Sweeping Generalisation Lesson

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- Starry Manhattan Rain6th August 2008
  Nice fast sweeping Nick and damn clean too. I'd love to see a lesson of you doing some Gambale style sweep picking!
- USAMAN6th August 2008
  Can you graft your super long pinky on to my hand.....You surely have alien DNA. Great lesson.
- Muris Varajic6th August 2008
  Cool sweeps Nick,well done!!
- Joe Kataldo6th August 2008
  Cool Lesson mate, nice shredding
- Ivan Milenkovic6th August 2008
  Very precise Nick, great sweep technique on those patterns mate.
- Nemanja Filipovic6th August 2008
  Great playing Nick.like the beat too.
- Bogdan Radovic6th August 2008
  That was awesome ! Sweeping is so cool!
- ItsMe6th August 2008
  nice lesson
- Nick Kellie6th August 2008
  hi guys - glad you liked it.
  nick
- kaznie_NL6th August 2008
  to fast.. Great job Nick
- kaznie_NL6th August 2008
  Sorry, I mean not that the lessons is to fast, just to fast for me
- Trond Vold6th August 2008
  Thats some nice and precise sweeps! A lesson well done
- sigma76th August 2008
  Wow so clean awesome
- Nick3256th August 2008
  awesome sweeping nick, so clean
- chmilew6th August 2008
  Nick you rock !
  Nice lesson
- Gerardo Siere6th August 2008
  Fantastic playing.
- Alejandro Pinero6th August 2008
  very good technique Nick !!
  Awesome!!
- Marcus Lavendell6th August 2008
  Excellent as always Nick
- Carlos Carrillo6th August 2008
  Brilliant!! A perfect adjustment of arpeggios! Incredible sound!! I believe that it is a really important technique for every guitarist! Thank you!
- Pablo Vazquez6th August 2008
  Wow! Incredible lesson Nick!
- Caelumamittendum6th August 2008
  Great lesson, Nick!
- Hisham Al-Sanea7th August 2008
  nice & cool lesson Nick
- Gabriel Leopardi7th August 2008
  Awesome sweep picking technique! This is a very helpful for this technique. Good job!
- Danilo Capezzuto7th August 2008
  Great lesson Nick! Keep on!
- Juan M. Valero7th August 2008
  amazing lesson mate !!!! love your sweeps
- Kristofer Dahl7th August 2008
  Thanks Nick - really cool sounding and a great illustration of how you can get creative with simplistic (but not easy) shapes!
- Marcus Siepen7th August 2008
  amazing Nick, I should really work on this
- Lian Gerbino7th August 2008
  cool nick!
- Henry Dietzel7th August 2008
  Awesome Nick, I can't wait to run through this!!
  
  Thanks for the lesson
- Toni Suominen7th August 2008
  Speedy stuff mate!
- Maximus7th August 2008
  Nice sweeps!
- Nick Kellie7th August 2008
  thanks everyone - glad you are enjoying this!
  nick
- Ian Bushell8th August 2008
  Great technique!!
- Scorpiotic8th August 2008
  nice man ^^ maybe i can finally develop some speed probably not as much to match the video but still
- Eat-Sleep-andJam9th August 2008
  Your Technique is Perfect
  
  So good, Thanks
- mhskeide10th August 2008
  Haha, funny in the first vid, when you just stare in the camera like nothing, while sweeping like a machine out of sight. Great lesson
- David Wallimann1st September 2008
  Great lesson Nick, very clean sweeps!
  Do you use anything to mute the neck besides your hands?
- Nick Kellie8th September 2008
  hi david - nope just the hands
  nick
- MigeZ10th May 2009
  ^^nice muting with hands I sometimes find it pretty difficult to mute the strings (without using string muter or what it's called) the same time I'm sweeping. Probably becaouse I'm an inexperiented sweeper still

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Hi Guys - OK time for some sweep action! We all love to play fast and what better way than sweeping! Once mastered, this technique has devastating speed effect! But beware - cutting corners will yield poor results in the long run and we only cheat ourselves in the end.

Muting and co-ordination are key here as well as right hand control - I recommend playing this at a moderate tempo as the hardest thing about sweeping is to keep the right hand from sweeping out of time. Sweeping in time is where the control is! Remember, these are 16th note triplets and should be played as that. You only fool yourself if you try and rush things.

No extraneous noises should be heard - make sure you mute all other strings while playing a note. Both the left hand and the right hand should cover this and I recommend recording yourself without a backing and then really scrutinize your playing, finding ways to clean up those awful, unwanted noises.

Have fun with this and see you soon!
Nick

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