Sweep Picking with Nita Strauss

In this episode of Like a Hurricane, Nita Strauss shows some exercises to help you get a handle on sweep picking.

[@c.g.vonhagenstein7576]

Nice! I've seen quite a few introductory (and advanced) vids on sweep picking at this point, and this is up there with the best of them. Quick and to the point, with an exercise that's interesting enough to not put the player to sleep. Hope you continue doing great vids like this one. Cheers.

[@BlackFlag1719]

That's a sharp progression that reminds me of how far sweep picking can be taken. I think you also identified something that's been a hindrance in my practicing, that is, paying too much attention to each individual notes. I've been approaching the sweep as if I was alternate picking. Thanks much!

[@LucasR-xl4sl]

Thanks for this Nita, I've always struggled with keeping sweeps clean and accurate, going to try some of these tips! =)

[@donniedonnie639]

You are amazing!!!! thanks for taking the time to do this :)

[@craigshewchuk9018]

I knew those scales, and could play a similar thing, but come on, this blew my mind when she played that so fast, and theres a lot more going on that I would have not put together, a good lesson, right around my playing ability

[@SteelSkin667]

That is quite useful. Pretty cool series of lessons.

[@jamieofalltrades536]

Thanks for the lesson, keep rocking!

[@Phantombeard]

Is there some boost involved in the tone, or how do I get it to sound similar? I have struggle making the notes sound the same

[@krazeemetalchickstewart9961]

Hey Nita Strauss I am new to guitar and I play left handed do you have any tips for me to improve my skills and techniques

[@kylenievel7515]

Awesome I’m a huge fan keep rocking

[@akumakami9727]

That Ibanez though

[@thiendipham828]

Akuma Kami that’s her signature guitar - Ibanez Jiva

[@davidgamel1811]

Any tabs of these exercises? Great video btw!

[@mikemiller6628]

Great lesson.

[@indoorandoutdoorendurance3889]

I enjoyed the video!

[@charlessouza5805]

Its Beautiful!

[@nigelthornton3622]

great lesson Nita from new subscriber

[@TimHolman]

Nice short to the point video. Cool lesson!

[@MsDavo123]

Bravo Nita that extra shape where you play the major arpegio and changing lowest chord tone on one whole step.I came up sometime ago with that shape bec its contained in the first position of pentatonic scale!👌You definitely know that Steve Vai and Petrucci came up with few of their own arpeggio shapes so i always look for smth new as neoclassical ones got tiring...

[@mrhidetf2]

i liked this lesson but it remineded me a bit of one of these drawing tutorials, where they draw 3 circles and then say now just add the details. next thing you know they drew a fucking dragon and ur still sitting there with ur paper and 3 poorly drawn circles

[@sarloscantana]

Hey, Guitar World, what happened with Jeff Kitts? Why the sudden change..?

[@CHOPERUS23]

Perfect lady right there guys.

[@guitarjonn7103]

Thanks for the vid, Nita and much respect. The light touch comments you made will help me improve my sweep picking, for sure. Continued success to you and hope you aren't too bothered by the jealous, misogynistic comments here. Something your way too familiar with, I imagine. God forbid you shred better than a guy.

[@brianosbment2343]

I never do any sweep picking,so I don't know. How do you pick it exactly,for the 3 string sweeps? It looked like down,down,down,and then up,up,up. Hard to tell though!

[@gscash]

Brian Osbment down then up. you're correct.

[@6stringsbrainfingers]

She is awesome!

[@stevenstatham2864]

Wow. Too amazing :D

[@pamanes7]

picking ergonomics is really important when sweeping, she didn't talk about when to upstroke / downstroke and how to choke the strings you already played with the palm to reduce unwanted noise.

