Sweep Picking Arpeggios

Well, I know someone just covered this lesson so ill just send you exercises that will train you discipline in accomplishing arpeggios using sweep picking. I am just going to clear a few things up about arpeggios. All arpeggios are just the break down of chords, so arpeggios are chords. A lot of people are familiar with Yngwie's double octave A minor starting on string A fret 12. That is an Am in 2 octaves, and there are many more variations than just that. Oh, to change key just shift it. To easily figure out were the a minor arpeggios lie is to follow chord constructions or as I call them instructions. A minor is in the construction of A, C, E and A major is A, C#, E. Here are the arpeggio constructions.

Chord
11 A,B,C#,D,E,G
13 A,B,C#,D,E,F#,G
5 A,E 6 A,C#,E,F#
7 add 9 A,B,C#,E,F#
7 A,C#,E,G
7 Augmented A,C#,F,G
7 Diminished A,C,D#,F#
7 Suspended2 A,B,E,G
7 Suspended4 A,D,E,G
9 A,B,C#,E,G
9 5# A,B,C#,F,G
9 5B A,B,C#,D#,G
Augmented A,C#,F
Augmented11 A,B,C#,D#,E,G
Diminished A,C,D#
Major A,C#,E
Major11 A,C#,E
Major7 A,C#,E,G#
Major 3b A,C,E,G#
Major9 A,B,C#,E,G#
Minor A,C,E
Minor6 A,C,E,F#
Minor7 A,C,E,G
Minor7 5b A,C,D#,G
Suspended A,D,E
Suspended4 A,D,E,G

Wow, that is allot isn’t it. Another way to perform arpeggios is to hold a chord and hit individual string in what ever pattern you want.

**to fattened out the four fingers..
E|------4-1-----------------------------|
B|----3----2----------------------------|
G|--2--------3--------------------------|
D|1------------4-continue up to 12thfret|
A|--------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------|

**to enhance the dexterity of the left hand...
E|---------------------------------|
B|-2-------4-------5-------2-------|
G|---5-4-2---5-4-2---5-4-2---5-4-2-|
D|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

- Josh Nerez.

Comments

[bryce_since1969]

great

[billiejoe_dirnt]

what the f*ck!?!?!?!?!

[Mr. Bungle]

nice

[ronnieroberts]

Weird, but useful

[Spanner]

To anything that will rhyme with youre progress on the steel drum I will give you a call and bid you tommorrow

[k0dama]

hell yeah very cool lesson

[teej]

LAME

[Bloodletting77]

sucked

[GuitaPlaya]

that sucked

P.S. learn how to spell "a lot"

[14GreenDay]

me learndedd allot two

[virtuosox86]

haha i laugh atthe people who dint understand when he named the degrees of the scales.....hahaha

[metallicamania]

i thought your lesson was only okay but i really liked you exercises

[Zuka]

Those who hate it are often the most confused. I thought this was a good lesson.

[Valasco]

If you didn't understand that, learn some "guitar for dummies" before going for arpeggios

[Gman400]

Umm...that didn't have anythign to do with sweep picking...unless I'm not getting something... But yeah basically all it did was list the notes in chords and 2 little excercices, only one of which could be sweep picked.

[subliminal_fear]

that was horrible...

[jsav4589]

that doesnt tell me how to sweep pick, and if you know that some1 just covered it, you should make a better lesson than that dip. SOMEONE MAKE A GOOD SWEEP PICKING LESSON!

[Mario-Guitar]

still don't understand it

[rockergurl09]

you really left it open... I could very easily play that before I knew what arpeggios were. the only person that that lesson would help is a person who just picked up a guitar for the first time. pitiful.

[DJ88]

why do people find it imperative to put in tehre unwanted 2 cents worth? maybe a little hypocritical of me, but these reply boards are here to ask questions, help other people, if he left something out, then help him out a bit, fill in the blanks... dont whinge and bitch saying that it was a crap lesson.
its useless shit dribbling that noones going to take notice of...
so please dont waste your time herein, if you dont like someones lesson, if it didnt help you at all, or you already knew it all, then mosey on along and find something that might help you a bit, instead of being a cocky wanker putting in your unwanted opinion... thats all for now

[a0kalittlema0n]

first of all you should always do sweeping in a key or melodically not just up and down the neck because you wont use that too much and second of all this isnt much of a sweep picking lesson at all but good try!

