Damn This Sweep Picking! Is It Really That Hard?, Left hand sweep pretzle fingers
Funguy
Feb 16 2010, 06:11 AM
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I've been working on sweep picking for about a year now. I actually got started with it when I first discovered Masterclass. I can sweep major and minor patterns and other variations of the such with 16th notes at about 130 BPM cleanly (and that's only on a really good day) anything faster than that is tripping my left hand up like its got the downs syndrome or something... I practice moderately. Sometimes sitting down for about three hours or more.. sometimes two, and sometimes I won't get to practice for a day or two because of my demanding schedule with a band and going to school... Anyway...

I need to get faster at sweeping to pull of some impressive soloing in the new material my band is writing. I need to get to 160 BPM or better. I know practice practice practice but when I try to do it faster my fingers just won't have it, and so I feel like I really can't practice sweeping and faster because it sounds horrible and I may be developing bad technique habit in doing so...

Aside from rigorous practicing, can anyone offer advice on how to get faster at this sweep picking arpeggio maddness mayhem destruction balls to the wall?

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- Funguy   Damn This Sweep Picking! Is It Really That Hard?   Feb 16 2010, 06:11 AM
- - Santiago Diaz Garces   First of all, have you tried to practice with a me...   Feb 16 2010, 07:22 AM
- - Damir Puh   Just take your time - sweeping is one of the trick...   Feb 16 2010, 09:15 AM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   Welcome aboard Funguy. I believe Damir is right, y...   Feb 16 2010, 05:21 PM
- - Funguy   Thanks for all the tips guys I never practice wit...   Feb 17 2010, 03:10 AM
|- - Bogdan Radovic   Its a good method as well as playing over your com...   Mar 7 2010, 06:58 PM
|- - Ivan Milenkovic   QUOTE (Funguy @ Feb 17 2010, 03:10 AM) Th...   Mar 7 2010, 11:44 PM
|- - Zsolt Galambos   Hmm... I tried that but the only thing that helped...   Apr 1 2010, 07:56 PM
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- - Damir Puh   QUOTE (Funguy @ Feb 17 2010, 03:10 AM) Th...   Feb 17 2010, 09:00 AM
- - Daniel Realpe   get down to the basics of the technique. Master tw...   Feb 27 2010, 01:42 AM
- - Conrad Harpham   all good advice here...also i would add, try not t...   Mar 7 2010, 10:12 PM
- - Vasilije Vukmirovic   Sweeping is tricky, because it requires coordinati...   Mar 27 2010, 02:50 PM
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