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  • But this arrangement, attributed on another title card to JerryC, was anything but plodding: it required high-level mastery of a singularly demanding maneuver called sweep-picking.

    the end of School as we know it? Bill Kerr 2006

  • Listen and revel as the guitarist builds miniature melodic movements, sweep-picking and raking his way through stuttered arpeggiated chords.

    Stereophile RSS Feed 2010

  • Listen and revel as the guitarist builds miniature melodic movements, sweep-picking and raking his way through stuttered arpeggiated chords.

    Stereophile RSS Feed 2010

  • It opens with a needles sweep-picking guitar part, has lyrics about going on a quest for truth, justice, and swiving elf-maidens, and a brilliant singalong chorus.

    Everything2 New Writeups 2009

  • It opens with a needles sweep-picking guitar part, has lyrics about going on a quest for truth, justice, and swiving elf-maidens, and a brilliant singalong chorus.

    Everything2 New Writeups 2009

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