Sweep Picking - Let's Do It!

[@RickGraham]

If it's bedtime for you right now, sweep well.

[@mkpgedion9079]

Goodnight and thanks for the lessons Sir. 🤘

[@motasimkhan6572]

Yes my teacher

[@eugenethelegend1548]

Aw thanks Rick

[@aykutaydogdu269]

Thanks man

[@FLS713HTX]

4:40 in Houston Tx , great playing

[@tambor76]

He brought the fist back! 0:25 YES!!!

[@thomash.]

This guy is not only an incredible guitarist he’s got the nicest, most natural personality-just comes across so grounded and human-like…

[@benjaminwlang]

He talks like a gentleman and plays like a monster. The juxtaposition is not lost on me.

[@supermiembro]

Thanks Rick for improving our playing.

[@glynedwards5489]

I've never been able to sweep pick, bar the odd three string arpeggio all in the same direction in a swift rake motion, but Rick highlighting how you pick then rest on the next target string has blown my mind. Never thought of it, never tried it, but can't wait to try it out!! 20+ years of playing and only now I discover the secret. Thanks Rick, keep up the quality content 👌

[@guismth]

Riiiick! Your sweeps are doing extreemely well, mate!!

[@2good2betrue3]

Another fantastic lesson Rick, removing the pinky on the low E smooth-ens the sweeping motion. You mentioned Jason Richardson, you and JR are the absolute top technical Guitar monsters at the moment. Cheers!

[@IlxEULOGYxlI]

Beautiful Charvel, phenomenal lesson.

[@i7ami]

The disliking ppl ate stuck playing the A minor pentatonic position #1 for 12 years

[@Mysterix619]

12 likes on this comment looks satisfying

[@LZMAmzelle]

Thanks so much, half way thru the video I learned an important thing. The pick rest strokes. Never realised that. That makes it way easier to time the notes instead of floating your pick over the strings. Rick, you legend.

[@mrtravoiceburges]

I love this lesson

[@DominicAirola]

I bought this same guitar mainly so that when Rick’s videos come up I have no excuse for why I suck.

[@toddharrod97]

Love your technical lessons..very inspiring..keeps me motivated

[@noelcolinamusicchannel6245]

Thanks Master Rick👌

[@inakiaraluze4528]

This is beautiful! Hooked to the first three arpegios, the chromatic "upstair" so beautiful!

[@ajticnikola]

I do it with a C°7 in place of the 3rd and 4th rep of the A-... so it's... C on E string... A on A string... C on D string... Gb on G string... A on B string... and C and Eb on the e string... Just another shape to try, and great sound addition to an already awesome harmony... thanks Rick 🤘

[@mikepoirier2492]

Rick I've been doing my own crappy version of this shape for years!!! I'm glad to see a master say it's ok!!

[@bosco_bosco]

The start of this "video" was bloody fantastic. In that he said video 3 times and then apologised for it and immediately used the word "video" about 4 more times haha. Legend.

[@cameronpatrickscott]

Thanks man, that's a lovely routine, classic descent.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Thanks for all the detailed explanations you give us Rick.

[@itsanthony1980]

🎶Sweep dreams are made of these..🎶

[@lapasachipaka7203]

Thanks for sharing this Rick \m/ ! Very helpful.

[@Kdog-hw6ri]

damn...you are right about the middle strings....NOTED!

[@keovongvilaykeo4799]

Great lesson learned thank you 😊

[@julienn.6794]

Hi Rick! Thank you, very beautiful arpeggios progression!!

[@Priyadarshan_Nag]

Rick digresses all the time but then sweeps back in style 😎

[@deluxairhead]

Hiya RG thanks for the upload, that camera is super clear thanks for that also !!

[@mrtravoiceburges]

Thank you for this amazing lesson

[@mitchellisabell3873]

Cant wait to practice this over the weekend

[@MikeCindyWhite]

Awesome Rick! Great lesson, Thank you much you rock bro 🎸🎸🎸👍👍

[@sebastianszewczyk5955]

You need to do a rig run down and your guitar collection!! 🙏 I'll be getting this one down 🤘 keep um coming!!

[@brandeiii]

Thank you Rick! Very helpful!

[@AdamKemp03]

Nicely done, nice guitar too. I'm thinking of getting a Charvel too. They're more expensive then I first thought they'd be

[@techdeathhippie6319]

Man I play your lessons every day to keep my chops up .

[@JoshBeetler]

The janitor, cleanest sweeps in town

[@ralphsorce]

great lesson Maestro Graham!

[@BlackholedudemanG]

That was some sweet picking.

[@ShankarRam23]

What a beautiful guitar.

[@SatnamSingh-mn4rk]

Well taught. Thank you

[@angeljavier9541]

master training , so good, thanks

[@1rorysteele]

That's amazing. Thank you Rick, I always feel better informed after watching your vids, I always take something away from it. My sweeps are far from perfect but they'll get there with a little help and practise.

