What is a good way to learn how to sweep pick on guitar?

You can easily learn from net, but If you really want to learn techniques - there are 2 things! 1. Practice Practice Practice Practice !! 2. Find a good teacher!

I would say practice minor or major arpeggios, they are what make up the sweep. They are also the least difficult of all sweeps. Start slowly and if you can play it 5 times in a row, without stopping or making a mistake, move on to a little faster.

Well you obviously know what sweep picking is but for the people who don't know it is playing a scale while moving the pick down in one stroke. It is tricky, it is also very cool sounding when you do it. How I learned was taking a scale and going slowly over it with the picking style I like. Take away and add in some notes and practice it slowly gaining speed. A lot of younger musicians who hear and see sweep picking think you can do this trick at random like an improvisation. But that is not really true, you can memorize how to do one sweep pick scale but cannot perform the same speed one if told to make one up at random. All the videos you see online that show you how only show you in one scale or 3 but just those not how to make up your own. So my suggested actions actually are to practice one scale slowly moving up to the speed you want for sweep picking. Once you get that down write a notation of your own from that scale and play it. Do it with all the scales you know and repeat. The hard part about it is actually finding it to hard your one hand cannot keep up with the other hand and wanting to give up. Just keep practicing from slow to fast and you will be the next Michael Angelo Batio

I think it's funny that Mike gave this long answer but kept saying "scale" instead of "arpeggios". Trying to sweep pick a scale would be crazy... unless you tuned the guitar a special way. Anyways... it's not that hard. Yes, it's tricky, but once you get the idea it's just a matter of practice. I did a whole series of videos where I just practiced sweep picking for an hour a day for two months, and I got pretty good at it by the end. It's not something that I do a lot though, so I kind of stopped after that. I did the videos just to prove that it wasn't as hard as people think. Just go to youtube and search for "sweep pick challenge" and you'll find the videos.

Youtube.com There are tons of video's to show you this. A lot of it has to do with knowledge of arpeggios. Don't listen to Mike. It's not playing a scale. Playing a scale is called, well, Playing a scale. Sweep picking is moving in 1 fluid motion up or down to get a smooth, fast sounding lick on the guitar. It's most commonly done these days utilizing arpeggios, not scales. An arpeggios is created using notes in a chord. So an A minor arpeggios is A C E.

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I think it's funny that Mike gave this long answer but kept saying "scale" instead of "arpeggios". Trying to sweep pick a scale would be crazy... unless you tuned the guitar a special way. Anyways... it's not that hard. Yes, it's tricky, but once you get the idea it's just a matter of practice. I did a whole series of videos where I just practiced sweep picking for an hour a day for two months, and I got pretty good at it by the end. It's not something that I do a lot though, so I kind of stopped after that. I did the videos just to prove that it wasn't as hard as people think. Just go to youtube and search for "sweep pick challenge" and you'll find the videos.

Youtube.com There are tons of video's to show you this. A lot of it has to do with knowledge of arpeggios. Don't listen to Mike. It's not playing a scale. Playing a scale is called, well, Playing a scale. Sweep picking is moving in 1 fluid motion up or down to get a smooth, fast sounding lick on the guitar. It's most commonly done these days utilizing arpeggios, not scales. An arpeggios is created using notes in a chord. So an A minor arpeggios is A C E.

Well you obviously know what sweep picking is but for the people who don't know it is playing a scale while moving the pick down in one stroke. It is tricky, it is also very cool sounding when you do it. How I learned was taking a scale and going slowly over it with the picking style I like. Take away and add in some notes and practice it slowly gaining speed. A lot of younger musicians who hear and see sweep picking think you can do this trick at random like an improvisation. But that is not really true, you can memorize how to do one sweep pick scale but cannot perform the same speed one if told to make one up at random. All the videos you see online that show you how only show you in one scale or 3 but just those not how to make up your own. So my suggested actions actually are to practice one scale slowly moving up to the speed you want for sweep picking. Once you get that down write a notation of your own from that scale and play it. Do it with all the scales you know and repeat. The hard part about it is actually finding it to hard your one hand cannot keep up with the other hand and wanting to give up. Just keep practicing from slow to fast and you will be the next Michael Angelo Batio