Ok Thanks for the link but what do you mean by "reverse what you are doing when picking down" ??

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I mean sweep back up instead of alternative picking.

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Oh ok thanks for the help Darko

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Yeah as it turns out it is alot easier using my finger, or maybe I just have practiced it to a point where it just feels like that.

also this is an awesome thread. can't wait to see what you do with it.

It'll be some time before I do, but I will eventually. I'd put videos up but I don't know how to hook up old video recorder to the computer. Mabye I'll put some audio up.

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Im wondering if anybody here alternate picks their apreggios? I do, maby its a bad habit, but i could never get into the economy picking shit...Plus I can fit a fuckload of notes in my sweeps doing it

al di meola does that.

I would recommend getting over that habit. Sweep picking is different than economy picking.

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Im just practicing small sweeps at the moment.

If i do a sweep like:
e-------6
B-----7-
G---8---
D-9-----
I up pick on the 9 and downstroke the rest. Anyway, in this simple sweep fingers come off the string comlpetley.
If I try a similar pattern downways my fingers do not completely come off the strings.

Is this a good or a bad habit? In a way my fingers stil stay on the string and dont allow ring. If i work at it will i get a nice sweep sound happening? Or what... Im new to Sweep Picking and Im learning the Open Face Surgery solo ... Is this a good choice to start of with. Im finding it pretty easy.
Anyway, someone comment on my technique. Sorry if i wasnt descriptive enough but basically my question is whether its ok to not completely take fingers off the string.

Thanks.

the Four Harmonic Minor scales link is not working

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Question : If a sweep pattern is played plam muted, do you have to lift your fingers off??

im looking at barr 119 of Fermented Offal Discharge (Necrophagist) Here.

Yes.

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what good songs have some easy sweeps to practice on??

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Pick and choose some stuff out of Cacophony's Concerto. Some of the stuff in there is great sweep practice.

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I'm too lazy to see if anyone posted these already but here are some scales i like


Aggressive sweet scale (laiho uses it along with every other living person)
------------------6-9---------------
----------------8------------------
------------6-9---------------------
--------5-8-------------------------
----4-7-----------------------------
3-6--------------------------------



My own kind of Arabian Scale
-----------------------------------------------------9--------------------
-------------------------------------------------7-8----------------------
-------------------------------4---454--4 5-7-8--------------------------
----------------2---232-3-5-6---6-----6----------------------------------
---------1-3-4----4------------------------------------------------------
0-1-3-4------------------------------------------------------------------


Feel free to make your neccessary adjustments to make it cooler


here's my favorite Arabian Solo (written by me)

----------------------8-11----------------------------
--------------------9-------9------------------------
--------------8-11------------11-8h9--9h10p9p89 10 9 8-------------
--------7-10---------------------------------------------10-9-7-6---6---
----6-9------------------------------------------------------------8---8-
5-8--------------------------------------------------



-----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
-6------------------------------------------------------
---8-7---7-----7----2 -----------------------------------------
-------6---6-3---3-0--------------------------------------

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tops diminished, the others are mixed

seriously? oh..... ok... i .... see . Fine have it your way

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wait are you sure. I looked at difillers post and it didn't looke llike the same scale

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The top one is definitely the diminished scale.

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thanks i had a look at it alot of sweeps

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