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Even not being a beginner, we see the "basic" stuff with new eyes and always learn some details we didn't earlier. Learning is a circle and everytime we review "old" lessons we don't bother with basic difficulties and pay attention to the details.

I'm determined to learn this technique and I'm making some progress thanks to your videos. I just turned 65 years old and there are additional challenges, like when I realized that I have a lot of bad habits that are older than you!

I'm 55 years old. Grew up trying to learn malmsteen licks in the 80's. But I love these shredding videos. You are so fluid and precise. Adding you to my favorite guitarists/teachers of all time. You have an amazing gift on guitar that I wish more of the world could appreciate like I do. Thank you.

I recommend using synester gates solos as a sweeping example. His way of sweeping has multiple genres included in the album city of evil. The song I'm working on is MIA.

Is it bad that all I hear is Avenged Sevenfold? 😂

I'm a perpetual advanced beginner I guess. Guitar is my zen. Working on things like this is a form of focused meditation for me. Thanks for all you do!

Not only do I remember 'Stabwound' very well, I also grew up in the same town as these guys. I've worked with two of their early drummers, one of them being a buddy of mine. One day he gave me their demo 'cassette tape' and I was blown away. He invited me to one of their rehearsals in a basement so I could sit in and watch them practice. It was quite something to watch. So disciplined, and unbelievable instrumental skills. It's so well deserved how Necrophagist became an icon in their genre.

This is exactly my hang up with sweep picking. The bottom and top are defined, with those sloppy ghost notes in between. I haven’t put lots of effort into it until now, so it’s exciting to hear that this is how you began as well. Practice and instructors break boundaries

You are my guitar hero Bernth. I've been a Rhythm guitarist for years, but I'm focusing on being a lead guitarist now, and getting to your level would be a dream!

just here to thank you, trying to learn Tornado of Souls' Solo right now and it has been quite the inspiration, like it's been stuck in my head until I learn the whole thing

I’ve been hitting my sweeps HARD to play the solo in From Nothing by Reflections. Six string diminished sweeps through three inversions at 240 bpm, it’s fuckin ruthless. I’m taking all the help I can get and I’m so glad you’re uploading stuff that’s applicable 😅🙏

I haven't played for 3 years I can still play but I'm hella sloppy. Thank you so much for this, hope I get better again

Awesome video and lessons! Can’t wait to download the Patreon course. Just the final lesson you showed does look a bit scary… 😅. Gonna be fun, as always! Thanks for all your great lessons!

I had been playing on the same shitty guitar and amp for over a decade. Finally upgraded my gear and actually have different sound effects! I'd always stuck to jazz for the most part. Im excited to practice shredding techniques. I've got a strong grasp on music theory and your videos have been helping me a lot. Thank you much!

3 days after finding this video and I am genuinely already making progress with my sweeping. I can't thank you enough daddy Bernth.

Brilliant lesson, thanks. Hopefully it’ll help me get passed this huge block in my playing.

Great lesson , Bernth. I have been hoping for more exercises chaining sweeps together and including lead lines. I need more of this.

this is what i exactly needed, i always wanted to sweep pick smoothly when i started. and i m stil hoping to do it

Great lesson - You are a guitar playing beast!

Dude fuckin stabwound is incredible and the solo, while not nearly as technical as their other ones is gloriously filthy and by far my favorite

you are the best teacher on YT Bernth !

love this. I don't recommend watching on way to work though because immediately you wanna be back home with your hands on your guitar.

This is what im looking for !!! THANKS BERNTH🤙🔥🔥

great sweep picking techniques exercise from you.loved and enjoyed your lesson.thanks a lot for it.

Thank You Master Bernth for the info👏👏

Very good lesson Bernth. Sweep and alternate pick exercise I use is Machine (solo fill in) by Born of Osiris.

You're the man dude!

