Guitar B Minor: Sweep Picking Lead

Video Transcript

"In this example, I'm going to play in the key of B-minor over a B-minor progression and I'm going to incorporate what's called sweep picking and I'll explain what that is in a moment. With the backing tracks, it's going to sound a little bit like this. Okay, and what I did there was I just very subtly used sweep picking as far as, for example, I started with the B-minor chord over that progression I went up here, starting on the ninth fret and then almost barring the G, B and E notes on the seventh fret and I went and played through a B-minor scale and then when I went to the A part, I went (Playing). You know, so pretty much I was very, you know, using it very subtly as opposed to say doing a full sweep arpeggio type lead. It's nice to add it almost as a texture to your lead playing. So that way, it gives it a different kind of character to it and, again, makes it sound more interesting."