lla and welcome co my video on my gasiar Lechnique called "sweep! or "speed picking This video is exciting because it enables the viewer to sce and hear how effortless this Technique cam be. Most guitarits are anstious iprove their picking technique. Pieking problems we one of the reasons that the twe-haid lechnique became 69 populae Wheo everyune was doing the two-hand thing | held tight to my pick, dewemineal to make @ work. I decided fe rethink’ and rearcnge some of the aut of date shapes (of traditional seaiss and arpexuios to shee some light o0 new possibilities For the pick, “The techrique boils down to a concept of odd and even numbers of nates per seeing Whenever you play’ the lick finan law to high ar hugh to Jow, playing only in one dlzcctiom, you need an jodi number of notes per sirlag, When you want to change direction, you need an even number of notes per sting INTRODUCTION| need an | want to nee pet the enly ane Luse far every sale inevery pen tion. Campare that to what you may be play: ing today. It's senseless to me, to have your sighe hand play something. different for every scale in. every sition because of the inconsistencies of the trade ‘tonal scale patterns. Of course, shere isa light rade off sample 1 denonstrates a simple major seale I : This shape, in terms of the picking patrn, is Example 1 GMajoc «12446671 and slight bending of the niles, On the high E sing ‘hore are only tro neaes, which means we skip one and we have four nates on the botiom. This means adding a chromatic passing tooe ora diatonic nate hy skipping the toot as in Fxample la which is exactly the sime as Bxairaple 1 except for the last4 noses. Eeamples 1b, 1 and Id are examples of different scale types using exactly the sare picking pattern seen