Sweep picking

Published September 28, 2010 - by Simone Geravini

A little 'technique, which we guitarists love it!

Sweep, sweep literally, is the movement that must be performed on the right hand to play chords and arpeggios phrases considerable speed. The next exercise will in fact triplet eighth at 200 metronome.

The left hand then perform major and minor arpeggios, with the addition of a diminished arpeggio, the right hand instead Pennera not all the strings, but will perform the sweep direction changes.

As always, I performed the song first fast, then slow to follow the good left hand.

The harmonic structure is very simple and very glam punk rock '80s:

| A-| Bdim | F | E-| D-| D # dim |

Start slowly, up to bring the metronome at high speeds.

After the video, the basis on which to practice.

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