Thanks for answering, Jimmy! I truly appreciate it.
--- In jazz_guitar@y..., "Jimmy Bruno" <jbguit@y...> wrote:
-That's a good question Paul. I never had that problem.
Well you're more lucky and/or agile than I am.
If you
truly have the economy picking down you should try practicing it
with
swing 8th notes.
I have -- it's just extremely difficult for me (at the moment), and
even if I sort of get it down at one tempo, then I have to sort of
start from square one at a different tempo. Alternate picking does
not present these problems for me. Given that I don't have too much
time to practice these days, I've simply learned to revert to
alternate picking when I want to play a swing-8th line, and if I want
to sound like I'm swinging at faster tempos, playing straight with
economy picking but a little behind the beat seems to get the effect
across.
Next time my schedule opens up, I'll have to try working on swinging
the economy picking again. Thanks for the advice!
I'm surprised to hear that you never had this problem. When playing a
sweep arpeggio, it's so much easier to play it straight then swung.
To play it straight, you simply drag the pick across the strings at a
constant speed. To play it swung . . . aarrrggghh!
