Technique?

How do you "sweep".. I saw after it on the technique lessoning, but I didnt understand :confused: can someone explain?

going down the guitar pick each string once and hammer/pull the other notes

Basically, sweep picking is playing notes(immediately after eachother) on different strings, using only one downstroke or upstroke...look around on this webpage, there are many good excersizes and explanations around...goodluck

Some of the best sweep pickers out there: Theodore Ziras (do a search for his site on google, then check out the video clips - look at his picking hand, it does very little work, there is a trick to the technique), Michael Angelo BAttio - one the cleanest fastest biggest arpeggio sweepers around, Frank Gambale - invented some new techniques to make the patterns easier and clearer, Rusty Cooly - eye poppingly fast, Michael Romeo (from Symphony X - he has a solo album which has some of the most impressives sweep patterns ever made) and of course... JAson Becker - one of the first real serious neo-classical fusion shredders. Checkc his site outm there are a frew snippets from lessons and clinics when he was in good health. There are many more, these are just the first to jump to mind when you mention sweeping.

Check out the above guys online, you'll pick up stuff from a lot of websites about their techniques.

Forgot to add VInnie Moore to the above... he is truely an amazing player, very versatile on the sweep picking. If you doubt me, check out the MP3's on his website and download "Defying Gravity"... there will be very few players on the planet who can play those sequences as clean and as fast. Most of the players in the previous post have done articles for various magazines on this subject. Check them out, there are no better players to aspire to for this technique.