Sweep Picking Cascading Arpeggios - Great phrasing idea for your solos! - Jazz Guitar Lesson

Sweep picking in Jazz is often used to play cascading arpeggios - upper-structure chords.

One of the best ways to quickly play Arpeggios is to use Sweep Picking. In jazz we mostly use 3 smaller one octave arpeggio sweeps, often placed on 2 or 3 strings. In the lesson I will demonstrate some cascading arpeggio licks and some sweep picking exercises to help you make your own sweep picking licks.

In this jazz guitar lesson I am going to go over a concept behind creating cascading arpeggio type lines like the lick play in the beginning of the video. They are a great way to use different arpeggios over a chord and add some interesting rhythms to your lines.

It's also the way that I mostly use sweep picking because that's a way that works better for jazz type lines.

These exercises will not only help your sweep technique but also help you get a better overview of the diatonic chords and triads in a major scale and on the neck! And you can from here easily move it over to the melodic minor and harmonic minor scales.

Altered scale in three approaches:

Other scale exercises:

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[TubeBJYou]

Another very cool video of Jens Larsen !!! Simply and extremely musically beautiful examples of sweep picking !!! Goal !!!

[dig_benz]

Beautiful phrasing Jens. Keep up the good work

[GrinninPig]

For once I think it is my picking hand dexterity thats slowing me down, these exercises are going to be helpful. Thanks!

[GuitarZen]

Great Lesson. I really dig your lessons and the pdf files. I have an ibanez as200 it is similar to your as2630, amazing guitar I see why you play it all the time.

[xaptronic]

Thanks for showing this. I really enjoy your videos.

[lucafranzosi]

Ehi Jens great idea! Thank you very much!

[Shawn-hsqk]

Coming from a rock and classical background, the trick for is using the arpeggios and techniques I've used in the past in different ways, and ways that they don't sound like a 'trick' or that can still be rhythmic in a swing feel.

[deadheadrichie]

great lesson, keep up the good work man. :)

[SteveGilson]

Good lesson, and I'm liking the graphic in the corner at the start. Is that new?

[DonnieBellguitar]

Jens love it... would you ever consider demonstrating some lenny breau techniques...? thanks.

[EdgardoPlasencia]

Gracias Jens ! Practico mi técnica con las escalas y arpegios de tu pagina web !

[pallisg]

great stuff Jens, isnt your sweeping examples what in flatpicking bluegrass is called crosspicking?

[jacksonvalad]

Hey jens great vid man this is getting me inspired to take sweeping seriously again! Question do u economy pick at all?

[bills]

When you play the first example slowly at 1:46 you changed the fingering to fit in one position. I find this easier, but does it matter if you do it the way it's tabbed when you play it fast or are you implying that the fingering doesn't matter?

[Meandmydad]

You're out of control, but in the best way possible!!

[francescomarragony]

Dear Jens, first I wanted to thank you for being Italian and I can understand almost everything, usually I find it more difficult. I would like to know the thickness of your pick. Thanks for your videos.

[ontroadagain]

Hey Jens, what is your recording set up please?

[siglo]

mas lecciones a si super master jens moderno

[christiancatedral]

Great lesson! I'm inspired to be a better player everyday! Will check out your patreon.

[JunkieMonkey]

Hej Jens. Nogen chance for, at du kunne lave en video om X/Y chords? Fx nogle cool chords som du godt kan lide over forskellige roots; en Bmaj7/E eller sådan noget. Det kunne være, at du kunne kombinere det med nogle tricks som fx en E minor triad over C ville give Cmaj7, osv., små tricks som det som man måske ikke lige har tænkt på medmindre man ser en anden person gøre det.

Tak for videoerne :)