[@MarioFlores-jn7vh]

Great technique Rick!

[@vidicsferenc182]

I still can't sweep after 13 years of playing, yet 5 year olds sweep and shred here on youtube XD

[@tonyfondacaro1980]

You’re not alone.

[@emcg.9655]

Don't stop trying. Took me over ten years. And I'm no where near the finished article. Check Frank gambale as an example of where you can take sweep picking.

[@tonepoet]

I feel your pain.

[@tonypowell250]

I can do mini sweeps on 3 strings but even that sounds shite.

[@Tony78432]

Been playing for 10 and I can’t sweep for shit. I can sweep my house better than I can on guitar lol

[@localpyro]

Thanks Rick, awesome as ever 🙂

[@zakkattack99]

Great. Reminds me of Nuno

[@SixStringStudies]

Great video Rick as always. 👍🏻

[@JesseMichel]

So good!

[@pjnightingale4423]

Love this! Cant wait to play! You always inspire!

[@ChrisLT]

20 years of playing, I still never got around to learning how to do this properly.

[@HiThereFaceHere]

Same . I've tried slow and fast and my picking hand always wants to go faster than my feet hand and I'm officially insane because of it 😳

[@dannysavage8218]

I have this guitar. It’s the best guitar Iv ever played. Love it!

[@discomfort5760]

Sweep picking exercise suggestion: start with the CAGED system, and learn to shred every scale included in the CAGED system by increasing the BPM from low to high. I think Petrucci once suggesting this as a form of warmup technique, but I find it to be very useful for practicing the technique also.

[@chih-shengcheng1130]

Thanks , I improve my sleep picking a lot by watching this video !

[@JesusLookingGuitarist]

Dude, I spent today working on this. Such a great approach. So musical too! thanks a lot Rick.

[@umarfarook-ng7rs]

Rick is aliveee😌😌

[@mrpiccolofan2]

WTF. I just got a Charvel ProMod DK24 (Red Ash) after 2 years playing acoustic, and started practicing sweeps. So this video feels extreeemly well to me now 🤘🎸 Thanks master!!

[@guitarliano9533]

Thanks Rick 🤘🤘🤘

[@williamampuero2841]

With the new lens, you can see the pick gunk near the bridge pickup. get a soft paintbrush! =P. Love the Charvel!

[@x9uij3rWD]

i MUST know what lens this is! looks fantastic!

[@luisr2965]

Let’s do it. Time to subscribe

[@Nnang82]

Extremely well!

[@techdeathhippie6319]

I buy all of your lessons . I’m STILL waiting on SUPER SHRED SWEEPING lesson pack !you make , I buy lol fr fr fr

[@Sam-ty8rl]

thank you, great work

[@jackmacmillan8806]

Awesome Rick🤘 would you mind uploading some beginner stuff or on how to plan a schedule on training to succeed? I live in a place which I'm not able to access any online teacher and I'm wandering around with little improvements. After almost 2 years I'm still like a beginner 🙁 please make a guide

[@kultbotcustomshop3849]

The hardest part for me is “ the pick should be falling” part . Anytime I apply tension then relax my brain wants to alternate pick 😣 so I end up getting good clarity for the first 2 strings and way to soft on the rest .

[@scottlowe2902]

Its the decemding i have to work.on. i find acemdimg sweep and economy easy but when i started learning i wasnt aware of what eco or alternate was and found later on i alwsys seem to decend alternate andvacend ecomomy

[@Thedudeofinfinity]

Hi can we have some clarity on amp setting and if you are going through and pedals. Many thanks

[@ksorkopzumi8176]

Thanks you share

[@MikeyTipunamaTimiselaMailuhu]

Can you play Gambale-like repeated descending arpeggio sweeps?

[@parsacoder1541]

you're great riccccccccky. ey Ive got a question what Guage do you use? 8s or 9s? tnx

[@DANCEDWAT]

No, no, me no sweep. Love the fretboard on that :)

[@EmmanuelHaque]

What guitar is that? I like the color.

[@EddieJarnowski]

What distortion are you using? Also are you using compression or an ep booster?

[@samueltractorton2088]

Kickass

[@skripnikovtv1515]

Very cool!

[@ganazby]

Rick, you’re getting very fond of those Charvels.

[@mazklassa9338]

Rick, you got a Charvel awesome \m/

[@EmmanuelHaque]

Charvel Matte Blue Frost OMG

[@TrevorTowstego]

This is great! The sweeping shape I've always struggled with the most is the major shape with the root on the 5th string (i.e. the A major "CAGED" shape) because of the 3-string bar. Curious as to how you (or anyone else reading this) approach that one... with the 3-string bar or maybe fretting the strings with a few different fingers?