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

Yeah well we can call it for what it is. She's doing it wrong... That's astounding that Guitar World, a renowned and trusted guitar media outlet, let this lesson fly... Ideally you don't use your palm to mute noise during sweeping, you mute the note with your left finger by defretting the note you just played but keeping your finger in the same position so that it mutes the string. Then as soon as you defret, you simultaneously fret and play the next note in the arpeggio with your next finger ... So in an ascending sweep, if you start with your 1st finger on the 5th fret of the d-string, you play the note then defret so that your 1st finger is still lightly touching the d-string at the 5th fret so that it mutes it. At the same time you're muting the d-string, you press the 6th fret on the g-string and play that note then immediately defret but keep your first finger in the same position to mute the g-string... And so on and so fourth. In sweep-picking, muting is done primarily by lifting the left fingers from the frets but still lightly touching the string... (Obviously the palm of your right hand is nearly always touching the lower strings to prevent dynamic noise, but that's the right palm's default position regardless of whether you're sweeping or alternate picking or playing legato.) Here, it's pretty damn messy for a pro teaching a technique on a reputable guitar media outlet... Even when she's playing the lick slowly, you can *clearly* hear the notes on the d-string and g-string sound at the same time, like a chord, every single time she hits these 2 notes in succession... That chord sound is a HUGE no-no for sweep-picking. *Every note has to sound individually and cleanly. It's a monophonic technique.* Then when she plays the arpeggios fast, you can hear that she's either playing palm-muted notes or outright raking (missing) them... What's presented in this video is not good sweep-picking technique by any stretch of the imagination.

[@brianosbment2343]

Upon watching again,it looks like some licks are started with 3 upstrokes,then 3 down.

[@sdiabr6792]

Nita did a great job at e3!

[@WyattsMetalLife]

All hail the mighty nita

[@ronitravi8523]

Where is jason Richardson's video?? I'm waiting since I saw the post on Instagram. : \

[@SOULJAJOE010]

Can someone tell me how much notes per second she was playing at, at 3:25

[@hanswurst61245]

13 1/3 nps

[@robertschaeffer5803]

Great lesson but maybe im missing the left hand info or some of it but you gotta love Nita ...Up the Irons😘

[@espressoshot21]

What kind of guitar is that?? It's so gorgeous. Love the heartbeat inlays. I've never seen anything like it! Great lesson by the way. One suggestion would be posting tabs. It takes a lot of time for a beginner to see what notes you're playing

[@thiendipham828]

Eunice Kim The Ibanez Jiva (Nita’s Signature Guitar)

[@ThomasFarrow]

thanks...i forgot that i can add my sweeps to a chord progression lol!

[@mattsithknight1530]

I don't know if it's the way Guitar World edit the videos or something but I often feel with some of these lessons they start off good and then almost jump a step,missing some important points. Like they assume you already know how to play this sort of stuff and don't actually explain some things. Like what notes are actually being played and even with this lesson the correct way to sweep etc with the picking hand.Because there is more to it than just the light effortless down then up motion. Noticed this with the Nita lessons and the ones Angel Vivaldi did. Maybe I will come back to this lesson in a few months and understand it better and regret this comment.Hope so anyway.

[@bloodyoneiric9641]

Alexi laiho showed his sweep picking technique.Its more informative than this one.

[@jamieofalltrades536]

Matt sithKnight most of these videos need to take a lesson from Marty music where he carefully shows the fretting hand and the picking hand and then he goes back over each and every segment and carefully shows how to do each portion. He might not be the best guitarist in the world but is extremely dedicated to teaching and tries his hardest to make sure you understand fully what is going on.

[@john564holloway]

Thx, Jamie, my point, exactly. I know I'm not the only good player just learning the sweep technique. There's a lot of good players out there that don't like it or not used to it. It doesn't say anything about how they play or if they need 'extra training'...Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, SRV & Slash never did it, to name a few of many...I certainly don't feel left out if It takes more effort than others to learn it...

[@silvioschurig749]

True enough - when she plays slowly it sounds more like a staccato technique. Thats obviously not just pick movement ... cant be comprehensive in under 6 minutes but it could be more than 'pick with a sweeping motion' ...

[@jamieofalltrades536]

Silvio Schurig yeah, I think it was a little rushed. The video is cool but for a beginner it lacks at little detail for sure lol. But hey , its free lessons, can't beat that I guess..

[@DatKundalini]

I don't even play guitar I play the spoons.

[@Beulzabob]

+1 to the light picking touch! Pretend you're petting a cat.

[@RitchieRosson]

Why am I watching this? I’m a bass player!

[@fogo1832]

Ritchie Rosson because Nita Strauss

[@truedarklander]

Learn how to sweep in bass, Archspire's bassist does that lol

[@dandogful]

you can arpeggiate any instrument. always think outside the box. always remember dont let anybody tell you because your a bass player that you have to play simple. play whatever you want, within the context of a song of course.

[@thesovereignonion2283]

Sweep pick the bass

[@channelfortheeveryman3139]

I’ll give you one guess.

