Heavy Riffs & Sweep Picking

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Hi friends and welcome again to another lesson!

For this time, I tried to combine a heavy riff, played all in the guitar’s 6th string and some sweep picking technique. I recorded this lesson especially for intermediate guitar players.We will learn two ways to play a riff and three string sweep picking.

With no more to say, I hope you find it fun!

Tempo: 190 bpm

See you!
Pablo.-

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Here we have the first groups of arpeggios played with sweep picking technique. I played them in the first three strings of the guitar starting in the first string with pick up and legato, pick up in the second string, pick down in the third string, and pick down in the second and first string. Here I played the arpeggios on E minor scale.

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I did the same that in the 4th part but in the A minor scale, and I played the sweep picking in the same way.

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Kristofer Dahl	4th February 2008
GMC Founder & Rocker	Cool and doable stuff for the intermediate guitarist - thanks Pablo!

Davidian	4th February 2008
Member	Nice lesson Pablo!

botoxfox	4th February 2008
Member	Cool stuff man, nice.

Bogdan Radovic	4th February 2008
Bass Instructor	Really good lesson Pablo in really cool tune

coffeeman	4th February 2008
Member	Very nice lesson Pablo!

Joe Kataldo	4th February 2008
Instructor	Cool Neo-Clasiccal-Shredding Stuff!

mattacuk	4th February 2008
Lets go fishing!	Fantastic melody there pablo, I really like your style!!

Muris Varajic	4th February 2008
Instructor	Good job Pablo!!

kyldeee	4th February 2008
Member	Great job

Freebird	4th February 2008
Member	We needed something for us intermediate players!!! Great one Pablo!!

Juan M. Valero	4th February 2008
Instructor	excelente Pablo, buena leccion. Muy wapo el sweep que ejecutas

at lights end	4th February 2008
Member	cool. the first bit of the riff sounds quite prog. metal. i like it!

Pablo Vazquez	4th February 2008
Instructor	Thank you very much guys, Your comments makes me feel really happy!

The Uncreator	4th February 2008
Fire Up The Blades, Moderator	Fantastic, the riffs are great and the sweeps were superb!! Excellent Lesson!

Pablo Vazquez	4th February 2008
Instructor	Thanks friend!!

Dejan Farkas	4th February 2008
Instructor	I smell Malmsteen here Well done Pablo

Hisham Al-Sanea	4th February 2008
Instructor	nice heavy riff and sweep Pablo..nice job man

Pablo Vazquez	4th February 2008
Instructor	Thanks a lot Guys!

Ivan Milenkovic	4th February 2008
Instructor	Great lesson man. Very nice playing. Keep rockin!

stratman33	5th February 2008
Member	wow this is sweet!

UncleSkillet	5th February 2008
Member	Thanks man! I was just working with all the E Minor boxes the other day and this is really going to help. Rock On!

dreadlocks	5th February 2008
Member	this is a nice way to learn sweep picking thats what i plan to do

Unleash-The-Shred	5th February 2008
Member	This lesson is pretty awesome sounding! Great job.

Smikey2006	5th February 2008
Member	i love that sweeppss

Toni Suominen	5th February 2008
Instructor	Very nice Pablo!

Pablo Vazquez	5th February 2008
Instructor	Hey! Thanks for the comments, friends!!

Power_Arctica	6th February 2008
Member	Sweeeeeet!!!

Maximus	6th February 2008
Member	I Like it!

Pablo Vazquez	6th February 2008
Instructor	Thanks guys!

Nemanja Filipovic	6th February 2008
Singing Instructor	Like it...

Nick325	7th February 2008
Member	cool

Pablo Vazquez	8th February 2008
Instructor	Thank you very much!

Gerardo Siere	11th February 2008
Instructor	Me encantan esos temas metaleros que suenan "heroicos". Muy buena leccion.

Pablo Vazquez	13th February 2008
Instructor	Ja!! Gracias Gerardo!!

Tsarpf	13th February 2008
Member	Goood Job! sounds a bit like Dream Theaters "The Glass Prison" 1st guitar solo, I'm aiming to learn it, so this is going to help alot, thanks!

Pablo Vazquez	16th February 2008
Instructor	Thank you, Tsarpf!

Carlos Carrillo	21st February 2008
Instructor	pablo: Great lesson... thanks...

Pablo Vazquez	23rd February 2008
Instructor	Thanks for your comment Carlos!!

Luciana Segovia	30th March 2008
Singing Instructor	aguante el metaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!!

Pablo Vazquez	5th April 2008
Instructor	ja ja ja ja ja. YEAH!!!!!!!