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TheDirt
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TheDirt
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10/08/2003 9:36 pm
Economy picking is kind of a mixture between alternate picking and sweep picking within passages. Simply put, if you're switching to a lower string, and you're on a downstroke, follow through with that downstroke to hit the next string. Vice versa with upstroke. Strokes in parenthesis are continuations of the previos stroke. Make sense? This is nice and all, but I prefer strict alternate picking or sweeping, I don't like economy...

Example:

d u d(d)u d u(u)(u)
e|-------5-7-8-7-----|
B|-5-7-8---------8---|
G|-----------------7-|

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