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Thanks for checking out my exciting new sweep picking strategy book THE 30 DAY SWEEP PICKING SUPER COARSE. I think this book is awesome! It’s filled with so many sweeping or economy picking strategies - 476 to be exact! I have it organized into a 30 day program with 14 to 16 exercises a day. These exercises are challenging and versatile. This volume of intense sweep picking should certainly keep you challenged well beyond the 30 days suggested by the coarse.
Thanks for checking out my exciting new sweep picking strategy book THE 30 DAY SWEEP PICKING SUPER COARSE. I think this book is awesome! It’s filled with so many sweeping or economy picking strategies - 476 to be exact! I have it organized into a 30 day program with 14 to 16 exercises a day. These exercises are challenging and versatile. This volume of intense sweep picking should certainly keep you challenged well beyond the 30 days suggested by the coarse.
I have this book divided into 4 weeks and 2 days. I segregate each daily study with a focus on particular diatonic modes or chords of the G major scale. This means I only use modes or chords that are going to be found in within the G major scale with the exception of the occasional diminished scale. Doing it this way allows all of the exercises to easily cooperate with each other melodically.
The first 4 weeks are divided into days like this.
DAYS 1, 8, 15, 22 -
DAYS 2, 9, 16, 23 -
DAYS 3, 10, 17, 24 -
DAYS 4, 11, 18, 25 -
DAYS 5, 12, 19, 26 -
DAYS 6, 13, 20, 27 -
DAYS 7, 14, 21, 28 -
Each one of these days you can work on up to 16 different technical exercises that run the full variety of that days melodic/harmonic focus. Some of the exercises are responsible for mental studies/fretboard familiarity, while others are more chop oriented flashiness. J
The last two days cover an overview of the modes and introduce the ideas of some purely intervallic sweeping patterns.
I suggest you work through each day however best you can by practicing as many of the exercises assigned while being sure to give each exercise an adequate amount of time. 16 exercises a day with adequate focus on each can be quite time consuming. This is for the extreme guitarist who forgot that they need to eat to survive. For those who this is not, just do the best you can and know that this book will always be here for you when it is time to pick up more ideas. After each session of study leave time for yourself EACH DAY to put what you have learned together, to manipulate and experiment what you have learned with your own ideas, and to become fluent with everything you have learned up until that point - basically have fun and play.
Up until this point it has been assumed that you are familiar with the sweep picking technique. If this is not true, let me explain it in a nut shell. For the most part (without being to “artsy”) your picking hand is either a) alternate picking when plucking the strings or b) sweeping between the strings. We are focusing on the sweep picking side of this. By cultivating and developing this particular technique it offers an economy of motion that allows you to burst with flurries of notes using minimal effort. Instead of attacking 3 adjacent strings by using a down stroke, an up stroke, and a down stroke of the pick you can get the same effect with just one long and steady down stroke of the pick that brushes across the strings. When developing this ability it is important to properly articulate each note individually and cleanly. Start out slowly and cleanly, and with persistence and discipline you’ll have it down while shredding your strings into liquid metal.
Again, I am very excited about this book. I think that once you get your hands on it the act of just thumbing through it’s pages may be quite an inspiring experience within itself. I can only imagine your feelings one week, two weeks, a month, two months into it!
Nuclear shred ga-boom!!
F# locrian scale, F# Diminished, F# Minor 7 b5, F# Minor 7 b5/b9, F# half/whole diminished scaleE aeolian scale, E Minor, E Minor 7, E Minor 9, G major/E minor pentatonic scaleD mixolydian scale, D Major, D7, D9, D major/B minor pentatonic scaleC lydian scale, C Major, C Major 7, C Major 9, C major/A minor pentatonic scaleB phrygian scale, B Minor, B Minor 7, B Minor b9, D major/B minor pentatonic scaleA dorian scale, A Minor, A Minor 7, A Minor 9, C major/A minor pentatonic scaleG major scale, G Major, G Major 7, G Major 9, G major/E minor pentatonic scale