[@lollipophugo]

A is actually my easiest shape because it requires the least finger movement lol. I use my second finger across all 3 but sort of bent backwards at the outermost knuckle and roll it across the strings; this rolling coupled with right hand muting sounds totally clean, no ringing strings or anything. I do the same rolling motion with the 3rd finger for an A minor shape and with the first and 3rd for E major and minor shapes, imo rolling the first finger makes these shapes harder.

[@TrevorTowstego]

@elchema Which fingers do you use for the notes on strings 2, 3, and 4? I've thought about doing something like that but I find that the spacing can get pretty cramped higher up on the neck

[@TrevorTowstego]

@@lollipophugo For me the toughest part is descending with the 3-string bar. I don't mind the 2-string bars in other shapes, and even the 3-string bar in the E minor shape isn't too bad, but it's just this 3-string one in particular that's tough for me to get to sound clean. Might spend some time practicing the bar with my middle finger instead. Thanks for the reply!

[@lollipophugo]

@@TrevorTowstego man I find that first finger roll on E minor so messy that I almost never use that shape. Tbh I don't do use many 5 string shapes and if I'm doing any sweep picking it's usually 5 note 7th patterns over 3 strings a la rusty cooley; with those I'm only ever rolling between 2 strings which is much more manageable regarding muting.

[@TrevorTowstego]

@@lollipophugo I find that my most consistent sweeps are with the C major and minor shapes... probably because there's no rolling to worry about lol.

[@rextrowbridge8386]

I've been playing for years but am having a very hard time learning to sweep pick. Idk what I'm doing wrong, but I just can't get it.

[@MaciejMielka]

sweet new charvel!

[@Thesodaisinfactblue2]

What do you know, I have been picking up sweep picking for awhile, I’ve been looking for the right scales

[@avidia_music]

Dear Rick, did you change all your Ibani for Charvels??

[@Bones12x2]

Holy shit ...a Rick video i can actually practice

[@pekkalaaksonen8384]

George Harrison said it as well.. “While my guitar gently sweeps...”

[@Lavakun]

Having a hard time focusing on technique....LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL ROASTED MAPLE FRETBOARD!!

[@cameronpatrickscott]

Masters to the left of me masters to the right

[@OsoNegr0_]

I'm extremely well after this 😍

[@Grimmir]

Thanks for the video Rick, just a question for all out there, when going back to the low E, and keeping in mind you want to continue the sweep down, how do you find is more fluid, downstroke or upstroke pick? I find sometimes that if I finish the move with an upstroke, I repeat the same string again, most of the time, so low E twice. Most of the time unintended. Any suggestion?

[@user-zg5oo5yk2v]

He says in the video that he uses an upstroke.

[@alphamammonth8024]

Rick you play any games?

[@dandavidson1704]

His tone only gets better

[@ph0kused]

My ascending sweeps are always the hardest part... the descending is easier... but thanks for the lesson, i love practicing sweeping on a 7 string 26.5 scale, get them fingers a stretch :)

[@tsd-uc4kb]

Same, in my case i feel that the speed is not the same.

[@blntwzrd]

SVN Holcomb?

[@tsd-uc4kb]

@@blntwzrd ???

[@blntwzrd]

@@tsd-uc4kb was guessing your guitar lol, the 26.5" scale 7 string made me guess that

[@tsd-uc4kb]

@@blntwzrd oh, ja, ja, actually i never used a 7 string.

[@FrankFurther]

I am clearly not good enough for this lesson, even slowing the video down i couldn't figure out what you were playing. The first and second arpeggios were well explained and I got the sweep picking action down pretty quickly but just trying to scrawl some kind of tab out so I can take time to practice the full progression was extremely frustrating. If a tab for this lesson is available please let me know it would save me many hours of screaming at my strings. Thanks

[@RickGraham]

Will be adding tabs in future vids. Thanks for the feedback!

[@FrankFurther]

Returning to try again!

[@FrankFurther]

I was right, just tried too early, your explanations are perfectly clear

[@Messier31NGC224]

The intro video totally sounds like part of a Jason Becker song!

[@mikeh.99]

6:15 to get through the first sequence. Lol!!! But I'll give you a pass since I'll never be as good as you!!!

[@DavidNwokoye]

Just out of curiosity, what string gauge do you use? They look really light

[@daddychamber6108]

By the looks of it im gonna take a guess and say its a 9

[@colebuckmaster966]

9’s

[@Teguhyul8685]

manteb master

[@cmonsterz]

Video, video, video, vid. E. Oh? Sweep it up! Sweep it down! Sweep it all around.

[@hieu-headless]

not related to your awesome lesson at all Rick, but please tell me what camera are you using!

[@RickGraham]

Canon M50

[@bobbywhiskey]

Sweep madame blue !!!

[@Hawket]

soa limpo, e pesado. wowww

[@ardalanmojtabavi]

Dear Rick, is your guitar Japan made or USA ?

[@paulgilbert3139]

Charvel is from USA