Sweep Picking 7th Arpeggios

By Matt Pocock

Adding in 7th notes, is a very melodic way to spice up your arpeggios and will give you more variations to choose from. Many of you might be familiar with these first four shapes if you've done any sweep picking before.

With triads we really only have 4 variations. Here they are all shown in root position

With 7ths we have many variations, which gives us more options to implement into our playing. Try substituting these into arpeggio sequences you have already learned, for example using an A7 or AMaj7 instead just an A arpeggio. And also you will have to get these a bit faster than your ordinary arpeggios to fit the extra notes in. Again, these are only shown in root position but feel free to experiment with inversions.

- Matt Pocock

matt_shred@hotmail.com

Duration Legend
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W - whole
H - half
Q - quarter
E - 8th
S - 16th
T - 32nd
X - 64th
. - note dotted
|-n-| - n-tuplets

Tablature Legend
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L - tied note
x - dead note
g - grace note
(n) - ghost note
>- accentuded note
NH - natural harmonic
AH - artificial harmonic
TH - tapped harmonic
SH - semi harmonic
PH - pitch harmonic
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend
br - bendRelease
pb - preBend
pbr - preBendRelease
brb - bendReleaseBend
\n/ - tremolo bar dip
\n - tremolo bar dive
-/n - tremolo bar Release up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
/n - tremolo bar return
-\n - tremolo bar Release down
S - shift slide
s - legato slide
/ - slide into from below or out of upwards
\ - slide into from above or out of downwards
~ - vibrato
W - wide vibrato
tr - trill
TP - tremolo picking
T - tapping
S - slap
P - pop
< - fade in
^ - brush up
v - brush down