Guitar Lessons - Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials
What you'll learn
- Learn to play lighting-fast, fluid sweep arpeggio licks and runs all over the neck.
- Master major, minor and diminished sweeping patterns across three, then five strings.
- Learn how to harmonise fast sweeps when playing a two guitar band or when layering guitar parts in the studio.
- Further extend your harmonic palette, using bigger major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th and minor 7 flat 5 sweep arpeggios.
- Learn more subtle, bluesy applications of the sweep-picking technique.
- Discover new realm of musical creativity.
- Build your soloing and phrasing vocabulary.
- Incorporate all of these concepts and ideas into your own playing, making you a stronger, more musical and harmonically rich soloist and composer.
Requirements
- All you need in order to begin is an electric guitar, an amplifier, a pick and a desire to learn.
- We do however recommend taking our Complete Foundation Course which will give you the skills to tackle this course.
Description
Sweep picking arpeggios are a very effective way to play super fast, fluid, melodic arpeggios and melodies all over the neck. In this exciting series, Top UK session guitarist, Bobby Harrison gives you an in-depth course on the technique.
You will start by learning some of the more bluesy applications of sweep picking, before going on to cover major, minor and diminished sweeps across three strings, then huge, five-string sweep arpeggios. You can follow chord progressions using these shapes, adding an extra dimension to your lead playing.
Bobby also shows you how to harmonise fast sweeps in a two guitar band or when layering guitar parts in the studio as well as showing you how to further extend your harmonic palette, using bigger major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th and minor 7 flat 5 sweep arpeggios.
A course not to be missed!
Who this course is for:
- Some prior experience of the electric guitar is required i.e. at least a basic grasp of chords and scales. This course would suit the intermediate player, but would also be perfect for the advanced player looking to add the sweep picking technique to their guitar repertoire.
Course content
- Preview03:00
- Preview12:09
- 09:46Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 3
- 06:01Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 4
- 08:11Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 5
- 09:39Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 6
- 06:06Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 7
- 08:37Sweep Picking Arpeggio Essentials - Part 8
- 04:24Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 9
- 05:21Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 10
- 04:25Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 11
- 03:32Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 12
- 04:52Guitar Lessons - The Modal System - Modes Essentials Part 13
Instructor
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FretHub is a fresh and comprehensive collection of online guitar lessons, offering hundreds of hours of video tuition, from two highly qualified and respected teachers with over 50 years of combined professional experience.
As session guitarists, between us, we have played alongside artists such as Queen's Brian May, Alice Cooper, Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Hadley and Gabrielle. As tutors, we have taught thousands of students worldwide.
Our guitar lessons are taught in a down-to-earth manner and presented in a logical and progressive order, providing the consistency and familiarity you get from taking guitar lessons with a private tutor.
Our aim is to give you a solid foundation and equip you with the necessary tools to learn, recognise and employ the guitar techniques and tricks that are used in the making of the music you love.
From beginners through to advanced players, FretHub has everything you need to help you become the guitarist you've always wanted to be.
To tab or not to tab...that is a question! When we started FretHub, we opted not to provide tab in favour of breaking everything down very thoroughly in a note-for-note fashion. This is how we learned to play and we feel that it’s ultimately an easier way of memorising and internalising ideas, visualising patterns on the neck and training the ear. Our method is traditional guitar teaching, much like having an instructor sitting right in front of you, rather than creating a disconnect by playing a lick or phrase once, before referring you to the tab. As both of us have reached the highest level within our industry without the aid of tab (which didn't even exist when we were learning), we feel we are the best equipped and most qualified to provide our solid and successful teaching method. Many members of our website now play in bands, having never played before they joined FretHub.
We sincerely hope you enjoy our courses as much as we did making them.