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  • Is that a Squire Venus?

  • thanks a lot to u. i am not so good in the leads but this really helped me out!

  • Thank you so much ! I have learnt how to make arpeggios .

  • Very nice lesson, helped me a lot. Thank you. Keep 'em coming! :-)

  • Hey, what kind of pickups do you use, are they stock?

  • yeah man. this is good stuff. no doubt.

  • Thank you for the lesson. I'm sorry a bunch of people put you down for just trying to help people who want to learn (especially those like me ho can't afford personal lessons and aren't talented enough to do it alone lol) but if it's any consolation, I'm a beginner and even this simple lesson is going to help me a lot with playing what I feel. Thanks again.

  • great lesson man!! cheers for posting!

  • I dig that mint guitar bro. Your lessons are really cool.

  • Hey nice lesson, do you hammer on then pull off the highest note?

  • What you explained could have been done in 14 sec...

    Climbing/decending arps simple fall in place, notice how the guitar has fixed frets.

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  • i want your guitar!!!

  • dave is definatly on my list of good people

  • thank you so much for making this video :)

  • hey uhm everything u do in any root chord is it the same shape?

  • if you wanna get technically, all music theory does not all come from the major scale. there are many indian "ragas" that really have little rules that are related to any form for standard major.

  • if i would teach this to someone (not that i can) i think it's very enoying to name all the strings and frets (go to 5th fret 2th string etc)

  • awesome song....i like it

  • sweet helpful video.. where were we before youtube?.............LOST

  • dude can you please kinda do the same vid or somthing cause i dnt know the names of notes just the fet numbers lol im learning by myself ... nd can you send me the excersize for the sweeping =D ROCK ON DUDE

  • sweet thanks

  • what song is this in the beginning???

  • Dude, the guy's good. Give him credit. Maybe watch a couple more videos.

  • I'll give him credit trying to teach others, it's cool he put these put and the effort he stuck into it, but he needs to put some more effort into mastering these licks himself or people are going to think that it's supposed to sound like that. Bad teachings cost a LOT more time to unlearn and i don't want people to have to go through all that trouble ;]

  • True, true. rock on my friend.

  • how does he make the little anmation thingy above the description?

  • you have to be a youtube partner

  • One more thing unless you use tone controls that are on your guitar get rid of em this is easy just cut the resistors That are soldred on the tone pots this will instantly wake your guitar up. passive tone controls can only cut tone even when turned all the way to the treble side. The best tone control is an ACTIVE wah pedal

  • A lot of metal players used the "scooped mid" setting. Turn the mid all the way down and dial in from there. If your drummer and bass player play loud turn the mid up not the volume. Distortion pedals are crazy inconsistent even the exact same models sound different from one another. Try lots of em with YOUR AMP.

  • Pickups probably won't help your tone that much. They'll help with output and sustain. I personally dont like to use batteries more than I have to. I don't even know if EMG has passive pickups. The midrange on your amp is the most important tone shaping tool you have.

  • Hey i didnt know if anybody could help me. I play a lot of metal and hard rock but im not acheiving the tone im looking for. I want my tone smooth and warm but with a lot of distortion. All my ibanez and gibson guitars have stock p/u and i was thinking about switching to emgs. Or my other option is buying a new amp. Please HELP!

  • What kind of amp are you using because tube amps are usually a lot warmer than solid state amps.

  • well what sort of sound are u chasing??

  • ive been looking for this lesson by you for such along time, im learning teqnics only from your lessons. good job mate.

  • I get so inspired every time I see your videos, David! Thanks for making great lessons. :D

  • for the love of god style (Intro)

    good vid!!

  • dude that guitar is so beautiful

  • wow., it really help me a lot., thanx for the vid

  • i see:) tnx

  • what affects are you using ?

  • that amp is horrible. lol . ! he needs that tube:)!

  • I've been looking for a proper direction into learning arpeggio for a while now..

    I'm happy to say I finally found one!

    thanks!

  • what song is in the beginning it sounds like bucket head.

  • Hi - the song intro is an original piece I wrote - thanks for the kind words - rock on!

    David Taub

  • hi i am cesar

  • @rockongoodpeople Do you think you could tab that intro and send it to me XD

  • You are a great instructor. It actually makes sense now.

