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	Sweep-picking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fret hand portion of sweep picking can be described as when multiple, adjacent strings are "articulated", or acutely controlled by the fretting fingers, and thus sounded in succession without ringing together (as opposed to barre chords in which all strings are held down throughout the pick stroke).
		Ultimately sweep picking, once mastered, can be applied to virtually any idea, arpeggio or otherwise, and is considered amongst most guitar players as one of the signs of guitar mastery and virtuosity.
		Sweeps may also be continued to the next note via means of tapping (as used by Michael Angelo Batio and Tony McAlpine), and may facilitate the ability to play passing notes outside of the classic arpeggio sequence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweep-picking (1173 words)

	Guitar Nine Records - Guest Column: Sweep Picking Made Easy
		Sweep picking (sometimes referred to as "economic picking" or "raking") is the use of a single pick stroke in one direction across at least two strings.
		Sweep picking is, however, all too often abused, with only the first and last notes being audible in an otherwise distorted mess.
		Remember that one of the benefits of sweep picking is to facilitate arpeggios and single note lines with wide intervals.
	www.guitar9.com /columnist233.html (1389 words)

	A free guitar lesson to help you learn about sweep picking.
		Sweep picking is a technique where you use consecutive downstrokes or upstrokes when crossing strings.
		Notice that with the alternate picking version you would need to change the pick motion a grand total of 16 times.With the sweep picking version you only have to change the pick motion four times.
		Because of this reduction in the number of pick movements, you could (in theory) play the exercise MUCH faster using sweep picking.
	www.pentatonic-guitar-lessons.com /guitar-lesson.html (393 words)

	Cyberfret.com: Guitar Techniques: Sweep Picking
		Sweep picking allows you to play a flurry of notes at a speed that would be very difficult to match using just alternate picking.
		The basic idea of sweep picking is that you are going to play 2 or more notes on adjacent strings using the same picking direction for all of the notes.
		A lot of times when the technique of sweep picking is talked about, it is in the context of shedding metal guitar.
	www.cyberfret.com /techniques/sweep-picking/index.php (311 words)

	Sweep Picking Lessons
		Sweep picking must be utilized to gain high speed to play this chop at its full value.
		This is where sweep picking will have to be utilized.
		As you can see, the first pick is a down pick, then a hammer-on and then you sweep that down-pick all the way to the top E string.
	www.ryanformato.com /sweep_picking.htm (144 words)

	Is it just me or is sweep picking limited in its use - it re - Jemsite
		Sweep picking is good if your articulate with it and the notes are quite clear like yngwie, but gambales tone is too smooth, a little too much for the speed he often plays at so the arpeggio does tend to get lost.
		Sweep picking: Its used to create apeggios that are blinding fast.
		ALtough sweep picking is good for guitar music like jason becker's.
	www.jemsite.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3901 (662 words)

	Sweep picking by Morten Gjermundsen.
		Sweep picking can take some time to learn but when you have learnt to sweep you will think it is easy.So take your time,it´s really worth the work.
		In this lesson you´ll hopefully learn what sweep picking is and at the same time learn some cool licks.
		The next sweep begins in A minor (like the first once) and then moves up to G major.Listen to this exercise slow and click here for the fast one.
	www.geocities.com /trollstjerne/sweeping.html (292 words)

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		I think sweep picking is the most logical way of playing scales for the same reasons that using up strokes and not only playing with downstrokes is faster.
		While moving your pick in that direction toward the A string you might as well be making a downstroke on the side of the A string that your pick is already on to sound the first note of the A string in that scale and play even faster.
		To make another downstroke you would have to move the pick up and over to the other side of the G string to make the next downstroke wich is the exact same motion as an upstroke without hitting the string.
	www.olga.net /dynamic/browse.php?local=resources/lessons/sweep_picking.txt (757 words)

	Guitar Nine Records - Guest Column: New Directions In Sweep Picking
		I have solved all of these problems with the technique called "Economic Sweep Picking." The crux of the technique is to play one note per string then three notes per string then one then three -- all the way through the rest of the strings.
		If you don't have to pick as much then it stands to reason you'll be able to play faster and make fewer mistakes than if you were to alternate pick the exact same line.
		Pick the first note (open E) with whatever stroke you want but make sure you pick the G# (9th fret, low B) with a down-stroke.
	www.guitar9.com /columnist34.html (1118 words)

	Guitar:Arpeggios and Sweep Picking - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Sweep picking is a more specialized technique, occurring most often in metal.
		Small sweeps can be indicated with grace notes or even the arpeggio notation with the word "sweep" (or, less correctly, "rake") written above.
		While playing guitar, this might not appear as interesting as picking "full" six-string chords but it can be used to give your music a classical edge.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Guitar:Sweep_picking (535 words)

