Thread: Can Kirk Hammett sweep pick?

Hammett was best in his playing around the year 1991. Not in writing, playing.

QUOTE (mkapoor24 @ 11/09/09 06:45 pm) I'm pretty sure he alternate picks the arpeggios on Leper Messiah. You can hear him sweep pick here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHS_bCVWkw8#t=4m25s I laughed at James trying to sing More Than A Feeling.

QUOTE (thews @ 11/10/09 01:52 pm) Yeah, but the people asking for Kirk to be a peerless virtuoso are in the minority; most of the gripes are to do with the fact that he doesn't appear to have been maintaining his chops perhaps as well as he should. That's a big difference. Yeah, totally I agree but Kirk has achieved so much, I would probably lay off trying to be spot on at this point if I was him. Yeah that is a bit...

QUOTE (a1TheEnigma1a @ 11/10/09 09:30 pm) Did I accuse anyone? :P I was just sharing my thoughts. You know how Kirk threads normally get filled with the whole "Kirk sucks" thing. Yeah, but the people asking for Kirk to be a peerless virtuoso are in the minority; most of the gripes are to do with the fact that he doesn't appear to have been maintaining his chops perhaps as well as he should. That's...

QUOTE (Kimbo drengen @ 11/10/09 01:45 am) BTW Muhammed Suicmez is a god: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H76LUCBIUg Wow... That was awful I only posted that cause it shows you the actually solo live... if you wanna listen to the solos and not watch him play listen to the studio work

QUOTE (son of dismiss @ 11/11/09 02:43 am) He did it in a doodle the first time I saw them live. I really am kind of sick of the technique in most cases. Sweeps are great as a passing technique into other lines and phrases but the players who over use it are intolerable. For once we agree

QUOTE (lookralphsbak @ 11/10/09 12:44 am) Kirk over uses the 2 string arpeggios... He uses them in every solo he has written, While they always sounded good on the older solos, now a days they sound like crap since he over uses the wah wah while doing them. yeah.....I can see that, especially on the wah part....but yeah, like you said on some of those older solos, they were quite good.....

I was imitating A7x fans

i wish kirk could do this shti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpZ645ztl0

Unless its done well seep picking makes you sound like a guitar nerd.