  • what kinda of guitar is that one ???

  • That would be a Strat. I'm pretty darn sure.

  • fender stratocaster

  • Agreed. It's his hammer-on/pull-offs compared with the picking. For it to sound right, every note has to have same duration. Learn to control your hammer-ons/pull-offs, so that you can play them at ANY speed fluidly.

    Use a METRONOME, start REALLY slow.

    It pays off in the end.

  • It sounds like steve vai. at the beginning

  • Anyone know what the song at the beginning is?

  • he told me it's his original piece he wrote. sounds amazing. i wanna downlaod it

  • what the bloody hell is sweeping?

  • its a picking technique where you dont individually pick each string, but you pick all the notes in a row with a smooth sweeping motion.

  • thanks for explanation...is there anyway you can make a video so i know how to do it? im a visual learner and im trying to learn how to do it so i can bust that shit out at my local bar

  • i dont own a video cam... wish i did... blew all my cash on a Laney 120 watt amp... :/ (it was worth it!)

    BUUUT! there are a LOOOT of tutorials on youtube showing how to sweep... but keep in mind that it takes hours of practise to get down...

  • watch the beginning at 0:50 and watch his picking hand. its going up and down. thats sweeping

  • i dont know what the hell a c major scale is

  • c-d-e-f-g-a-b-c

    It is not really hard, isn't it?

  • no i mean i cant read music

  • practice playing on clean or no amp, cause alot of people play on distortion and hide all the notes in beetween. and start very slow. make sure you hit all the notes!!!

  • thats a very good tip!!! I like playing without an amp... that way if i can clearly hear all the notes, i know its gna sound good on the amp.

  • just keep practicing. that is all you really can do.

  • I'm doing ok right now on sweeping but my problem is not being able to speed up. Seriously i'v practiced hours sweeping and i have not got any better anybody got any suggestions?

  • it takes a really long time to get it down, but it's worth it, sweeping is fun, and once you get the basics down, you can basically play anything.

  • having learned to do it myself, i'd say that the main problem with sweeping is not actually learning to do it.

    thats all just practice time with a metronome.

    its once you've learned it, trying to do something original with it, becuase sweeping got old in the 80's. its hard to play it now without sounding generic.

    that is to say, its not learning to sweep, its learning -when- to sweep.

  • takes forever and you need to build your chops too, which is hard, and they also get stronger the more you play and over years

  • Best teacher

  • haha yes the pinky is an important part of the arsenal of destruction

  • wat guitar are u using?

  • it could be a vintage 57 fender strat, you can find it on guitarcenter website

  • Wow bro

    One of the best tutorials i have ran across brother

    Your a great teacher.

    Just wanted to say thanks

  • im learning sweep picking at the mo its starting to get to me man im not gunna give up tho

  • lol "your arsenal of destruction."

  • im not an advanced guitarest but im like intermediate, is this learnable for me?

  • Not at all.Sweeping is a tought technique to master but if you start with 2 and 3 string arpeggios with a (metronome) its never to early to start getting the feel of this technique but the metronome is key in learning these techniques.You will learn them twice as fast with one and my advice is to not even try without one.But never give up and make them a part of your everyday workout and you will see you will get it down.Its all about what you put into it.Good luck.

  • in my personal case.. when I was starting to sweep I found 2 and 3 strings arpeggios very hard... so then I learned to sweep with 5 string arpeggios.. now I do some 3 string sweeps too... but I still find 5 easier...

  • Hmm,Interesting and you are not the only one that has said that.When I started sweeping I started with 5 and 6 and my teacher at that time 20 yes ago ha,ha,made me start on 2 and 3 string patterns because he said it was to easy to develope bad habbits running accross all 6,though now I dont agree with him.I think it should be an individual approach because what works for one may not work for another.Whatever keeps you playing is the most important thing I think.

  • I am curious as to why a metronome helps so much?

  • because it helps do play at the right tempo... and also in the case of sweep picking you need to play all the notes at the same speed.. that's why a metronome helps... but I think it's more important to have proper technique first.. then comes the tempo

  • arent u supposed to teach us the picking pattern aswell

  • Down 5,hammeron the C that is your turn around and 5 up,then repeat.You can also pick the turn around but most guys just hammeron when sweeping the major pattern.

