#221 - SWEEP PICKING for Beginners | The 5 BEST Exercises!
Added 2022-04-22 14:01:03 +0000 UTCHey friends, since I've seen a lot of you working on sweep picking recently, I want to share this hopefully helpful video with you :) It features a quick breakdown of my personal sweeping journey, as well as 5 killer exercises!
Here are all your practice files for this lesson (play-along videos, tabs, guitar pro files, backing tracks): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FT5Ocy8eavlNTE2k21dssUBkf17dRfjh?usp=sharing
I especially recommend the final exercise (this one is a bit challenging) - let me know if you want more modern sweeping ideas like this one aside from the more classic etudes :)
P.S.: Here's a Dropbox folder for you in case Google Drive doesn't work for you: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m5pwckh98grf3pu/AACPZB82HqWWvrwjQpNMGsJua?dl=0
Comments
Where can I buy 2 more frets?
Aoki Ahishatsu
2024-03-13 19:04:29 +0000 UTCHow are you getting that sound with the tapping? Can anyone share tips on sound settings to get that sort of sustain? Thanks!
Jakobe Illich
2023-11-15 14:32:18 +0000 UTCcheck out his 30 day beginners course: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dbl4khrleeg1kde/AAATvoLeSJPU7MbByJmc8sova?dl=0
Sabú (the Lürxx)
2023-07-22 20:16:26 +0000 UTCHi! I do think these are exercises for sweep picking-beginners, but they are not an introduction to sweep picking. So you would first have to work through an introduction on how to sweep pick, and THEN you can use these exercises :)
Sabú (the Lürxx)
2023-06-18 12:11:43 +0000 UTCHe says he rolls the finger string to string. No barre
Lance rybka
2023-04-06 22:42:51 +0000 UTCIt was supposed to be for beginners, but started as for experts :-\
Pedram Roosta
2023-03-31 11:36:16 +0000 UTCHi all - noob here (still at 40 bpm). On the 3rd, 4th, 5th notes of first run … 14th fret on each string, are you all using the same finger? Barring on B and G string then jumping (same finger) to D string? It looks like Bernth is doing it in the examples that way. It’s a little easier for me to use different fingers for smoothness. Wondering the finger jump feels odd and like it will slow me down when I eventually get faster. Any advice?
Brian Rich
2022-12-26 03:20:11 +0000 UTCHonestly I am so frickin glad I watched this video. I arrived at the exact same conclusions you reached: trying to build up from a slow sweep with a metronome just wasn't getting me used to a proper sweep motion. I found that after messing around with "fake arpeggios" for a day at a speed I really couldn't play cleanly (aka "raking"), I was able to slow it down and the sweep motion actually felt more natural! I actually kick off every sweep practice session by sweeping all strings open without fretting a few times at different tempos just to get my hand in the right frame of mind. lol It helped me combat the "attack every string" reflex. It's almost like you first need to show your hand what it NEEDS to be doing! haha
Richard Birrittella
2022-08-29 15:52:11 +0000 UTCYour inspiration just inspired me lmao that's a good choice!
Richard Birrittella
2022-08-29 15:45:06 +0000 UTCI was trying to think of inspiration from an actual song to help guide my practice and couldn't think of anything for a second, and then went, "Oh, duh; 40 oz by Polyphia lol." Great videos Bernth!
William
2022-07-08 21:20:51 +0000 UTCHey Martin, I recorded this video on practicing with a metronome a while back, I think it will help with any technique: https://www.patreon.com/posts/129-5-best-43736958 Hope that helps :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-07-04 06:15:04 +0000 UTCHey Bernth, I've been using the Sweep Picking Technique for several years now, but I lack doing it to a metronome. Do you have any suggestions how to go about it? Start from scratch with your lessons or meticuslously practice with a metronome from slow speeds? Thanks.
Martin Lohmann
2022-07-03 10:00:48 +0000 UTCHey Tyler, I suggested string muting and avoiding unwanted noise on the lesson wishlist for this month, let's see how the community decides :) I'd love to do a video on it!
Bernd Brodträger
2022-06-03 04:37:15 +0000 UTCHey Bernth, I am having difficulty getting enough volume and have extra string noise when doing a tap like in Exercise 1. How do you cut down on the extra noise? Thank you!
