Alright.
Let's sort of talk about sweep picking.
That's something a lot of people want to know
about.
I think it's something best delved into slowly.
I can show you the concept of it without even
fretting any notes.
It's really with the right hand where you
go across the strings in one direction and
you create the sound.
It's up and down.
Now, the trick is getting your left hand to
match up with that.
This is why I often think it's better to start
with just two or three strings.
A sweep on two strings might be something
like.
Alright.
On the same direction.
Alright.
It's very simple.
It's just A into C.
Now I'm going to add a third note, the E.
Alright.
So, each time I hit a note I'm muting the
note that came before.
In slow motion it's that.
But it's really.
Okay.
Very slowly I'm going to add notes to this.
Now let's add a root on top.
Okay.
So I'm picking down strokes, and then an up
stroke.
So this is an A minor arpeggio.
Now from there I could pull-off.
And go back down.
So I'm taking the high note, pulling off,
and sweeping back down.
It's almost like in The Wizard of Oz - follow
the yellow brick road.
Alright.
What if I move this to the next inversion
of the triad?
Well, I can do this.
Okay.
So here I'm just putting the root in the middle.
So I'm starting on an E. Alright.
And that makes a nice little one octave sweep,
too.
Now, you noticed I'm not playing with too
much distortion yet.
I think for practicing these it's really important
to stick with a tone that's maybe not entirely
clean but not too distorted.
Enough so that you can hear the sound but
you're not fighting the noise.
Make it clean with this type of sound before
you get into a real distorted sound.
Okay.
So we have this octave, this octave, and now
we're going to go down to the fifth fret and
play this one.
This one's a little trickier because it's
just one finger moving at the fifth fret.
Okay.
Okay.
So that covers A minor.
And that's the one we just did up an octave.
Alright.
So, these are simple sweeps.
