Welcome to the Beginner Sweep Picking lesson
Lesson contains a few popular shapes with sweep picking involved. Sweep picking is a one direction right hand motion commonly used to play chord arpeggios, where we need to stroke "1 note per string" sequences. It gives the abilty to play really fast but it also has and extra difficulty on note separation. That's were the real lesson starts - we don't want sweep picking to sound like full chord strumming. It's not so easy when we need to use the same left hand finger to play single notes on different strings...one by one. Additional explanation can be found in spoken video and text comments under each slow part.
Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):
1. SX SST57 electric guitar
2. Behringer MIC100 tube preamp (-20db switch on, gain and out knobs about 50%)
3. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 25%)
4. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
5. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
6. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh
Tuning - Standard E
Backing track chord progression:
4/4 Am | Am | Am | Am | G | G | E | E |
Am | Am | Am | Am | Dm | Dm | E | E |
Fdim | Fdim | Am | Am | D#dim | D#dim | E | E |
Dm | Dm | Am | Am | B | B | E | E | Am | Am ||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 120 bpm. There are also backing tracks available at 60, 75, 90, 105 and 120 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scales used in this lesson:
A harmonic minor
A aeolian minor