LESSON 3 - SWEEP PICKING PERFECTION
How to build sweep picking precision
One note at a time
The skill of sweep picking offers you very few challenges. I'm not saying that it's
easy. I'm saying there aren't that many things to think about when you sweep pick. If
you've got the angle of the pick right - and you're using your arm and not your hand
to do the sweeping, you're doing great. But there is one little challenge that I would
like to address in this article though.
The whole purpose of sweep picking is to produce notes that are separate and not
"together" like the notes of a chord. You don't want two notes from the A-minor triad
to sound at the same time in the middle of a sweep. This is not a challenge when all
the notes are in a separate fret like in this A-Minor arpeggio pattern:
When you play through this pattern, you use a different finger each time you shift
from one string to another. This makes it very easy to not have the notes sound at
the same time. However, the following pattern has two notes in the same fret:
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