Advanced Sweep Picking Arpeggios Made Easy

[@jsguitargeek1]

Tom - I've been teaching guitar for ~40 years... and you're one of the very best instructors I've ever encountered. Clear (easy to follow) ... Compelling (interesting and great balance of language + guitar-playing examples). I'll be looking for more of your work on the interwebs. Thank you for sharing.

[@HolyMess420]

Definitely gonna come in handy, I've been trying to get the speed of my sweeps up for a while now. Tom has gotta be the most captivating guitar teacher on KZbin. Once I saw a video I looked for more!

[@PlatinumDragonProductions999]

I love these "extra" videos because I can change up my daily practice while still working on whatever the underlying technique(s) may be.

[@JanBolhuis]

What a great lesson. Thank you Tom for sharing this!

[@machinehead891]

This is a great video on explaining how to master the sweep picking motions. Some great advice further on in the video.

[@GitaarTrainingStudio]

Great video. I've been going over some of your some of your sweep picking minor seventh licks with my students and they totally love this stuff! Keep the videos coming! :)

[@CCH7540]

Great video and awesome V220. I ordered one in 1986 and still have it. Great guitar.

[@Neocovers]

Your articles help me a lot to develop my technique at the beginnings. I'm really glad that you start to do more video tutorials. Very useful, looking forward to see more! :)

[@ISXOVER]

This was very helpful, the way you break down sweep picking gives me some hope, I thought only really good guitarist could do that, thank you :D

[@mikephilippov8735]

Really cool arpeggio ideas in this video!

[@ninerSFniner]

That vibrato...

[@PaulOuzounov]

Great tutorial! Puts all of mine to shame. Very good info here!

[@damonstewart70]

Great stuff tom!!!is there a certain guitar strap I can use to KEEP my guitar in that angled classical position STANDING UP,cause when I stand EVEN after adjusting my strap my guitar still moves a lil,thanks

[@evilcowboy]

I kind of skipped around on this video since I know how to do arps just wanted to see how others did them so I don't really know if you covered this but arps are a lot better sounding with the neck pickup. I notice you favor the neck pickup for them which is the same as I do. Either way good lesson.

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

+evilcowboy ...Yes, using the neck pick up for arpeggios gives a much smoother and thicker sound.

[@SteveMavronis]

Great lesson as usual Tom. I'll be practicing this tonight. As a side note, how are you getting that nice overdrive tone? It really compliments your fast arpeggios in a nice musical way.

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Thanks for the kind words about the video. Regarding my tone, most of it comes from my pickups. I use metal live wires (Seymour Duncans)

[@evilcowboy]

TomHessMusicCorp Hell yeah livewire is an excellent pickup. I use one for a neck pickup on a guitar and it has one of the best tones I have heard.

[@themaskedguitarist9350]

I've been playing guitar for 13 years. I know all I can know about sweep picking, but for some reason my hands just don't want to cooperate with me.

[@WarframeCrunch]

So if I get electric guitar, and when I should learn Sweep picking. After 2 weeks of playing or maybe after 2 years? I have electric guitar 1 and half Month and I cant get sweep picking XD I tried sweep picking for a little more than week and yep its better but I cant pass through a wall. Maybe its too early for me, to learn it. What do you guys think, and when you learned sweep picking?

[@philrilious]

I wish I could be one of your students.

[@jackmarshall757]

Completly off topic with the video but i need help with theory and designing a guitar practise schedule. And on ur picking motion ive seen alot of ur students do the same technique for sweep picking. Just wondering what that technique is called. Thanks

[@TheOriginalMack]

My biggest issue is trying to make something like this "musical". It sounds really cool on its own, but I can never fit in anywhere without it sounding really forced. Any advice on that? And thanks for posting these lessons. They are very helpful.

[@iaingreig9685]

Tom, I use your picking hand thumb muting technique to eliminate string noise. It took me a lot of hours of practice to get it down. Now I am confused because I have a problem if i am doing a downstoke followed by a hammer on fowollowed by a down stroke on the next string (e.g downstroke on 3rd string, hammer on on 3rd string, downstroke on 2nd string). The problem I have is the picking thumb mutes the hammer on to soon if i keep my picking hand moving on the sweep like you say to do in this video. I have tried adjusting how i hold the pick but haven't found any solutions. What am i doing wrong?

[@tomhessmusiccorp]

Hi Iain, make sure that your thumb is not hanging over the edge of the pick. If it does, it's going to mute the string you are playing/just played before you get to the next string. Pull the thumb back a bit, so it rests on the surface of the pick. I suggest to use larger picks for this (rounded triangle shapes).

[@iaingreig9685]

@@tomhessmusiccorp Thanks for taking the time to explain. Much appreciated.