[thinlizzy71]

wtf ???
good lesson and al, and ok execises , but shouldnt this be called "arpeggios for dummies and some exercises" ?
no sweep picking here.

(btw metal and punk and pop and emo all suck)

[thinlizzy71]

thinlizzy71 wrote:

wtf ???
good lesson and al, and ok execises , but shouldnt this be called "arpeggios for dummies and some exercises" ?
no sweep picking here.

(btw metal and punk and pop and emo all suck)

good lesson and all nt al

[thinlizzy71]

14GreenDay wrote:

me learndedd allot two

lol

[stewth]

yeah, not very good but not very bad. ok.

[Mistress_Ibanez]

jsav4589 wrote:

that doesnt tell me how to sweep pick, and if you know that some1 just covered it, you should make a better lesson than that dip. SOMEONE MAKE A GOOD SWEEP PICKING LESSON!

Who needs tabs for sweep picking exercises? there are 6 strings, just make something up....

[Alkaline300]

ok u can pretty much take any chord and make it into a sweep pick its not IMPOSSIBLE! ok maybe for some of u newer kids but all u need to know how to do is just play a scale and pick the arpegio sweep pick style

[slashwyldepage]

Spanner wrote:

To anything that will rhyme with youre progress on the steel drum I will give you a call and bid you tommorrow

what the ****?

[g0th1c_5tar]

as i can see the arpeggio's on this lesson are very accurate and everyone else can see it aswell, and anyone who thinks this lesson sucks , there just jealous cause some one who's more guitar than the other, how ever i find this lesson very very very..useful and thanx for the lesson...and were would we all be if it wasn't for the internet...probably still suck...

[g0th1c_5tar]

"who's" i meant, *know*

[l0ssOfHuman1ty]

wow those arpeggios are pathetic..

[tony d]

if ya need to learn to sweep i found that watching artists like steve vai usually help to get the bacic technique. oh ye its importamt to actually learn an arpeggio before u try 2 sweep it.

[HGDUDE]

wow
you guys are lame

[BulletCrazy]

wut thu hell?

[reaper2751]

Gman400 wrote:

Umm...that didn't have anythign to do with sweep picking...unless I'm not getting something... But yeah basically all it did was list the notes in chords and 2 little excercices, only one of which could be sweep picked.

it did have something to do with sweep picking... stupid... ok so basically he/she listed the some chords... that you can use to do sweeps with... he just left the leg work to you to figure out the pattern each chord makes... so that is arpeggio related stuff... duh... ok and then the exercises at the end... although they are not that great they do tend to pertain to the subject of arpeggios... ok so the first exercise is lets you get used to going up and down the neck of the guitar with one note per string... which is not a bad exercise... and the second one helps you get faster and better at using different fingers to lead off from... since some arpeggios need to be lead off by a finger like your pinky or ring... which is a lot harder then your pointer... unless you practice that stuff of course ^ ^ so this lesson was pretty decent... short... which is probably good... so that way your not overloaded by material... ok, go bye XD

[deathmask666]

It was informative but the lesson was not friendly for those that maybe new to the ideas or even sweep picking in general. An interesting side note i have been doing that first exercise for a while its interesting to see some one else post it...

[brush200400]

what the hell? this is a good reference for chord structure but they could have named the lesson something more relevant like "Chord Structure", not necessarily sweep picking, which it does not explain the technique for.

[ibanezfreak121]

good examples but try different patterns and actual arpaggios

[killtrend]

I’m seeing a lot of negative feed back for him not doing brainless tab’s; but “giving you the seed insted of the fruit”. like people saying "this lesson has nothing to do with sweeps". Well shit for brains, he gave you every sweep in every key for every note on the guitar he not only did that but gave your useless brains a bit of theory work... thanks for the lesson bro and thanks to any one who supports this leson.

[DarkLink1080]

it's a little confusing

[faisal dahlan]

it's a nice lesson..

[Element0s]

This lesson isn't to teach sweep picking, it is to give people the notes on how to create arpeggios using note names. People need to fiure that out before leaving negative comments.

[Moesbrotha]

This actually what i've been looking for, for quite some time. Actual chord formats and the arpeggiated notes that go with them. Thank for the lesson, broseph.