With the help of this thread and a couple metal lessons over on the main page I now understand the sweeping fundementals. It kind of neat. Why didn't you people just say: To sweep is just a matter of changing your stroke direction at each end of the riff - economizing your picking and allowing for hits and pull offs inbetween to make it even faster. You're just dragging your pick up and down the strings. You could probably do 4 hitons per string pluck if you're fast enough in a sweep (or pulloffs), as sambob was saying, not just at the top of each run right? Easy, given time to get this technique up to speed.

[Edited by basics on 02-27-2004 at 02:07 PM]