My guitar teacher from around 1984 taught these as triads. They can sound amazing as you walk your way up and down the neck. Focus on clean. Break your diatonic scales apart and build these. Fun! Thank you!
You just got me inspired to finish the solo from No more tears by Zakk. I can play the thing decently, but I almost gave up on those sweeps in the end. Thanks Steve!
Good tip; thanks! I use that Portable D shape a lot in my playing. It's very handy. Starting with pinky on A-12, it's an open C shape spliced with a D shape.
That sounds like the Woody Woodpecker theme. I have not advanced enough to try sweep picking yet but its good to know. I will make this one of my practice exercises so I will be more ready when I get there.
@@markusmaurer8384 I hear ya. I do mess around with it. There are so many techniques to develop I can literally spend 2+ hours on just the techniques I know about. I need to practice the songs I’ve learned at some point.
It sounds really funny when you say: You get 4 notes for the price of 2 ..... I didn't know that you have to pay for every single note! 🤣🤣🤣haha joke, but the video is very instructive even for advanced users, keep it up!
Try at 69 years old that is me ,lol.I did leave off at around 1963 on a electric guitar at 8 years old playing and read the notes to Old Macdonald had a farm ,hopefully I can learn before I die,lol.I just built a 3 string guitar box guitar kit and that was fun.
Steve --have failed at sweep picking --20 yrs now --can I hold a C MAJOR Barre chord --then sweep the pick up & down the strings ?---Or do I have to learn to arpeggiate each note ?-yuk !
Its the guitar equivalent of the really fast double kick ,stomp slide technique. Which you get 2 hits but only lift you leg once That save you masses of wasted energy.
I tried a couple sweep picking videos over the past year and just couldnt get it.... Felt so hard for my fingers. I got this methods basics down in just a few minutes. It felt so much easier just focusing on 2 strings then adding a string at time instead of learning on all 6 strings at once. Thanks so much for your method here, this is excellant!
yes you suck 😂 just joking, i try this for a long time and i still cant coordinate left and right hand. the timing has to be so precise to do this fast...
I guess it's not surprising, that somebody who thinks the sterile Jazz rain of notes of Allan Holdsworth cannot be questioned, would not understand that Jimmy Page is great, in part, because Precision is an inferiority in guitar playing, ending music in general. You also seemed unaware of his history pre LED zeppelin, when he played more important records coming out of London than anyone else, as a session musician.