Best 5-Minute Sweep Picking WORKOUT! (For Intermediate Players) 

Get the FULL 30-day sweep picking workout routine here: www.patreon.com/bernth - happy shredding! 🤘

Yay, Today I made it to 120. I was so surprised when the music stopped. To make it to 120 BPM took me months, but helped me heal my ligaments and it inspired me to get back in to teaching. Started my channel today! Also designed my first exercise and logos and everything. Thanks for getting me excited about life Bernth!!! Du bisch echt mal richtig der Hammer, Alter!

Pro tip for all sweepers: make sure to also do a variation of this excercise where the ASCENDING sweeps are the faster ones! I tried another sweeping excercise and found out that after practicing this one, there's a serious disproportion between my ascending and descending sweeps. Hope it helps you and good luck breaking your limits :)

Another update: up to 120 now. I'm learning little things that have led to improvements. I've found it interesting that as the speed increases, my right hand has become increasingly unreliable when it comes to keeping the tempo. My left hand fingers coming down on the frets gives me more feedback on my rhythm. Also, Rick Graham's planting technique video has helped make the sweeping sound much more fluid. If anything, doing this has shown me just how much power there is to practicing one thing. I used to try and practice everything with little success, and now I'm sweeping faster than ever before. Thanks, Bernth!

well..I do exactly this (kind off) for 20 years now..and I am a still a shitty sweeper...sweep picking is my arch enemy..but I am great at making Pancakes

Great production value Bernth. Really appreciate the time you take to make these awesome. I know it’s hard work!

Bernth, you do not get enough love. What you are doing is amazing, a good teacher is the most respectable person in the world.

Perfect breakdown of sweep just what I was looking for, love you man.

60BPM, July 12. Thank you for lessons Bernth! Your lessons have really been helping me out a lot with my guitar playing.

Just wanted to say thank you so much for posting these videos, ive spent 7 months watching and it has helped me progress so much faster than i could have on my own.

Waaaaaw, toady, 28.03.2023, is the first time after some good months of daily practice I manage to play at 120 bpm without loosing track of it. I just woke up as usual at 5 AM, started with Best 25 MIN GUITAR TECHNIQUE WORKOUT second fast part for heat up and this sweep challenge is the next on the practice and my most beloved one. And I managed to get to the end without loosing it. Still not perfect clear notes over 100, more work to do, but I did it and I always felt I will never do! Amazing stuff! Thanks for all the hard work you do for us!

July 8th - 80Bpm, watch out for the arpeggio pattern (2 minor, 2 Major, 1 minor, 1 Major, 1minor, 1 Major) then change speed. got me all the time! Brilliant by the way Master BERNTH!

Of all the guitar tutoring gurus on RU-vid, you're probably the best. Keep it up man!

Great way to mark your progress, not only w/sweep picking, but it helps you improve several facets of your playing.

I play for about a year now, but I started doing a daily practice routine for minimum 2 hours a day about a month ago, thx to Bernth. I mainly focused on sweeping, so i can do this exercise at 80 bpm very clean and good sounding, at 90 bpm i feel like i cant mute the strings properly. Very excited about these challenge. PS: a tip for beginners, lower you string action, it helped me a lot.

Ok , I'm ready to do this ... Let's go !!! I really want to be good at sweep picking & I know with your help I'll get there !! Thank you , Bernth !!!

I know this has been up for 2 years, but thanks, Bernth! I started this probably 2 months ago. I wake up at 5am to practice every day and started incorporating this exercise. I hit 120 today! I was really focusing on economy of movement, staying relaxed, and visualizing the arps as a whole

Thank you for this exercise. I nearly gave up learning sweep picking until this video. Now I realize not all notes are picked. The slurred notes are what I have been missing. THANK YOU! I'm warming up the tubes in my Mesa Boogie as I write this comment.

Love it, your exercises always challenge me! Thanks for doing the hard work for us!

March 10th 2022: 100 BPM. Gonna try to beat this score tomorrow and get up to 120 by the end of the week. Thanks for all your awesomeness Bernth!

I’m enjoying it. Thanks Bernth!

Starting Jan 9 ~ Day 1 - 50/60 bpm Day 2 - 60 bpm Day 3 - 70/80 bpm (80 bpm wasn't clean but I am trying ) Day 7 - 60 bpm Day 8 - 70 bpm

Man, you is amazing, i explored on those days great exercises for sweep picking, now i see that you upload a great exercise for sweeping, thanks a lot👌💙

You make it look so effortless!

