This means starting with eighth notes, and while this will feel very slow, the technique will become trickier with each successive note grouping: eighth-note triplets, 16th notes, quintuplets and, most difficult of all, 16th-note triplets and their equivalent sextuplets.įocus on synchronizing your hands so that your pick and fretting fingers make contact with the string at exactly the same moment. Work from two strings up to six, keeping your metronome at the same tempo. Mastering sweep picking with John Petrucci At some point the resistance from the floor will mess up your act.(Image credit: Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images) Just like there's a limit to how slow you can sweep with a broom and do it evenly. It naturally gets very uneven when you do it slow. It's very hard to practice sweep picking at a super slow pace, simply because a sweep is one even motion - and it's very hard to perform one even motion very slowly. Then perform the sweep at a decent enough speed for your to develop some flow. Keep focusing on the angle of your pick, moving your arm and fixating your hand when you do the sweep. Notice how I had to change the A-Minor scale to an A-Minor harmonic in order to fit the diminished triad within it. Of course I've added a little twist in the end where you play the last four notes before returning home again. So your picking hand has to do the same thing as yesterday. Today's lick is a diminished triad laid out exactly like the A-Minor triad from yesterday: Two notes on the A-string and Two notes on the high E-string. It's a simple, controlled and even movement designed to make it easy for the fretting hand to follow the flow of notes. Make sure that you do not move anything but your arm when you perform the actual sweep. So hold the pick like you would for alternate or economy picking. This will make it a lot easier to slide over and across the strings when you sweep. Instead, push your thumb downwards a bit to angle the pick slightly. (See the video) This is not what you want to do. Imagine positioning the pick completely in alignment with the string your picking. The only thing you do with them, in this case though, is to hold the pick in the right angle. These guys haven't been surpassed in precision and speed by any other biological or man made tool ever. Your fingers are the most advance precision tool on earth. And when the sweep is over some amount of alternate picking is required to turn the lick around, this is where your hand comes into play again, as you can clearly see on the video. The only thing your hand does during the actual sweep is provide a stable base for your fingers to hold the pick. "Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. Your hand is too much of a precision tool to be good at this. The sweeping motion is perfect for the arm, because it is able to perform an even and straight motion from one point to another. No fancy hand movements - Imagine your hand to be made of metal, completely inflexible and attached to your arm like if it was some kind of tool. The hand should be in a fixed position while you use your arm to perform the downward or upward movement. Here's how to use these three tools when you sweep pick: Your hand is better at that, but your fingers are king when it comes to precision work. The arm is good at making big movements but it's not that good at doing detailed work. Your creator gave you different tools to use for manipulating the world around you. Here's a key point to remember: Sweep picking is the only picking technique that is performed by your arm and not your hand! Here's the deal: If you've read my articles on alternate picking, you know that I recommend moving your arm and hand to fit the string you play - as opposed to letting the hand stay in the same place.
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