What technique is the bane of your existence?

arpeggio’s that combine legato and tapping combinations is one. The other is anything these new guys are playing like the Tim Henson guy. But I know nothing is out of reach. It’s just a matter of if it’s important enough to sit down with the metronome and work it up. At this point the answer is no lol
 
I pretty much suck at anything technical.
Sometimes, after playing for a few hrs, I get into a zone where I can hit the notes fast and clean, making them sound a certain way with the right way of picking and palm muting, that almost sounds violin like, or with a singing quality.
Sweeping, string skipping, fast alternate picking from one string to the next and back...
I'm not good at. And Jazz. That shid is like learning another language.
 
LPMojoGL said:
I pretty much suck at anything technical.
Sometimes, after playing for a few hrs, I get into a zone where I can hit the notes fast and clean, making them sound a certain way with the right way of picking and palm muting, that almost sounds violin like, or with a singing quality.
Sweeping, string skipping, fast alternate picking from one string to the next and back...
I'm not good at. And Jazz. That shid is like learning another language.
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The trick with fast alternate picking from one string to the next is way simpler and easier than you think - you're basically adding one or more "sweeps" on the notes where you change strings, and you angle the pick to best accommodate that, whether you're going up or down. This is commonly called "inside" or "outside" alternate picking depending on the direction.

if you want a really obvious example, the first lick in "don't stop believin'" is one I start my students with all the time because it forces you to make the economic pick strokes both ways.

Another one is "the" Paul Gilbert lick in his big 80s REH video (I forget the title I'm not a huge PG fan) where it only forces you to go one direction, but if you double up the last note you can switch pickslant directions.

There's also a bunch of famous yngwie licks that use this.

This was a huge roadblock for me back in the day too, so I totally get it, but if you put a little bit of time working on it, it can vastly improve your playing because every great lead player uses it all the time.

If you want videos or tabs just shoot me a message and I can try to show ya more in depth - it's one of those things that I didn't understand either - until someone explained it to me in detail at least
 
I can't sweep but that's at least partly because I don't want to sweep for the most part. I also can't fast strum loosey goosey like Cory Wong. But then again I rarely want to. My right hand is generally weak so anything difficult is a challenge there. Like fast descending runs as mentioned, my tremolo picking is barely fast enough to qualify.
 
Fluid ascending runs. When I'm on my game my descending is fine but I cannot ascend with the same fluidity :mad:
 
phillybhatesme said:
My biggest problem with sweeps is that the first technique that's usually taught uses triplets (5 string sweeps using the 135 arpeggio) and that isn't a problem in itself per se, but it was never explained to me that way. So when trying to set a metronome to get my bearings, I was struggling to find a good tempo to start with.

I've since shored this up with @Techdeth and he's given me some basic 5 and 6-string sweep patterns to work on and it's been instrumental in learning them.
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Thanks man for the kind words . You sound good with them and the 7th Chodes together . I want a video of you mixing them
 
dstroud said:
arpeggio’s that combine legato and tapping combinations is one. The other is anything these new guys are playing like the Tim Henson guy. But I know nothing is out of reach. It’s just a matter of if it’s important enough to sit down with the metronome and work it up. At this point the answer is no lol
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Christian Muenzer is the best sweep tapper . Check him out . But I’m going to post the perfect exercise for these. I came up with an idea to tap one inversion with right hand and left hand does the other . But doing it with em D and C . It’s pretty wild . I’ll post it tonight
 
Techdeth said:
Christian Muenzer is the best sweep tapper . Check him out . But I’m going to post the perfect exercise for these. I came up with an idea to tap one inversion with right hand and left hand does the other . But doing it with em D and C . It’s pretty wild . I’ll post it tonight
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cool man I’ll check it out!! I usually only sit and work on em if it’s something I hear in an original tune, maybe this will inspire me to make it a real part of my playing :)
 
Mine is just knowledge. I gotta learn my scales and learn my fretboard better. I can't improve for shit, and I'm always fishing. If I sit and write stuff out, I can sweep tap and add harmonics and ghost notes in my solos, but I can't free jam on guitar anywhere near as well as I can groove on bass. Different animal.
 
My "alternate picking". It sucks. And I feel that the past few years, it has gotten worst.

Also, I've been able to speed up my sweep picking but I never really concentrated on it.

But really wish first I could fix my alternate.
 
For me it's alternate picking descending runs, it feels like my fretting hand is always in the way. And fast pull offs, My fretting hand gets tired so fast that by the next part of a song, my hand is shaky. Kinda sucks
 
Well, sweep picking is the least of my worries. I don’t like the sound of it, and would never spend time attempting it.
One of the things I can’t do, and it seems every eight year-old schoolboy in Guitar Center has it mastered, is chugging along on the A string while hitting chords underneath it. Sort of like any Jake E Lee or Ozzie song, VH too.
Lots of other stuff too. Too much to list!
 
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