Sweep picking lick using minor and major arpeggios (with tab) | Licks - #8

Sweep picking lick using minor and major arpeggios. On-screen tab can be found in this compilation video: • 10 metal & rock guitar... Or the following PDF file:
www.dropbox.com/s/3qkvzh9qjrc...
This lick uses three arpeggio shapes, one minor and two major. They are played with the use of the sweep picking technique. It’s a useful technique to use in lead playing and I prefer to use it like in this lick, where it’s worked into and complements the piece rather than just being used to go up and down loads of arpeggios in an arpeggio-study/exercise kind of way.
If you haven’t learned to sweep pick, give it a try… it’s not as difficult as some make it out to be. All that is really happening in sweep picking is that the picking hand is raking across the strings while the fingers of the fretting hand are fretting the notes in synchrony with that movement, such that each note is sounded separately (as opposed to them ringing together as in a chord). There are probably many video tutorials around these days which may be useful, but I remember learning it before the days of UA-cam from a really basic web page with some text and a few arpeggio shapes, so tuition / videos etc aren’t essential. The first arpeggio I learned to sweep pick was actually the first one in this lick (i.e. 9th fret of A up to 14th of e and back again). It was very messy to start with, but with practice it’s possible to start dialling in and fine-tuning the motions/movements involved to get the desired sound.
A few general sweep picking tips would be: 1) pick close to the neck to get a fuller sound, rather than a thin/tinny sound closer to the bridge, 2) learn to ‘roll’ fingers on the fretting hand when the same finger is fretting notes on adjacent strings, 3) aim for a smooth sweeping motion where the pick is gliding across the strings, which wont happen if gripping the pick too firmly, having a rigid wrist/arm, or applying too much force on the strings with the pick.
The three arpeggios used are: 1) F# minor (Am shape), 2) E major (C shape), 3) D major (E shape). The shapes are referring to the CAGED system.
There’s quite a bit of sliding up/down the fretboard in this lick, which can be difficult. Something that really helps with that is string lubricant. Without it, I find that as sweat or whatever else starts to build up on the fingers and strings the resistance on the strings becomes a bit variable, which leads to under/overshooting on slides. Regularly applying some string lubricant mostly solves that problem.
The guitar in the video is an Ibanez RG652AHMFX-RPB, in standard tuning. Audio was recorded using a Positive Grid Spark as an audio interface.

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Smooth as silk sound, with just the right amount of spice 🎸🎶🎵

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Great playing, Great tone and Great lighting on the video!