sweeping? arpeggios? I need help.

can anybody give me a good lesson on how to do these?

from what I understand there's plenty of lessons on sweeping when you register with the site.

Try this video for sweeps. Sweeps are the hardest thing to try to explain/master, and videos will never quite be 100% helpful since it's one of those things that would benefit from a physical instructor. This video does a really good job though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbx03mP5eg

Originally Posted by: Jake.can anybody give me a good lesson on how to do these?

I did a number of lessons on sweeping arpeggios here:
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=408
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=211

Also, this one has good info about triads and building arpeggio patterns in the first place:
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=389

I found John Petrucci's demonstration on sweep-picking pretty helpful. I think it was called Psycho Exercises.

Check out Michael Angelo's Speed Lives dvd - its almost entirely on youtube at this stage... he gets a lot of flack for looking goofy but his technique is unbelievable plus he is very good at explaining the movements and breaking them down to the componant parts. I bought the dvd ages ago and I have to say it pretty much covers everything you need to be able to play just about anything. I've heard great things about the John Petrucci vids too btw...

Here's a good lesson on it:

http://www.shredacademy.com/lessons/Roo/sweepvid.htm

Actually, there's a whole bunch of free lessons on sweep picking on that website.

hey Jake !

Whatever you do, take your time as much as you need to get a feel for the technique, start extremely slow and only increase speed when you feel confident enough. That's really a key to mastering that technique...

http://musical-frogs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2309