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trendkillah
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trendkillah
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09/23/2001 2:22 am
Sweep picking, or 'economy' picking, is basically picking as many notes in as little movement possible.

examples:

-Arpeggios(chords, but each note played seperately)

what you do here, is pick each note individually, making each note sound seperately, though, all in one fluent motion. If you go from low the high, to fown-pick each note in one motion, if you go from high to low, you up-pick each note in one fluent motion
(look for some arpeggio exercises somewhere, shouldn't be hard to find)

-3 notes per string scales

okay, lets say you play a 3 notes per string scale, starting on the low string, going up. The way you pick, when using economy picking, would be : down - up - down (move on to the next string, while staying in the motion of that last down-stroke) down -up - down - down - up - down - down ...


I hope this makes sense, if it doesn't, anyone feel free to correct or improve this attempt. ;)


Greetz, TK