Sweep Picking

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: Now, I'm sure for a lot of guitar players in the 21st century, sweep picking is an essential that you need to have in order to be a successful guitar player and be able to express yourself more freely. Many guitar players, when first learning sweep picking, try to go automatically to 6 string sweeping because that is what they see all their idols do. There...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: Welcome to part 2 of this tutorial on sweep picking. Before, we learned the 3 types of 3 string major arpeggios, so now we are going to focus on the 3 types of minor arpeggios. Now, if you know anything about chords, you will know that a minor triad is formed when you take a major triad and lower the 3rd one half step. So in essence, all of these arpeggio...

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Instructor: Robert Mussatti Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: In this lesson, I have combined most of the 3 string arpeggios we have learned so far into a little "Etude" which will give you an idea of how these can be used. Now you might be wondering why we are learning all of these inversions. It's simple: economy. This is also why we learn chord inversions as well. They are designed for minimal movement across the f...

Media Length: 6:57