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- Masters of SweepingLEVEL 3An epic journey into sweep picking, looking at the styles of three of the world's greatest artists.
- Manic SweepingLEVEL 8An exercise made to help you speed up and clean up you sweeping, open your mind and give you fresh new ideas.
- Spacial SweepingLEVEL 8Modern arpeggio shapes over metal backing for sweep picking practice
- Insane Neo-SweepingLEVEL 9Neo-classical sweeping to an simple chord progression.
- Jason Becker StyleLEVEL 9We'll work on the Sweep Picking style of Jason Becker, in 5/4 time signature.
- Jason Becker Style 3LEVEL 9This is the third and last lesson of the sweep picking series in the style of Jason Becker.
- Jason Becker Style 2: Sweeping 7th arpeggiosLEVEL 7In this new lesson we will go on with the series about Jason Becker.
- Warrior in BattleLEVEL 9Use of alternate picking in horizontal and vertical lines followed by sweeping arpeggios techniques in a very heavy metal neo-classical vibe a la Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore and Jason Becker.
- Harmonic Minor ArpeggiosLEVEL 8Intense and hard to play!
Feedback
MigeZ10th May 2009^^nice muting with hands
I sometimes find it pretty difficult to mute the strings (without using string muter or what it's called) the same time I'm sweeping. Probably becaouse I'm an inexperiented sweeper still 
Nick Kellie8th September 2008hi david - nope just the hands
nick
David Wallimann1st September 2008Great lesson Nick, very clean sweeps!
Do you use anything to mute the neck besides your hands?
mhskeide10th August 2008Haha, funny in the first vid, when you just stare in the camera like nothing, while sweeping like a machine out of sight. Great lesson
Eat-Sleep-andJam9th August 2008Your Technique is Perfect
So good, Thanks
Scorpiotic8th August 2008nice man ^^ maybe i can finally develop some speed
probably not as much to match the video but still 
Ian Bushell8th August 2008Great technique!!
- Nick Kellie7th August 2008
thanks everyone - glad you are enjoying this!
nick - Maximus7th August 2008
Nice sweeps!
Toni Suominen7th August 2008Speedy stuff mate!
Henry Dietzel7th August 2008Awesome Nick, I can't wait to run through this!!
Thanks for the lesson
Lian Gerbino7th August 2008cool nick!
Marcus Siepen7th August 2008amazing Nick, I should really work on this
Kristofer Dahl7th August 2008Thanks Nick - really cool sounding and a great illustration of how you can get creative with simplistic (but not easy) shapes!
Juan M. Valero7th August 2008amazing lesson mate !!!! love your sweeps
Danilo Capezzuto6th August 2008Great lesson Nick! Keep on!
Gabriel Leopardi6th August 2008Awesome sweep picking technique! This is a very helpful for this technique. Good job!
Hisham Al-Sanea6th August 2008nice & cool lesson Nick
Storm Linnebjerg6th August 2008Great lesson, Nick!
Pablo Vazquez6th August 2008Wow! Incredible lesson Nick!
Carlos Carrillo6th August 2008Brilliant!! A perfect adjustment of arpeggios! Incredible sound!! I believe that it is a really important technique for every guitarist! Thank you!
Marcus Lavendell6th August 2008Excellent as always Nick
Alejandro Pinero6th August 2008very good technique Nick !!
Awesome!!
Gerardo Siere6th August 2008Fantastic playing.
chmilew6th August 2008Nick you rock !
Nice lesson
Nick3256th August 2008awesome sweeping nick, so clean
sigma76th August 2008Wow so clean awesome
Trond Vold6th August 2008Thats some nice and precise sweeps! A lesson well done
kaznie_NL6th August 2008Sorry, I mean not that the lessons is to fast, just to fast for me
- kaznie_NL6th August 2008
to fast.. Great job Nick
- Nick Kellie6th August 2008
hi guys - glad you liked it.
nick 
ItsMe6th August 2008nice lesson
Bogdan Radovic6th August 2008That was awesome ! Sweeping is so cool!
Nemanja Filipovic6th August 2008Great playing Nick.like the beat too.
Ivan Milenkovic6th August 2008Very precise Nick, great sweep technique on those patterns mate.
Joe Kataldo6th August 2008Cool Lesson mate, nice shredding
Muris Varajic6th August 2008Cool sweeps Nick,well done!!
- USAMAN6th August 2008
Can you graft your super long pinky on to my hand.....You surely have alien DNA. Great lesson.
Starry Manhattan Rain6th August 2008Nice fast sweeping Nick and damn clean too. I'd love to see a lesson of you doing some Gambale style sweep picking!
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Hi Guys - OK time for some sweep action! We all love to play fast and what better way than sweeping! Once mastered, this technique has devastating speed effect! But beware - cutting corners will yield poor results in the long run and we only cheat ourselves in the end.
Muting and co-ordination are key here as well as right hand control - I recommend playing this at a moderate tempo as the hardest thing about sweeping is to keep the right hand from sweeping out of time. Sweeping in time is where the control is! Remember, these are 16th note triplets and should be played as that. You only fool yourself if you try and rush things.
No extraneous noises should be heard - make sure you mute all other strings while playing a note. Both the left hand and the right hand should cover this and I recommend recording yourself without a backing and then really scrutinize your playing, finding ways to clean up those awful, unwanted noises.
Have fun with this and see you soon!
Nick
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