I've been waiting for something like this for years

Thank YOU again my friend...🤘 Fantastic exercise, fun pattern, pleasing to my ears.. Day one starts Now!!

Great as always, you really make the best lessons...

All I can say is holy crap. I've been coming back to this and a lot of your other videos for over a year now, and I can finally say I'm done with this workout. I played this full speed cleanly first try on my gibson les paul. Thanks so much for the insane motivation bernth, this feeling is something else.

Man definitivamente tu eres el mejor maestro de guitarra de todo RU-vid

Thank you for this lesson.Bernth... I've been looking..for this excerise..

October 26th, 2022 : Day 1 - 60 bpm ( No experience sweep picking whatsoever ) October 27th 2022 : Day 2 - 70 bpm (Sloppy) October 28th 2022 : Day 3 - 70 bpm (Sloppy) October 29th 2022 : Day 4 - 70 bpm (Less sloppy) October 30th 2022 : Day 5 - 70 bpm (Clean) October 31st 2022 : Day 6 - 70 bpm First adjusted how I hold my pick, and got used to it a bit with closed hand position. Your tips are a huge eyeopener for me. Thank you Bernth!

May 22 Day 1: Made it to 80 (a little sloppy and still relatively unfamiliar with sweeping) Day 2: Kept it clean and stayed on 70 (Sweeping is cool but the pain is real) Day 3: Did this in the morning for once. Still at 70 Day 4: 70 bpm I'm going to have to dedicate more time to this. 5 minutes isn't enough Day 5: Made it to 80. My fingers have a tough time keeping up and synching with the sweep Day 6: Still at 80 but easier Day 7: Made it to 90 but panic still set in

Such an easy to understand lesson, easiest sub of my life.

Love this! Thank you!

i love you bro! you inspire me to get better and better!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

I love this lesson, i want more video like this, tanks so very much bro

I like this challenge a lot; speed bursts are like the best way to expose your brain & hands to faster tempos in bite-sized chunks. I think a great addition to this exercise would be to start the arpeggio shape from the high string so that the speed burst happens during the ascending part of the arpeggio, because my upstroke game is weaker than my downstroke game in general

Can't wait to plug in and try this later today. I've literally been doing random excercises from your videos every day for 2 hours the past month and I've broken through a long plateau in my playing, I'm sure at the end of the month I'll be sweeping like a beast!

Thanks Bernht. It's really helpfull and precise

Day 1! This is exciting :D I will be definitely mixing this one with the Shred challenge which I have it on day 20 already.

24.10.21 bis 100bpm war's gut möglich man sieht sich morgen wieder und vielen dank für diese coole übung!!

Thanks for sharing!!

I hope I can practice daily. Thanks Sir Bernth.

Very nice tutorial love it ❤❤❤❤

Great lesson

you are the man!!! thank you very much for the help through your videos. I m greatfull for the knowledge you share

great! exercise for guitar sweeping, just what I'm looking for.

Bernth it should be you that needs congratulations for keeping pace full respect.

Taking a break for now because of pain in my picking arm elbow. Can't wait to comment my dates and tempos. This looks like a lot of fun

2021-07-07 Taking it real slow at 30bpm. Added 8th note "helper" beats on the metronome to aid with consistency. Only hangup right now is the last 4 16th notes in each phrase. Hand feels like it's floating since there isn't a string to "catch" the pick. Thank you for this, sir!

two months ago i've almost completed the "4min shred challenge", for the next month I'll switch all my daily routine with other challenges from this amazing channel 26/03: 70 bpm 27/03: 70 bpm 28/03: 70 bpm 29/03: 70 bpm 30/03: 70-80 bpm 31/03: 70-80 bpm 01/04: 70-80 bpm 02/04: 70-80 bpm 03/04: skipped 04/04: 70 bpm 05/04: 70 bpm 06/04: skipped 07/04: 70-80 bpm 08/04: 80 bpm 09-10-11 skipped 12/04: 70-80 bpm 13/04: skipped 14/04: 70-80 bpm

These Patreon workouts are outstanding!! Thank you!!🙏🤘🤘

Nice sweep picking exercise😎

Thank you so much.

