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Incorporating sweep picking into solo's.


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Hey guys, I've been working on my sweep picking technique a lot lately, but I am have trouble incorporating them into solos. Does anyone have any examples (from easy to hard) of metal songs with sweep picking in them, that I could learn, so I can figure out how to work them into my own stuff?

 

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Hopefully others here more versed in metal than I can offer you some recordings, but as a jazz player (hey, the two aren't that unrelated), I usually throw in ascending arpeggios to start off an idea. I'm much better at ascending then descending, but I'll just take a 4 or 5 note arpeggio of the current chord and when I reach the top I'll go down a scale, major or pentatonic or whatever would sound cool.

 

Here's something cool to try: If the chord is Am, you can play an Am arp, Cmajor, Eminor (or major) or even Gmajor. The last one may sound a little out of place in metal however, but works in jazz. The first couple would work great. Especiall Emajor over Am (some harmonic minor action there).

 

With the Emajor arp, you can then resolve to an Am pentatonic scale and play some licks. Another cool sound is a G#dim7 arpeggio (another idiomatic sound to harmonic minor) resolving to Am pent. The Emajor (or E7) and G#dim7 sounds are kind of interchangeable. Just like Am and Cmajor are interchangeable.

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try ending the arpeggio with a major seventh then resolve it to the root....the idea is to make the arpeggio end into the melody you are about to play. yngwie does this alot, especially harmonic minor rifts. by the way, jazz is defined as an american musical style of the 20th century characterized by syncopated rhythms and improvisation. it is my belief that metal meets this criteria....metal comes from rock and the blues which come from jazz....louie armstrong once said: "if you dont know what it is its jazz"....this last year armed only with the idea that if i could play classical guitar and jazz guitar then i was only limited to the style i wanted to play, i joined a heavy metal band, with the entent of learning the style. i had never played it before...but i wanted to prove a point to myself that i knew in my heart as truth. now 8 months have past since then...i can honestly say that my idea was right and the experiment a success. jazz rules, it started it all

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