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5.0 out of 5 stars
Different than I thought, November 4, 2007
This review is from: Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Sweep Picking (DVD)
I have always been amazed at the sound of someone who can sweep as I am sure you have if you are reading this.
I found this DVD surprisingly helpful. I have always watch all those clips of instructional video's across the internet. So I was skeptical of getting this DVD. I found it to cover information that no one seems to have ever mentioned.
There are good exercises to start small and piece sweeps together into the big 6, 7 or more string sweeps. But what I found the most helpful was learning how to control the pick over different strength/thickness almost instantly adjusting which is what he points out at the very beginning.
Worth while getting if you are having trouble getting started. If you can already do 3 string sweeps with no problem save yourself the couple bucks and practice them on different sets of all 3.
THIS IS NOT A COVER ALL SWEEP SHAPES VIDEO
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
good, but not worth the price, should have been cheaper, April 2, 2010
This review is from: Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Sweep Picking (DVD)
Stuart Bull has an excellent teaching style and I do like the approach of utilizing Minor/Major triads first and then moving on to larger patterns. The DVD does not come with a booklet, which would have been nice. It would have been nice if it even had some .pdf files with patterns on them, but NO, none of this. So, while Bull's teaching style is great, you have nothing to work with once you turn the DVD off.
One of my pet peves with the whole sweep picking thing is the distortion. I would like to have heard some of the examples with less distortion or a completely clean tone. I tried searching for something like this on youtube, but had no luck. Seems like everyone who uses sweep picking has to have an assload of distortion behind it. Gets old. I like a bit of classic tone, a bit more "vocal".
End result... it's a good video and definitely a good purchase, but if you can get it used for say five to ten dollars go that route. Twenty dollars is too much for the amount of information you don't get.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not merely exercise, but more like Sweeping Drills., August 14, 2011
This review is from: Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Sweep Picking (DVD)
Stuart Bull runs you in a set of Sweep Picking exercise, in what I will coin as drills. He literally dives right in at three-string sweeps starting at the top-6th string at 130bpms (triplets per se). Of course there are a lot more exercises(drills) with plenty of variation. This is a very good practice video for sweep picking either for someone who at least has at least a shallow familiarization w/ sweep picking or it can be a good video to polish great Sweeps for those advanced Sweep pickers.
The only two minor gripes I have are some of the exercises/drills could be a bit more melodic in a catchy sort of way, but then again others would argue that the exercises have a touch of melody in them. Also, I have to agree w/ William V. Hayes about the amount of distortion applied to the sweep examples; the distortion/overdrive can be toned down a bit.
Other than that, anyone using this video to sharpen or to fabricate their sweeping technique will find this video very useful.
pjt
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