Learn To Play Guitar Arpeggios With Fast Speed Frustration-Free

Learning how to play sweep picking arpeggios fast and clean can be very frustrating.

There’s a reason so many guitarists consider the technique to be so difficult.

It requires mastering various moving parts and when one breaks down…

…crash!

Everything breaks down.

Don’t worry.

There are ways to make this learning process easier and frustration-free.

Time to learn some of them:

Speed Pick Arpeggios To Increase Your Ability To Focus & Spot Mistakes

Tremolo picking particular notes of an arpeggio lick is also a fantastic approach to improve your attention to detail.

Meaning: it’s a breeze to catch mistakes for any note when you focus your attention on it more than any other.

Locate the notes in a given sweep picking arpeggio that give you the most trouble.

This video clip illustrates how to practice a single note with excellent focus to correct inconsistencies in your playing:

Use speed picking to pinpoint one of the notes in an arpeggio pattern, while playing the other notes of the arpeggio like normal.

Speed Pick Your Arpeggios (Yes, You Read That Right)

Instead of sweep picking the pattern, use speed picking on every note.

In addition to strengthening your speed picking skills, this locks both of your hands in sync, making faster playing more easy overall. It also, makes playing arpeggios using just one pick stroke per string feel a lot easier at the same time.

As an example: The arpeggio in this video may seem a bit overwhelming at first:

Let’s make it simple.

Try this:

1. Break it up by deciding to play only a few notes at a time.

2. Tremolo pick every note.

3. Add one more note to the lick until you have played through the whole thing.

Get Big Results By Combining Tremolo Picking With Sweeping

By performing arpeggios in brief rushes of speed, it is a lot easier to learn them and integrate tremolo picking to them to make a massive improvement to your overall guitar playing technique.

This video shows you how to practice a few notes in quick surges:

Now, it’s time to begin combining short bursts with random speed picking to improve your power to speed pick whenever you want with an immediate startup (in between short bursts of sweep picking).

Use this process to do it:

1. Combine the original two points in this column together by breaking an arpeggio down into 3 notes at once.

2. Then play the pattern by speed picking all the strings. Practice for many repetitions continuously.

3. Sweep pick the strings employing the quick bursts method. Do this for a number of repetitions in a row.

4. Sweep pick the notes and speed pick the highest note in the pattern. Do this for several repetitions in a row.

5. Now speed pick the two highest notes in the pattern. Do this for multiple repetitions in a row.

6. Tremolo pick all three notes. Do this for several repetitions in a row.

7. Next, add one more note and continue this process until you play through the whole arpeggio pattern.

You now understand some awesome practice approaches using tremolo picking to improve your sweep picking.

Now, go forth and conquer sweep picking technique!