Sweep picking is not limited to specific note patterns, but most use it to play arpeggios across more than one octave at lightning speed. If you are going for the metal genre you will want to focus your early practice on arpeggiated minor chords as they will be more common.
All your fretting hand is doing is simply playing the notes of chords (arpeggios) in different octaves along the neck of the guitar. And the key is to fret those notes at the same time that your picking hand plucks the string. It is very easy and obvious when done slowly, but difficult to master with speed.
Playing is all about efficiency of movement, not how quick your hands move. By starting properly and at a very slow speed we can avoid time consuming mistakes. Speaking of time, you will need a metronome to practice sweep picking, but first you need to familiarize yourself with the necessary motions.
He is an exceptionally gifted and versatile player, with an innate ability to combine incredible speed and precision with melodic charm. Many consider his alternate picking technique to be almost untouchable by most mortal shred guitarists!
Crucially for this list, Michael Angelo Batio is also well known for his phenomenal speed, and has truly mastered pretty much every technique a shred guitarist could need in their toolbox. He particularly impresses with both his picking speed, and insane sweep-picked arpeggios.
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