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Chapter 2, GUITAR TECHNIQUE, Page 23, Playing with your handsSweep picking is used when you literally sweep across the strings. It is mostly used whenplaying arpeggios with one note on each string, but can even be used for rhythm guitar figures.More about this technique can be found in Lead Guitar section – sweep picking. If you cancombine this technique with the alternate picking you will truly be able to play ”anything” youwant. Practice the following exercise often to learn how to change between these twotechniques spontaneously. You may move it in other positions, or apply it to other scale shapesas well.Economy picking is playing the notes by picking strings by the shortest (and therefore themost economical) right hand movement possible. It allows you to play fast lines with less spentpractice time, but as said before: it is a technique you can use in the licks you have worked outbeforehand. If you want to be able to do a spontaneous ”economy picking” when youimprovise, you must learn to combine the alternate and the sweep picking instead.Fig. 10Economy pickingNotes2economy.pdfTablature2economy_tab.jpg