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Back in the day I thought it was “Sweet Picking” as if the picking was killer aka “Sweet, dude!” 😂

Missed the opportunity for a perfect Sweepwater pun... Dads everywhere are (s)weeping.

F# demolished 😂

Keyboard player in a band I roadied for when I was 18 would always refer to him as 'Whingy Marmalade'.🤣🤣

Thanks, Uncle Ben! I really prefer these études over non-musical exercises. This sounds killer!

Thanks for the reminder that sweeping can be done over less than six strings!

Uncle Ben has the cleanest floors from all that sweet sweeping.

I’ll practice this today. Thanks uncle Ben! 👍

Thank you so much Sir' Benjamin, I've been learning different shapes for sweeps and this one is much better than the other one I was learning.

I love how that sounded slowed down way more than the full speed version. Could have made a nice metal ballad.

I love the video Ben!!!!...............Way Cool Jr. video lesson? Please?

Just what I needed, cheers Ben👍

Excellent lession. Would also be cool to see a lesson on 6 or 7 string arpeggios of more complex chords combining legato and sweeping. Stuff like full 7th chords, suspended chords, half-diminished, etc. Or even just lessons covering the lower strings, which always trips me up for some reason.

YES!!! I NEEEED this. 🙏🏻 thank you Uncle Ben! You are a gentleman and a scholar

You truly are a Shredi Master!

Thanks! This lesson has finally made sweeping at least fathomable!

Thanks brother! This looks fun!

I love your arpeggio exercises. They force me to work to get to the point where I can actually do the exercise.

You can even sweep the floor with this one afterwards..! Thanks Uncle Ben!

I have definitely been a slacker when it comes to playing this style. More stuff for the guitar tool box of licks. Thanks!

Funnily enough I recently came up with a sweeping etude that has similar vibes to this, but built around using 1st Inversion & 2nd inversion chords on the 2nd-4th strings of a guitar in Open B or Open C

Great exercise! Thanks Ben!

Thanks Uncle Ben !!

That guitar is gorgeous Uncle Ben. Nice exercise! Slowing down them sweeps is always a challenge to make them that clean. I’m gonna go clean my room first. Then clean up my arp’s. Ty bro! #dingwingmalware

Got it, thanks Uncle Ben! 🤟

This was really helpful at drunk step dad speed (0.5x)

Sweeping & economy picking just never made sense to my stubborn right hand. I grew up in the era, where the teacher said (ala Al Di meola) "DOWN, UP, DOWN, UP!" It was strict alternate picking or legato. Thank God for NUno & Paul Gilbert, who introduced me to string skipping, which felt way more natural, and allowed me to kinda, sorta fake sweep arpeggios, if i lightly muted a bit.

Ben I love the way u breakdown solos and their theory , are you gonna do any more synyster gates solos any time soon?🤘

A feather…..😂😂😂 you need a comedy page dude.

Thanks for the Father’s Day gift uncle Ben❤

Dear Uncle Ben, I'm a big fan of your workouts and I think the instruction you share on your channel is hands down stuff that many other guitar teachers would happily charge for! I'm sure I speak for literally thousands of other players when I say thank you for these mini-lessons! I have one suggestion, but mind you, this may very well be just caused by my own idiosyncrasies when it comes to sweeping, but here goes. This etude makes great (and musical!) use of many triad shapes on the treble strings, but I notice two that are conspicuously missing. I guess you already know the one's I'm talking about, these are the first inversion Major and minor triads that require finger rolling to execute. Now the reason I bring this up is that while the one-finger-per-fret-per string shapes can be used to perfect timing and movement in sweeping, for me at least one of the trickiest things has always been executing those shapes with rolls evenly and cleanly. So my suggestion for those playing this etude would be to add in those shapes with rolling in there as well. Playing through those shapes also helps one to not classify the rolled triad shapes as "being in a category of their own", just because of the technique required to execute them. I feel this helps with musical expression and definitely helps with integrating sweep picking in your own playing. A second thing that at least I struggle with is maintaining consistency and timing with arpeggio lines that have a lot of legato articulations mixed in, so that your actual picking hand does this "start-stop" type -of deal instead of one fluid movement. Like a 5-string minor 7th arpeggio in root position, for example. Playing that starting from the root note, you have one hammer-on (root to minor third) on the 5th string, then sweep across two strings and have a second hammer-on (minor 7th to root) on the third string etc. I find these to be *especially* tricky, since your picking hand has to be fixed in place, waiting for the next note in the arpeggio. Why I wrote all this is that I don't think that type of timing is necessarily easily practiced by using shapes where your hammer-ons or pull-offs happen only at the ends of the passage.