  • u talk to much but great lesson.lol

  • my left hand's too friggin' slow...

  • Do it slowly at first.

  • at least the guy takes time out of his life to teach the rest of us how to do things even if he isnt good at least hes trying, why dont oyu post a vid so we can see your AMAZING guitar skills

  • He's teaching fundamentals, not doing a gig. There's no sense in listening to it very long as the arpeggio motion is universal; hear it, practice it. If you're in it for that, it's the visuals you need be concerned with, not an unconvincing agenda based on putting this guy down.

    ~ Thanks for the lesson.

  • ur awsum great video i learnt it in a day

  • The intro sounded like For The Love Of God by Mr Vai!

  • great lesson

  • nice strat colour

  • Great man, well done

  • is it only down picking or down up?

  • this vid was very helpful... i got alot of use from you explaining the scale the measures and all of that...

  • dude your so fucking awesome this was the one thing i thought id never be able to do on guitar and now im getting better and almost able to do it

  • All i want to know is what kind of pickups are those?

  • hahahaha

  • do u need to palm mute when you do these cuz i suck hardcore at them and i need to know if u have to mute..

  • when i was learing to sweep that hardest i found was to get it clean 1. have a constant motion on the right hand and 2. to plam open strings as soon as you play the next string. hope that helps. I have a video on my channel of me sweeping and stuff so check it out if you get a chance:D

  • I'll drink to that....as my people say...hahaha..thanks...I'll keep that in mind

  • Funny that you'd say that, I actually modified my original analogy to say Orlando Bloom rather than Graham Norton. I realized nobody has that many guitars.

  • Golly! He has more guitars than I have Orlando Bloom posters in my room!

  • wow...did you just say golly? did you seriously just say golly!!!

  • i know but i think sweep picking is not used in blues...its very metal rock sound...and fast...but blues can be fast sometimes so....just pick the strings and play..haha

  • Thx, Good lesson!

  • i like blues...what should i start teaching alternative or sweep picking...

  • Alternat picking is just alternating your pick in an up and down motion instead of always down. Sweep picking has nothing to do with Blues guitar. lol

  • Learn everything. Don't let stereotypes stop you. SRV shreds the blues...maybe using sweeps for blues would be interesting...new flavor. Don't follow tradition, or else new ideas won't be created.

  • This is great! I like your review of the zack wylde wah too!

  • wow this is a very big help man. thnx a lot!!!

  • How do they make it sound so good? When I do it it sounds like shit. =(

    Guess I just need to practice more.

  • thanks Dave,

    My "Arsenal of Destruction" is getting better!!!

  • dude i cant tell u how helpful this was. iv been wanting to play sweep picking ever since i started which was a year ago completely self taught so the theory helped alot to. im gonna subscribe to ur main site.

  • hey david you vidz always help me to do guitar tchnique that i cant do before!

  • Hey what type of guitar is that mexican?

  • In this lesson I was using an 80s Japanese Fender STrat

    rock on!

    DT

  • nice guitar david. the japs are better than the u.s. strats.

  • every guitar is good if you know how to play it

  • you guys are great , keep up the good work!

  • hey, man. :) good lesson. nicely done. i'm a guitar teacher for years now and i'm curious why you teach with distortion on. do you encourage practice with it on? i'm not nit picking here; quite the contrary. i'm just picking another good guitar teacher's brain. :) peace, man.....sure would love jamming with you.

  • Hi - most lessons I teach clean - but sometimes I throw in some gain - depends what I am teaching and what tone I am after

    rock on!

    DT

  • some times its cool to practice with distortion because the things you are practicing are being practiced to be played with dist. And dist causes noise which you HAVE to learn how to mute. When playing clean, even if an open string gets away you wont hear it and will think huray i did it! when you play with dist on it wont be as clean because you didnt learn to mute... this is advanced stuff i know but very important! isns it so mr DT?

  • :) right on, man. i get a lot of my kids into practicing on the bridge pickup with the tone all the way up and at a pretty good volume - CLEAN. same principle you're saying, but...i always hear distortion MASKING flubs and bad notes. most pros i know practice clean for that very reason: everything comes out much clearer; mistakes and all. there IS a very good argument for practicing stage volume distortion, too. you DO have to know how to control it and where the 'good tone' is hiding.:)

  • i bet your a blues player(somebodyjones)

  • hehehe. no. :) i take blues gigs a lot, but i'm a straight-ahead jazz player at heart. i DO play rock in the studio very often, since that's what most people are paying for, but i'm a jazzer. :)

  • i figureed blues or jazz because you mentioned clean with the bridge pick up

  • Fantastic lesson These guys are easily the best on youtube

  • This is good stuff, thanks!!!

