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The Sweep Picking Secret That Finally Made It Click 🎸
The hardest part of sweep picking for me wasn’t learning the arpeggio shapes, it was controlling the pick.
When you sweep, the pick naturally wants to just fall through the strings, which makes it really easy for your timing to become uneven and sloppy.
The thing that helped me? Exaggerated rest strokes.
Watch my picking hand closely. I’m intentionally pressing harder and letting the pick come to rest against the next string. That resistance forces me to feel each string individually instead of just blasting through them.
When you’re first practicing this, mute the strings with your fretting hand, cup them with your hand, or even use a sock/string dampener. Forget the arpeggio for a minute. Get the pattern out of your head and focus 100% on what the picking hand is doing.
Start slow. Push through. Feel every string. Keep the spacing even.
Then, as you get comfortable, start lightening the touch. As the sweep gets faster, the motion becomes lighter and smoother, and you can hear the tone change with it.
This was one of the biggest things that helped me get control of my sweep picking.
Hope it helps you too. 🤘
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