Bernth your music inspires me

appreciate your video, thank you

Great advice. 👍

Omg !!!!!!! This is actually such a quality video

I LOVE Stabwound haha, blast from the past

헐 번스 형ㅜㅜ 한글로 까지 !! 고마워요 !!

I liked a lot the exercises. Thanks. Cheers from Perú.

Thank you for posting this I have the problem of dead notes when sweep picking too

So glad you made this vid! Learning some sweep parts for children of bodom songs “bed of razors” and “warheart” but somewhat similar but I’m a beginner at them so any lessons will definitely help 🤘🏻

I need this sweeping techniques because of canon rock thank you so much for your free tutorial

Thank you

Best teacher

Been playing for 15 years and my impatience caused me to need to go back to basics.

haha bro you are describing my problem perfectly; this is amazing, you are exactly what I've been looking for.

Very 🆒 Bernth I'll try these out

I'm not a sweeper, most guitarist sound terrible sweeping. Bernth you actually do it extremely well, that is rare in my opinion.

"Deep down I always knew that it's just a trick..." My entire guitar technique. Lots of people think I'm good. But I know the truth. Gotta get real skills now though.

Kerenn euyy mang bernth,mugi sukses sareng sehat

Luv it when he sweeeps

Wait ...is that cat tought you how to sweep ?

This actually really helped me. i did this arpeggio shape with 190 bpm metronome for 15 min every day for a week and now i can sweep pick, not perfectly but yeah

My approach is to play the hardest songs, with metronome from the slowest speed, first getting all the notes right, then gradually building speed (slowly) and sometimes I push Myself way too hard to challenge myself and break my limit. And when I struggle to play smooth and clean at those very high speeds, I go back to to slow metronome again and I build it up again. And repeat the whole process over and over again and again. And the results are far too sweet. I didn't even expected to give these good results. But this way works for me.

STABWOUND! That song alone got me into tech death

Gonna try and learn Altitudes in the future

I don't even play metal but I'm going to learn this, I'm determined

Thank you 😢

Currently practicing Caprice 24 even though I'm a beginner. Thank God I found this vid.

BERNTH your timing is amazing both uploading videos and playing guitar!! 😆I just started learning how to sweep a few days ago and now you upload this. Thank you so much for your knowledge!!

Muhammed is such an insane guitarist. I wanted to get a Xiphose just because he played one.

Thanks

The H.R. Giger is my dream guitar. I would love the chance to own one, I've been waiting since it came out, like 25+ years now. Beautiful guitar I hope one day I will have one.

Great video! Any chance on a tremolo picking lesson!?

Bernth, is that one of the h.r. Geiger Ibanez? It looks like his work. All time favorite artist. Well... art artists that is. Guitartist- new word lol, my favorite guitartist currently would be Bernth. He has helped break me out of a 30 year plateau. So big, huge thank you+1000x!

Hey Bernth, I will buy the sweeping masterclass course soon. Please consider making a tapping masterclass course as well!

You totally described my struggles with arpeggios, it’s uncanny. Apparently I’m a typical hack on guitar haha

All I want is to be able to play Jason Becker, but after the few years I played, Practicing almost feels pointless. This video actually helps get me outta that mindset, genuinely. Been stuck in it for a few years now.

funnily enough i came here for guidance with learning that very Necrophagist lick lmao good video, bro

I improve my sweep also forgetting about my fretting hand and relax it, then roll the fingers to the sweep and the pick will do the sweep(pendulum) motion automatically

Best teacher watching you from IRAN🇮🇷🤘🏻

Excellent playing. Incredibly tight. Very impressed. I just feel like the level of delay is very high and can be distracting. I know because I'm guilty of that myself.

I am doing exact the same kind of sweeps rn, the deadnote stuff, but i listen to a lot of bach and alot of yngwie malmsteen, and try to work on the notes in between.

Good friend sweeping

Great!! Could you make a video of how to make gallops like John Schafer from Iced Earth? He has a very rare technique to make infernal gallops.

