Perfect Your Sweeping

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Welcome back fellow IG'ers! For this tutorial, I wanted to have some fun with sweep arpeggios. I've been getting a lot of questions lately pertaining to how to go about executing them cleanly. In this lesson, we'll be examining two etudes, one containing straight forward major and minor arps, the second containing some pretty wacky ones. So let's begin by n...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So our first etude features four six-string arpeggios. The focus for now should be knowing where you are within every arpeggio. This is THE most imparative part of executing these types of arpeggios cleanly. What I mean by this is, don't get lost on the ether of "my fingers go up, my fingers go down". Break each and every arpeggio into two halves and FEEL t...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: And last, but not least - etude numero deux. This arpeggio sequence is heavily "suspended" sounding. The intervals are wide and the shapes get tangly. Technique-wise, we should have a decent understanding of what has to happen, so without further ado, enjoy!

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