	Shredaholic User Submitted Shred Guitar Lesson
		Sweep picking is a pretty tricky technique that requires good coordination between both hands.
		Sweep picking one of the mostly economical ways to cross the strings.
		Both the fret hand and picking hand need to work together, the best way to achieve this is by actually sweep picking.
	www.shredaholic.com /user18.html (505 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Sweep Picking question
		This is followed by a pull-off to the 12th fret "E", rolling the fretting finger "backwards" and picking the "B" at the 12th fret 2nd string with an upstroke.
		For example, to sweep an Em shape at the 12th fret on the top 3 strings, form a partial barre with your index finger at the 12th fret, but don't fret all 3 notes.
		Sweeping upward is awkward at first, but with practice it gets to be second nature.
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8284 (463 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - slow and fast sweep picking
		Sweep picking is described as: let the pick "fall" from one string to the other, and do not separate the upstrokes (or downstrokes).
		If I try to sweep-pick something slowly, then I would have to pull the pick with a very slow speed, and I can't "count" out the amount of time that "the pick should spend between two strings while it's moving." That means I can't hold the tempo.(very poor english, I know).
		sweeping is hard because the syncronisation feels wierd cause the right hand is usually faster than the left in this case.
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6797 (634 words)

	Sweep Picking Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
		The idea behind sweep picking is that you're going to play notes, one after another, that are on strings next to each other, rather than playing notes on the same string.
		sweep picking is a technique with some leeway depending on personal style and speed.
		sweep picking is hard at first but once u get the hang of it u start doin it all the time...i f u wanna play guitar really good u must know how to sweet pick....if ur gonna play gay music then dont!
	www.ultimate-guitar.com /lessons/guitar_techniques/sweep_picking.html (1586 words)

	Sweep picking page 1
		Even though sweep picking often uses a vertical movement of the pick on the strings, it is necessary to evaluate which picking system you use, because there is an alter-ego of sweep picking, called continuous picking.
		When you play maintaining a fixed picking direction (upward or downward), you are using a system called sweep picking.
		Some of the exercises, being standards in the application of the sweep technique, you may have already seen.
	www.soundme.com /eng/sweep/sweep01.htm (534 words)

	Guitar:Muting and Raking - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		It is vaguely related to sweep picking, but instead of an arpeggio, the result is usually a single percussive-sounding note.
		(However, sweep picking is sometimes incorrectly notated as a rake in tablature, and sloppy sweep picking may accidentally become a rake.) Between two and four strings are struck, only one containing the desired note and the rest muted.
		Rakes may be notated in various ways; the most common way is to add muted grace notes, possibly adding the word "rake" to the tablature for clarification.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Guitar:Muting (268 words)

	Mind-Bending Upstroke Exercises
		Sweep picking is not universally applicable - there are many riffs which don't lend themselves to this technique - but there are some passages that are virtually impossible to play at full speed without it.
		The basic principle of sweep picking is to put an odd number of notes on each string - typically 1 or 3, as in example 3.
		The simplest case: if you were to play two notes in succession on adjacent strings, sweep picking would dictate that you sound both notes with the same direction stroke, while alternate picking would make you move that pick a lot more (example 2).
	www.slowgold.com /woodsheddin/issue5/upstrokes.htm (683 words)

	Sweep Picking - Musician Forums
		Sweep Picking - Generally arpeggio'd chords but "sweeping" or dragging the pick across the string in one fluid motion thus playing a chord fast and making it now sound like a "chord" at all but really lead guitar type stuff, like that marty friedman example has Bm sweeping to Em sweeping, etc. etc.
		Well I'm finally getting into sweep picking, my guitar teacher gave me about 4 pages of 4 string arpeggios for sweep picking.
		I was wondering if anyone knew some easy-medium sweeping songs that include a varitety of types of arpeggios (please nobody suggest metallica and they're dinky 3 string sweeps that I could sweep before knowing what sweeping was heh) thanks.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=78478 (316 words)

	Sweep Picking 102
		In this section, we will try to use more complex shapes and patterns for sweep picking.
		Sweeping of 7th chord arpeggios is also a great way to use them to give it a more jazzy flavor.
		Another possiblity, sweeping 7th's with slides and in octaves pairing.
	www.nealnagaoka.com /Sweep102.html (94 words)

	Guitar Nine Records - Guest Column: Sweep Picking 101
		Sweep picking is a technique that was adapted to guitar from the violin and is a commonly-used technique to execute arpeggios.
		So now you have the basic idea of how to sweep an arpeggio but the next question usually follows, "How do I use them when I am playing a song or when I am improvising?." One common way to use them is to follow a chord progression.
		Another thing to keep in mind is when there are two notes on a string, pick just the first note and hammer on the second note.
	www.guitar9.com /columnist24.html (522 words)

