Guitar Lessons - Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials

Warn your neighbours…it's a shred frenzy!

What you'll learn

Learn to play lighting-fast, fluid sweep arpeggio licks and runs all over the neck.

Master major, minor and diminished sweeping patterns across three, then five strings.

Learn how to harmonise fast sweeps when playing a two guitar band or when layering guitar parts in the studio.

Further extend your harmonic palette, using bigger major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th and minor 7 flat 5 sweep arpeggios.

Learn more subtle, bluesy applications of the sweep-picking technique.

Discover new realm of musical creativity.

Build your soloing and phrasing vocabulary.

Incorporate all of these concepts and ideas into your own playing, making you a stronger, more musical and harmonically rich soloist and composer.

Requirements

All you need in order to begin is an electric guitar, an amplifier, a pick and a desire to learn.

We do however recommend taking our Complete Foundation Course which will give you the skills to tackle this course.

Description

Sweep picking arpeggios are a very effective way to play super fast, fluid, melodic arpeggios and melodies all over the neck. In this exciting series, Top UK session guitarist, Bobby Harrison gives you an in-depth course on the technique.You will start by learning some of the more bluesy applications of sweep picking, before going on to cover major, minor and diminished sweeps across three strings, then huge, five-string sweep arpeggios. You can follow chord progressions using these shapes, adding an extra dimension to your lead playing.Bobby also shows you how to harmonise fast sweeps in a two guitar band or when layering guitar parts in the studio as well as showing you how to further extend your harmonic palette, using bigger major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th and minor 7 flat 5 sweep arpeggios.A course not to be missed!

Overview

Section 1: Let's get sweeping!

Lecture 1 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 1

Lecture 2 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 2

Lecture 3 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 3

Lecture 4 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 4

Lecture 5 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 5

Lecture 6 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 6

Lecture 7 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 7

Lecture 8 Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 8

Lecture 9 Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 9

Lecture 10 Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 10

Lecture 11 Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 11

Lecture 12 Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 12

Lecture 13 Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 13

Some prior experience of the electric guitar is required i.e. at least a basic grasp of chords and scales. This course would suit the intermediate player, but would also be perfect for the advanced player looking to add the sweep picking technique to their guitar repertoire.