Sweeppicking after playing only 193 days

[AlphaMale]

I'm still perfecting the technique and practicing it to get it clearer.
I've been playing 193 days, A little less than 6 and a half months. I'm pretty happy and proud of my self I still am not good of it to actually apply it but I'm getting better.

[JimmyM]

OK, good.

[the_fonz]

high five?

[lilterier]

Sorry, but i'm laughin at how patethic you are.

"after only 193days.." almost like it's a good thing..

You see, sweeping is a complete useless technique on both guitar and especially the bass.

Before u even think about learning difficult and useless techniques you should master your relative pitch, be able to hear a group of notes in your head and blatantly play them straight of on the bass..
If you cant do that then ur still pretty bad.

You should learn a ******** of theory and be able to improvise very very well aswell.

Why learn this before sweeping? Because these are useful skills that u will always have advantage of, sweeping works good if u wanna annoy ur bandmates or audience with the nasty sound that comes out of it..

[wmcjhi]

Originally Posted by lilterier

Sorry, but i'm laughin at how patethic you are.

"after only 193days.." almost like it's a good thing..

You see, sweeping is a complete useless technique on both guitar and especially the bass.

Before u even think about learning difficult and useless techniques you should master your relative pitch, be able to hear a group of notes in your head and blatantly play them straight of on the bass..
If you cant do that then ur still pretty bad.

You should learn a ******** of theory and be able to improvise very very well aswell.

Why learn this before sweeping? Because these are useful skills that u will always have advantage of, sweeping works good if u wanna annoy ur bandmates or audience with the nasty sound that comes out of it..

Agreed. This guy's posts have a history of being like this though. I, being new, really have to work on the mentality of developing my MUSICAL skills and technique too. There's no point in just being like "OMG I'm SOO GOOD look what I can do" if you can't play in key and time, know your scales/modes/blablabla.

I'm glad you learned a "difficult" technique. However, I could give someone a guitar and tell them to learn to ONLY sweep-pick and they'd do it soon enough. They wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING else, but they could sweep-pick. I always try to work on being a well-rounded player and knowing techniques that fit with the theory I know and just generally where I'm at as a bassist.

[Thunder Pulse]

I saw a video on YouTube a few days ago of someone painstakingly explaining and demonstrating sweep picking (without a pick) on a 4-string bass. Seemed like a colossal waste of time.

[lilterier]

Originally Posted by wmcjhi

I'm glad you learned a "difficult" technique. However, I could give someone a guitar and tell them to learn to ONLY sweep-pick and they'd do it soon enough. They wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING else, but they could sweep-pick. I always try to work on being a well-rounded player and knowing techniques that fit with the theory I know and just generally where I'm at as a bassist.

Learned?
He said he's not even profient on it enough to use it in a band..

Sweeping is going to take him a long while until he has "mastered" it, remember that it is a newbie who probably doesn't understand if he's playing out of tune or on time yet..

[JeffTheBig]

ya i rember this guy....How to know if you're good?

seams like he dident learn anything sents than.

[lilterier]

Originally Posted by JeffTheBig

ya i rember this guy....How to know if you're good?

seams like he dident learn anything sents than.

lol.


Right, after 2weeks ur supposed to atleast know another brick in the wall by pink floyd and after 3 weeks random song by rhpc and then after 3months YYZ by rush.. etc..

After 15years u should atleast be able to play any chopin piano piece note by note, otherwise u suck etc..

[lilterier]

the funniest thing though is the fact that he calculated exactly how many days it took until he started try sweeping...

[lemur821]

You don't get it, guys. Since no one could tell him what he should be able to play when, he set out to make a list for posterity. All you +193 day players who can't sweep pick had better get off your butts and practice!

[toaster2k3]

Sweeping on bass only sounds good if your bass tone is up to it. Otherwise, it sounds muddy and lame.

[Suckbird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6bwMILm4AA

It really sounds like ****, it really does..

[Benjamin Strange]

I've been playing for 5843 days and I still haven't even started to learn how to sweep pick. I'm falling behind!

[Bruce Lindfield]

I think we should all be practicing to play musically, or we're just wasting our time - no matter how many days...

[cowsgomoo]

well, I could sweep pick after 177 days (it could have been 178 but the leap year confused me)...

and it wasn't a waste of time at all like you cynics are saying because it impressed 73.4% of the people in my local guitar shop 96.8% of the time

the other 26.6% of people weren't impressed because A. they had learned in less than 176 days, and B, they did it faster while pulling a better face

it didn't get me in a band or impress anyone who didn't play bass, funnily enough

after 68 days of not sweep picking, my ability to go 'wibbly-dibbly-wooo' up and down on the bass was down 47%, with an impressiveness factor proportionately decreased linearly... my face pulling capacity remained roughly the same but my social standing amongst spotty virginal guitar shop inhabitants plummeted... so let that be a lesson



a guitar playing friend of a friend got so far into sweep picking (without learning to play anything else properly) that his friends all named him 'Arpeggio Dave'... now Arpeggio Dave might like the name, but I noted a hint of derision every time he was mentioned... don't be the Argeggio Dave of the bass world

[CelinderMotoMan]

I'd really be interested in seeing a video of Alphamale showing off his technique.

I have been playing 8030 days and am still not good at sweeppicking. I guess playing gigs has really gotten in the way of learning the "important" things.

[FoHBass]

Yeah, well I could play sweeps after 170 days, and it impressed 75% of the people 97% of the time. So that must mean I'm better than Cowsgomoo. Just kidding.

What is so important about learning sweeps so soon? Is your main goal as a bassist to be a soloist or shredder? Do you know the theory to backup your sweeping? Without theory, and knowing how to apply that theory to the song without overplaying, sweeping is useless. It's doubtful you're going to get kudos from people on this board because you learned the technique after 193 days.

If your goal is to play in a band, then sweeping is not the way to go. In that case, you should begin learning basic concepts like timing, note control, and basic rhythm. After this thread and the last one you did, it seems you still have that "competition" mindset to playing bass, and that's always going to be a hurdle if you ever want to play in a band setting.

Of course, disregard this if you're just going for being a shredder, though even then, you still gotta know theory.

[bluegreenturtle]

I've been playing for 9428 days and I don't even know what sweep picking is.

[Pilgrim]

Originally Posted by bluegreenturtle

I've been playing for 9428 days and I don't even know what sweep picking is.

Me, neither! Have sympathy for me, friends. I'm only interested in holding the groove and laying down simple, solid bass lines. I'm obviously missing something. (Started playing bass in 1964, gotta stop being a newbie one of these days.)