LESSON 6 - SWEEP PICKING PERFECTION
Integrating Major & Diminished Arpeggios
Yesterday I gave you some ideas on how you can integrate sweep picking with
economy picking. Today let's look at the Major and Diminished shapes. But before
we begin let's repeat the "integration recipe" that I talked about yesterday, here it is
again:
1. Come up with a simple lick that uses sweep picking and another picking technique
2. Repeat that lick until it's easy
3. Come up with another lick and repeat the process
New playmates
This process of integration is something I practice daily. Over time, you develop
some licks and runs that are really comfortable to play - these become your home
base, - the place you like to go when you pick up your instrument. Integration is
really the process of expanding that home base. It's like inviting new playmates in
and giving them a fair chance to become part of the group. As you play, you stay
with the home base, while being consciously aware of using some other element that
aren't that comfortable to play yet.
Going up the neck
You might take the diminished shapes and play them over the Harmonic Minor, and
then go through each shape up the neck and practice going in and out of that
shape, from the diminished triad into the scale and out again. You stay in one scale
shape while you repeat the 3 steps in the integration process until you really feel you
master that place on the neck. Then you move on and have some more fun. Focus
on playing the stuff you already know, while mixing it with the stuff you don't know
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