Guitar Lesson: Intro to Sweep Picking - Bryce Fitzsimons

This video is old and I forgot to release it earlier! Hopefully it can help a few people still.

Introduction to sweep picking techniques and beginner sweep picking exercises.

http://bryce.kicks-ass.net

Category:

Music

Tags:

• shred
• guitar
• sweep
• alternate
• picking
• soloing
• lesson
• instruction

[akidbudak123]

ok i rly need help. Everytime try to sweep, the string that i let go always give out a hammer-off sound. How do i stop it?

[HellIVIonkey]

To prevent notes from ringing out, it's best to combine a controlled palm mute with a left-hand dampening of the string. Let your palm lightly rest on the ringing string while you lift your left finger so that it's barely touching the string.

If you can't do this well, isolate the problem and practice it. For instance, try creating an exercise where you palm mute a chord until it sounds muted.

[de7con]

You're so Steve Vai-ish, lol.

Have you ever heard / saw someone Sweeping on acoustic guitar? I'm trying to learn sweeping on my acoustic, 'cause I don't have a electric yet. Great vid nevertheless.

[HellIVIonkey]

Heh, well, I've seen plenty of people sweep on acoustic. I do it a lot myself. If you do it right, it sounds really good on acoustic. To see some masters at it, check out both Joscho Stephan and Tommy Emmanuel!

[de7con]

I wonder, how much time did you played guitar when you started sweeping & shredding?

I mean, I play for, like an year, and I'm very interested in sweeping and shredding, doing exercices daily with a metronome, going from 40 bpm to 60 and so on, I'm wondering if it's too early or not

[HellIVIonkey]

The process is really different for everybody. It took me awhile to get into fast guitar, largely because I didn't take it seriously for awhile. One thing to be careful of: if you're going to learn fast soloing, don't forget to practice the rest of guitar also (rhythm, chords, songs, soulful stuff) - too many "shredders" have tunnel vision. The other thing is unless your acoustic has really low action, you might want to get an electric.

[willy2853]

A good lesson, but poor video image

[rockandrolleracdc]

I fail at sweeping but I'm going to learn it if it's the last thing I do

[guiatrjax]

Thanks your a really good teacher this really helped me out

[ptrafied]

very nice J-Custom