Very cool! I like that this exercise is straight eighth notes (or 16ths?) Instead of just a two octave arpeggio up and down across the neck. Your exercise demands more control... cheers🤘🤘🤘

Frank Gambale is the master of this picking style. He breezes through difficult passages with ease

Mousemeet’s 16th album just hits different. 🍻 UB

Loved the lesson, but you eent down the memory rabbit hole about the playing card in the bike rim. Took me back! Lol old man here too.

Yep. I read.

Real tabs. Yas!

Hi Ben, thanks for all your amazing videos!!! Does that Suhr have the pau ferro fingerboard? Thanks from Belgium!

There was an old Tom and Jerry episode with the baby that crawled all over the place, and had a sound track that played when the baby was shown.....that sounds remarkably similar to this lesson

Buz Mcgrath of Unearth is one of the best sweepers I've seen. Check out "my will be done." And I read everything, including faux horse hair.

Thank you very much Uncle Ben... I requested this on Patreon..

Me gusta la sugerencia

I would say Tosin Abasi, Muhammad Suicmez, Jason Richardson and Olaf Lenk have some of the sexiest sweeppicking. That said, I will have to also mention the OG himself, Yngwie Malmsteem. His sweeps match his tone. A lot of guitarists, imcluding the ones I memtioned before, have sweeps that sound like they're from a different channel and they slice through the mix, but not Yngwie. His sweeps are built into his riffs.

My fave vid coach. Ironically for me, I’m a stepdad…. Trying to play more like a regular dad. 😮😂

My sweeping sucks, but I have a complete set of the Skybox Marvel Universe series IV card set. But I would trade it all for tone like George Lynch.

Oh damn, I’m in a different time zone and the clock has ticked over here. Guess I need to sign up!

You have a very unhealthy obsession with step-parents. Is there something you are not telling us!!🤣🤣 Great lesson, one of the most explanatory I have seen on sweeping! I struggle with it, so any help appreciated.

Need to practice this until my sweeps as clean as Buz McGrath

I saw you with Andy Wood last night and didnt realize you played bass. Sounded great! How come you don't put out more bass content?

Tube Balloons tied to forks and sounded off rubbing on spokes of wheels. Only go forward! 🙂

*UNCLE BEN!*

I could see Ben doing a TED talk about shredding

Ben I’ve got a challenge for you. Pleasure dome VH. Please for the love of all things give it a crack. It’s my favorite VH song of all time. No one can do it but I know you can

Already tried can’t do it Ben can’t help it

Its interesting to see how flat your pick is to the strings.

I'm more of a mop picker

still ever gonna do White lion "Tell Me" Solo?

Geezz Louise .. Uncle Benny Bob. This is one of my favorite exercises so far, This one will keep me ticked off and frustrated at my guitar and self for a while. LOL But it's way too cool; to not to try and get down. Oh Louise is my step mom's name.. (AKA Easy La Wheezy) But you already knew that didn't you? You Rascal. Thanks Uncle Benny Bob for an exceptionally cool and fun lesson. You and your work are appreciated. Like Big Time.

Best sweep-picker IMHO: Michael Angelo Batio. Breathing comes less naturally to me than shredding does to him.

It sounds like the Oppenhiemer theme.

Sickest sweeper? Probably Jason Richardson.

Whatever happened to the proposed cooking with uncle Ben channel?

Ja I am now the fastests guitars player just like Yngwie.

Jason Becker

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Nope. You're all wrong. Pretty sure Liu Kang had the sickest sweep in all the land.

#YOLOMouseMeat

Be a pumpkin Ben...

So does that make you the Head Wanker? Wanker in Chief? 😂

Yngwie doesn't sweep pick he plays arpeggios, this the poor mans version brah brah

I loved the way Jason Becker sweeped (swept? lol) back in the 80s because he never did it without melody being at the forefront, but nowadays it's been so over used and done to death by the yootoob djent crowd that it just sounds soulless to me, theres almost no melodic sweep picking anymore its just "dooodlenoodleloop". I've now actually grown to hate the sound of it, which is a shame really. 😢