examples of Sweeping

Sweep picking is an arpeggiation of a chord, or a scale as you play. Instead of picking every note individually, you sweep the plectrum in the constant back and forth motion, and hammer on and off the notes you play.

I have never seen a bassist sweep pick. And I gaurantee it would sound like ass.

 

I'm a weeping bassist over this thread.

 

I've been doing sweep arpeggios since the 80s... although, it's not useful for much. It's on a few nuclear rabbit songs.

I think I did it on one of the conklin cherished challenges. Let me check.

Yep.

http://www.conklinguitars.com/cherishedaugust.html

Granted, it's on a 9-string.

 

I thought this thread was about bassists who are also janitors.

 

I think what Victor Wooten does during the "verses" of Sinister Minister could be considered sweep picking.

 

Dood, in order to be a sweeping bassist, you need to scallop the entire fretboard, and most definitely use your axe's flamethrower option to batttle mighty 3 headed dragons on yer 3rd album cover.

while wearing spandex.

 

Well, I can think of two "famous" players who play that technique on bass.

1- Scott Hubell

Here you have two exercises from him:

Ex 1

Ex 2

2- Adam Nitti

Another master of this technique. The intro of his tune "Skitzo" shows it pretty well.

Hope it helps

 

I know a bassist who can do sweep picking on bass.......never seen him do it, but the guitarist in his band told me he can do it.

 

Sweep technique on bass? What for? You'd better have a 6-stringer for that. Also, sweep picking on guitar sounds impressive, on bass it's more likely to sound like tons of humming.

 

Sweep picking? What year is it?

 

Billy Sheehan can do it. I don't have any specific examples but when I saw him in Steve Vai's band he had a solo and from memory he was doing it with fingerstyle!