Thank you for the lesson.I started on July 9th. Now stuck around 100 and 110.

Thanks you...l will try this everday

I can't go past 80 BPM at the moment, I think the problem is I really need to work on relaxing the fretting hand. Thank you Bernth for these great courses !

My man can do some nasty levels, he just didn’t show off! Good one! Great exercise!

Thank you for this

Got until the end today. 120 was still quite sloppy but I managed to to it. 🤘🏼

Thanks man

Day 1 - January 22nd - 50BPM Day 2 - January 24th - 60BPM Day 3 - January 25th - 70BPM Day 4 - January 28th - 70BPM. (cleaner) Day 5 - January 29th - 70BPM (Improving) Day 6 - January 31th - 70BPM, finally figured out the muting (thanks Uncle Ben Eller), getting better Day 7 - February 1st - 70BPM, it's getting cleaner, need to continue working on it, also started some of the other sweep picking routines Update: I am currently doing some of the other sweep picking exercises to improve before doing this Day 8 - February 8th - 60BPM perfectly, really improved the technique while practicing other stuff

♥♥ Thanks a lot!!

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

60BPM 5/19/2022 ! Thank you BERNTH

New Subscriber 🤘 I'm gonna sweep all day&night

Rounding of the last challenge (although finished on day 27, I'd like to get it perfect) - then I'm looking forward to this! :D Random german word: Großartigkeit! ;)

I'm not a bad sweeper, but this one floored me fast. Managed to easily get to 90bpm, but that is where I started to struggle. Gonna be working on this daily now

Hey dude, thank you so much for these videos. I have learnt a lot from them. 90 BPM, 1/9/2021

I did it on an acoustic guitar it was kind of difficult. But I still did it this was very helpful video thanks.❤❤❤ Every day I did it faster and faster.

I hope to get started soon....

7/10/21 Currently at 55bpm! Just started actually practicing sweeps a few weeks ago so feeling good! Thankfully I know a fair amount of theory so I know many of the arpeggio shapes. Now just the hours and hours and hours of muscle memory! Haha

Day 1 - 70bpm not clean Day 2 - 70bpm rough, pushed onto 80bpm, stuck there for now Day 3 - 80bpm a lot cleaner, 80bpm rough but doable, will try to push to 90 over next few days Day 4 - 80bpm still needs cleaning, so 90 is nigh impossible rn Day 5 - Same as day 4 Day 6 - 80bpm better, 90 feels more within my grasp now, getting there. 100 is the aim Day 7 - pretty much the same as 6 Day 8 - Can now play 90bpm pretty well, pushed as hard as i could onto 100, scrappy, but feels like it'll definitely help 90 feels easier by pushing Day 9 - Went on holiday, so no practice, 80 and 90 are rough, so will try to get back to where I was Day 10 - starting to get back to where I was, still not fully there yet Day 11 - I've lost a lot of motivation since holidays, been big gaps between practice, need to stay motivated, and get through each day as it comes, I'll improve so long as I stick to it, 80bpm really rough Day 12 - Can get 90 roughly once again, 70/80bpm where comfortable though currently Day 13 - same as day 12 Day 14 - While I'm back on 90 and struggling a bit, 100 very hard, 70 and 80 are feeling very clean, I actually feel like I can do decent sweep picking now Day 15 - Feeling a little rough after going back to school, so a little hard, but did my best, 80bpm max for today

I can't do it but I'm having fun watching you play. So I guess I'll just keep on watching you play...

2+ weeks of playing four of your routines daily, finally got 120 bpm all right

You know? I've seen a lot of videos for practice but it's not as exciting and really exciting as your video,,,thanks your video is very easy to understand,,I promise I will learn until 120pm✨🥰

Never rly cared about sweep picking until now. got to 80 and almost got 90 bpm! rly good lesson

