Sweep Picking Madness Lesson

Sweep Picking Madness

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  • Hey guys!

    This lesson is designed to help you improve your sweep-picking technique. For these arpeggios, you would need a 24-fret guitar in order to execute the last few bars correctly.

    We will work with different rhythms within this lesson, this will be vital to develop a better control of this very cool technique!


    Guitar : Ibanez AZ2402

    Equipment : Kemper + Apollo Twin Duo

    Tempo : 110 bpm

    Time Signature : 4/4

    Chord progression


    ||: A5 | F5 | C5/G | Ab5 :||



    Key signature : the first chord is in the key of A, but then it modulates to the key of C


    Techniques used :

    - Sweep Picking
    - Hammer On/Pull Off
    - Legato
    - Alternate Picking


    Have fun and stay tuned for the next lesson! ;)
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