Sweep Picking

This is a 3.1 minute video response from Dennis Hodges on Nov 1st, 2008

Question:

"Matt11 asks, "In his lesson, Brad demonstrates sweep picking, but I'm confused about the use of it. When mastered, is it quicker than alternate picking? I also thought about the kind of a ,,continuous" sound/feel you get when you play in this technique, but the change is not so drastic. So? :-)""