I request a video on some Hardcore/punk techniques. I know alot of people dump on those genres, but I know it's more hard to do well than it seems, and would love too see your take, and opinions about it. Thanks for all that you do.

Thanks teacher I'm playing guitar 25 years ago on a culture riff but sweep picking is not good in my hands ,very hard to conquer the scales 😂 as I watch your guitar lesson is very good

Gonna use these exercises to learn the sweeps at the end of Sentient 6 by Nevermore :)

Dude, I would be happy being able to play your “sloppy fake arpeggios”. I’m currently at arpeggi NO. Thanks for all your posts I’m get it ;)

only 45 secs in, already know this gonna be agrwat video

In order to Psych yourself in executing a correct sweep picking technique. always think about a broom. All you have to do is push and pull the pick smoothly while gliding along the strings. The lick that really helped me achieve this technique would be Symphony Xs The Damnation game. Sorry Bernth hahaha but excellent playing though!

Alaska by between the buried and me was my motivation to sweep pick

Necrophagist is the band that got me into sweep picking

Hi Bernth, thanks for he invaluable share. Amazing sound. Are you using a 10-46 strings gauge there?

This is awesome dude! You're a fuckin master!

Hey bernth, love the videos and think your an amazing player, and was hoping to ask some advice I've just started learning to sweep pick and I have been working on some simple 3 string sweeps, it's fine when I play slow but when I play fast I miss the B string when I go up to the high strings I was wandering if you have any advice on how to correct this, or if you could possibly cover it in one of your next shorts Thx

Thanks 🌷🌷🌷😍😍❤️❤️🌷🌷

Alright, so its pretty funny that you started with that minor formation from Necrophagists Stabwound, because my largest interest in getting better at sweep picking comes from that sick riff in Born of Osiris song, Machine, and its the exact formation he uses for that riff 🤣. I'm having a difficult time getting those 16th notes in at 155bpm, I just can't seem to get my fingers to move precisely enough to get clean notes past 140 bpm. I suppose I just need more practice with the metronome but I dunno, maybe I'm 42 and too old to learn 😐

so close to 1 mil

I always stayed away from sweeping because I saw it as an advanced technique, and I simply wasn't into the sound it produces. Let me tell you that even if you are not gona put sweep arpeggios and licks into your repertory because it's simply not your style, learning it is fundamental to your right hand technique. Switching to adjacent strings becomes cleaner and more efficient. Also, I developed the bad habit of using the elbow too much on my legato/alternate picking. Alternating between "from the wrist" alternate picking and sweep picking exercices, I started to develop a much cleaner and more relaxed technique, as I began to be able to use my elbow to do the string switching much more effortlessy, as the wrist focuses on plucking.

I think I'm gonna start with the main riff to O.D. by polyphia to practice sweeping as well, mostly cause I love it's sound.

The opening arpeggio is from born of osiris machine too I think

Been olaying for two years, but not consistently due to depression, hope i can learn how to sweep pick soon :') i feel like im so behind on everything

My biggest frustration was synchronisation with the left fingers and right hand sweeping up n down.

I am trying to find a similar guitar channel for classical guitar that has play-along technique exercises, but not finding anything. It would be great to have some challenging classical guitar exercises that I could play-along with and possibly have tab as well.

Yesssss 🤘👽🤘

What delay are you using? It sounds amazing!

Good👍

Day 1:80BPM/160BPM Day 2:90BPM/200BPM Day 3: 100BPM/210BPM

My white whale was trying to learn the intro to Lake Bodom. I never did, but hopefully as a member of your Patreon I'll build my skills enough.

Hello sir we want more sweep picking

My inspiration is Tornado of souls. Prove me wrong

I’ve only been playing for a few months but i really wanna learn that one fast (i think its a sweep) bit from painkiller from Judas Priest 😎

All I ever wanted is to play the Intro from This war is Ours