[@spencerjames8989]

love that purple Ibanez baby

[@gleysonperestoledo9130]

The Best Nita ❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍

[@GeoffreyRamel]

Ex 2 : Smoke and mirrors intro by Symphony X

[@jakholly2]

I hate when people say things like "There's a million little kids on KZbin that can sweep way better". Anyone who doesn't have to work and can sit in their bedrooms all day and learn Jason Becker songs with a teacher teaching them will be amazing. But do they actually know what they're doing? Do they know it well enough to be able to teach it? Do they know the theory behind it and can apply it to their own original work? Just because she could clean up her sweeps doesn't mean you can't learn something from this. I did. I'm really super picky about how clean my sweeps are as I'm not very good with them and I still took something away from this lesson, especially the major/minor positioning movement. People are knocking her tone but this isn't a lesson about how to dial in a guitar tone. It's a lesson about sweeping techniques. And that's all I'm paying attention to. I don't give a shit if she did this on an out-of-tune banjo for fuck's sake. I loved the lesson!

[@IcarusSuite]

Jak Angelescu Shut up. Some of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time didn't know anything about music theory.

[@HeadbangoO]

@Alvarez: Absolutly, their skills were god given, and if you buy their records and give money to their producers via youtube adds, you'll be given the same skills...

[@jakholly2]

Juan Alvarez you completely missed my point 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I was trying to prove that while she may not be as "clean" as those young kids, she makes up for it in her theory knowledge. Another way of saying "everyone excels at something different". Sheesh dude

[@bloodyoneiric9641]

I covered songs.by ear and learned so much from it.My ears are my trachers even if I'm blind as long as I can hear I'm confident.Not everybody needs a.teacher maybe you do but not everyone.

[@jakholly2]

Bermudez 113 baby jesus 🤣🤣

[@tellysguitars]

Great lesson! F the haters

[@hectorheath]

So I'm guessing you also have to use Hammer ons and pull offs...

[@nevigo5519]

Are you using a SS practice amp Nita? You need some midrange dialed in. A little good tube amp would do wonders for your tone. ;)

[@ze-ce.cra_]

Sweep pick me, Nita! Sweep Pick me! 😣

[@ze-ce.cra_]

John vincent 😂 omg lol haha

[@boombonic666]

Bless thee metal maiden!

[@sixblood4777]

3 string is simple, work to 6 string sweep picking

[@Beulzabob]

I think she's tuned down to Eb btw.

[@danieln9591]

Bella

[@austincz1763]

Check out CZ "Beneath"!!!

[@James-hh1lq]

The g string comes to mind for some reason .

[@MrMasterman6969]

my fingers dont move as I want them.....chicken fingermerit ....cheers your good

[@avedonfivestar3808]

Sweep picking enchantress.

[@choward874]

MAn she's great.

[@mlukas]

Anyone complaining about how "average" Nita is has, most likely, never picked up a guitar (other than a Guitar Hero one...) in their life. She is freakin' AMAZING and can not only pull it off on a video, which can be edited, but pulls it off live FLAWLESSLY. My wife and I have seen Alice Cooper more times than I can count, the last time was in Nashville in 17' with Nita in the band. She is the real deal, an amazing player, and incredable live and, taking into account all the interviews I've seen and read of hers, a totally cool human being as well.

[@tajulafham94]

woah woah woah she's so good

[@JB-xo8sr]

Good job, but I felt there was too much emphasis on chord progressions. The essence of sweep picking is the rhythm hand -- which notes are up strokes, which ones are down strokes, and why, how to incorporate transitions between descending and ascending movement, muting (using left and right hands), holding the pick, etc...

[@dandavidson1704]

I wouldn’t say it’s a soft motion...if u want the tone to be good and clear u should pick pretty hard

[@moondog50002000]

fuck sweeping 1 3 5 and 1 -3 5 triads , pinch harmonics and tapping . Kid stuff hahahaha

[@waterproof4403]

If she can play the guitar like that Imagine how shed play with your feelings

[@michaelmcintosh5818]

You really thinking about your feelings there?

