Here´s just a very short extract of a lick I´ve just made.

|-7p4---4-7p4---4-7p4---4-7p4---4-
|-------4---------4-----------4-------4

then

7p4---4-7p4---4-7p4---4-7p4---
|-----5----------5---------5-----------5


So I want to get it down fast(which would be 170bpm at 16 th notes for me), which shouldn´t be that hard, but I want to play it cleanly that a note begins to ring if the note before is already muted.

So to part 1: Should I mute it with my left hand(roling technique?) or is there any other possibility?

And how is it going with Part two because when I hit the E the Ab from before is still ringing.

I would just put my first finger across the 4th fret on both the E and B string and mute with my right hand.

Yeah I think, muting with the right hand is really a good idea. Thanks.

First off , where are the sweeps ?

Anyway , the rolling technique is very important (for sweeping) , so you'll have to practice it although it may be easier for this lick to mute with one of your picking hands fingers.

You could mute with one of your fingers on your picking hand but it can get quite hard to do that when your playing this lick quite fast!

It depends on each pesron's preferences ... Actualy , I never think of muting as I play , I only think of it when I teach somebody !

Yeah, that's a good question! I can't play licks like this at high speed, I can't mute that well *sob*

Originally posted by SLY
First off , where are the sweeps ?

Maybe you´re right and you can´t call that sweep picking, but I play: up, down, down, up, down, down., so I thought this would be sweeping because the movement are quite similar to sweeps.

Yeah , got your point.
I sometimes play this way to , to get different sound than that of alternate picking ... You should practice both.

I guess you should call it economy picking , since sweeping is more usually used for 3+ strings arpeggios.

Yeah Economy Picking was the term I searched for. The same when you play 3 notes per string scales and play a Downstroke after a down, up, down combination.