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I don't know if you'd consider any of what this guy does as sweep picking (and he's a goofball), but he's got some technique:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHBFYkxq3GM[/youtube]

Chankgeez wrote:I don't know if you'd consider any of what this guy does as sweep picking (and he's a goofball), but he's got some]

Are you past the slow beginning and sloppy speed phase yet?

Yeah, I picked it up pretty quickly actually.

I'd say I'm fine up to mid tempos. If I try to sweep too fast, it gets sloppy, but it still sounds kinda good.

I've also found that I like short sweeps over three strings to anything more than that.

An excerpt out of something I'm working on that I think is pretty decent as an exercise. It has a few different one direction sweeps.
* I had to shrink it a bit to upload it. If you can't read any of the numbers, they are:
7, 10, 9, 9, 8, 7, 10, 8, 7, 5, 5, 4, 2, 3, 2, 5, 7, 5, 3, 2, 3, 2, 5, 4 , 3, 2, 3, 2, 5, 3, 3, 2, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 7.

Thank, jfrey, that's awesome. I'll have to try that.

I've been trying to incorporate sweeps into my playing rather than just practicing exercises.

nice, guitar pro is awesome software. I'll give that a shot too!

Thanks guys. I'm not at home so I can't write this up in guitar pro, but here's another excerpt from a song I have mostly done, that uses a few short sweeps and moves around in an interesting way. The end slides into the beginning when it repeats, and it is pretty decent as an exercise.

e||------------------------------------------------------------||
B||-----------------------------------------------8------------||
G||-----------9-----8-------6/7\6---------4/5--------------||
D||------6/7-----9-------7--------7-----5-------------------||
A||----7----------------7--------------5----------------------||
E||--5----------7-----7--------------5-------------7-4/-----||

Oh, these are supposed to be in standard?

(That explains a few things.)

Chankgeez wrote:Oh, these are supposed to be in standard?

(That explains a few things.)

Oh, yeah. I forgot to put that in the first one. Almost everything of mine is in standard.

That was a joke.

I'd take that everything's always in standard unless stated otherwise.

Ah ok. Sometimes people are actually surprised that I play in standard.

I don't know if Lenny Breau's sweep picking at about 2:00 into this, but it's fucking amazing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Sto3KdFLc[/youtube]

Makes me wonder how feasible sweep picking would be wih a bass....

BitchPudding wrote:Makes me wonder how feasible sweep picking would be wih a bass....

how about the dude from Dying Fetus, he sweeps on bass...
at about 1:40 mark, there it is for example

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Jjy3Zy7kk[/youtube]

I love metal, but that song fucking blows.

It does have sweep picking in it.