From Yngwie To Tosin: The ULTIMATE History Of SWEEPING!

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
01:24 - Chapter 1
3:34 - Chapter 2
5:15 - Chapter 3
12:03 - Chapter 4
14:16 - Chapter 5
18:14 - Chapter 6

[@MattGWalters]

Nice video! The history of sweeping should be a mandatory subject in schools

[@fluntimes]

Jason Becker is the greatest guitarist in my opinion. He was so gifted both technically and musically. He made shred and sweeping sound beautiful.

[@JubaDeMetalAlumínio]

One of my favorite guitarists, Luca Turilli, used to use a lot of sweepping. He's another neoclassical guy, yes, and the sweeps aren't even the best part of his solos, but they're so well put, in my opinion...

[@DunlopTortex05mm]

Hey I got you there ! Leper Messiah was my first ever sweep exercise too :D

[@gustabartok]

Justin, please do a Testament's Alex Skolnick special and analysis! There's a lot of great techniques and solo writing happening in his music! Such an elegant and organized (and musical) shredding master!

[@pirthos8806]

Great vid ! I think George Bellas deserve an honorable mention for all his lessons/works on Sweep Picking

[@narshadda]

Great video, really fun trip back through the years. Surprised you didn’t mention Alex Skolnick’s work with in early Testament or Michael Angelo Batio. Mike’s work post Nitro on No Boundries has quite a bit of sweeping. All in all this was great, excellent work!

[@TutorWilliam86]

Dein Englisch verbessert sich echt schnell. Geil wie schnell du lernen kannst. Thanks for this good vid. Opened my mind . Especially the bit about Django. you know he had 3 fingers, right? And the Megadeth Yngwie reveal. amazing!!! Jason is Awesome!!! Poor dude. Worst fate I could imagine. To go to the top and then lose motor skills. I hope he can play guitar in dreamtime. I have started to sweep with thick picks like 4 mm - 8mm. I still need to get used to it, and find a hard glossy material. But feels good. How do you feel about thick picks for sweeping, Justin?

[@z1g]

FYI on Yngwie's offical youtube channel he has a video titled "Yngwie Malmsteen 18 years old". This would be from 1981 prior to coming to America and the last thing he plays in that video is the 2 string arpeggio sequence when ended up in Rising Force. I know you are just goofing around, I just found it interesting. Also on the Powerhouse Demo from 1978, which I think is the demo that made it to the United States and eventually Mike Varney, the first song "Voodoo Nights" is the basis for Rising Force. Quite a bit different but the main riff is there with a much more 70s rock feel.

[@michaawruszko2408]

This phrase from Leper Messiah Kirk plays using alternate picking. Look at any concert. He can't use this technique even on 3-string arpeggios

[@jsl21]

Can sweep picking be on just 2 strings? If an arpeggio is a broken chord, and a chord is 3 or more notes played simultaneously, wouldn't the minimum number of strings to sweep be 3? I've always thought of it that way. Also, if economy picking refers to continuing in the same direction with your pickstroke as you transition from one string to the next, when does economy picking become sweep picking? Ultimately I guess it doesn't matter as long as it sounds cool, but interesting to talk about and analyse. Thanks Justin

[@justin.hombach]

On paper you are right, but you forget, that you can have two notes on a string :D In Yngwies example he has two notes on the E string and one on the B = 3 notes = arpeggio 🎉🤗🥳🥳

[@jonbongjovi1869]

@@justin.hombach HOW could you.....SKIP OVER two huge influences on sweeping? There's a couple vids of RITCHIE BLACKMORE on YT where he's doing FULL-sweep picking......in 1969! (ALL 6 strings. It's total sweep picking!) Ditto JAN AKKERMAN of FOCUS. (Watch the 1974 (?) LIVE clip of them doing "HOCUS POCUS" and you will see Akkerman do some vicious sweeps!)

