Lead Guitar Sweep Picking Tips

Video Transcript

"In this example, I'm going to basically play a more scaler type lead in E Minor over. And, I'm going to show a little sweet picking and just an idea that you can play over an E minor progression. It sounds like this. And so what I did there, was pretty much played in the E Minor scale. And the sweet picking I was talking about, I went, it was very subtle, I wasn't doing like a real heavy sweeping arpeggio, I was just, I went, so, nine, eight and seven. And then threw a nice bend in there, mixing a little more feel with it, rather than just sit there going. Rather than playing scale kind of stiff, add a nice expression to the lick as well. So, basically mixing the scaler, throwing in some sweep techniques and also throwing in a nice little feel, like. And being able to simply mix kind of a technical and a feel base over the E Minor progression."