Sweep picking is used to play rapid arpeggios across the fretboard (sometimes on all strings).
Jazz guitar improvising is not merely the recitation of jazz scales and rapid arpeggios.
His tone, though somewhat lean, projects clearly and he easily handles technically trying passages, such as the rapid arpeggios across the four strings in the final movement.
Variation 4 consists of rapid arpeggios distributed between hands and based on the harmonic structure of the original melody.
His right hand was busily occupied with rapid arpeggios.
Then there was an unannounced shock of antique sound, a rapid arpeggio, far too real to come from a radio or record.
This work consists entirely of rapid arpeggios and harmonic modulations based on A-flat major.
In this first section, the orchestra carries the Russian-character melody while the piano makes an accompaniment made of rapid oscillating arpeggios.
The first movement begins in E flat in common time with the piano playing large and rapid arpeggios.
He is also noted for his trademark style of playing rapid arpeggios.