Tyler Ott
2022-06-02 19:38:58 +0000 UTCI've been trying to sweep pick for about 2 weeks I got it to 130 bpm but still isn't fast enough I'm still learning to sweep with my right hand
Jimmy old school
2022-05-19 21:01:31 +0000 UTCOne thing I found was treating my right hand as I'm using a paint brush or a mop. Thinking that made my right hand more smooth. Now, I just have to synchronize.
FELIX MENDOZA
2022-05-03 19:52:35 +0000 UTCTook the guitar back again after years, I always enjoyed sweep picking and I'm having fun with this one, Paganini #1 ok at 80BPM for now :) Will you be doing some Jason Becker sweep picking style for beginner ? It'd be cool !
Christophe CHAXEL
2022-04-30 01:15:04 +0000 UTCBernth, it is working!
Paul McDonough
2022-04-28 16:10:13 +0000 UTCThanks Paul, I switched the link for the 4th time, does it work now? :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-28 04:42:58 +0000 UTCStill having problems with Dropbox
Paul McDonough
2022-04-28 00:17:40 +0000 UTCQuick note. Can we have The Summer of Speed and Sequences? ... You all know what I mean!
Lauri Laurila
2022-04-27 14:27:04 +0000 UTCHey David, what main exercise are you talking about? I made play-alongs, tabs, guitar pro files with full instrumentation, and backing tracks for everything in the Google Drive & Dropbox folders! Hope that helps
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-27 04:37:52 +0000 UTCI’m excited
Crios
2022-04-27 04:23:55 +0000 UTCI'm talking about the main exercise that he posted on YT. I looked in both Google Drive and Dropbox and do not show a backing track or a play along (with or without guitar). The individual sweep exercises that are Patreon only DO have all of that however (and those are super cool).
David Elliott
2022-04-26 21:33:38 +0000 UTCAll folders in the Google Drive-folder do contain play-along videos and backing tracks. ( Haven't checked the Dropbox link though. )
Robert Bjärmyr
2022-04-26 21:25:53 +0000 UTCThere doesn't seem to be a backing track for this, or a play along video with no guitar. There's the original play along that was posted to youtube and there are backing tracks for the Patreon only exercises.
David Elliott
2022-04-26 20:15:01 +0000 UTCthanks Bernth... yes, I tried to identify the chord by the notes, but the first section of the second part is (from down to up) C# E A C# A E - and the nearest match for these notes as a chord is the Dmaj9, or F#m9 :D which does not sound perfect with the arpeggio there :D (ok, I mentioned, I am not good enough but at least I tried :D ). Did I do something wrong when tried to identify that bloody chord?
Balázs Takács
2022-04-25 06:34:54 +0000 UTCWhen you analyze the arpeggios and the notes (it's just root, third, fifth), you will find the chords easily - to help you out, here's what you could play for that second section: A, D, G, C, Bdim, Am, Bdim, E then back to A :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-25 06:05:50 +0000 UTCSame here. Have a lot to learn :-(
Dee
2022-04-24 18:00:14 +0000 UTCHi Bernth, I love the combined lick! It would be really awesome to get more stuff like this :)
Wolfgang Rauch
2022-04-24 11:00:36 +0000 UTCHello Bernth! I have just started to put together a backign track for this Ex2+Ex3, but there is a missing chord... of course, I am not good enough to find them . Could you be please so kind to help me here? Which chords should I use? I started like Amin, E7, Amin, E7, Amin, E7, Amin, E7 then I dont know how... I tried C, Dmin, G, C B, Amin... but I feel it is not correct... Thanks if you'd help me out here :D
Balázs Takács
2022-04-24 09:07:20 +0000 UTCYes, more riffs that combine multiple techniques would be great! Thanks for another cool sweep picking lesson!
Greg Conway
2022-04-23 20:36:33 +0000 UTCLet´s not forget the opening riff of Fetus´s "Pissing In The Mainstream" nearly 4 years earlier than Necro ! Excellent lesson again !!
Dominik Glöckner
2022-04-23 19:05:34 +0000 UTCEven in 2022, Stabwound is the reason I want to learn to sweep, and Necrophagist songs while doing vocals are my long term goals. Good stuff!
Park James
2022-04-23 14:46:36 +0000 UTChi, sorry if i am disturbing ... manage to download everything from google on another computer , regards !
