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Tribute Excerpt - Sweep Picking Etude

Richard Lundmark
Advanced-Crazy!MetalTechnique 15 lessons57m

Holiday greetings and salutations guitar slingers! X-mas is drawing near, and what says happy holidays better than a sweeping-frenzy? In this technique/song tutorial, we will take a look at an excerpt from the song Tribute off my Fretdance(2003) album. The song itself is a pretty strange mix of techno and shred, and the sweeping etude is the second part of the tune. The whole thing was mostly inspired by the works of Jason Becker, hence the title "Tribute". However, we will start the tutorial by going through some key sweeping exercises that I feel are needed to be well prepared for the Tribute excerpt later on. Also, if you are at all unfamiliar with the concept of sweeping, I also recommend that you take a look at Sean Conklin’s Arpeggio Etude tutorial. Once you've gone through that and watched the video, head on over to Exercise 1!

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  1. 1 3:27 Lesson · 3m Sweep Picking - Introduction Holiday greetings and salutations guitar slingers! X-mas is drawing near, and what says happy holidays better than a sweeping-frenzy? In this technique/song tutorial, we will take a look at an excerpt from the...
  2. 2 4:29 Lesson · 4m Sweep Picking - Exercise 1 Alright then! In this first exercise, we will look at an exercise designed to help you focus on right/left hand synchronization. By keeping the pattern pretty basic, with no finger-rolls (more on that in... Tab
  3. 3 3:58 Lesson · 4m Sweep Picking - Exercise 2 Ok then, in this exercise we will look at another crucial aspect of sweeping, the finger roll. And no, this is not an appetizer you might find on Hannibal the Cannibal's dinner table. Whenever you play... Tab
  4. 4 4:21 Lesson · 4m Sweep Picking - Exercise 3 In this section, we will look at an arpeggio exercise that covers some wide interval stretches. This is in order to prepare you for some of the bigger fingerings occurring later on in this tutorial. This is... Tab
  5. 5 2:09 Lesson · 2m Tribute Excerpt - Introduction This part serves as an introduction to the sweeping etude, so just watch it as a warm-up for the next part.
  6. 6 1:53 Lesson · 2m Tribute Excerpt - Full Video Alright! Here it is, the big chunk of all-you-can-eat sweep-o-rama! This video is just the actual performance, so once you watch this through and get a feel for the piece, move on to the breakdown parts. You... Tab
  7. 7 4:41 Lesson · 5m Tribute Excerpt - Breakdown 1 First breakdown section! All explanations will be found in the video. Please note that I wont go over every single bar in this piece, since much of it is just repetition, or maybe the exact same sweep... Tab
  8. 8 3:34 Lesson · 4m Tribute Excerpt - Breakdown 2 Here is the second breakdown section! Tab
  9. 9 3:59 Lesson · 4m Tribute Excerpt - Breakdown 3 Here is the third breakdown section! Tab
  10. 10 3:54 Lesson · 4m Tribute Excerpt - Breakdown 4 Here is the fourth breakdown section. Get to work! =) Tab
  11. 11 5:11 Lesson · 5m Tribute Excerpt - Breakdown 5 Here is the fifth breakdown section! Tab
  12. 12 5:29 Lesson · 5m Tribute Excerpt - Breakdown 6 The sixth and final breakdown, and then you're done! Now, all you need to do is try these sweeps out in your own playing and improvisation! Remember, as always, learning something is just step 1. Application... Tab
  13. 13 3:07 Backing track · 3m Tribute Excerpt - Backing Track: 90bpm Here is the backing track for your practicing pleasure. This one is at 90bpm, so slightly above half-tempo. The reason for not putting it up in half tempo is that some of the note-values such as quintuplets...
  14. 14 1:48 Backing track · 2m Tribute Excerpt - Backing Track: 155bpm And here we have the same thing in 155bpm, the original tempo. Get to work, and then listen to (or before, if you like) the original tune after that to hear it in context.
  15. 15 4:34 Backing track · 5m Tribute - Full Original Track And here is the full original track from the FretDance(2003) album. Apart from the sweep etude part, it also has some interesting harmonic extravaganza that I might cover in an upcoming tutorial on harmonics...

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