Sweeping is one of the coolest shred trick to play crazy solos that sound "WOW!". When you get it down and combine with other techniques you'll be able to play really crazy solos that will sound like: "How the hell did he do that?!". When i first met this technique and heard Michael Angelo Batio sweeping I told myself: "There is no way i will ever be able to do that!". With hard practice and feeling of: "I am gonna get you!"- you too can too!! So get your guitar and build your sweeping skills here!

After you got familiar with 3-string sweep picking it's time to move onto some 5-string shapes!These shapes will allow you to create some long crazy runs and you'll also see how to combine them with 3-string shapes. Cool thing about sweeps is if you have a melody in your head you can replace one note with the whole arpeggio shape and make a crazy sounding solo. For example, instead of playing the note A in a melody, you can play the whole A minor triad arpeggio.

Tapping is the technique I love the most! In this lesson I'll shove you how to play diatonic seven arpeggios with tapping and string skipping.

New set of exercises that will help you develop your alternating finger picking, string crossing, left hand strength and dexterity.

This lesson shows how to connect similar shapes of chords, triads and pentatonics with the tapping technique.

Let's get off the crazy shred stuff and work on something equally important. String skipping is an important thing, and it is difficult even if not played lightning fast. In this lesson we will incorporate string skipping and alternate picking, create a melody, which can even work as an intro to a song, using several scale boxes of C#. If you are ready to skip some strings - check this one out!

This lesson is about an interesting approach how to sound more jazzy using simple major scale patterns and three modes of it.

String Skipping Arpeggios inspired by Eric Johnson, & Carl Verheyen. Techniques and scales used in this lesson: Alternate Picking, Vibrato. slides, Bendings, Classical Rock Licks, String Skipping, Ballad, Waltz

John Dowland famous Pavana. Part 3.