Is there any sweep picking part harder than Jason Becker - Serrana

[Xango66]

Tryna learn it right now bc i figured if I can sweep this I can sweep anything

 

[ArtDecade]

Harder than Becker? Maybe. Better than Becker? Not in a million years.

 

[SalsaWood]

Broderick's "Betcha Can't Play This" sweep exercise is certainly up there. Loomis has some really good sounding ones, but they aren't very difficult. Petrucci is probably the man to focus on for plain old difficult to play, but I don't know of a single thing he can play which I would listen to instead of Becker (I still enjoy Petrucci, it's not a gladiator match).

Also Morse and Eric Johnson have some really great finger traps when they sweep, but they don't really do it in looped runs.

 

[sleep51]

XiV and XV by Jason Richardson are both pretty hard- XiV uses some altered and suspended shapes that Becker doesn’t use in Serrana but seems heavily based on it, and XV uses all 7 strings and a ton more tricks. Both cool bits of music too.

 

[Emperoff]

In the Style of Jason Becker I always found Jeff Loomis' "Devil Theory" quite scary:

 

[ThePIGI King]

Tosin has some really crazy ones.

Most good Tech Death bands have some difficult ones as well. Archspire and Obscura's guitarists have some crazy fast ones in different songs. I'll try and find some videos if I have time.

 

[ArtDecade]

To be fair, all of the other guys suggested have had decades longer on the instrument than Jason had the opportunity to play - and he did all that insane shit in a few short years. It goes without saying that Becker owns all of us. Still.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Frank Gambale has some absolute finger crunchers in his repertoire, but most are fusiony economy runs vs. stacked 5/6 string "sweep tap sweep" sort of stuff.

The "Monster Lick" will always be the benchmark for me:

 

[nightsprinter]

Frank Gambale has some absolute finger crunchers in his repertoire, but most are fusiony economy runs vs. stacked 5/6 string "sweep tap sweep" sort of stuff.

The "Monster Lick" will always be the benchmark for me:

Yes! I wanted to toss Frank in here but wasn't sure what specifically to post.

 

[nightsprinter]

To be fair, all of the other guys suggested have had decades longer on the instrument than Jason had the opportunity to play - and he did all that insane shit in a few short years. It goes without saying that Becker owns all of us. Still.

Becker and Shawn Lane are hard to beat

 

[ArtDecade]

Gambale is amazing as well. He basically invented what we now call economy picking.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Yes! I wanted to toss Frank in here but wasn't sure what specifically to post.

Yeah, I really like Gambale as a player and can watch him play live in fusion ensembles all day, but his albums are sort of a drag after the 90's. But that's a subjective thing.