Holy crap I am on a roll... Now I've got tapping going

Rock on to me. It all began a while ago when I cranked 8th notes up to 200 bpm in about 2 days, then my sweeping flares up to coherant 5 string sweeps in about a week from barely tolerable 3 strings. Now tapping. I just this very second pulled out a tapping piece that at first uses 2 fingers on the left hand and all 4 on the right hand then cranks up to using all 8 digits. I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like I'm suddenly doing things right. Thing that gets me most about this is before this incident I've basically done very basic 2 to 3 finger taps, you know, things that look like this

9--5--7---9--5--7, etc.

then bam, I'm good. Just had to take a moment to boast I guess. Feel free to comment on my excellence.

Crazy isn't it. All of a sudden you qualify to advertise yourself as a competant guitarist, and you have something to back yourself up with.

Yeah i know the felling, I could never write solo licks or if I did I could not join them together, then one night it clicked and now I can

Plateau,plateau,plateau!Hahahahaw!

I'm keeping up the alternate picking practice with minimum movment(just using my index and thumb to trem pick is my goal)

Does anyone know of a compendium of arps?I would like to break out of the 3 arps I abuse.

I was on a plateau a few days ago. I started getting kind of bored of my lack of creativity and what not. Then it came flying at me like a brutal fist punching my lights out. So I talked to myself through the night about what I've accomplished vs what I haven't and came to the conclusion that my technique was good for the time and it was time for me to focus more on theory for a while. Thus I'm looking into some more scales and some more chord theory. Furthermore I'm on a roll tonight as well, I just made some bad ass riffing and what not that I'm dying to put into a song. It's brutal as hell.

This past week has been my most productive week by far.
I just wrote some cool 4 finger taps, previously I was only able to tap out one part of eruption, like 10-5-8, 10-5-8 9-4-7, 9-4-7 etc something like that anyway, I found if you use your wrist to silence the lower strings it makes the tapping sound a lot clearer and less muddled expecially on the high e string
And just this morning I can suddenly sweep! Not bad considering I just started trying it a couple weeks ago. Its not so hard once you get down the motion and the way you let the pick "sweep" across the strings.
I also switcheed my regular picking technique instead of free floating I anchor my pinky to the fretboard kind of like how marty friedman does it. Its a lot faster and more accurate except when you switch strings, but couple more weeks practice and it should all be peachy, wierd when I first started playing I anchored my pinky too but then I read that its a bad technique so switched to free floater

Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheart
Does anyone know of a compendium of arps?I would like to break out of the 3 arps I abuse.

You know what's a great little composition everyone knows using arps? Eugene's Bag Trick featured in Crossroads (1986) by Steve Vai and Rye Cooley (sp. ??)