At one point of time in your guitar journey, you will have a desire to play lightning fast notes all over the fretboard. Here is a way you can do it. It's called sweep picking. Sweep picking is generally used where one have to play one note per string, but this is not a rule.
If you are very much new to sweep picking, let me introduce you how to play sweep. Just as the name implies, you have to sweep the strings up and down. Look at the exercise below. It is a basic exercise to learn four string sweeps.
While playing the notes, you do not have to pick each note individually, rather you have to play the first four notes with your pick going down the strings at one go. This downward motion should be between down-picking and down strumming. It is neither strumming nor picking but a boundary line motion between the two.
Start slowly and first of all try to develop a smooth sweeping kind of motion over the strings and then start playing the above exercise. The exercise shown above is only a part, you are assumed to play the sequence across the whole fretboard.
Sweep picking is not an easy task. You have to be very much patient and consistent with your exercise. Better use a metronome to judge your progress. Now start practicing, don't you want to play lighting fast?
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