2-months worth of practice in 5 days?
Or did you previously master sweep picking in a short amount of time? (Because if that's the case, then my point is proven)
LukeSniper 4 years ago
Cool idea, going to definately give this a try!
Yonrak 4 years ago
Great Vid dude.
chillaxehn 4 years ago
Easy man. Cool idea, i've always struggled with sweeps, getting better slowly but i still suck...hope you nail it!
Check my vids and comment if you care to...got a sweep picking vid i did yesterday if you're interested.
Thom x
Mewisonfire 4 years ago