  • good lesson learnt something new today lol

  • You rock!

  • nice lesson. it really did help me get more into sweeping

  • thnks for this... it really helped me... that's something I didn't know how to do.. thank you...

  • most excellent .... thx dave....

  • this is a great lesson thanks guys

  • thx something new i learned :D

  • weno el trailer man pero la weaesta en ingles

    y no caxo muxo ingles

    =PPP !!!!!!!!

  • How many guitars do you have David lol!

  • Thanks dude working on speed now.

  • Keep your site going mate, I purchased a cheap DVD the other day. I am hopeing to sign up in 6 months when I get more spare time. keep up the good wk.

  • thanks for your videos dude that helped me alot =D

  • line 6 sucks!!! terrible amps! good pedals tho i wont lie.

  • dave what are your amp settings tell me pls ;)

  • I love your strat. Surf green is one of my favorite colors.

  • Please give me the tabs

    From an happy subscriber!!

  • I was just about to recomend a sweeping video

  • thats for this great lesson... y do u always were that hat

  • why not?

  • can someone give me a quik definition of an arpegio

  • im gonna quote paul gilbert on this one:

    Arpeggio; Notes of a chord played seperately

  • you play the root third fifth and octave of a scale which put togther make a nice sounding chord

  • the separate notes of a chord played separately?

  • Great video, really useful and descriptive ;)

  • your lessons have helped me so much

    from finger tapping to pinch harmonics

    thank you

  • classic 50's strat. sweet

  • part 2 of this lesson will be posted tomorrow

    stay tuned

    rock on!

    DT

  • 1/4 of your arsenal of destruction hahaha

  • Thank you Dave!

    you rock

  • tabs?

  • Thanks I always wanted to learn how to play Arp. especially like Cacophany!!!^_^

  • i wish he makes a review of a squier strat comparing it to a fender like he did with the gibson and epiphone!

  • Yeah, I wish he would make reviews on budget guitars in general. I can't really affod all of these gibsons and stuff. LOL. But I do love this guys reviews, I think he has the best ones on youtube. Or the best that I have seen atleast.

  • He has a couple budget guitar reviews.. but the thing with budget guitars is they will hold you back in many cases. Saving up for a good used guitar in the $300-500 range is a very good idea.

  • squier review and more budget guitar reviews coming soon

    rock on!

    DT

  • Its good to see someone who actually listen to the fans.

  • where on Earth is "part two of this lesson on youtube"? PS I have a good Squier, I so seldom get to call it that, I'll watch your review...

  • part 2 coming later today - stay tuned

    rock on!

    DT

  • they don't got it

  • good lesson thanks for keepin it simple to understand .

    you seem like a regular dude and not a dick head guitar store guy.

  • i always liked the way he taught. like you said it was easy to understand. i don't know how i found out about rockongoodpeople but i was glad i did. he's helped my playing alot.

  • I love that guitar. Looks like a late 50's strat. Sea foam green FTW!

  • wat kind of guitar is that?

  • excellent lesson! David is the best.

  • great lesson, and just wondering why david always wears a baseball cap

  • because hes cool.

  • It's What makes David Taub, David Taub. Plain and simple:P

  • dude this is a great lesson man .. i got one question though, i have a lot of feedback and i want to know how to get rid of it .. wat do you think i should do?

  • i get the same problem when i have my humbuckers plugged in. what i did was lower the reverb on what ever pedals you have and amp and i was set.

  • Awesome lesson, i'm already itch'n to try it out, and wondering if i can just drop the 3rd to a flat3 (1 fret back) and cop out a minor arpeggio, without having to learn a whole new fingering. -- About the feedback Amphibianman94 -- have you tried just getting the guitar out of the "line of fire" from your amp? Maybe just aiming that speaker in a different direction, or move where you sit/stand in relation to it?? Hope it helps

  • Yes. That is how you make a minor arpeggio.