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[mojo]

Sweep picking: Its used to create apeggios that are blinding fast. BUt seriously what else can it do.. ITs a wonder why jazz guitarists don't use it. ITs just that if you want to play jazz, and want to do the changes, sometimes if you sweep pick you can't get the complexity of the actual apeggio out. I mean the only thing that sweep picking can do is fast runs and not too much else..

J

[littlegreenman]

On the contrary, you can sweep pick an arrpeggio, but that is not all, you can sweep notes as a smooth quick transition to another note as well, yes it is a fast movement, but it's not just used as the blinding speed run that Yngwie uses. *They can become just a very short little passage from one note into another. *But yeah, basically a sweep is a fast motion, but they are not just for a true arrpeggiated form.

[JESTER700]

The first sweep picker I got into was Frank Gambale, and he's toward the jazzy end of things.

I like the sound of it occasionally, but I was too lazy to learn it in the 80's and then OD'ed on Shrapnel records. *So, I never did learn. *I'm stuck in the pre-Malmsteen EVH/RR mode of soloing. *Which is fine in these days of "damn few popular rockers who can really play guitar".

[Giant Steps]

Jazz players use sweep picking/economy picking ALL THE TIME! You CAN play slowly with it, and I have no idea what you're talking about with "the complexity of the arpeggio."

Good Cheese,
-VIG-

[Pryde7]

VaiIsGod on 9:58 pm on Mar. 23, 2002
Jazz players use sweep picking/economy picking ALL THE TIME! You CAN play slowly with it, and I have no idea what you're talking about with "the complexity of the arpeggio."

Good Cheese,
-VIG-

i was about to mention that, jazz players use those techniques ALOT!!!!

my amazing guitar jazz guitar professor at york university (), lorne lofsky, uses those techniques frequently, but it doesn't mean playing em at paul gilbert speed as fast as you can. you can slow down your right hand, you know... :sarcasm:

:biggrin:

[Beavis]

Check out Jimmy Bruno, Jazz sweeping king,

Beavis

[mojo]

Woops i forgot about frank gambale.. :innocent: Anyway i guess of what i mean is look at the way coltrane plays his arpeggios.. I FInd it much more practicle to actually pick them alternatly when im playing standards.. ALtough sweep picking is good for guitar music like jason becker's.

J

[Soup Kitchen Studios]

Yeah... Coltrane has a killer picking technique :sarcasm:

[mojo]

UM coltrane dosn't pick anything. He toungs the notes real well though :biggrin:

J

[sniperfrommars1]

Sweep picking is good if your articulate with it and the notes are quite clear like yngwie, but gambales tone is too smooth, a little too much for the speed he often plays at so the arpeggio does tend to get lost. Of course yngwies tone is shrill but you can hear everything he does.

[Kev Brigden]

"the throttle goes both ways"

as my dad would say...

Kev