Sweeping Guide

Greetings! I got one for you folks. I see a gazillion examples of sweeping major and minor triads, but not so many using 7th chords. Here is an example of a D Minor 7 Arpeggio using all 6 strings, beginning with the 5th of the chord on the bottom. The root of this chord here is the D note found on the 5th string, 5th fret, and one octave higher on the 3rd string, 7th fret. I chose this as an example
because it is easy to finger ( one finger covers one fret), and easy to remember.

Special Thanks to Ouija, for his fabulous graphic representations!

RED NOTES ARE PLUCKED. GREEN NOTES ARE HAMMERED ONTO OR PULLED OFF TO.

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Minor 7th Sweep





Starting this at eighth notes @ 90 bpm would be a good start point, picking once per string, and trying to make hammered and pulled notes sound as strong as your picked notes. This does not necessarily mean flying hammer-ons from way above lol. In order to approach very high speeds, economical motion of the LEFT hand is also required.

This played at high speeds sounds...awesome! The key is to practice it so that every single note rings out, and they are evenly played.
Obviously, you can create one hell of an exercise by moving this shape up and down the neck!
If one really wants to get crazy, this is also great practice for alternate picking (down up down up, and also up down up down) because we are not always picking 2 notes per string.
Of course, there are many other 7th chords and many other inversions of them out there. This is but one.

Oh yeah, the notes played from bottom to top and down again are:

A C D F A C D F A "C" A F D C A F D C A

I forgot to mention this would also work pretty well over a Gsus4 type chord.

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If we take the above Dm7 chord and lower the 5th a half step we get Dm7b5, or D half diminished. The spelling of the Dm7 chord is D F A C. The spelling of the Dm7b5 is D F Ab C. If we lower all the A notes from the above Dm7 arpeggio, we get this:

To D Half Diminished



Half Diminished Sweep



This arpeggio works over Dm7b5, which could be the ii in a ii V7 i progression in C Minor, but it also works over a Bb7, Bb9, or Bb13 dominant chord, outlining the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th (D F Ab C) of that chord.

This one is a little harder to play, as there is a stretch now on the low and high E strings. Again, it sounds sweet played fast.

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And now to enter the realm of neo-classical shred...whatever you call it! If we take the Dm7b5 chord and lower the 7th a half step we get D Diminished Seventh, or D°7. This chord consists of the root, minor third, diminished fifth (tritone), and diminished seventh (enharmonic
major sixth)

The cool thing about this chord is that it is symmetrical, with each chord tone spaced a minor 3rd (3 frets) apart from the next. That said this D°7 chord could also be F°7, Ab°7, or Cb°7. The spelling just repeats itself over and over.

Half Diminished to Full Diminished



Full Diminished Sweep





1 3 1 4 2 1 3 2 1 (3) 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 3 1

The bottom numbers are a fingering that works for me with the (3) being the top of the arpeggio, but whatever works for you is good.

If you look at the 2 arpeggios that precede this one, you will notice that only one note has been lowered each time.

If you wanted to make a lick, you could for example make a pattern based on the shape of the top 3 strings of this arpeggio and just keep moving it up 3 frets, creating a sequence such as this:

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etc.
Again, this pattern begs to be sweeped, picking once per string. For
me, I would hit the G and B strings with a downstroke, and the high E
string with upstrokes, setting up the return to the G string each
time. Also this is awesome for alternate picking!
Hope this is fun for someone!
Peace

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