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Here's some interresting facts that you really need to think about when you practice your arpeggios using the sweep picking technique, for example that many of the triad arpeggios using five and six strings actually consists of different techniques, namely
 - sweep picking
 - hammer on's
 - pull off's 
and in some cases legato for longerlines of notes in four note arpeggios and up

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