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Ivan Milenkovic31st October 2009Excellent exercises man, great job
Marcus Siepen20th October 2009great, very useful and important lesson. Many people focus only on alternate picking, but in my opinion it is important to be able to play both versions, alternate AND economy picking, it just gives you much more options
Emir Hot15th October 2009Great lesson David. I am not good with economy but it is of course a bonus if you know both
Vasilije Vukmirovic11th October 2009cool! Gambale thing
David Wallimann11th October 2009Thanks guys!
Gerardo Siere11th October 2009Nice excercices and patterns.
Gabriel Leopardi11th October 2009Great exercises David! Frank Gambale plays everything with this technique.
newguyatgmc11th October 2009New look...and great lesson
Pedja Simovic11th October 2009Good work David!
Bogdan Radovic11th October 2009Good workout David!
Sensible Jones10th October 2009Great technique David and a very useful lesson!!
Laszlo Boross10th October 2009Nice lesson David! Very useful!
Zsolt Galambos10th October 2009This is the only technique for me that I didn't master, so I think I'll learn it, too
vampire1810th October 2009wow, you have a very smooth tone, you cant tell when are alternating on one string or sweeping to the other, very impressive
- David Wallimann10th October 2009
Thanks everyone!
The main video needs some shortening at the end..
I'll get that fixed! 
arctic123410th October 2009Great lesson David!
Alexiaden9310th October 2009Speed runs combined with fretboard knowledge, just what I need !
Awesome lesson and explanation, David ! 
birthmark10th October 2009thanks Dave. working on this.
Stephane Lucarelli10th October 2009Cool lesson David!
kaznie_NL10th October 2009Nice one David! For now, I'll stick to AP a bit more, but maybe later to gather some monster speeds
playaxeman10th October 2009Very useful
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Nazgul10th October 2009Great lesson David!
But why does the video last 53 seconds while the lesson only lasts 38 seconds?
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In today's lesson, we'll discuss economy picking / sweep picking which is a technique that will allow you to reach very fast speeds with minimal right hand movement. The principle of sweep picking is simple: anytime you need to play two consecutive strings, use the same picking direction. If you play an alternate picking run but "break" the alternate pattern when playing two consecutive strings (and use sweep picking) then you get a technique called economy picking.
We'll be using all the seven modes extracted from the key of G Major. In order to make these scales sweepable, we'll use some three notes per string fingerings. Make sure to memorize all the scale patterns before playing this exercise. Start with a slow tempo making sure everything is very clean...
Practice well!
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