Shred Academy – Free Guitar Lesson by Matt Hale

Sweep
Licks

By
Matt Hale

Ex.1
sweeping. This example is pretty straight forward. Play both the
c minor and major arpeggios up the neck. Once you feel comfortable
with this particular key transcribe it to all of the other keys.

Ex.2
Here we have a bit of the same. The first arpeggio is a Gm+9 arp.
into a fun little pedal tone lick that employs the middle finger
of the right hand to pluck the high E string. This is indicated
by a P. The next two sweeps are pretty straight forward until
you reach, yet again, another pedal tone. Treat this phrase as
you did the first pedal tone.