A stable base
The only thing your hand does during the actual sweep is provide a stable base for
your fingers to hold the pick. And when the sweep is over some amount of alternate
picking is required to turn the lick around, this is where your hand comes into play
again, as you can clearly see on the video.
Angling the pick
Your fingers are the most advanced precision tool on earth. These guys haven't
been surpassed in precision and speed by any other biological or man made tool
ever. The only thing you do with them, in this case though, is to hold the pick in the
right angle. Imagine positioning the pick completely in alignment with the string your
picking. (See the video) This is not what you want to do . Instead, push your thumb
downwards a bit to angle the pick slightly . This will make it a lot easier to slide
over and across the strings when you sweep.
So hold the pick like you would for alternate or economy picking. Then angle it a bit.
Make sure that you do not move anything but your arm when you perform the actual
sweep . It's a simple, controlled and even movement designed to make it easy for the
fretting hand to follow the flow of notes.
Diminished Arpeggio
Today's lick is a diminished triad laid out exactly like the A-Minor triad from yesterday: Two notes on
the A-string and Two notes on the high E-string. So your picking hand has to do the same thing as
yesterday. Of course I've added a little twist in the end where you play the last four notes before
returning home again.
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