Channel: Troy Grady

Category: Music

Tags: gypsy pickingshred guitarshred pickingalternate pickingswipingsweeping

Description: The amazing @Joscho Stephan demonstrating some of the smoothest swiping on the block! What is swiping? It's a term we coined to describe when you alternate pick through a muted string. It's not sweeping, because you don't actually want to *hear* the swipe. You just want to get through the string so you can continue alternate picking. It's used in situations where you have a picking motion that is trapped in between the strings, but you need to get to the other side. In this clip, the amazing Joscho Stephan shows us just how stealthy swiping can really be. Joscho is using his Gypsy technique here, and in that picking style, downstrokes stay trapped between the strings. So after the third note of the pattern, the downstroke on the B string, the pick needs to actually hit the high E string during the string change. As you can see and hear, it's butter smooth and super effective as a string switching mechanism. It is not a mistake — it's a thing players learn subconsciously because it works. If you film and study lots of players as we do, this is the kind of thing you see all the time.