could someone give me a few of helpful tips about sweeping.

heres a tip: theres a whole thread about it

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heh, yeah exactly. or u can watch videos on it, they give it to u in words.

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check this thread

take em slow start by only sweeping a couple of strings to get the feel of how to do it then move on to more strings and harder shapes. make sure the strings dont ring when you sweep

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For the picking technique, do mini sweeps (2 or 3 string sweeps) and make sure you are playing through the strings in one stroke rather than stopping for each one.


Major
E|-10p7-----7-
B|-----8p7-8--

Minor
E|-10p6-----6-
B|-----8p6-8--

Diminished
E|-10p7-----7-
B|-----9p7-9--


Make sure you get a sweep in there. For example, I like to up, up, down, down for my pickstrokes (up on 10, pull off 7, up on 8, pull off 7, down on 8, down on 7) and I can get two sorts of sweeps, ones with pull offs and normal sweeping though I like to focus on normal sweeping (I also enjoy up, down, down, down. Keep in mind that when doing this one I'm still only sweeping the last two). Mix it up so you don't get bored to death.

For you fretting hand, it's all about practice. Try going slow, with a metronome, and palm muting the strings at first (palm muting won't work as well with the mini sweeps I posted. Look for some full sweeps or use theory to find them). Then as your hand's speed increases, try getting clean and open. As stated above, you don't want strings to ring out.

This sweep is good for starting out.
----------15p12-----------------------
-------14------13---------------------
----13-----------14-------------------
-12----------------15-----------------
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Then try
----------------12h15p12-----------------------
-------------13----------13----------------------
----------14----------------14-------------------
-------14----------------------14---------------
-12h15---------------------------15p12-----------
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mess around with other appregios and add some tapping and stuff to be cool.

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