My everyday log: 7.07 - the patterns are tricky for me (not used to higher positions) but quickly got them down (I recommend Bernth's stretching exercise found in one video, basically 5-7-8-9 up and 6-7-8-10 down chromatic with moving one finger at a time, slow). After I figured out patterns (and the especially challenging mixing between them part) today's limit was 80bpm - i've done some sweeping exercises before so don't worry, get down the patterns and picking hand order and the rest should be a piece of cake. 8.07 - had to refresh the patterns and after a solid warm-up been able to play at 80bpm, still feels like I will benefit from practice just with the metronome set on ~70, might try later or tomorrow. 9.07 - after practicing slowly I'm more confident with the patterns, 70bpm is pretty comfortable now and I feel 80 is within reach but not there yet. 10.07 - spent some time practicing slowly, especially the stretch from 14th to 19th fret, and now playing 80bpm is comfortable. Maybe even 90 tomorrow? 11.07 - woah today 80bpm is literally easy and almost automatic. Not yet at 90 because I didn't practice this separately today, but I feel at least I got the patterns down finally to the intuitional point. 12.07 - almost 90bpm, maybe isolating this speed and putting some pause in between reps will help? Getting familiar with shapes really helps with fast, automatic descends. 13.07 - 80bpm but no more today. 14.07 - vaccine day, low energy and just gonna repeat the patterns for a couple of minutes. 15.07-17.07 - no practice. 18.07 - was basically playing at 90bpm, need a little more precision but I feel it already. 19.07 - 80bpm is already pretty damn smooth, but might need a bridge in-betwee like practicing 85bpm or something for a while. 20.07 - not there yet on 90bpm but close, I think I need to isolate and practice ascending. 21.07 - tried some chunking and increased by 5bpm from 60 to 90, I don't completely catch up with the video without pauses yet on 90bpm but much more comfortable. 22.07 - I was practicing chunking from ~70bpm to 100, cut the exercise into even smaller chunks and practiced just up, then just down, you get this manner. Then tried connecting, and when connecting was smooth enough - increased tempo by 5bpm. On 100 isolated reps were possible, so I tried with the video with satisfying results - 90bpm is now completely possible, 100 feels so damn close. What's more, I don't even think about individual notes yet, but the whole chord. Practicing chunks with this "pattern-thinking" in mind definitely helps, now it is much more natural to play everything evenly because I don't have to focus on even notes, what matters is just even whole chord. 23.07 - today I focused mostly on alternate picking, so no sweep. But I guess the progress I made will benefit sweeping. 24.07 - I took a break. 25.07 - 90bpm 26.07 - close to 100bpm

Thanks Bernth :) helped alot! If you want to work an your finger strechting too, start this challange one octave lower ;)

Your timing couldn’t have been better as I’ve been getting into Marshall Harrison, Paul Wardingham, and Pers Nilsson lately -all monsters at economy picking and sweeping. As tempting as it is to start as fast as I can, I’m gonna start at 30 to make sure my technique is rock solid and - more importantly for me at this time - I’m relaxed.

I actually already do a sweep picking exercise very similar to this but without the triplets. I can usually do it at 120 bpm or up to130 bpm but I start to falling apart at 140 bpm. I think the little burst of speed with the triplets will actually help a lot and I never though of doing that kind of thing before. I think the hardest part is keeping it clean with good muting technique since that is what starts to fall apart for me at really high tempo.

Day 4 - Feb 27th - Got up to 70bpm 💪 Day 6 - Mar 1st - 70bpm, slight improvement in accuracy Day 7 - Mar 2nd - 70bpm still. Adjusted technique a bit and more accurate Day 8 - Mar 4th - 70bpm captain, still hanging out here but not giving up 😂 Day 9 - Mar 10th (Took some days to work on other things) - 70bpm stiil, but adjusted hand rotation technique to allow for more accurate and started inching finally into 80 bpm!

started 3 days ago, first day could barely do 50bpm and now I can (struggle) at 90 and do 80 cleanly! The mention that, if it hurts or you feel blocked then check your technique is correct

Please make a video on palm muting! The strings tend to buzz when I’m doing these sweep picks! And maybe show some different camera angles so we can see what it is like from our angle as we play because it’s hard to get a read on it …! Thank you!!! Great album and videos.

Day 3, 40 July 14th, Day 1, only 30bpm, but on the right path. Now I've got through the exercise I'm hoping to progress quite quickly in my first week. That 5th string stretch is a long way for me. Those of you starting at 90, well - jealous right now...