KB
2022-04-23 05:09:42 +0000 UTCThanks KB, not sure what's wrong with Dropbox lately! I swapped the link for the third time, does it work for you now? The Drive link works but some devices have issues with accessing it, that's why I provide Dropbox links as well
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-23 05:08:04 +0000 UTChi , the dropbox link is empty ! and i cant access google drive , the only file that can be downloaded is the pdf
KB
2022-04-23 03:40:43 +0000 UTCwhat is the sweep picking for intermediate should i be scared , this is great and looks quite challenging cant wait to have a go at the last one when i work to it
jaz
2022-04-22 23:51:37 +0000 UTCYoooo this is pretty awesome! I was thinking it'd be quite a while before I even looked at sweep picking but this has just pushed it up the list now hahaha 🤔😂🎸🔥
Ivan V.
2022-04-22 22:36:43 +0000 UTCHi Bernth! What definitely made „click“ to me with this technique was your Sweep picking masterclass course. I‘m a beginner hobby player (my fulltime 65h-a-week-job and family won‘t let much time for practicing), so I never thought, I could learn this technique at all. But I was wrong, you and your course proofed me wrong. THANKS FOR THAT!!! As you said, playing slow to a metronome helps a lot, I‘m really not fast yet, but I don‘t have that picking motion problem either 😉😜. And YES: more exercises where sweeping is combined with alternate picking (the transition back and forth can be really hard - especially when different picking angles are required and one tries to stay in time) would be nothing but GREAT 👌🏻!!! Liebe Grüße vom Würzburger Apotheker nach Wien!!!
Michael Sax
2022-04-22 21:40:52 +0000 UTCYes, please provide more sweep Picking integration with other skills such as Tapping, Scale Runs, Pedal points, etc
Craig OGorman
2022-04-22 19:30:40 +0000 UTCI can play in time when sweeping slowly. And I also had that problem of picking each note but now I can sweep over the strings. However, once I speed it up much faster, the timing falls apart and I get that "dead-note mess" that you describe. I keep hoping that it clicks some day.
Scott Walden
2022-04-22 18:23:18 +0000 UTCAs always, my Friday treat. Great lesson Bernth. Going to get on with this one, list is getting longer though.
Steve Shaw
2022-04-22 17:01:16 +0000 UTCThanks Gustavo, I just added the GP and PDF file in both folders!
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-22 16:53:22 +0000 UTCThanks Paul, I just added them - now everything is hopefully in order :)
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-22 16:53:02 +0000 UTCdidn't see any tab PDFs or guitar pro files, are they supposed to be there or just use the videos? :)
Paul Jenkins
2022-04-22 16:49:08 +0000 UTCDo you have any tips on how to integrate all these exercises into improv at all, i find that it is difficult to understand how i fit these in with say a backing track improv easily?
Zoolrander
2022-04-22 16:38:32 +0000 UTCGreat video! I can't find tabs file...
Gustavo SM
2022-04-22 16:04:30 +0000 UTCThis is one of my worst techniques, so looking forward to this challenge. 🤘🏻
Peter
2022-04-22 15:55:42 +0000 UTCBeen trying to learn a lot of Protest The Hero and their sweeps and licks. All of your videos have helped me get better TREMENDOUSLY!! Excited to do these exercises now.
Alex Lowry
2022-04-22 15:35:01 +0000 UTCF*ck yeah!!!! I started drowling of sequence of D maj, D aug, D min, D dim :D :D :D Extra thanks for the last exercise (mixed techniques)... I didn't know what to expect when I joined to this patreon site, but there is no regrets in me... just a big gratitude! Thanks boy next door! ;-)
Balázs Takács
2022-04-22 15:29:40 +0000 UTCYes. A sweep etude would be nice. As you say. It's mainly just pratice and not putting it to use.
Arvid Richter
2022-04-22 14:33:40 +0000 UTCThis is going to help so much! Thanks Bernth!
Andrew Acosta
2022-04-22 14:29:18 +0000 UTCHey friends, looks like there was an issue with the Dropbox link - I just swapped it, let me know if everything works :) Hope you all have an amazing weekend!!
Bernd Brodträger
2022-04-22 14:24:58 +0000 UTCGeiler Scheib! I require all the sweeps, i thirst for them🤘👽🤘
DarthWooPV
2022-04-22 14:21:18 +0000 UTCGeiler Scheiß
Hans Seestaller
2022-04-22 14:07:33 +0000 UTC
