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Sweep tapping doesn't sound right. Elaborate please.
I think Fred Astaire once danced with a broom but that's all else that comes to mind.

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Yeah,



It's essentially sweeping butted into some tapping.

My answer to the OP is take up keyboards. Learn to tackle difficult passages in their entirety - melody, accompaniment, form, composition, the whole thing. Little girls have been mastering this stuff for decades. THEN go apply whatever you can to the fretboard.
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I think he means when people sweep normally then they bring there right hand up and hit a note.

 

 

yes I mean this. If there is another name for it I apologize.

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It could be called a musical device but when the shredders do it, the tapping and picking are indistinguishable. It's more a specific fingering than a technical category. Tab instructions IOW.
Sweep Tapping makes enough sense once its clarified.
What was your question? :D

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It could be called a musical device but when the shredders do it, the tapping and picking are indistinguishable. It's more a specific fingering than a technical category. Tab instructions IOW.

Sweep Tapping makes enough sense once its clarified.

What was your question?
:D



hahahaha
good riffs so practice using this technique.

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I'd still suggest going the keyboard route. Watch that Tony Macalpine clip Genn posted. If memory serves, he's an accomplished pianist and even tours as one occasionally. In that context, what to shred on guitar becomes largely a matter of adapting the piano stuff.

You can start with the 'Gig Bag Book of Arpeggios'. It's got arps out to #11ths in all keys, tabbed and notated. Then just do the mixing intuitively. I'd try to be systematic about it but it's your guitar.

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Do you have anything against using tabs/guitar pro?

I only know of two programs to slow songs down without lowering pitch - MS media player, and there's a winamp plug-in called the pacemaker that does it.
I've never used the pacemaker, I did use the media player to slow songs down - but never acually tried to transcribe this way.

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No nothing against tabs but I have a learning curve of not being able to play something if I can't hear how it's supposed to go. I will try these plugins fellas, thanks!

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