This lesson will give you a set of effective exercises you can use to take your sweep picking skill from beginner to expert.
If you have trouble getting started with the easier sweep picking exercises, try working on your economy picking technique first. Learning economy picking will help prepare you for sweep picking.
There are three steps to learning sweep picking. First, you need to develop good picking accuracy. Second, you need to work on syncing both hands with good coordination. Finally, you should work on building up your speed.
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The best way to work on picking accuracy is to focus 100% on your picking hand and completely ignore your fretting hand.
The first few exercises in this lesson will help you master your picking accuracy. The first few exercises ask you to mute the strings using your fretting hand. By doing this, you can focus completely on your picking hand.
You won’t need to worry about playing the right frets or even thinking about what note to play next. You can place 100% of your attention on the way your pick hits the strings.
Sweep Picking Challenge
Tip: don’t skip the first few exercises. You will develop your sweep picking skills faster if you practice the muted exercises first.
The good news is that this step is quick and easy to master. Sweeping the strings is a simple skill to learn. What makes sweep picking challenging is your hand coordination.
Hand coordination is how well you’re able to place your fretting hand fingers down on the string in time for you to pick the note correctly.
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Hand coordination is crucial to a good sweep picking technique. If you get your hand coordination wrong, your sweeps will sound bad.
A common sign of bad hand coordination with sweep picking is when you hear any muted notes, fret buzzing, or notes bleed on top of each other.
When playing a sweep picked arpeggio, listen carefully and make sure you can clearly hear one note at a time. If you hear two notes at once, or you hear a muted hit instead of a note, slow the exercise down and try again.
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While everybody who learns sweep picking wants to play lightning-fast arpeggios, you need to resist the temptation to increase the tempo too soon.
Don’t try to play any of these exercises at a high tempo until you have developed your picking accuracy and hand coordination to a high level.
Only raise the tempo if you can play the exercise perfectly. If you start noticing mistakes creep into your playing, it’s a sign that you’re trying to push yourself too fast. Back the tempo off slightly and try again.
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Focus on accuracy and the speed will follow. If you try to push the speed too soon, you’ll end up with a sloppy sweep picking technique. Remember: accuracy is the main goal.
How to properly build up speed is explained in this lesson on how to play guitar fast. Work through those exercises to learn more.
It might seem odd, but the best way to do this is to mute the strings with your fretting hand and focus 100% of your attention on your picking hand.
Metal Sweep Picking Part 1
At the same time, you should clearly hear six evenly spaced notes. The notes should sound as even as a click of a metronome.
Start off as slow as you need to and make sure your rhythm is consistent. Playing this exercise fast isn’t the goal – the goal is to work on your picking motion and hand control.
You’re not playing six separate down-picking motions here, instead you’re playing one smooth sweep across all six strings to produce six clear notes.
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Some guitarists find the down sweeps easy to play and the up sweeps awkward. Work on both exercises until both down and up sweeps feel equally easy.
This exercise continues the focus on your picking accuracy and teaches you how to connect separate sweeps into one smooth and constant rhythm.
The goal with this exercise is to hear all 12 notes as 12 evenly spaced notes. It shouldn’t sound like three notes, then a short rest before another three notes. You should hear 12 notes in a row without any speeding up or slowing down.
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Start off by practicing this as slow as you need to so you hear 12 notes in a row without any breaks in rhythm.
Use a metronome and play three notes per click. It should not sound like groups of three notes, it should sound like a constant rhythm the entire time.
I know I’ve said this over and over, but not keeping a constant rhythm is a common beginner mistake. If you can avoid this mistake, you’ll master sweep picking faster and easier.
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If you can play the first two exercises perfectly at a range of different tempos, you should feel confident in your picking accuracy.
The main point to keep in mind when playing this exercise is that you should only press a finger down onto a fret when you want that note to ring out.
Only one finger should be pushing the string against a fret at a time. Don’t start by holding all three fingers down, or you’ll end up with a chord ringing out.
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As you can see, a lot happens in the short time you sweep across those three strings. It might seem like a lot to remember, but this will soon become natural and automatic.
The secret to a clean sweep is to avoid any string noise. If you were to lift a finger completely off of a string, you might hear the open string ring out. This can easily ruin a sweep.
By lightly lifting your fingers off of the frets, but not off of the strings, you can avoid a lot of string noise.
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Practice the ascending and descending exercises over and over until the steps listed above all feel automatic and you can play it perfectly.
If you can play Exercise 3 perfectly at a decent tempo, this exercise will test you to see how well you really know it.
You might recognize this exercise as the same string patterns from Exercise 2, only this time you need to use the three fret positions used in Exercise 3. In other words, this exercise combines everything you have practiced so far.
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If you have trouble with this exercise, take it as a sign that you haven’t spent enough time on the previous three exercises.
Your main focus here needs to be on making sure each note rings out clearly and stops ringing out before the next note.
If you read the notes for Exercise 2, you should know that you need to keep your rhythm consistent. This exercise should sound like 12 notes in a row, not groups of three notes with a gap in between.
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Open string noise will be your biggest noise challenge as you move across the strings. A single open string ringing out can completely ruin your sweeps, so pay extra attention to how you mute the strings.
The black wrap you can see around the nut is often used by some guitarists to keep the strings quiet. They dampen the strings and prevent open strings from ringing out when you don’t want them to.
Some guitarists think that playing with fret wraps is cheating, while others see them as useful tools (the above guitarist is Guthrie Govan – an incredible guitarist, so don’t dismiss fret wraps too quickly).
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Fret wraps hide mistakes, which is a terrible thing to do when you’re learning. You need to hear your mistakes so you can learn to correct them.
If you practice these exercises with a fret wrap, you’ll likely develop a sloppy technique that will make your sweeps sound horrible whenever you play on a guitar without a fret wrap.
Fret wraps may be great to use when recording or in some live situations, but do not use them when you are learning a technique such as sweep picking.
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So far, the exercises have separated down and up sweeps into separate exercises. This exercise combines the down and up sweeps into a single exercise.
It’s important to start by practicing down sweeps and up sweeps separately to help you get used to each motion. But once you can do that, it’s time to combine them.
Practice the muted version so you can start by focusing on your picking accuracy. Watch how your hand moves across the strings and how you change the angle of the pick as you switch directions.
Advanced Sweep Picking
If you play this exercise correctly, it should sound like 12 notes in a row. There shouldn’t be any speeding up or slowing down during a sweep and there shouldn’t be any gap in between sweeps.
This will take some time, but make sure you work on these skills using the muted version before you start practicing the fretted version.
The temptation will be for you to rush through this exercise so you can move on to more interesting sweeps, but you need to resist this temptation. If you spend enough time on these ‘easier’ exercises, you’ll master the harder exercises sooner and easier.
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When practicing the fretted version, be careful you don’t introduce any string noise when you lift your fingers
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