Brent Glover - Bass Sweeping Lesson

I've had some people ask me about how I sweep so I made this video really quick. This is a basic Eb minor sweep. I start my sweep using my 4th finger, 1st(index), 2nd(middle), 3rd(ring) finger then double the top not and also to come back down with my 2nd finger ( middle )

This is what I do. I'm sure it's not the best way to sweep but I hope it gives some help or ideas.

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• Brent
• Glover
• Bass
• Sweeping
• Shred
• Guitar
• Metal

[madmartyr17]

This is sweeping. The technique of sweeping is not limited to the use of the plectrum in a sweeping manner. For bass players the pick IS our fingers. So for us to use our fingers to sweep pick makes it still sweeping. If it makes the guitar players feel better, we'll call it "Sweep Fingering"

[Skelbassist]

@madmartyr17

Very well said sir.

[pw3db4lunch]

This is great..but its not sweeping.I don't understand why bassists try so hard to incorporate guitar techniques into their playing. I'm not talking down to you or anything but...This is not sweeping.

[Skelbassist]

@pw3db4lunch

A reason why bass players do this kind of stuff is because it gets old real fast just playing root 5th bass lines. The whole argument about sweeping/not sweeping is just too old to argue about. Thanks for the compliment though.

[NapoleanXV]

this isnt sweeping, its just playing an E minor arpeggio, raking doesnt = sweeping

[Skelbassist]

I'm over this "argument" about sweeping and not sweeping. Move along sir.

[sluggo12345]

oh ya one more thing, this videos description said people were asking him about his technique so why would he post a video of "proper" technique if thats not what the people were even asking for. But ya doesn't matter what you call it, there is no sound of the notes being picked out, they sound swept together so i don't care if he did it with his thumb or his fingers or his guitar pick or his cock, he fucking did it and it sounded dope.

[sluggo12345]

Damn dude thats not sweeping that shits vacuuming or roombaing or swifter dustering. 

[Th3RussBus]

Hey man what bass you using? And for all the people who think bassists shouldn't sweep listen to Your Treachery Will Die With You by Dying Fetus. It has a fusion of guitar and bass sweeps.

[distorted1one]

let's just say we're "sweeping" through the arpeggio, not in motion, but in feel, after all isn't music all about feel? but on a serious note though i like stuff because it sounds good not because it's called sweeping, tapping, slapping etc. I played bass for 4 years now and started electric guitar a few months ago, it's bullshit to call one easier than the other.

[LokiNTB]

@madmartyr17 Well I wouldn't call this sweeping and I am a bass player. This is plucking the strings in an arpeggiated fashion. it creates a sweep sound and is basically the same thing, but like you said, sweeping typically refers to a sweep like movement. I see no sweep like movement, just some badass articulation. Sweep fingering is a fair title but surely we would be better off to stick to the musical term "arpeggio" rather then make up more redundant pieces of the English language

[steweDbass]

Who cares what its called, if it sounds good and you like it, then do it! I would say this method has the same effect as sweep picking but uses three fingers on the right hand....does that satisfy you pontifying guitarists out there?

[NapoleanXV]

@biloxi1314 You don't understand. Sweeping is a technique. Arpeggios are just a group of notes. Any series of different notes is technically an arpeggio. Sweeping has to be an arpeggio, it would be stupid to play the same note in succession for sweeping.

So, bro, why dont you read what I say before you comment?

[biloxi1314]

@NapoleanXV yo bro. just so you know, many sweeps are arpeggios. cough cough yqngwie malmsteen....john petrucci.....jeff loomis....every other guitarist to ever sweep. all use arpeggios. im not saying sweeping is limited to arpeggios, but it does consist of them.

[jtmband62269]

@Skelbassist makes me jealous i use thumb down index up to sweep. this technique murders me

[Golinsteelheart]

-enter's comment that renders some musician to become melodramatically offended-