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VIDEO LESSON © GUS G
Along with TGs audio examples, Gus uses diminished arpeggios to
show you how sweep picking can give your licks a really fluid sound
‘weep picking isa lead guitar strings at exactly the moment you fret. 1. Once your picking handis in motion
technique that ets you play each note, {and your strokes are even, addin the
adjacent strings using one ‘Set your metronome between fretted notes making sure your fingers
‘smooth, continuous pick ‘60bpm and BObpm and pick three synchronise with your pick strokes.
stroke. The speed of your fretting notes per click. Sweep picking is Gus tunes to D standard (OG CFA
determines the rhythmic spacing Concerned with picking one sting after D), so the audio examples and video
between the notes and your main goal another so choose three notes on are a tone lower than usual. m For
|s to make sure that your pickhits the _ adjacent stings, such as in Example more information vist wwwfiewindgr
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‘This ather unmusial example promotes co-ordination between your ick hand and fret hand. Pay lose attention to the pick ection The fst triplet starts
with an upstroke that continues as you sweep acoss three strings. Ths Sets YU Upto pay the fllowing sweep witha downstiake
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“The key to mastering ba isto make sure yu pay the fourth note with a dawnsvoke. This the paint where yeu pick changes dection, so using a downstoke
censutes that your ck travels toward the fist sting. Bar 2s essentially the same but in reverse
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‘This a combination of Examples | and 2. The pul-offs at the tart ofeach sextplet help you tum the rif around ana begin the cycle again. When you move to
the Lower stings in bar 2, the fingerings ciferent but the pick is exactly the same.
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6us pays a diminished arpeggio on each st of thee strings. He begin each beat witha downstroke. This works wel because you have to mave from a lower
ston to higher sting (which can only be dane witha downstroke) atthe start of each arpegpo.
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6us demonstrates the same arpegsio shapes again here, but ths time he descends and ascends each pattern, Use Example 3 to help you hone these setuplet-
based arpeggios. The challenge hee i the change to lowe ting on each beat, which requies preci picking and feting,
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Diminished arpegsos sound realy good when moved un in minor 3rds. Target the fst note of each setuplet with your fourth finger and watch out fr the tricky
fina unstrke a the end of bar 2 This there to ensure you start the chromatic run nba 3 with a downstroke.
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