Sweep Arpeggios

This Course is not for begginers who want to learn the basics of sweep picking, but for those of who already understand the concept and can put it into use.

In music, an arpeggio is a broken chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence, one after the other instead of ringing out simultaneously. And the word arpeggio, like so many other music terms, originates from Italian, in which it means "in the manner of the harp."

Some Easy Arpeggios to Start with are these three, and are great excercises.

-15p12-----|| -15p11-----|| -17p12-----||
------13---|| ------13---|| ------13---||
--------12-|| --------12-|| --------14-||
-----------|| -----------|| -----------||
-----------|| -----------|| -----------||
-----------|| -----------|| -----------||
Thats^just down, now^for the other^half.
-----12h15-|| -----11h15-|| -----12h17-||
---13------|| ---13------|| ---13------||
-12--------|| -12--------|| -14--------||
-----------|| -----------|| -----------||^Combine
-----------|| -----------|| -----------||Now take the top and bottoms put 
-----------|| -----------|| -----------||Them together and sweep it.

Do Not Go Any Farther until you can sweep those proficently, and cleanly. They dont have to be fast, just legible and correct.

Now a bit of the C Major Arpeggio.

-15p12------12-||                     
------13--13---||
--------12-----||
---------------||
---------------||
---------------||

And a more difficult Diminished Arpeggio.

-15p12------------12-||
------14--------14---||
--------15p12h15-----||
---------------------||
---------------------||
---------------------||

Now for this lick you have to roll your finger over the 12th fret.

-15p12------12-||
------12--12---||
--------12-----||
---------------||
---------------||
---------------||

Once again do not go farther untill you are able to sweep those proficently.
These new sweeps add an extra 2 strings, And Hammer on's pull-offs may cause alot of snags.

Now, to start naming some arpeggios, here is D Minor.

---------13h17p13---------||
-------15--------15-------||
-----14------------14-----||
---15----------------15---||
-17--------------------17-||
--------------------------||

And D Major.

---------14h17p14---------||
-------15--------15-------||
-----14------------14-----||
---16----------------16---||
-17--------------------17-||
--------------------------||

A Minor

------------12h17p12------------||
----------13--------13----------||
--------14------------14--------||
------14----------------14------||
-12h15--------------------15p12-||
--------------------------------||

A Major

------------12h17p12------------||
----------14--------14----------||
--------14------------14--------||
------14----------------14------||
-12h16--------------------16p12-||
--------------------------------||

E Minor

------------12h15p12------------||
----------12--------12----------||
--------12------------12--------||
------14----------------14------||
-10h14--------------------14p10-||
--------------------------------||

E Major

------------12h16p12------------||
----------12--------12----------||
--------13------------13--------||
------14----------------14------||
-11h14--------------------14p11-||
--------------------------------||

This is just a lesson with some simple arpeggios, but I am going to add onto this or make a new lesson with some more advanced arpeggios. I hope that the people who read this with a guitar in their hands put it to good use, and might have actually learned something.

Questions, corrections or comments? Post on the Lesson, or email me. Good Luck at Sweeping Everybody, And make sure to practice!

Comments

[theconnection]

helped me 1st comment

[Life Is Brutal]

Cool, glad I helped somebody for once, lol.

[totally stoked]

awesome job!
helped me heaps

[FFTLxx]

Great lesson, if you're going extend the lesson, tapped notes would be a good thing to add.

[demoniacfashion]

Damn seems like I'll never get good at this.

[andrewAnimosity]

nice lesson

[Life Is Brutal]

demoniacfashion wrote:

Damn seems like I'll never get good at this.

The First three sweeps are fairly easy, and The first one is actually a part of the D Arpeggios, just switched up a bit. If you take on the smaller ones, you get your fingers and mind ready for the larger ones. If you have trouble with the big ones, just break them down into 3 or 4 note sweeps, and when your ready try to take the whole thing.

[Life Is Brutal]

BTW, The Next lesson would basically have some more complicated sweeps, and would have some ideas tabbed out for switching arpeggios, and some other stuff, And thank you FFTLxx, I should add some sweep taps.

[ALeMmjon]

Real nice lesson. Thanks mate!

[TravuhsWree]

This helped me a lot.

[deathslayer03]

sweet lesson, expanded my playing

[Thrasher_09]

Please, more diminished arpeggios.

[mightmuffin]

Cool lesson thanks.

[We Are The TIDE]

Although this is very good, I already knew these, and there's always the non-technical sweeps to do, and the complicated Augmented ones, but they're more for the guitar player to mold out, rated a 9*, because I knew all this, but it's still pretty useful.
The Augmented arpeggio, took me a figure out and perfect that..