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

Well when you get down to it, being good at guitar (and music in general) is 100% about "playing" with the feelings of your audience. The goal is to skilfully take listeners on a journey of various emotions... Nita is not good at guitar. Sure she can play but so can the high school kid at Guitar Center... She's just mediocre at music. So I do hope her propencity to manipulate people's feelings are on par with the level of her guitar-playing... Because that would mean that while she's very average at guitar, she doesn't manipulate people's feelings to fulfill a selfish agenda. Anyhoo, to get to what you're insinuating: yeah, she's a good-looking gal. That can't be taken from her :)

[@waterproof4403]

@@PhilosophyofGuitar i only wish to be able to play like that

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

@@waterproof4403 Nita annoys me because I sincerely think she's a hack. She's where she is because she brims with self-confidence and has a pretty face. That's how she's somehow convinced people that she's supposedly an elite guitar player and they buy it... But she's a mediocre musician at best. Granted the fact that she's not properly executing the technique she's allegedly teaching in a Guitar World lesson, sweeping is really not that hard... Just like any other technique It's simply a matter of practice and keeping intimately in touch with music. So keep practising and keep enjoying listening to music. If you really want to in your heart of hearts, you'll eventually get there. Learn songs that use the techniques you want to learn (Dream Theater, Steve Vai, Megadeth are a few examples of bands that make extensive use of highly technical guitar playing)... Use Guitar Pro and download Guitar Pro tabs. Guitar Pro plays back a midi version of songs which you can slow down during complex and lightning-fast parts so you can visually see and hear what's being played. Get your hands on some music theory either by books or software like Guitar Scales Method so that you understand the relationship between notes and why chords are made up of the specific notes they're made up of.... Besides granting you the ability to learn virtually any song or passage in a matter of minutes (very handy skill to have around the bonfire with your peeps), this effectively teaches you how to improvise solos on the spot and gives you the basis to compose your own music. Watch KZbin video tutorials as well as concerts. Take part in music projects with your friends. Record yourself playing. Take opportunities to play live for an audience even if it's an open mic night or a gathering of your dad's friends to start with... It is said that a live performance is worth 10 bedroom practice sessions. Go see live local bands as well as your arena heroes once this fucking pandemic is dealt with. Any combination of these tips will significantly improve your playing. You'll need patience because skills build over time as your musical IQ grows... And it does grow. If anything, remember that it has to feel fun playing guitar and learning new songs and concepts. It's highly meaningful practising the same passage over and over and over and over until you master it because the more fluent you become on your instrument, the more you will have access to a different dimension so to speak that non-musicians don't have access to. If you keep your interest and curiosity in guitar and music, just that alone is bound to yield improvements. Sorry for the rants about Nita Strauss, I feel like even her own former bandmate Courtney Cox is leaps and bounds better than her. Courtney shreds proper and she melts faces. Her playing is clean and expressive... Courtney Cox is legit! I feel she should be the one getting Nita's opportunities... I think Courtney's a lot hotter too lol.. But then again music is not competitive sports... So who am I to judge. Keep the music in your Spirit bro... And let 'er rip! \m/ (-_-) \m/

[@TheMCGamerZ]

I’ll admit there some things she did well in this tutorial, but as a musician, if my tone sounded like that and I had errors regardless of how small they were, I would immediately start re doing my work and fixing my errors. I’m not thrashing her or anything I’m just saying as a musician I keep the bar for myself high and I keep the bar for other musicians high as well. So for her to go through with this says a lot. Don’t reply yeah but they’re little mistakes or it’s not that big of a deal. In the world of music, especially guitar playing, when we’re all as good as each other, every detail matters. So it says a lot about her as a musician to let something like this through.

[@MsDavo123]

zachary reiff would you mind listing her errors im just curious!🤔

[@TheMCGamerZ]

David Aghamalyan technicality is what ever, she could have just been having s bad day. I really just want to point out that as a musician you should only be putting out the absolute best, so when you have errors or your playing with a bad tone you should fix it before you release it with your name on it

[@MsDavo123]

zachary reiff man she did nice arpeggio run i dont see anything wrong about this i personally uploaded two covers where i cover 2 minutes long songs and eventually i lost oatience and upload version with few errors but hey we are having fun she is claimed to be a professional and i see lots of guys attack her here one guy even wrote sexist comments! Oh fuck i rewatched and when she plays slow its damn noisy yeah thats annoying i agree😒

[@DriveCancelDC]

Sweep picking video? Time for someone (me) to bring up Necrophagist!

[@john564holloway]

Nita, please let us know what you're playing with the left hand. So far, all I can see is you're starting off with the pinky, then index finger. After that, couldn't tell...thank you...

[@SteelSkin667]

It's all one finger per fret.

