-- Posted by boombabyy at 8:20 am on July 4, 2008 omg its freaking hard any1 have any riffs I can practice or arrpegios im bad at sweep picking lol but il get better. any1 else bad at it or good at it . or just overall think sweep picking is a bitch -- Posted by xoxo1234 at 8:20 am on July 4, 2008 What's sweep picking? -- Posted by SOD192 at 8:21 am on July 4, 2008 Quote: from xoxo1234 at 8:20 am on July 4, 2008 What's sweep picking? yes i agree wat is sweep picking -- Posted by boombabyy at 8:21 am on July 4, 2008 Quote: from xoxo1234 at 8:20 am on July 4, 2008 What's sweep picking? its a guitar thing where the pick sweeps back and forth and you play lightning fast on the fretboard -- Posted by SovSull at 8:34 am on July 4, 2008 start with the first 3 strings before moving onto wider arpeggios. try this for starters, playing on the G, B, and e strings all in that order: ------7- ----8--- --9----- try sweeping that using all downstrokes, hitting each string cleanly ------7-7--- ----8----8-- --9-------9- here, use all downstrokes on the first three notes and all upstrokes on the last three. play the two patterns as triplets (or as one big grouping of six, whatever floats your boat) i'll try to upload some tablature that makes more sense, hope this helps in the meantime -- Posted by boombabyy at 8:45 am on July 4, 2008 Quote: from SovSull at 8:34 am on July 4, 2008 start with the first 3 strings before moving onto wider arpeggios. try this for starters, playing on the G, B, and e strings all in that order: ------7- ----8--- --9----- try sweeping that using all downstrokes, hitting each string cleanly ------7-7--- ----8----8-- --9-------9- here, use all downstrokes on the first three notes and all upstrokes on the last three. play the two patterns as triplets (or as one big grouping of six, whatever floats your boat) i'll try to upload some tablature that makes more sense, hope this helps in the meantime cool thanks I know one im trying is  14-13-12 on the G , B, E strings ( in that order ) its def hard -- Posted by SovSull at 8:48 am on July 4, 2008 if you don't want to kill your right hand, try: 9-8-7h10p7-8-9 meaning, sweep the first three notes of the patterns with downstrokes, hammer onto the 10th fret with your 4th finger and then pull off back to the seventh, and then upstroke 8 and 9 (so the last two notes you sweep). here's a paul gilbert lesson about sweep picking. this is fairly rare given that his focus is on string skipping and not sweeping, but he's a great teacher and explains technique well. i found this helpful.