Sweep Picking Part One
In this lesson, we are going to look at some simple sweeps over just 3 strings. The idea of sweep picking is that you try to change the pickstroke direction as little as possible (as opposed to alternate picking, where each note is picked in a different direction), thus we end up "sweeping" the pick across many strings at once, all in the same direction. This creates a more fluid sound, that is alot faster to play.
The most common use of sweep picking by guitarists is to play arpeggios, which is what we will start with here, but thats not to say that this is the only way the technique can be used (we will move on to this in later lessons.)
This is the simplest shape to sweep. Notice how the picking (indicated by the symbol below the TAB) consists of entirely downstrokes. This exercise should be played with two down strokes (one for every set of 3 notes), and should be repeated as many times as you need, starting off at a very slow speed and gradually speeding up as you get better at it.
Here is how it sounds:
Exercise 1
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