Actually this fingering might be even easier it puts the only two TWPS rotations in a more natural sequence for me.
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wait so ā¦ what does āswipingā mean if it doesnāt mean sweeping, in this case a single string?
For me, Iād purely alternate pick it using crosspicking to deal w/ string changes. Without hearing the lick, it just looks to be ascending pentatonics in groups of 4, in position 4. So I start the lick with a downstroke and alt pick, which leads to each new group starting with a downstroke.
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If I had to move super-fast, I would probably use outside picking starting with a downstroke-hammeron to turn my pick around. This gives you a 1-note head-start and when youāre moving quickly, itās hard for anyone to catch the single hammer-on without a slow-downer machine. Otherwise, just start on an upstroke, if there arenāt any fast notes preceding.
Of course, you can just āSteve Morseā your way through it by using wide strokes to minimize the forearm twisting, and perhaps a little string swiping if you lack his athletic ability. But, this is where a man must know his limitations, especially if youāre prone to arthritis like Steve is nowadays.
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Swiping is just playing through the string as if it wasnāt even there and playing the next note on the new string with the next stroke in the repeated DUD or UDU pattern. You can do this as long as you A) mute the string you are swiping and B) are moving in the direction of your pickslant. So a downward pickslanter can swipe when moving to the next higher (in pitch) string i.e. play downstroke on string 6 continue thraight through string 5 and play next note on string 5 with an upstroke. An upward sickslanter canāt do this movement as the string will stick on the 5th string instead of āswipingā over/through it. However, an upward pickslanter can swipe when moving from a high string to the next lower string on an up stroke.
It is discussed at some length in the Anti Gravity seminar.
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Thanks! I remember now. Swiping seems like such a strange solution to the problem of needing a pick escape. It seems like itād be much harder to swipe through a string while muting it, and then play it on the āother sideā (of the string) rather than just cross pick and develop a double string escape.
Swiping is definitely much easier than a double escape solution but is much more limited which is why I am driving myself crazy trying to get the cross picking mechanic working 
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Really? Iāll have to try swiping and see. Itās just not something I would have ever thought of. Iāve apparently always been cross picking, albeit sloppily, ever since I started alternate picking. Thatās why I had such difficulty when I was first trying to implement one way pick slantingābecause my pick stroke pattern has always been U-shaped (like a pendulum) rather than on a diagonal plane, and then escaping back out the same way.
Whatās funny is that I think a lot of people swipe and just donāt realize it. In some genres itās even a part of the sound. I think SRV and Benson did a fair amount, but donāt quote me.