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Hey, how are you doing? My name is Holly Simon and this is F-P-E.com.
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Sweet picking is when your pick travels in one direction across multiple strings and the idea here is to have notes that sounds separate from one another. What I mean by that is you are not picking a chord but you are sweeping across three notes that sound individual.
So what I am doing is I am taking the pick, I got the notes, let us talk about the notes first actually. I got the 14th fret on the G, 13th fret on the B and the 12th fret on the high E which is an Am arpeggio, the notes of an Am chord, A, C and E played individually.
What I am doing is down strokes across all of those three strings. To make it so the notes do not sound like the rain together, what you want to do is lift up the fingers on your left hand quickly as soon as the note sounds. If you do not, you get the sound like a chord together and it does not sound quite as fluid.
After I hit this three down strokes, I reached up with my pinky and I get the 17th fret on the high E string which is our root note A, and I get that with an upstroke and then I am going to pull that note off to the E on the 12th fret.
After I hit the E, I immediately come down with upstrokes on the 13th of the B and upstroke on the 14th of the G.
Now, to make this a cool sounding exercise, what I do then is I start with another down stroke on the G which is the seventh in the key of Am, the minor 7th. So I got down, down, down, up, pull-off, up, up, down and then I am going to hammer to this A note on the 14th of the G again to start it again.
And my top note this time instead of being an A will be a G, do the pull off again to the 12th fret of the E string, come back down the same notes with an upstroke, an upstroke, down stroke then hammer, you are going back up again and this time we hit an F on the high E string. And we will get the G the second time, not second time but the next time.
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