Day One: Got me at 100 BPM lost clarity at 110 BPM and I've been sweeping for a long time. Excellent excercise!!! That triplet is what got me lmao

October 21: 60bpm (falls apart quickly at 70bpm) October 22: 60bpm (70bpm becoming cleaner though) October 23: 70 bpm :) Ocotober 25: 70bpm (feel like im struggling more than last time though) :( October 26: 70bpm

Finallyyyy after 3-4 months of playing this I've been able to play at 120bpm(still little shaky) and 110 very clean! Time to hit 130bpm and above, so excited :)

For whatever reason I've always been faster at descending patterns so I feel a bit more confident tackling this 🤘

Jul,11 70 bpm. I took a step backward today. I was distracted. But I think I'll give it another go after work

Starting 8/29/22, ~70bpm. After a while, I got out of sync and couldn't keep up with the fretting hand. I noticed that when I was comfortable at lower tempos, my fingers moved more economically, but when I was scrambling to get to the notes on time at higher tempos, my fingers moved with much wider and less economical motions, ironically. But I kept trying to play or at least sweep pick along with the video to try to get used to thinking at higher tempos. Day 2: 70 bpm

Amazing video as always bro, will you make videos like this with other guitar techniques? (like string skipping or legato runs) Good luck for everything

its my first time trying to sweep and I'm already loving it day 1: 50bpm a little messy on the 19th but apart from that really clean pushing 60 tomorrow hopefully (24, September, 2023)

Long awaited.

Cool thanks

I love it

2/6-23 30BPM, got familiar with the excersice and it was plenty enough :P Day 2: 40/50bpm (50 was almost clean)

edit: around day 4 I realized that if I try the same pattern in reverse, I suck at quick down sweeps so I started doing it both in regular way and in reverse. When I woke up at day 7 my string broke and I noticed that it broke 2 times in a week in the same spot so I got my guitar repaired. It took 2 weeks so unfortunately had 2 weeks break. BEFORE BREAK: Sep 4th 2022 -> Day 1: 70 BPM Sep 5th 2022 -> Day 2: 80 BPM Sep 6th 2022 -> Day 3: 90 BPM Sep 7th 2022 -> Day 4: regular 90 BPM / reverse 70 BPM Sep 8th 2022 -> Day 5: regular 90 BPM / reverse 80 BPM Sep 9th 2022 -> Day 6: regular 100 BPM / reverse 80 BPM Sep 10th 2022 -> Day 7: just broke my string and I don't have any new ones AFTER BREAK: Sep 24th 2022 -> Day 7: regular 90 BPM / reverse 80 BPM - a little regress over 2 weeks but hopefully I'll get back on track pretty soon Sep 25th 2022 -> Day 8: regular 90 BPM / reverse 80 BPM Sep 26th 2022 -> Day 9: regular 90 BPM / reverse 80 BPM Sep 27th 2022 -> Day 10: regular 100 BPM / reverse 90 BPM Sep 28th 2022 -> Day 11: regular 100 BPM / reverse 90 BPM Sep 29th 2022 -> Day 12: regular 100 BPM / reverse 90 BPM Sep 30th 2022 -> Day 13: regular 100 BPM / reverse 90 BPM (even clunkier than before) Oct 1st 2022 -> Day 14: regular 100 BPM / reverse 90 BPM (I feel progress but still not clean enough) Oct 2st 2022 -> Day 15: regular 90 BPM / reverse 100 BPM (???) Oct 3st 2022 -> Day 16: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM (!!!) Oct 4st 2022 -> Day 17: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 5st 2022 -> Day 18: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 6st 2022 -> Day 19: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 7st 2022 -> Day 20: took a day off Oct 8st 2022 -> Day 21: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 9st 2022 -> Day 22: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM (I feel stuck) Oct 10st 2022 -> Day 23: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 11st 2022 -> Day 24: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 12st 2022 -> Day 25: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM (higher speeds are getting cleaner but still not what I want) Oct 13st 2022 -> Day 26: regular 110 BPM / reverse 100 BPM Oct 14st 2022 -> Day 27: got sick, didn't have the power to practice Oct 15st 2022 -> Day 28: practiced still sick but effects were worse than usual Oct 16st 2022 -> Day 29: still felt pretty bad Oct 17st 2022 -> Day 30: regular 120 BPM / reverse 110 BPM !!!!!!!! on the 30th day I did it! after a little break, I felt better, well rested and I finished the challenge! I'll continue to come here and increase videeo speed, after I finish reverse I'll do the same for reverse (PS. I cheated for the first 3 days, I practiced 3 times a day)

Let’s go!!!!