Jun 1 2007, 11:18 AM
QUOTE(Rossie @ Jun 1 2007, 08:35 AM)
Ha! No la... I didn't add the hammer/pull off/slide notations...
It's actually something like this:
|-14----------------------------------15-14-|
Makes much more sense eh?
Bruuuu-tal... It's actually something like this:
| -----------14-18s21p18--------------------- |
| ---------14-----------19------------------- |
| -------15---------------18----------------- |
| -----16-------------------20--------------- |
| ---16-----------------------21s16p14------- |
Makes much more sense eh?
QUOTE(Rossie @ May 31 2007, 08:55 PM)
The second question:
How do you sweep pick?
One kick-a$$ malaysian guitarist recently let me in the secrets of the way he sweep picks...
He actually mutes all the notes, but it's not that audible when played fast. And he angles a little on his picking angle, to let the pick glide across the strings. John Petrucci's way of sweeping is quite hard, he doesn't really mute the picked strings with his picking hand (as described above), so the fretting hand need to keep up with the rolling and muting technique to keep everything nice and clean. And JP's picking angle is almost 90 degrees, that means JP digs in real deep when he sweep picks!
Hehe, palm-muted sweeps roxxors ftw! How do you sweep pick?
One kick-a$$ malaysian guitarist recently let me in the secrets of the way he sweep picks...
He actually mutes all the notes, but it's not that audible when played fast. And he angles a little on his picking angle, to let the pick glide across the strings. John Petrucci's way of sweeping is quite hard, he doesn't really mute the picked strings with his picking hand (as described above), so the fretting hand need to keep up with the rolling and muting technique to keep everything nice and clean. And JP's picking angle is almost 90 degrees, that means JP digs in real deep when he sweep picks!
...but only on ascending sweeps... can't seem to contort my right hand enough so I can actually palm-mute on the descending sweep, though...
...ok, maybe I pose question number 2.5...
Do you think that if you get passed a certain speed, there's very little apparent difference between sweeping (properly!) and raking?
Like, take the ultra-fast sweep arpeggios from e.g. Jason Becker's Serrana parts video (AIM clinic?), Rusty Cooley's Under the Influence and other ub3r-l33t-shredders on YouTube... it's hard to make out the low notes on the 5 and 6 string sweeps and pretty much the only thing that stands out are the notes on the first 3 strings...
I'm sure that their playing is clean, but speed and distortion kinda make it redundant... or maybe my brain just can't process the notes fast enough!
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= 5+2 string sweeps = 7 string sweeps ROXXORZ FTW! 
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