i need some help with technique.

i've been playing guitar for..**** like 10 years now.

i never took lessons, self taught, but i think its come to the point where i regret never taking lessons.

i really want to learn a lot of techniques that are hard to just pick up on your own.

i guess that is irrelevant, what i'm asking is if anyone can describe a technique or easy way to practice and learn "sweeps" and arpeggios, scales and modes?

books are kind of hard to follow...any suggestions? even a better book might help. i am currently using the guitar grimoire but again, its confusing and hard to know what i should be practicing.

i think maybe i need to study music theory or something. i'm just at the point where i think ive learned all i could learn on my own and its super frustrating to be just blank..im sure youve all been there. plus, i live in Buffalo NY and i cant find any guitar teachers....

any help would be great.

thanks!

Have you tried looking around this site?
There's plenty of stuff with tabs and mp3's.

i actually posted this, then read some posts around the site. theres a ton of info on here. im still browsing...hopefully ill find some stuff that can get me going in the right direction. if you happen to know of a topic i should check out, do tell!

thanks!

Hot licks tapes can show you techneque's and you get not only an audio but a visual lesson.
Also go to the clubs and watch the bands there are good bands in Buffalo,watch the guitar players and try and pickup stuff ask questions.If you find a player with allot of stuff you wanna know,ask if he'll give you a few lessons.
Also jam with as many players that are better than you as you can,you may not learn licks on the spot but you will be inspired with idea's and new licks will pop out of know were.
Also are you sure theres nowere to take lessons???Look in the yellow pages in the phone book or ask the stores who teachs for them,most stores have a lessons guy.


[Edited by Guitar-Sam on 12-10-2003 at 07:35 AM]

I am not a great sweep picker, but one good sweep picking technique guy would be Chriss Empalati (don't mind the spelling) he has some supper fast tequnique's and break it down very slow, can't remember the video I was watching, but the name is close look it up!

Do you mean Chris Impellitiri?
There are lots of good sweep picking workouts posted here by leandro spataro. Many were Jason Becker sweeps so expect them to be hard!

I don't remember for sure. I was hust thinking of one of those guitar lesson video tapes I used to sit and practice to over and over until I wanted to make my guitar a coffee table. Any way it had a lot of sweeping, and extended scales and stuff. not sure about the last name, I could be that far off?

Actually, you're both wrong.

Its..

Impellitteri.

Try making friends with another guitarrist who knows the techniques. Sometimes its easier when you can actually see the technique being done.

I love anything to do with arpegios and sweep picking. Try typing "carcass" in on the search on guitartricks. There should be a piece with a sound file. It is a paul guilbert song with arpegios and would be good to learn. Sound file is bad quality though. Not sure which paul guilbert song it is either... so i'm going to ask some people on this forum :)