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    Advanced Lesson

    Jun 11, 2019 4 minutes

    Welcome to the latest instalment in my long-running series of columns covering the tapping technique, and its many derivatives. If you’ve been following this series from the beginning, you’ll know that we’ve covered a great deal of ground: chords, arpeggios, contrapuntal lines… and for the past five issues, we’ve been paying particular attention to linear tapping. The technique that we’re going to begin looking at in this column is an extension of the linear tapping technique—sweep picking.

    Sweep picking is a technique that is primarily used by guitarists to play fast, arpeggiated lines across multiple strings. Because of the sweeping motion (more on that in a moment), it requires only minimal effort from

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