I’m going to upload later in the week and hopefully get some feedback 
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Sounds great with your USX!
ETA: Wow! Just started working on this, and it’s pretty cool. I will need to work on my sync but very efficient. Going to keep work on USX downstroke swiping and DSX upstroke swiping too. I will need to review these clips from Antigravity too
I’ll probably work on a single string version sliding with pointer finger as well. More tools in the toolbox
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Yup, I intentionally use swiping for various things. I can do a whole bunch of different motions, DSX/USX/DBX/2WPS, but my most comfortable technique has always been a forearm/wrist USX motion. At slower speeds I can do a passable DBX with it, but at anything above a moderate tempo I can’t. So, there are times when I just swipe a note here or there because it’s just an easy, comfortable way to achieve what I’m after.
I had kind of a mental block about it for awhile - like it was cheating, and I was just taking the easy way out. But once I accepted that it sounded fine, and it allowed me to easily play things that were giving me a ton of trouble before, I started looking at it as just another tool in the toolbox.
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So what are you doing here exactly and how did you practice it? It looks like you’re doing USX, but how exactly is the swipe working? You’re muting the string above with your left hand?
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I thought. THOUGHT I had it down, many, many years ago. And then I came here and posted it thinking I j=had 'er nailed, nope. Swipe city. hah! I didn’t even know it! Anyways, I can do my half-assed swipe version pretty easily still… My apologies for the ummm terribleness… Anyways…
I swipe on upstrokes, or when I don’t want to do a very good downstroke! lol I mute a lot with my left hand. To avoid swiping I guess something “else” needs to be done, but I wonder if maybe I shouldn’t just say screw it and try to get a lot better at swiping? hahahaha I don’t know how one would go about “practicing” it systematically.
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It doesn’t sound good when you’re playing slow, but when you speed up it’s not really that noticeable. I’m guessing this is because when you’re playing slow the pick is really dragging the string more than when you’re hitting it with speed?
@Scottulus sounds great when you’re ripping like @aliendough said. I am not good at the one string version and need to practice that.
Since I have been working at this with swiping I relate to Troy’s latest comments on another post: if you have good hand sync across the strings, with out knowing about picking escape, you’d sound pretty good. So I’m working on immaculate sync
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Just wondiner what kind of pick you’re using? I’m wondering what kind of effect the pick material has on the swiping sound?
Sounds great @Scottulus.
When I was a teenager, I was always upset that I couldn’t get the Gilbert licks to “snarl” the way they do when Paul plays them. It turns out that the snarl was swiping noise.
I was upset because I wasn’t swiping, but I didn’t know that swiping was something that could work si well and feel and sound good. I thought any contact with other strings would very obviously feel and sound like a mistake.
Strangely enough, I knew about playing through muted strings for articulations like scream bends, etc, but I never connected the dots.
Since learning about swiping from CTC, I’ve experimented a little with deliberate swiping in my mixed-escape RDT form. This form has always had a hard, percussive attack and quite a cutting tone, which I don’t like in every context. I spent a lot of time trying to change the sonic character without much success.
I’ve since discovered mechanics that naturally have the sonic characteristics I had been trying to achieve, and when I use the mixed-escape RDT form now, I actually prefer to accentuate its aggressive sound. For me, the swiping adds to that, though I can still avoid swiping if I want to.
Also, I notice that with the dart-thrower USX and rotator cuff and elbow USX motions with the trailing edge grip, the downstroke swipes are much less audible than the upstroke swipes with the mixed-escape RDT form. I wouldn’t be able to hear or feel the swipe at some of the speeds these movements can reach.