	Insane Guitar.com
		The picking on this one is significantly difficult, but if you can get through this one good, then you are well on your way to becoming a sweep picking monster.
		Hi, and welcome to the master class on sweep picking.
		It is harder to learn to sweep in the lower registers of the neck, where the frets are bigger, as well as the higher places where the frets are really small.
	www.insaneguitar.com /mc/sweeping.html (2157 words)

	Sweep Picking..yea! - Musician Forums
		Sweep picking is awesome,....i just tried it today and it is freakin sweet as hell.
		One of the downsides with being self-taught - none of the music I listen to (mostly punk and melodic hardcore) use sweep picking that much, so I never even found out about it until about 3 months ago (and I've been playing for 6 years, give or take).
		To the mainstream guitar world, Yngwie Malmsteen is the master of sweeping for some reason, he does this lame palm muting thing and basically just holds the arpeggio as if it were a chord, so two notes are always slightly ringing at the same time.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=83378 (926 words)

	Modern Rock & Metal Guitar BBS - Sweep Picking
		Hi Guys i need some help with sweep picking, i've got SM and i can play the basics excersices of sweep picking but i would like to ask you if you can give me some recommendations to improve this technique.
		i don't see what the big deal with sweep picking is i mean if you do it slow enough its as hard as anything else its just doing it at warp speed thats the trouble but that goes for anything on guitar really.
		When I'm ascending, I always use my pick hand to mute the strings by moving it down the strings along with my fret hand, with the exception of the high E string which I always mute with my pick hand pinky unless I'm playing it.
	www.stetina.com /cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=449 (560 words)

	MetalTabs.com Forum - sweep picking
		it seems he cant play anything else than sweep picking and on his site are many lessons.
		the sweep picking really is one of the most guitar techneques that I love and prefer to use alot, but its the most !!!!
		to learn guitar techneques (including sweep picking) you can visit any guitar site containing lessons...
	metaltabs.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3031 (403 words)

	Guitar Tricks - Sweep picking
		I sort of understand how to do it (I've been "sweep picking" for years and didn't even know it was called that -- just thought it sounded good) but I couldn't really explain it any better than what I read here.
		Dn Up DN DN UP DN(this is the picking pattern for the first two strings, but repeats across the fingerboard.) The tough part of it is when you play a scale formation that has only 2 notes on a string.
		Its a lot like strumming a chord, all down strokes or upstrokes only slower and your fret hand is fingering each note instead of holding a stationary chord formation.
	www.guitartricks.com /forum/printthread.php?t=40 (246 words)

	electric-guitar.co.uk Lesson: Sweep Picking
		Sweep picking is a technique used in several styles of music in order to play a sequence of notes extremely fast.
		Let's start off with what sweep picking (sweeping) is. I am pretty sure most people have already practiced the basics without even knowing it.
		Not only shredders use this technique though, sweeping is useful in other types of rock and metal, as well as jazz.
	electric-guitar.co.uk /lesson.php?id=18&s=2556c9f590b4242164341cec0a... (879 words)

	TheShredZone.com - Sweep Picking Arpeggios by Shane Chess -- Welcome To The Next Generation
		Sweep picking is used a lot in Neo-Classical playing.
		Example 1 is a simple exercise to get you used to sweep picking.
		When striking you're your strings you must you must strike the first string and drop the pick to the second string, then drop to the third, etc. It is almost like you stop before you strike the next string.
	www.theshredzone.com /content/article.asp?pageid=257 (205 words)

	Sweep picking pentatonics to develop your guitar technique.
		This lesson will help you develop your sweep picking technique.We will take what I call a "sweep picking mechanic" and move it through all five fingerings of the G minor pentatonic scale.
		Sweep picking pentatonics to develop your guitar technique.
		If you are new to sweep picking, please click here for an introductory lesson.
	www.pentatonic-guitar-lessons.com /sweep-picking.html (153 words)

	Tim Reynolds - Message Board - Sweep Picking
		i mean, there are some situations where sweep picking might not be a terrible idea, but it seems like it's used too much as a way to weasle around hard scale passages and things that were meant to be done alternate.
		Besides I've played for a number of years and I rarely use a pick and some of the fastest most intense shit I've seen played on a plucked instrument had nothing to do with sweep picking.
		All of my guitar students are big into hardcore metal and ALL they EVER talk about is playing sweeps.
	www.timreynolds.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5870 (1828 words)

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