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How you doing? Justin here

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In this lesson today we're

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going to check out mini

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sweep picking arpeggios.

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Now a lot of you guys

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have been asking

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for sweep picking lessons.

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I'm not really very good

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at doing the proper big really very good

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sweep picking. I am practicing right now,

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so maybe in the future, I'll get good

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enough to teach you lads, but right now,

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I'm not. Now, little mini sweep picking,

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like what I'm going to show you now is the

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same technique and by practicing this it

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will help you to develop your proper big

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full sweep picking patterns, if that's

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what you want. The reason I never really

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got good at the big ones is because I find

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them difficult to use [br]because they're so big.

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You have to kind of play, stop for a bit,

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then go in to a big sweep, and then get

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into whatever else, whatever

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licks you'replaying.

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Whereas these little mini ones

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are easier to use and really good to get

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lots of variations of them, so you're able

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to use them in lots of different[br]circumstances

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be they rock, metal, Jazz whatever you [br]like.

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So, uhm, lets get to a close up. We're

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going to be doing all of these ones in the

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key of A minor. We're just going to be

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learning a really basic little shape.

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I'm going to show you how to do some

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variations of that. And I'm going to

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show you how to link it to this other one.

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So you can just play the kind of lick that

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I just played there at the start. So,

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Let's get to a close up look at the left [br]hand.

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Don't worry about the picking for now

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We're just looking at the notes.

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We've got here the 12th fret on the 3rd[br]string, 1st finger

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14th fret, 3 rd finger

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13 th fret, second finger, on the B[br]string

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1st finger on the 12th fret of the inner[br]string

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And little finger on the 15th fret of the [br]finish string

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What I'd recommend is that you spend a

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bit of time just playing this now, over

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and over again. Don't worry about the

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picking, don't start to try and sweep

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just get the notes under your fingers.

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So your fingers know what they're doing

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In a second, we're going to have to [br]concentrate

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on the other hand, and you can't

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concentrate on two things at once.

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Ok. Now we're looking at the sweeping [br]part.

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So checking out here, we've got the same

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pattern all of the time now. We're gonna

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be doing this. Down.

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Hammer.

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Down.

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Down.

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Up.

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Flick off.

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Up

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Up.

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Down

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Hammer.

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Down.

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Down.

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Up.

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Flick off.

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Up.

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Up.

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Down

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Hammer

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Down.

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Down.

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Up.

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Flick off.

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Up.

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Up.

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What you're after here, is trying to get

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the pick to move nice and slowly and

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evenly through the strings. Not like

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doing a separate down pick and an up pick

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for each one. That would be wrong.

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Try and get it to just kind of glide [br]through.

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You see eventually it's just like a little

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to making that motion.

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It's just making that one little

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sweeping movement.

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As with most things on the guitar.

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If you want to play them fast, the trick

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is to practice really slowly a lot.

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And gradually build the speed up.

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And this kind of sweep picking is no [br]different

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However, there does come a point where

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you have to try to get the actual flow of

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the sweep working. And it never really

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works until you just go for it.

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So, what I'd really recommend that you do

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is practice doing that one pattern really

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really slowly a lot.

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I mean slowly like...

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That kind of speed, maybe even slower.

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Just really watch your pick hand,

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try and get that motion to be really [br]smooth.

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Practice it like that for a half an hour

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or an hour or something, you know.

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If you don't practice that long, 15 mins

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every day for a week or two. Just really

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try and get that motion so it's really

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smooth and flowing together properly, and

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then every now and again, have a little

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burst and see if you can do it really[br]quick.

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It's kind of, you have to have done it

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slowly enough times otherwise the muscle

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memory won't be there.

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But you will find that if you've practice

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it slowly enough, there will come a point

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where you just suddenly start doing it,

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and the picking will just flow.

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And that's essentially what you're looking[br]

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for, for any of these kind of these common

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or sweep picking kind of techniques.

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Now as I mentioned before, there are a lot

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of different ways of exploring this idea.

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Now we've just looked at an A minor [br]arpeggio.

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I'm just going to show you up close now,

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a couple of ways of exploring that one [br]shape.

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If you go, through a little bit more

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advanced, you might want to try playing

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around with some of these ideas

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Let's go to a close up, and look at some

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variations that use the same technique in

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the same pattern, but slightly different

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finger combinations.

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So the one we looked at already was this

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nice simple A minor 7 arpeggio.

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Couple of nice little variations that you

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might want to try. One is to turn it into

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a minor 7 flat 5 arpeggio. Exactly

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the same notes, but this first finger drop

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down to the 11th fret.

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Now this would work, over an F chord.

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Cause really it's a minor 7 flat 5.

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Which works out as being an F9, and so,

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that's our first funky one to check out.

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Now you could always use this same shape

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for a diminished arpeggio.

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Yeah, 12, 15, 14, 12, 15.

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Any of you guys into ?? would know that

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one already.

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And this one moves around in thirds, so

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whatever the finger was at the end, here

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down three frets. Goes down three frets [br]again.

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And down 3 frets again. And that's where

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you get a lot of those heavier metal licks

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So a lick like that...

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Down, hammer, down, down, up flick off

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up, up, down, slide, hammer, down, down,

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up, flick off, up, up, down.

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Slide, hammer, down, down,

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Up, flick off, up, up, down, down

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Ok, so far we've only been looking at

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the finished 3 strings, but if we just

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take that simple minor 7 arpeggio that

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we've been looking at already in A, and

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move it over to the next 3 strings,

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We end up with the middle part of an E7[br]arpeggio

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Which is of course useful to think of it

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that way. You could also come up with

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arpeggios on the next 3 strings using the

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5th, 4th and 3rd string. This was one

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that I was using in the beginning. That

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first lick I played you here.

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This is an A minor 6 arpeggio. We're

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starting on the note F sharp, but

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the 9th fret, 12, 10, 9, 12.

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And what I really like about this shape is

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that it joins onto the other one we've got

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if we go down, up, hammer, down, down,

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slide, hammer,down, down, now we're into

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that middle one.

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We can use the little slide

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I hope you've enjoyed a look at these

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mini sweep picking arpeggios. They're

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a lot of fun, they're very useful because

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they're like a little bite size chunk.

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You shouldn't have to much trouble

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working them into your playing,

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and that's kind of the point now.

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Once you've learned the shape, you have

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to try to work out how you're going to get

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into it. Uhm, it's always the hardest[br]thing.

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The starting and finishing with these

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things because they usually tend to sound

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like you kind of playing away. Doing

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your licks or whatever and then suddenly

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you stop and suddenly go into a sweep pick

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and then you stop again and do something [br]else.

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It always tends to sound a bit lame.

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The guys who do it really good are the

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guys that just kind of effortlessly flow

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into these monster licks and then they

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flow out again.

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I must admit, I must be honest here, I

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have a lot of trouble doing that, you know

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I'm not really good at that really fast

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technical kind of stuff. That's why it's

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taken me so long to give you guys a lesson[br]on it.

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Because I don't like teaching stuff I

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can't do very well. But, I made a bit of

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an exception here. This is a really good

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fun thing to do, you know.

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And it's quite a usable little trick.

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I think a lot more usable than the really

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big sweeping shapes, and uh, I think with

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a little bit of practice you'll be able

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to tear these up all over the finger board

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At least I hope so.

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I hope you enjoyed that.

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Take care of yourselves.

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Plenty more advice and some more hints on

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how to use this stuff on the webpage.

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Just look it up in the index.

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of course, on the website justinguitar.com

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I'll see you for another lesson real soon.

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Take care of yourselves, bye bye.