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- Alternate Picking BasicsLEVEL 3Licks examples and detailed explanations of how to start working on the right hand alternate picking technique, including hand positions, basic mechanics of the movement, pick angles, hand angles, strength management.
- Alternate Picking RiffsLEVEL 6140 BPM heavy progression - improve your timing and speed!
- Strict Alternate PickingLEVEL 6The most aggressive-sounding picking there is. NB not for the faint-hearted!
- Manic SweepingLEVEL 8An exercise made to help you speed up and clean up you sweeping, open your mind and give you fresh new ideas.
- Masters of SweepingLEVEL 3An epic journey into sweep picking, looking at the styles of three of the world's greatest artists.
- Spacial SweepingLEVEL 8Modern arpeggio shapes over metal backing for sweep picking practice
- Alternate Picking 3LEVEL 4Alternate picking etude combined with string skipping. Next step if you already feel comfortable with medium speed picking on one string or those close to each other. Recommended once you're done with Alternate Picking Workout 2 lesson.
- Alternate Picking WorkoutLEVEL 5Alternate Picking lesson at the level 6. Contains medium fast picking and different variations of licks - ascending, descending and two string skipping options. Speed itself is not as much the challenge, as the position shifts and string skipping.
- Alternate Picking Riffs 2LEVEL 7Alternate picking patterns to improve dynamics and overall control. Good rhythm tone starts in your hands!
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Alexiaden9318th June 2009Awesome composition and lesson ! Reminded me somewhat of Canon - Johann Pachelbel
Lian Gerbino14th April 2008great lesson! i am on it right now!
Carlos Carrillo21st March 2008fantastic lesson and nice job!!!!!!!!
thanks Pavel
Mager20th January 2008Ow, (;
fantastic
Pavel28th November 2007What do you mean?
kyldeee28th November 2007I can't see the video 1
Jenkinson18th November 2007Kris said it, Wicked.
Xranthoius12th November 2007sweeping and alternate picking... both in which i cant do : great lesson pavel!!!
- Pavel14th August 2007
Yes! Pick and slide at the same time!
mattacuk14th August 2007Mr Pavel, on part three are you picking before you slide like on the other licks? thanks!
- Pavel29th July 2007
Jeffrey i don't know what you are doing wrong if you don't make a video of you playing sweeps. It could help if i could see your sweeps. Playing them slowly is also a big part of getting them clean.
Sweeping is most often referred to arpeggios, and usually you actually play a chord in arpeggio - note by note. That's the point of sweeping. The thing is - there are so many different chords you can play using sweeping that you'll never run out of ideas.
"in any scale in the key of E?" actually makes no sense. Because if it's in the key of E than you will use E-Major scale as a basic scale. And you will have all the chords that go with key of E at your disposal to play sweeps. - Jeffrey29th July 2007
Im a little sweep-retarded=P Maybe I am not muting the strings right or I have to much distortion, I can't seem to get my sweeps as clean as your no matter what I do=(
Also can you do sweeps in all scaleS? and do sweeps have to be arpeggios? If so to the first ?? can you make a sweeping lesson in anyscale in the key of E?
I love the lesson I hope you keep on making lessons as great as you are now=) great inspiration, Happy playing...
-Jeffrey - Victafor1st July 2007
this is definately one of my favorites. and its in my skill range. great
- Dansol7th June 2007
Sweet lesson
Aaron24th May 2007im having the same problem. . . am i doin something wrong
- Aaron12th May 2007
just amazing
you25th April 2007I cna't get my alternate picking to sound right. Instead of flowing smoothly it sounds like it is in sections like 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2.
GuitarDude24th April 2007I think this will help me alot
thanks pavel- Pavel24th April 2007
Great! Thanks Kris!
Kristofer Dahl24th April 2007Tab link is now working.
Wicked lesson Pavel!- Pavel24th April 2007
Thanks a lot guys!
@atconner: the tab will be fixed soon - sorry - it's the new interface bug. Thanks for the tip!
@FaithfullyForgotten: go for it man! I am glad i am inspiring you! Really! Thanks again m8!
@you: sometimes i sit down and work on lessons when i have inspiration, and sometimes the licks for the lessons come to me while a regular practice routine so it all depends on my mood. If i get an idea for a lesson it takes me like 30 minutes to develop it into a full lesson, sometimes a bit more - again it's all about how i feel that day! 
FaithfullyForgotten24th April 2007Hey you guitar playin SumB*&^% once again your showin off the greatness you've acheived one day ill be as good as you,ever since i started coming to this site,you immediatley became an inspiration for me to want to learn and be better just that much more youre the greatest Pavel,keep it comin man
- atconner24th April 2007
Uhhm, not to be a nay-sayer, but I can't actually access the tab version. >.> Is anyone else having this problem?
The Uncreator23rd April 2007One more thing, this is probably the best set of licks youve come up with, great melody and feeling!
- The Uncreator23rd April 2007
Kickass Lesson and great tunes!
- you23rd April 2007
I saw that you are just making up all your stuff and practicing like 6 hours a day. How long does it take to come up with most of these riffs and things?
TheProof23rd April 2007the sweeps i do are very BAD lol! specially in comparison to yours but i'm working on john petrucci 3 string sweeps and the human abstract wacked out sweeps and then your vid
- Granite23rd April 2007
The link for the tab(text version) isnt working for me(I dont use guitar pro.)
Again an excellent study by pavel. Keep em coming. - Pavel23rd April 2007
BPM is 120
Of course you play it with Barre - just as i did in the video. You only need it for those 9th frets. After you played that you can remove the barre and play the alternate picking section normally.
@TheProof: metal sweeps are in Sweeping 5-string shapes lesson. If you mastered that maybe you could post a video of you sweeping, at the forum - TheProof23rd April 2007
metal sweeps are on my christmas list pavel, don't let me down XD
Eat-Sleep-andJam22nd April 2007Great. I will be workin on this for quite some time until its perfected, and then make it my own.
Couple questions: How many Bpm is this played in ?
And also
|----------------------------------------|
|------------9-10-12-10-9----------------|
|----------9--------------11-9-11s-13----|
|--------9-------------------------------|
|-----11---------------------------------|
|--12------------------------------------|
And that sweeping lick above shown in video 6, On the Three 9th fret notes played in a row from the D to B string , can you use a Barre to play that those notes or will that slow the sweeping or speedpicking up ?
Ryan22nd April 2007great just what i needed
- you22nd April 2007
Awesome new lesson Pavel. From you the more the better.
Rvddps22nd April 2007
How are you so good?
, really man, you make it look so easy, its just so fluid, i like it .
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With this lesson I will continue my Sweep Picking serie. I came up with this lesson while composing one of my songs, and i think this will be a great practice for those who want to practice sweep picking and alternate picking at the same time. There are also some tricky fingerings so i hope this one will be useful to you!
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