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"Ultimate Sweep Picking Guitar Lesson: Learn How To Play Guitar Fast -- The Result? Impress More People In Less Time!"

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Want to learn sweep picking and become one of the few lead guitarists who are able to impress people with this stunning shred guitar technique?

This advanced guitar lesson explores your necessary sweep picking technique, so that you can play guitar fast and boost your skills beyond ever before!

"Sweeping" on guitar is an advanced lead guitar technique where you drag your guitar pick across the strings to execute really fast patterns.

...It is the secret to pulling off blindingly fast guitar solos with minimal effort!

Want to learn how to play any song, at any speed, just by listening to it?

Right Hand Technique: The Six Open Chord Shapes

Most of our sweep picking exercises outline a chord by stacking its scale degrees in an arrangement that creates a visual shape on the fretboard, this is commonly referred to in music theory as triads. Training yourself to SEE the shape is the first step to unlocking your awesome sweeping skills.

To make a good sweep pattern on the fretboard, visualize some of the open chords that you already know as movable shapes that go up and down the neck. You will have to make a barre where the open notes would be to fully see the shape.

To really play guitar fast, you will have to memorize only six shapes: three majors and three minors. That's right! Sweep picking only uses just six basic shapes! Easy!

The chord chart below lists all six shapes for sweeping. Memorize them now!

The six Movable Chord Shapes (click to enlarge):

Starting Small: 3 String Rakes

This first exercise shows little three string versions of the six primary triads listed above, both in their major and minor formats. In the examples, I use E Minor for the three minors and D Major for the three majors.

2 Things to Remember:

Thing 1: Always follow the correct right hand direction which is established below the first bar of each example and continues throughout the pattern.

Thing 2: Whenever you sweep through a pattern, only fret the notes one at a time. Don't just hold the shape like you would a chord. It is very important that you roll through the shape!

Example 1:

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Adding The Fourth String

You may expand all of the six shapes to include the fourth string. Example 2 shows all six shapes using the top four strings for slightly bigger sweeps.

Example 2:

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Adding The Fifth String

You may add another note to the bottom of the sweep by placing it conveniently on the fifth string. Example 3 demonstrates both major and minor variations of these yet bigger sweep patterns.

Example 3:

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Advanced Guitar Lesson: Add The Sixth String!

To really get the most out of your right hand technique, you can extend these massive sweeps all the way down to the sixth string. In Example 4, we will learn six-string sweeps in all six voicings of both the major and minor arpeggios.

Like the five-string examples, we need to an extra hammer/pull-off note on certain strings to make them more playable and applicable to an "even" time signature.

Example 4:

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Make sure to master sweep picking exercises, so that you can play whatever you want in less time!

The next step is to put everything together into real, complete guitar solos. You can do that conveniently with hand-picked guitar solos from The Ultimate Lead Guitar Method!

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