As long as you play from the low A to the high A, sweep picking is your friend, but it doesn't work that well for sequencing arpeggios but I'll get back to that as well. But while sweep picking is great for going up or down an arpeggio pattern, it has it's limitations when it comes to playing the notes in a different and more complex order. It's obvious how sweeping from one string to another would be the fastest and easiest way to play these notes. As you probably already know, sweeep picking is mostly used to play arpeggio patterns that have one or max two notes on each string like this popular A-Minor arpeggio:
#SWEEP PICKING FREE#
I'm also going to show you how I integrate this technique with other techniques like economy picking and alternate picking and I'll give you some licks that will show you, how you can use all three techniques to produce a free flowing high speed improvisation.
#SWEEP PICKING HOW TO#
In this series of articles I'm going to give you the best advice I have on how to learn sweep picking in the fastest and most efficient way possible, but I have to warn you: This technique is not one of the hardest one there is, so you might get some pretty darn impressive results pretty darn fast. Sometimes it's hard to tell when economy picking ends and sweep picking begins, but I'll come back to that in a later article. The "sweep" is really going from one string to another in one down- or upward movement. If you're into economy picking you're already sweep picking.
I developed this alternate picking religion from studying guys like Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin, and it sure as heck didn't help much when Paul Gilbert entered the stage.(He is still to this date the undefeated alternate picking master in my experience) So when I was first shown how to sweep pick, it took a while before I acknowledged the fact that, sweep picking is a vastly superior technique in some cases. I was an alternate picking fanatic and if you used any other technique to produce the notes - you where cheating! - from my limited perspective that is.
This didn't keep me from trying back when I was learning the secrets of shredding. Picking the notes of an arpeggio, using alternate picking, and doing it fast, can be quite a challenge. The more distance there is between the notes you play, the harder it becomes to play them using conventional picking techniques.
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