[@trendkillallyoufucks9463]

No mention of M.A.B. Michael Angelo Batio or however you spell it. You MUST look him up. From a band called Nitro. His instructional videos are legendary

[@justin.hombach]

I once did a cover and a full lesson on this channel from a song called… Speed kills?! Or so?! I wonder from who that is 😂😂 And I made a lesson about a lick from a guy that plays with a 4 neck guitar 2 weeks ago 🤔🤔 Yeah I absolutely know that I forgot MAB 🫣🫣

[@trendkillallyoufucks9463]

Ok that's cool my bad. I just thought a video about sweeping he is one of the best 🎸🧹🤘

[@RÅNÇIÐ]

*Winter Madness solo chimes in*

[@mickenilsson]

Get to da choppaaeaerh!! 😘 Loved the vid. Great content ❤

[@sonjaschellenberg901]

Great overview! I'd like to also point to Daniele Gottardo, who is combining sweeping and tapping in arpeggio playing in a very tasteful way.

[@metalex1708]

Cool video, thanks. I’ve got to rewatch it and check out some of the guys you named!

[@gogozeppeli]

Thumbs up for mentioning Alexi Laiho, RIP Alexi :(

[@andymccallum8090]

If you listen to yngwies tapes of when he was teenager. He already invented this sweep section. And that was in the 70s..

[@justin.hombach]

Ah interesting, didn‘t knew there were teenager tapes from him… had to check out immediately

[@jonbongjovi1869]

@@justin.hombach Yngwie stole like 400 DIFFERENT Ritchie Blackmore trademarks, and sweep picking was just another. (RB was doing FULL-6-string sweeping in 1969!)

[@transparent6748]

If you search youtube you’ll find a short video from 81 where he’s playing the rising force sweep section,,video called,,Yngwie Malmsteen-Rising Force Solo[Sweden 1981]

[@andymccallum8090]

@@transparent6748 yes but there are also the powerhouse tapes I think. One of the tracks has that too.

[@transparent6748]

@@andymccallum8090 yes exactly,, I’ve heard Yngwie talking about it ,,those tapes/bootlegs were circulating in the states even before he moved overseas..so Metallica/megadeth already knew about that

[@cgsaint]

Nice video 🤘🤘🤘

[@justin.hombach]

Thanks a lot

[@Beyond-Antares]

Could you do a style analysis video on Shawn Lane and Michael Romeo?

[@justin.hombach]

I did one in Michael Romeo on this channel :) Shawn lane is planned for somewhere in the future :D

[@tonyflorez703]

Frank gambale is the king of sweeping!

[@Ricky-Jones-1979]

Yes!!!!Frank Gambale is the player who put it on the map!!! He's a GENIUS!!!!

[@napesdrk1174]

Got to eat my dinner at a supper club with Frank 4 feet away shredding the entire evening, Vital Information was his bad at the time. Schenectady NY. It was amazing. Chris Poland making an appearance here.

[@napesdrk1174]

Hajaaj, working on little charmer right now

[@haiguyzimnew]

Bro awesome vid! I have a question/poll/discussion for any shredders in the comments that is semi related to what was said at 16:00 about if that lick is sweep picking or alternate picking and how "it's so much harder when it's alternate picking": In watching other players, do you guys notice if they're using the neck or bridge pickup when sweeping? It's obviously harder to get a super clean sound on the bridge pickup, so do you, I don't know how to phrase it, "give more respect" to players when they're using the bridge pickup in cases like this? This is supposed to be a stupid and fun question, not some dick measuring contest =P I don't think anyone really gives a shit because it's not some competition, but I'm interested in hearing opinions from other technical players that are definitely following this channel and lurking these comments. For Children of Bodom, Alexi's guitar only has the bridge pickup, so all of his sweeps are done using the bridge pickup. I had already learned sweeping pretty decently by the time I got into them and I was inspired by the extra difficulty of this. Since then I've pretty much always practiced using my bridge pickup (also I like the sound better). If it's a tough section, when playing live I use the neck pickup and instantly get it like 15% cleaner. A bit like running with ankle weights, take them off and you'll run faster automatically.

[@romariosantos2049]

Do you have news about the cover of the song The Ancestry?

[@justin.hombach]

Not right now, this can cost a bit to learn and currently I‘m not really having the time. :-/ I wish tho

[@romariosantos2049]

@@justin.hombach I love your job. Great guitarplayer.