[@frenchiesfrankieandhenry]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHW9poWmgKelZ8U Here I lay out the shape for ya. The major and minor shapes can be moved according to your key of choice.

[@SteelSkin667]

Turd Burgla That's much clearer than my stupid explanation. Thanks!

[@john564holloway]

Turd Burgla Thanks, bro!

[@shcxatter2]

If you can't figure out, what she's playing just by listening, sweep picking is probably not yet for you!

[@CJCJCJCJ]

That tone hurts

[@gscash]

aww poor baby!

[@Whitefox-pc7lp]

gscash haha fuckin burn

[@Whitefox-pc7lp]

gscash I'm flattered ;) lol

[@lexdelaloi2598]

Bonjour, Juste, juste, juste, just, Merci madame NINI pour vos cours de taping!! merci!!! big kiss ;-)

[@DavidNwokoye]

What are these comments tho.

[@zachbee9492]

Basement dwellers.

[@lunarscorpio3987]

this is pretty

[@bolder3]

She's a descendant of Johann Strauss

[@gregsamarael1753]

1rd!!!

[@actionpotato]

I stopped the video 30 seconds in to find that guitar. Came back after seeing the price.

[@Knoxvillemoto]

Isn't it like $1500? I'm mean it's not cheap but it seems to be in line with other mid to high end guitars.

[@actionpotato]

I have a Fender pro strat and would never pay that again. I think I enjoy the 500-800 dollar guitars more. I just got a schecter pt special and I'm playing that thing while cooking, on the can, in bed, etc. Obviously, I'm divorced.

[@Knoxvillemoto]

@@actionpotato I have a 600 dollar schecter and I just got a syn gates signature series. The syn gates is far and away the best guitar I've ever played. It blows my other schecter out of the water in terms of playability. It's around the same price point and I think its easily worth the money. I've played a nita Straus signiture series as well, and It is a hell of a guitar. Very well set up for shred work.

[@actionpotato]

@@Knoxvillemoto holy crap, I just looked that one up. That thing is metal as @&%#. I just started getting into schecters last year and I'm blown away with what I was missing out on.

[@Knoxvillemoto]

@@actionpotato I cant tell you exactly why but that's that guitar is the easiest to play quickly, I've ever tried. The pickups sound absolutely amazing, and that's not even beginning to get into the sustainiac. The sustainiac has provided hours and hours fun. You can set it to go to a harmonic, which combined with the floyd rose, results in uncontrollable childish giggling. I probably sound like a schecter salesman right now, but I just really love this guitar. Everytime I go to the guitar store I try to play a few guitars from different styles and brands to expand my horizons and get a better feel for what I like, but sooner or later it seems like I always und up back at a schecter. Ps, if you buy the guitar from syns website, you can get the same guitar, at the same price, but with syns actual signature.

[@Lutzilla_]

at least... a real great lookin girl playin a great tone:-)

[@davidhinchliffe3354]

My god shes a beauty... your not looking bad either nita!! 💥🔥🎸👏

[@braxtonfps3580]

Cringe

[@jamesdragonforce]

Nita is human after all 2:33

[@protolexis]

She's not terrible, but wow, you'd think someone who's paid to play for Alice Cooper could sweep a little cleaner/tighter.

[@anonymousa6070]

These fingers of yours are enough to make fall in love anyone.😍

[@Knoxvillemoto]

......creepy creeperton.

[@tdub5585]

Michael Angelo Batio is all you need to search for learning to sweep

[@sinajany476]

Is she the best or what?!⚡🤘🏼🖤⚡

[@undeadhambread4602]

that guitar tho, those ekg lines on the fret board...sexy

[@thiendipham828]

That's her signature - Ibanez Jiva. Designed by Nita herself

[@2550marshall]

I think it is really cool that this young lady gets the notoriety she gets. She does have some talent but, that guitar tone is horrid! Every time I hear a vid with her I think the same thing....Dam somebody help her with that guitar tone. Ibanez Guitars usually sound really good with that style of playing.

[@mymodel6]

Wouldn't it be better if some unknown person who can actually play well got the gig and the resulting 'notoriety', regardless of gender?

[@hotman718]

Yeah it's a bit too harsh. She's a great player though. It's not terrible though. Just wish it was less trebly.

[@bloodyoneiric9641]

Over and over and over again every guitarists teaching the same thing for over a decade please teach something new like how to become a guitar itself.

