How is your sweep picking?

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Someone called for tasty as hell soloing by a metal guitarist?



Skip to 6:00 for the solo.
Hell, even listen to the entire song if you want

 

[Quencho092]

Re: How is your sweep picking?



Guthrie is the greatest

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Guthrie is nuts for sure but there were no sweeps in that, just some sweet economy picking.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Guthrie is nuts for sure but there were no sweeps in that, just some sweet economy picking.

Yeah. He might be the best guitarist I can't stand. (Nothing personal, just throwin' it out there for variety.)

 

[Quencho092]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

the whole first 10 seconds is swept!!!!! watch it again. His right hand goes from E to shining E, with a few downpicked stabs at most!!!!

 

[Quencho092]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Yeah. He might be the best guitarist I can't stand. (Nothing personal, just throwin' it out there for variety.)

I love his variation in straight/syncopated line, and the implied resolution of playing because of tasteful alternation of speed in licks. His harmonic choices also reflect a very pleasing modern jazz vocabulary, and that adds even more dimension.

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

That was a tapped legato run. No sweepinz.

No to this, Jessie?

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

No to this, Jessie?

No, sorry.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

I love his variation in straight/syncopated line, and the implied resolution of playing because of tasteful alternation of speed in licks. His harmonic choices also reflect a very pleasing modern jazz vocabulary, and that adds even more dimension.

As I listen to TLD's video, I'm realizing that those things might be what I'm not liking. He's very talented and literate as a player and a musician, but… the panties are still dry.

 

[Quencho092]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

DAMN I REALLY AM A STRANGER TO THE METAL REALMS. I see where it is tapp'd.

Look it's monica's ass

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Hah, s'all good man. To each his own.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Monica's ass?

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Oh. I thought it was a Friends reference.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Nonexistent

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Sweep is from jazz...metal guys liked it and used it as well....
And going back to classical stuff, which I hear alot.....there you do not think about the technique, more how the melodies intertwines and becomes structures, there is fast stuff, technical stuff....and you do not think about it when listening...just enjoying the music!

Then you get to think guitar.....doh then it all gets "sweeped" into little boxes......genres, styles and so on.....
I do not sweep much...or think much about it...I just wanna play my guitar in alot of different ways....and be able to say something!

Structures, harmonic ladders, lines, melody, and all that are the top of the cake....down under is the beat, the feel of it.....the essence of music...the beat and how it is accented....not that I am into advanced stuff or a drummer....but that is what kicks me into playing.....and sweeps are rhytmic stuff as well...like the rest!

 

[Myaccount876]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

I'm in-between "I can do it, but not well" and "I'm terrible at it". It is something I just couldn't care for, because you can't hear the articulation of how different notes sound together one after another as it is just too fast and sounds bland. Maybe ONE, just ONE 3-string sweep during a tempo change in a solo where it speeds up, but nothing else really because then it is just noise. There are a few players though that sweep carefully in the right places, right notes, at the right speed, which is what sounds amazing.

 

[novacekn]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

I'm pretty good at it. Been doing it for years. Took me weeks to nail my first 3 stringer many years ago. After that, it all came a bit easier.

 

[robertkoa]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

I use alternate picking even when playing Arpeggios or skipping and it's working extremely well...........and I don't use "economy picking " either- unnecessarily complicated IMO.

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: How is your sweep picking?

Economy picking is all about efficiency. If anything, It uncomplicates certain runs.