[@gacktcbiz]

Bit of a semantics nitpick, but we might as well be precise. For people who can't grasp the concept and mecahanics of sweeping right away, it's all right for them to focus on doing rest strokes for a while, AND THEN transition to following through without resting. But we shouldn't define or explain sweep picking in terms of rest stokes. You come to a STOP with rest strokes. Hence REST strokes. Whole point of sweeping is to NOT stop but keep going. I get what you mean (because I already know how to sweep pick), but I would respectfully suggest that is not the optimal way to explain what sweep picking is.

[@matthewgibbs1366]

Frank is crazy good.

[@metalex1708]

Wow, just watched Archspires "Golden mouth of ruin" wooow 😈

[@juliusbushiv2904]

Like the vid brother

[@Heheha329]

I am pretty sure glass prison Intro is alt picked in the studio but he says he can't do it live like that.

[@CompleteProducer84]

Yes that is correct. Alt picked in the sudio, and he did it live on Gigantour 2005 (that video is hard to find now). I belive there are also a couple other videos of him picking it live, but 99% of the time he sweeps it live

[@IvoSousa]

kirk hammett doesn't do sweep picking, he alternate picks that solo

[@pauloprzybylski6522]

Unforgivable not mention MAB.

[@justin.hombach]

This guy still has my keys to the Lamborghini 😤😤😂😂 But true, I realized after finishing this video that he is missing. Especially because I love the extreme tight sweeping in No Boundaries. (The complete record is just an absolute shred fest)

[@pauloprzybylski6522]

@@justin.hombach after that I forgive you bro. He's a living legend not only for sweep picking but alternate too, incredible speed and accuracy. Regards man!

[@PooNinja]

I wanna arpegiate but I keep doing the same old rakes with the F chord shape 😖 curse my stupid fat hands!!!!

[@PooNinja]

Lazy, did I say fat stupid lazy hands? Cause that’s what I ment.

[@DobbeltJensen]

Sims Cashion disappeared, sadly, while being one of the hottest commodities. What happened? And shoutout to Obscura and Chris Münzner, but there are a shitload of great sweepers out there right now (not least Mr Sweepman himself, Bradley Hall).

[@joannamarietrinidad2334]

Dude, malmsteens rising force was released in 1984 not 88

[@transparent6748]

Incorrect,,rising force tune is released on the Odyssey album 1988,,,however the tune is much older than we think,,the two stringed sweep lick can be heard in some of the earlier stuff around 1980,,so justins also wrong,,malmsteens rising force bootlegs was a huge thing and factor even before he came to the states in 1982

[@transparent6748]

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[@justin.hombach]

Yes somebody already pointed that out, that there were demos before that. Didn‘t knew it, in the end I guess it‘s just coincidence

[@dimibaloh3975]

Let's talk guitar!

[@damonstewart70]

SHAWN LANE invented swybrid it was outlined in his 90's instructional video & booklet. Marshall Harrison is taking credit for something he didn't create PLUS he hardly ever bends strings

[@justin.hombach]

I have to say I don‘t know if he ever said that he invented it, but some of his fans are claiming it. I just want to say, it is not important who invented it. 🤷🏼☺️

[@paulosilva8200]

The day I told my wife that to not breed me because I was going to concentrate in sweep picking , she gave me a brush and a twizer to pick the bread crumbs in the guitar studio.

[@kallehahtamo2020]

I like your videos and have learned new things from them. But you always forget the greatest, Per Nilsson, Why? I dare you to do a video of Holographic universe, not the whole son necessary.

[@everrest8830]

I'd also say that Avenged Sevenfold brought Sweeping to the main stream, Synyster Gates(hate his stage name) was so far ahead of the guitar playing game when compared to other bands on the radio. Their newest single is also a great example of bringing sweeps to a modern audience.

[@everrest8830]

never mind, hadn't finished the video and you just hit on Synyster!

[@rickclick8359]

What about Frank Gambale I think he had something to do with it back in the day and it wasn't just triads up and then back down all the time

[@LuciousMidnite]

JASON BECKER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYER FOR SWEEPING

[@FknAzzMuncher]

I love synyster gates 😂