[Life Is Brutal]

We Are the Tide

This is just a bit of the basics, some easy theory arpeggios, and stuff.
And besides, it's impossible to get every kind of arpeggio into the lesson Database on UG, theres way too many combinations and types and ect.

[Guitarfreak900]

this was a decentlesson. props.

[x3x.duddee.x3x]

The 1st three are EXACTALLY like the sweeping outro in Avenged Sevenfold's "Seize the day", only they go out to the D

[Life Is Brutal]

^ Whats funny is I was learning that song a little bit ago lol...

[GisleAune]

That's great

[[travis]]

Thanks a lot, this helped out a lot. I've known some of these sweeps, but I've never knew what they were called (D Maj, etc.).

[RocknRollRay]

is your a maj and minor right?
i thought it went 12h15p12 not 12h17p12.
correct me if im wrong

[RocknRollRay]

wait nevermind

[achaneygtp]

Awesome. yep put to good use with guitar in me hand

[screamo_emo915]

good lesson to learn a a couple apreggios on =]
nice job =]
thanks dude

[blommen]

really a good starting point to learn some arpeggios thanks a bunch

[beno_guitar9]

Nice work dude =) This helped me a lot

[Life Is Brutal]

Hey, BTW, If you comment, could you please rate too? Or Vise Versa.

[Rabada]

How about adding in which fingers to play each fret?

[Life Is Brutal]

^Good point, but Unfortunately I cant update a lesson.

[Lotsagrapes]

Cool story bro.

[BillR87]

Thanks for these Extremely useful nice!

[7stringuzr]

Very nice!!! you need to add 7 string sweeps and tapped notes next time

[dave742]

Finally. a sweep lesson that just gets to the point and has 'beginner' 'intermediate' and 'expert' part to it.

thank you so very much.

[Life Is Brutal]

These are some of the most common arpeggio shapes you'll find. You'll see shapes like this in almost any sweeping song infact, or atleast pieces of them.

7stringuzr wrote:

Very nice!!! you need to add 7 string sweeps and tapped notes next time

I would, but its pretty easy to just play an arepggio, and tap a note at the top and its best if you make them up yourself.

BillR87 wrote:

Thanks for these Extremely useful nice!

Thanks.

[arpeggiosbad]

Thanks, i can play some of the three string sweeps but not 4,5 and 6 because everytime i try it just mutes the strings and my fingers dont go fast enough, and it doesnt sound like arpeggios.. I ckeep thinking im just not the type of person that would play sweep arpeggios Can you help? thnks

[Life Is Brutal]

Dont worry about speed. I said that like 3 times in the lesson. Just clarity. Eventually muscle memory will have you remember the shape and you'll be able to play it in a heart beat.

Get into heavy metal, or virtuoso's who sweep pick. If you can't play it full speed, just attempt it and build up the memory.

And for me, The 5 and 6 strings are easiest. I had problems muting the 3 shapes untill about 3 months ago, lol.

So if anyone has any problems, PM, and ill try to help.

[Life Is Brutal]

And I lol'ed at your user name. LOL...arpeggiosbad...

Were you looking at the lesson before you registered?

[arpeggiosbad]

yup, i looked at it and i cudplay 3 string but then i cudnt play anything else, so i called my name arpeggiosbad lol

[arpeggiosbad]

i learnt this 6 string A major shape and its playing the little notes at a good speed and i think its impossible for my fingers!

[sean_4c]

thanks!

[sean_4c]

nice lesson here. thanks!

[eatfresh1736]

solid lesson. It's nothing I didn't know, or couldn't figure out, but it's good to have someone write the method for everyone to see.

[kaizerkhan13]

glad i found this dude. you commented on my question about sweepeing so i checked it out. keep it comin man

[isildurs_bane]

HEY ASSHOLE!
http://www.insaneguitar.com/mc/sweeping.html

LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU?!

[Life Is Brutal]

isildurs_bane wrote:

HEY ASSHOLE!
http://www.insaneguitar.com/mc/sweeping.html

LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU?!

Yeah, it does. Thats where I learned the shapes from.

If somethings posted on the internet, Its no longer your information. Now, Does that website owner OWN the D minor arpeggio? Does he OWN The Diminished interval? NO. Therefore I could take his information, and put it elsewhere.
Now give me those words you used in that useless post, they're mine.

[Goodtimes666]

yes this is exactly what i was looking for, finally some one who has something helpful to offer. thanks man

[scr3w f3nd3r]

l0vely job mate, this actually help me. way to keep it simple \--/ rock on!

[121lespaul]

Great lesson i've been searching for a nice arpeggio lesson and just happened to stumble upon it in the forums as your signature i rate it 10