Learn To Play Sweep Picking Guitar Licks Really Fast & Clean While Performing

There’s a difference between playing sweep picking arpeggios while your at home & live in front of other people.

One feels comfortable and the other feels like you are under pressure.

Learning how to play fast and clean sweep picking licks under pressure is what separates you from most other guitar players (who never learn how to do this).

This puts your skills on a whole new level!

Sound good?

Great!

Here are some ways to do it:

Guitar Speed Exercise # 1: Make Your Soloing More Creative By Adding A Single Note To Common Sweep Picking Arpeggios

Performing sweep picking arpeggios made from 7th chords adds in one note to the three used in basic arpeggios.

Doing this makes your guitar playing instantly become much more intriguing and offers you a load of fresh creative alternatives to play with.

These easy 3-string 7 chord arpeggios instantly give your sweep picking a more interesting feel when contrasted to what most people play with:

Even when you might not be used to these patterns, they are quickly learned by breaking them down into two components as a basic exercise:

– The notes of the G and B string

– The notes of the B and E string

Playing both of these parts at a fast speed helps you perfect the notes so the arpeggio is seamless when you mix everything together.

This video illustrates how cool an Am7 arpeggio sounds while used with sweep picking:

Guitar Speed Exercise # 2: Make Your Sweep Picking Stand Out Using The Unique Sound Of Quartal Chords

Quartal chords are chords built on the interval of a 4th. For instance: A– D– G (A to D is a fourth and D to G is a fourth).

Using these types of arpeggios in the place of more traditional ones sounds very distinct and is certain to get people’s attention when you play with them.

These arpeggios are rare in that they use rolling technique together with the middle finger on the B and E strings respectively:

Practice playing all of these licks in a row using only the ascending version displayed in the tab. Then practice them using only descending.

This separates the downstroke and upstroke parts of your sweep picking technique to help you easily concentrate on perfecting them.

Discover how to master rolling technique by reading this sweep picking article and checking out the demo below:

Below is another neat quartal arpeggio that uses a larger pattern:

Practicing this helps you develop your two-hand sync because it calls for very precise timing to fret the note at the specific moment you play the string.

Guitar Speed Exercise #3: Play Interesting Sweep Picking Licks Without Using Any New Notes

Among the biggest reasons why the arpeggios most guitarist play become boring is they use the same note rhythms at all times.

By just using a variety of note rhythms in your arpeggios, you not only make them easier to play (in a lot of cases), but you make them more musically expressive.

This video demonstrates how effortless it is to make your sweep picking arpeggios sound more creative by just changing their rhythm very slightly:

This makes your sweep picking arpeggios instantly recognizable contrasted to the myriad of arpeggios available that all use the same rhythms over and over.

Come up with a wide range of ways to use rhythm to make your arpeggio licks become creative (in addition to what is presented in the video) by playing with the arpeggios in this article using a range of note rhythms.

Now that you have some easy exercises to give you tons of speed with arpeggios, learn how to express yourself musically with outstanding guitar phrasing.

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