Tapping Guitar

Tapping Guitar

Author: Ricky Sharples

As you surf through YouTube you have probably seen guitarists tapping guitar and wondered if you could learn to play like that. The sound you get from tapping guitar playing adds some variety and excitement to your range of techniques. You can use the first or second finger of your left hand to tap the fretboard at the fret your note is at instead of fretting the note and striking the string with your pick.

The basic technique is not difficult to pick up but if you decide to make start on your tapping guitar style, be prepared to put alot of practice time in. For many guitar players learning guitar tapping well takes around six months, so do not be sad if you cannot get it right away.

If you are interested in learning guitar tapping, buy or borrow CDs and watch YouTube clips of these guitar players: Stanley Jordan, Zack Kim, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Buckethead, Tom Morello, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci and Paul Gilbert. Some Metallica songs that feature tapping are Ride The Lightning, Blackened, ...And Justice For All, One, The Frayed Ends Of Sanity, To Live Is To Die, Wherever I May Roam and Am I Evil. If you are a beginner guitarist or even at the intermediate stage, you might find that finger tapping is very difficult. This is because it is a whole new skill apart from playing guitar in the normal way.

Tapping guitars is a technique that alot of guitarists are inspired to try by watching guitar virtuosos like Van Halen or Steve Vai. While there is nothing wrong with getting enthusiasm about tapping from a role model remember that no matter how far you go with the guitar it is always best to be yourself. You can only emulate your idols, you cannot BE them.

One way to make use of the songs that have already been recorded is to download Guitar Pro or Powertab do a search for tabs for guitar tapping songs in those formats. The PowerTab trial version and Guitar Pro (free) do not have realistic sound but you can get the notes off the tab and slow the MIDI down to get a handle on how to do the tapping, so they are not totally useless.

When you first try guitar tapping you will want to set the gain on your amp really high. As high as you can handle. In fact better get a pedal so you can lower it again for parts of the music where you are not tapping. If you do not have a top of the range guitar with nice pickups, do your guitar tapping slow so you can hear what you are doing, but keep the beat regular.

As a first attempt at guitar tapping Eruption by Van Halen is not a bad choice. Eddie Van Halen uses three finger tapping which you can pick up by practicing. Hot For Teacher is another Van Halen song you could try. The intro has some nice tapping on the guitar. Just go through any Van Halen CDs to see if there is any tapping you want to try to imitate.

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1. Mixing Modes
2. Harmonization
3. String Skipping
4. Finger Strength
5. Chord Progresion
6. Building Speed
7. Fret Board Mastery
8. Bends And Vibrato
9. Double Stop
10. Ear training
11. Finding The Note
12. Improvization
13. Music Teory
14. Practicing
15. Jazz Chords
16. Arpeggios
17. Siplification
18. Harmonics
19. 2 Handed Techniques
20. Inspiration
21. Phrasing
22. Guitar Tone
23. Rythmic Division
24. Chord Shapes
25. Wah Pedal
26. Rhythm / Lead guitar
27. Tapping
28. Pentatonics
29. Picking
30. Brain To Hand Connection

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Beginners Guitar Lessons, Scales - 4 Tips To Get The Most From

Author: Mike Hayes

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Learning guitar scales can be frustrating and confusing for the beginning guitarist. Often the student simply doesn't know where to start.

How important are scales?
It appears that learning and understanding scales is vital to becoming a better guitarist, how many scales should I learn and which scales should I learn first?
Good questions, the truth is scales re important, they're like our musical alphabet. The thing to keep in mind is that you only need to know a few scales, guitarists often become obsessed with practicing scales and over their real purpose which is to make music.
Here's a list to help you choose what scales to practice and eliminate the confusion.

Tip 1 -- Select a style

With literally thousands of scales to learn the first thing to do is decide on which style of music you want to play. Certain scales are more applicable to particular types of music e.g., the minor pentatonic scale works well for rock, blues, metal music...mainly songs with power chords. The blues scale is used mainly for rock, blues, metal music while the major pentatonic scale is mostly used for country, pop, country rock ...generally songs with open chords. Of course, I'm generalizing here, you can use any scale you wish for any style of music, however some scales work better than others. The idea is to use the correct musical alphabet (scale) for the style of music you want to play.

Tip 2 -- start on the keynote

Simply running up and down a scale won't produce any meaningful music no matter how fast you play them. It won't communicate anything to the listener. The idea is to train our brain and fingers to make musical decisions, which note do you want to play next? Where is the note I'm hearing in my head is it higher or lower than the previous note? To get this brain -- fingers connection practice starting on the keynote of the scale and decide whether your next note is higher or lower than the keynote. The keynote is the first note of the scale, e.g., the keynote for the A minor pentatonic scale would be 'A".

Tip 3 -- record a background

Once you have decided on a scale to practice, record a background in the key you want to practice. The recording does not have to be elaborate, a simple acoustic guitar will work fine. Record the backing track for 5 to 10 minutes duration, this will give you plenty of time to practice and try out your ideas. A good idea is to try and play just one note (the keynote is an idea choice for this), practice all different types of rhythms, slides, bends etc., to see how creative you can be. Recording a backing track is very helpful as you will find that you react differently to certain chord textures, the same note will sound different when played against a variety of chords.

Tip 4 -- learn all keys

Guitarists should practice their favorite scale(s) in all keys, this is especially important when working with singers.

Each key has it's own personality, certain keys have a warm feeling, while others are bright. Try playing a "G" minor pentatonic scale over a recorded background in the key of "G", then, play a "B" minor pentatonic scale over a pre-recorded background in the key of "B".

Scales can "free your fingers and freeze your brain" the whole idea of scales is to help you play music. Think of music as a language, scales are our musical alphabet, knowing the alphabet is just the beginning, it's how we use the alphabet to communicate that's important.

These ideas will help you develop your own style and soon you will be transferring the music you are hearing in your head onto the guitar.

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