Introduction to Tapping – Lesson 45

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In this lesson we go over basic finger-tapping techniques.

 

[Alicia Willis]

Well damn, I went from practicing my pull offs and bends to this
I saw the lesson and had to attempt it. This is ridiculously fun even though I just sound like an ambulance siren right now
Watched out Edie ! Here comes Alicia !!!!

 

[Alexander]

Glad I went over this lesson! Definitely improved my technique.

 

[Rios1128]

this got hard

 

[Farrel alghazali]

Slowlyy dude keep do this

 

[Rios1128]

My arm gets tired very quickly, not so much my fingers.

 

[Farrel alghazali]

You must relax men and rest for a little bit. After that you can continue the practice

 

[Ezequiel Romanko]

My arm gets tired very quickly, not so much my fingers.

Hi do you do stretching excercises before playing? believe me it do wonders, it's easy to forget that even playing guitar demands an effort from all the muscles in our torso and arms not only our fingers, warm up stretching your arms and back and forearms. I hope this works for you

 

[Rios1128]

Hi do you do stretching excercises before playing? believe me it do wonders, it's easy to forget that even playing guitar demands an effort from all the muscles in our torso and arms not only our fingers, warm up stretching your arms and back and forearms. I hope this works for you

Well the truth, no. He only played a couple of songs and now I do the exercises.

 

[Gabriel Milum]

My tapping experiment

This stuff is easy but takes a lot of time to practice. I’m gonna keep practicing tapping+legato

 

[Levi Clarke]

This may sound like a dumb question, but how do you mute the other strings while tapping. I usually get runoffs on the B string when tapping on the high E.

 

[Dreasko]

This may sound like a dumb question, but how do you mute the other strings while tapping. I usually get runoffs on the B string when tapping on the high E

I mute the B string with the top of the index finger (of the fretting hand) while i tap on high E ;D

 

[Alexander]

Mind blown right now! I didn’t know there was so much more to tapping. Now, do I use the principles of the CAGED system to figure which notes to tap from?

 

[Al7eX]

Mind blown right now! I didn’t know there was so much more to tapping. Now, do I use the principles of the CAGED system to figure which notes to tap from?

I don’t think caged helps much with this. Try and find chords on one string. If we are using for example the high e string and want to find an a major chord (A C# E) you would do your root at fret 5 - 9 - 12. Want to make it minor? Flat that third and you get 5 - 8 - 12 (A C E). Knowing notes on the fretboard and notes of chords helps a lot.

 

[Adrian Tache]

This may sound like a dumb question, but how do you mute the other strings while tapping. I usually get runoffs on the B string when tapping on the high E.

I think you've got it by now but if any other people are asking the same question. What I do is mute the string above the one I'm tapping on with the index finger of my left hand, and I also rest the palm of my right hand on the thicker strings if I'm not playing them to ensure nothing rings out and the taps can be heard as clean as possible.