[@sashingopaul3111]

Dovakiin xϟ One does bot simply become a guitar. You must transcend into godhood in order to become the guitar.

[@mymodel6]

Fuck it i'll say it... Should've stuck to the broom.

[@ljruss42]

Okay I think I’ve found my crush

[@kxmrock]

Little Nita~ Hits The Stage, She Can't hep it~ She's Coming of Age…… She good Now

[@TIGERGUTS]

i invented cupcakes

[@ericvalverderosado2046]

any floyd rose tricks for beginers...divebombs just die instantly...i can't grab a pinch harmonic and make it scream

[@guitarmatb123]

Yeah, that Alice Cooper! What would he know about music and guitar playing? Much rather pay attention to the bedroom guitar players on You Tube!!! ;-)

[@morganthem]

Feel like a little more attention to the right hand would've been more useful than chord following. Those are just melodic ideas. No good without.

[@julianschulz1620]

Nita is the queen of sweeps.

[@nisterror]

Great lesson. The one thing I don't get about guitar world is the awful guitar tone they record for all of their lessons, it's a shame, takes away from the artists teaching.

[@fredrikjohnsson8509]

I have no guitar so i cant not play dat😛

[@saintjohn6820]

😍

[@charliefoxtrotthe3rd335]

I just don't get the fascination with sweep picking. Yeah it looks cool for your friends but that is it. It's a parlor trick and nothing more. So someone can say look at me!

[@frenchiesfrankieandhenry]

Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd how is this any different than really fast legato? In principle I mean, not technique. Sweeps do sound awesome, and it takes some serious practice to do it well. Just like any other chops one earns in the woodshed. Being able to sweep is just another tool in the box in my opinion. Though I do think the Rusty Cooley's of the world are a bit over the top. And if you want to talk about something that is way overhyped, that would be 12 Bar Blues, bullshit.

[@sgperson101]

Boy do I have news for you about a genre called "Metal"

[@Dreamdancer11]

Well sweep picking is a technique...what you choose to sweep is a whole other issue....it doesnt have to be 3 string stock arpeggios....anytime you go from one string to the next with the same motion you are essentially sweeping.....so from Jazz to metal countless guitar players use it to create lines...its like saying i dont get the fascination with alternate picking.....its just a technique....what you play with it is on you. Ps.. the people that "dont get the fascination" is the people that actually cant do it.....hmmmm

[@sgperson101]

Additionally, your profile photo is Randy Rhoads who has in fact, used sweep picking in his recorded solos

[@hotman718]

I'd say it's useful for the simple fact that it also teaches you how to use intervals of a chord playing a matching appregio underneath the chord. It's always important to be able to focus on intervals when playing over specific chords.

[@rbshaun6261]

Not that hard at all! 😭

[@JohnDoe-wd7vi]

G major semitone flat

[@Azjedi13]

That tone is not good!

[@avamanfredi2522]

why

[@richardtoth7240]

it's funny that she says "we are in A major" but it is actually A flat. And her whole guitar is downtuned by a half step. Why not standard tuning in a tutorial video??? lol

[@chromakey84]

a flat with a major third

[@humb1s3rvant]

If you want PC instructions watch Adam Neely..she just said that cuz it's fifth fret where A would be..the shape is the same too, but I agree that is misleading

[@stephenmcmillan1026]

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[@Akherousia502]

The tone is atrocious and sweeping isn't one of Nita's strong points, but... 1.) She understands the technique and how to implement it, even if she hasn't mastered it herself. 2.) She's eloquent enough to explain it in a clear and concise manner, making her a useful teacher. 3.) It's her lesson series and sweep picking was requested because a lot of people wanted to hear her take and advice on the subject. Those are three extremely valid reasons for this video to exist, and let us not forget that you don't necessarily have to be the greatest at something to teach it. As long as you understand the foundation and can convey that to those who are willing to listen, then your skill level isn't overly relevant as long as you are capable of the technique in question. If you have an issue with that, then find another teacher. I hate to use the argument that if you don't like something you should just leave, but it's actually valid here: It's a free lesson and there are hundreds of these on KZbin. If this one isn't doing it for you, then find one that is, but if your only gripe is that the tone is a bit scratchy and she's not as super polished as you'd like, then maybe you have some other things to work on other than sweeping.

[@AbhiBass96]

Damn, my ears. Good teaching just that shitty tone...