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* When I say “fast” I don’t mean really fast, just too quick for comfortable alternate picking.
I'd agree with what @Roland has said really. For something slow like Every Breath You Take (just an example I'd thought of) then you definitely wouldn't try sweeping that...needs the note definition of picking and it's not quick anyway. When you're entering the realms of the shreddier stuff you'll almost certainly need to sweep-pick, just to get the speed required...although you can hammer-back on some arpeggios for a different feel/sound (or it's easier). And you can add legato at the beginning/end to make it sound different too. You can adapt arps so they're tapped though, but if you're going to try alternate picking them that's going to be a serious amount of work - or reconfiguring the fingering/positions/string skipping to get those interval leaps in. And once you do start the sweeping stuff, you need to make sure the 'middle' notes are clearly defined too and your hands are perfectly synced...otherwise it's just a mush and you only hear the beginning/end of the thing, not the bit in between.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
His recording of Laura is a masterpiece of this.Incredible.
- All from a man who never could read a single note , zero theory and never had a piano lesson in his life .
He imagined /composed Misty on a dictaphone and asked somebody to transpose and write it down for him.
When criticised by a famous bandleader for his inability to read a score he replied by saying .........
" People don 't come to watch me read "
By that definitition isn't every scale an arpeggio apart from the chomatic scale?