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Ishouldjustquit11th November 2011how about a lesson suitable for human beings? not for Gods from heaven and Gods from hell? This is madness but you know Muris God this aint for humans
thefireball25th September 2010Holy crap! That's amazing! Flawless!
Muris Varajic18th July 2009Oh man
- Buddha Long18th July 2009
I second the holy #%&t! and add a couple of Mother F%$kers! This will really take some time. Great lesson.
- Muris Varajic6th June 2009
Thank you Alex, appreciate it!
Alexiaden936th June 2009Insane, perfect techniquewise, guitar playing, Muris ! Your lessons are awesome !
- Muris Varajic9th March 2009
Glad you have fun with the lesson, cheers.
Outlaw21129th March 2009this should be a 10 instead of a 9... Im working on the first box and its gonna take me a long time to get that one down at close to your speed..
awesome lesson muris, we are truly blessed to have you teaching us at GMC- Muris Varajic21st February 2009
Cheers
- gaby_arg21st February 2009
why y can't put metronome in -10 ?? hahaha...after that y think that a lesson on how to play arpegios in such such a clean way would be awesome!!....killer lesson!...epic + grovee!
- Muris Varajic21st February 2009
Glad you like it, rock on!
Artemus20th February 2009Errr....
This is a beast - with some lovely chord progressions I might add.
This is sure going to keep me busy for a long time yet and put a few grey hairs on my head in the process
Cheers Muris!
Nemanja Filipovic8th February 2009Amazing.
- Muris Varajic6th February 2009
Thanks Gabe, pleased to hear you like it.
Gabriel Leopardi6th February 2009This is killer Muris! I have to learn this tune know! Excelent job.
- Muris Varajic6th February 2009
First take with camera, yeah,
but I practiced it before of course. - fatb0t6th February 2009
Muris, was this a first take?
- Muris Varajic5th February 2009
If it's because of my broken tooth then it's fine
- fatb0t5th February 2009
I think I just cried
- Muris Varajic5th February 2009
Cheers sted.
sted4th February 2009O-M-G!!
Never seen anyhting like it! one day.....
..but not soon!lol!- Muris Varajic3rd February 2009
Cheers guys, thanks a bunch.
Dejan Farkas3rd February 2009Paganini is back to earth
Alejandro Pinero3rd February 2009Great Muris !!!
Realy Great!
kaznie_NL3rd February 2009Easy.... ... :S not
Inhumane- Muris Varajic2nd February 2009
Thank you all!
BB, this lesson probably isn't easiest
but you just cannot say that you'll never be able to play it,
take your time, practice hard and results are coming! 
BedroomBozo2nd February 2009I'll never ever be able to play this, but I just gotta say anyone that practices that much at sweeping is a MADMAN!!! Good stuff Muris, simply spellbinding!
Piotr Kaczor2nd February 2009Excellent, Muris!
David Wallimann2nd February 2009That's a great lesson bro, your chops are so amazing, great lesson!
Wilska1st February 2009Insane Muris... Wish I had even just a small percentage of your skill and talent
Amazing and very usefull thank you so much
SensE1st February 2009Man, This is fabulous !
- Muris Varajic1st February 2009
Glad you like the lesson guys, thanks.
Adam, pressure I apply is not light for sure
but also not too heavy as well,
let's say something in between
like for regular picking such as alternate. 
Nazgul1st February 2009A little bit too high for me, but it is surely fun and inspiring to watch.
JanZate1st February 2009Muris, this is amazing! It's so cool how you flawlessly move with such accuracy up and down the fretboard :-) An inspiration every day!
Dexxter1st February 2009Very nice, Muris! Bookmarked!
Ajmurrell1st February 2009One question I've always had about sweeping at speed, how much pressure do you put on the strings with your pick? Is it very light or with a little force?
Sinisa Cekic1st February 2009That's fantastic Muris
!- Muris Varajic1st February 2009
Thank you guys!!
Quality is different cause we didn't
use same type of file for both, good noticing. 
AlexLion1st February 2009Very cool etude, and some parts are hard as hell :| By the way you`ve done amazing video on main page, and very cool photo there (your english sounds strange, i mean not bad at all, but really odd:)
p.s.- why on the main page your welcome video is crystal clear quality and very good sound, but here it`s like lower overall quality (compared to that video)? Or it`s Kris fault?
Hisham Al-Sanea1st February 2009nice etude as sweep combination.very welldone Muris
andrei.sz1st February 2009wow ! Muris you are Great !
Can't wait to see you winning the Guitar idol this year
Cheers !
ErikEklund1st February 2009wow muris, killer sweeps and a great lesson
Jerry Arcidiacono31st January 2009Wowowowow! Great etude Muris
berko31st January 2009This came just in time for me! Thanks again
Trond Vold31st January 2009Fantastic lesson! I definetly need to try this one! My sweeps are in need of alot of work.
Toni Suominen31st January 2009Great lesson Muris!
Vasilije Vukmirovic31st January 2009Great lesson. I'll set my metronome at 50 and start practicing:)
Ramiro Delforte31st January 2009Nice sweeping exercise mate!
Keep them comming- Muris Varajic31st January 2009
I'm pleased guys, thanks.
Sergio Dorado31st January 2009Impressive, friend Muris Jason Becker
- Zephyr31st January 2009
So clean... they should put clips of you playing in Orbit commercials, Muris.
Joe Kataldo31st January 2009Impressive as usual Great Job
Bogdan Radovic31st January 2009Killer lesson Muris!!! Really impressive!!
- Muris Varajic31st January 2009
Thanks bro!
Emir Hot31st January 2009Cool sweeps bro and intro video on GMC index page is great. Well done
leedbreak31st January 2009My goodness. Thanks man amazzzzzzing and love your front page vid 2
sigma731st January 2009ugh i hate u Muris ... just kidding Muris ur my guitar hero
- Muris Varajic31st January 2009
Thank you all!!
Yes indeed, you play dim7 with sweep
and everyone thinks of YJM, can't help 
Ivan Milenkovic31st January 2009Great stuff to have in your sleeve and pull out at will, simply awesome!
Marek Rojewski31st January 2009Now just set the metronome to 20bpm and we can start to practice:D
Pedja Simovic31st January 2009Great lesson Muris, at the diminished part reminds me of Malmsteen a lot
Well done !
Kuba Szafran31st January 2009Amazing sweeps!
Kristofer Dahl31st January 2009Muris this is lethal!
Go to practice now!- not2secure4u31st January 2009
Awesome ! You just keep amazing people !
- Tjchep31st January 2009
Holy S@#!
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- My notes
Hello GMCers and welcome to Sweep Etude!
In this lesson we'll play some kind of neoclassical chord progression using Sweep Picking only. It's in a key of Bm and most of the chords are taken straight from B Harmonic Minor except of few chords such as B major and E#dim7.
B major has a role of dominant chord over 4th degree which is Em chord, and E#dim7 dominates over 5th degree, that would be F# chord. Tempo is 120 bpm and most of the time we'll be playing 16th triplets.
Sound wise, I used UAD DSP card and its plug-in called Nygel. Not sure if someone else has the same or similar type of card, if do just let me know and I'll give you the preset I used. :)
Have fun practicing!
Muris Varajic
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