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Sweep Picking and Arpeggio: First Steps > Base exercises: Lesson 2

In the "Lesson 1" we've exploited two types of exercises to learn the bases of
sweep picking on three fingerings: one major and two minor shapes.
In this lesson we exploit again the four types of exercises seen to learn other
fingerings.
They're  a bit more difficult to perform than the previous one because they use
the same finger of the left hand more than one time, so:
 
 - When you play two notes on adjacent strings on the same fret, the finger of
   the  left  hand  performs a little barre'. The difficult is in the fact you
   must hear playing one single note at a time.
   Until  you  can  exploit  the  palm  of  the  right  hand to mutes the note
   previously  played, everithing's ok, but sometimes is more simple "to bend"
   "to turn around"  or "to tilt" the finger which do the barre'. So Changeing
   the pressure on the  strings, also with the barre' in position, we can push
   one string at a time, playing than one single note at a time.
   It's more difficult to say that to do, indeed the sweep performed with this
   technique is even too quick, and it's easy to get excited!
   Instead it's important  to  pick the notes keeping the time, the speed will
   come.
 
 - Instead  when  we play  two notes on no adjacent strings, even on different
   frets, it's necessary to move  the finger of the left hand from one note to
   the  other one.  With  a  bit  of  training  you  can  improve the movement
   acquiring  agility  in the performance  which always have to pick the notes
   keeping the time.
 
Here's then 6 new fingerings (you already know one of this), the left ones are
the shapes of the major arpeggio, the right ones to the minor arpeggio.
 
 
 
 Other 24 Exercises
------------------
Now,  basing  on  the  4 type of exercises seen in the "Lesson 1" I VERY WARMLY
SUGGEST to get practice also on the following fingerings:
 
          I          III                          I          III
    e ||--T--|-----|-----|-----|--          e ||--T--|-----|-----|-----|--
    B ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--          B ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--
    G ||-----|--O--|-----|-----|--          G ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--
    D ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          D ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
    A ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          A ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
    E ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          E ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
          1     2                                 1
 
 
          I          III                          I          III
    e ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--          e ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--
    B ||-----|--T--|-----|-----|--          B ||-----|-----|--T--|-----|--
    G ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--          G ||-----|--O--|-----|-----|--
    D ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          D ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
    A ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          A ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
    E ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          E ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
          1     2                                 1     1     2
 
 
          I          III                          I          III
    e ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--          e ||--O--|-----|-----|-----|--
    B ||-----|-----|--O--|-----|--          B ||-----|--O--|-----|-----|--
    G ||-----|-----|--T--|-----|--          G ||-----|-----|--T--|-----|--
    D ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          D ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
    A ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          A ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
    E ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--          E ||-----|-----|-----|-----|--
          1           2                           1     2     3
 
Repeating  the  four  type of exercises for each of this fingerings we have the
possibility to study the basis of sweep picking on other 24 exercises.
A fair quantity of work to distribuite in about 1 month.

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