Practical Sweep Arpeggios Lesson

- AlexLion1st December 2008
  Looks like that can help my with sweeping:) Thank you!
- gibsonmatte1st December 2008
  Excellent lesson!
- Muris Varajic1st December 2008
  Great great!!
- Emir Hot1st December 2008
  very cool
- kaznie_NL1st December 2008
  Nice chops David! Thanks!!
- Nazgul1st December 2008
  Very nice, David, unfortunately too difficult for me at the moment.
- Carlos Carrillo1st December 2008
  Interesting lesson friend! The arpeggios always are welcome at the moment of play!
- Toni Suominen1st December 2008
  Great lesson David!
- Sinisa Cekic1st December 2008
  Top1, very melodic lines !!
- johnvg1st December 2008
  Great Lesson David! I have one question, what type of pick angle is suppose to be used. It appears to be differant for ascending and descending.
- Kuba Szafran1st December 2008
  Cool approach, very useful shapes! Great lesson David:)!
- Piotr Kaczor1st December 2008
  Great and useful as always!
- Ivan Milenkovic1st December 2008
  Very cool tone and arpeggios David, very useful mate, great job
- Dejan Farkas1st December 2008
  Very nice
- Wilska1st December 2008
  Nice, another great piece added to my sweep-training =) thanks David
- David Wallimann2nd December 2008
  Thank you very much my friends, I'm glad you find this lesson useful. :-)
- Vinod Saranga2nd December 2008
  Very useful lesson David
- SensE2nd December 2008
  Very useful tool for soloing. Thank you, David
- David Wallimann2nd December 2008
  QUOTE (johnvg @ Dec 1 2008, 12:19 PM)
  Great Lesson David! I have one question, what type of pick angle is suppose to be used. It appears to be differant for ascending and descending.
  
  Thanks everyone!
  As far as pick angle, I do incline the pick a bit depending on which direction I'm going.
  The idea is to slightly incline the pick in the direction you sweep.
  That is what works best for me, but try different ways, every player is different. :-)
- Hisham Al-Sanea2nd December 2008
  awesome lesson David
- Bogdan Radovic2nd December 2008
  Great lesson David!
- Marcus Siepen9th December 2008
  cool lesson David
- berko18th January 2009
  Love the tone, man!
- Fretburns12th February 2009
  nice,i noticed that you used familiar sweeping shapes(minor and major),with an added note at the begining..excellent!! thanks
- Fretburns12th February 2009
  sorry for postin twice,,, i forgot to say..what an amazing lesson,ive just learnt it all...in minutes,,not up to your standard yet...BUT! The amount of knowledge i just gained from this is truly awsome!!! in so little time...thanks David bigtime!
- David Wallimann12th February 2009
  Thanks a lot man!
  That's a very nice compliment. :-)
  I'm glad you like the lesson!
- emil dahl13th August 2009
  Beutiful sweeps ;)Great lesson, Thank you!

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- Tags: Sweeping, Arpeggios
In today's lesson we'll study a piece that should help you get some coll sweeping licks under your musical belt. The track will take you through 4 main 4 note arpeggios that will be very handy in any given situation.

Here are the arpeggios we'll use:

Major 7tg
Root-Maj 3rd- 5th- Maj 7th

minor 7th
Root-min 3rd- 5th- min 7th

Dominant 7tg
Root-Maj 3rd- 5th- min 7th

minor 7th diminished 5th
Root-min 3rd- dim 5th- min 7th

Make sure you sweep those arpeggios as shown in the slow videos. Whenever you are playing notes on a consecutive string, make sure your pick rests on the next string.

Have fun!