Finger Tapping Lessons: Guitar Tricks for Shredding Guitar! Part Two
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Finger tapping on guitar is one of the coolest tricks you can use! If you really want to max out your right hand technique, you will need to learn this cool trick. No shred guitar lessons are complete without it!
Expert Finger Tapping
Two Handed Tapping
Two handed tapping has limited usage in modern music, but when it is used tastefully, it creates a cool futuristic spaceship effect that will transport your listeners blissfully and unaware into the Spiritual Realm, hosted by Ooga Booga and guarded by Crazy T.
It takes practice to pull this shred guitar trick off cleanly, and there are a few precautions you have to consider while doing it:
"When tapping with two hands, each finger remains assigned to its string! This helps keep your brain from blowing neurons like an overheated amp blows tubes. As a Rockstar, you'll need those extra few cells for everyday normal functions such as posting Twitter updates and playing in the right key whilst under the influence. Look in the reminder boxes on the bottom right of me and memorize the corresponding finger names."
Left Hand Finger Numbers
Here are the left hand finger numbers:
- Index = 1
- Middle = 2
- Ring = 3
- Pinky = 4
Right Hand Finger Letters
Here are the right hand finger letters:
- Index = I
- Middle = M
- Ring = A
First, your left hand should grasp the neck overhanded, not underhanded like normal. Rest the inside padded area of this hand against the strings a little bit to dampen them and prevent unwanted noise. This gives you a clean slate for PRECISE tapping.
Second, two handed finger tapping is the trickiest of the shred guitar tricks! Practice the "percussive-like" patterns until they are ingrained into muscle memory!
Example 7.1:
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Example 7.2:
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Combining Sweep Picking AND Finger Tapping
Sweep picking AND right hand tapping can be combined to create what I call sweep tapping. It will test your right hand technique as well as left hand agility. Have patience with this trick and study the tabs carefully! This is the beginning of your continual ascent into the Tao of Shred and continual evolution as a Guitarslinger...have patience maggot!
Example 8:
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Sliding Into Oblivion
A real neat and groovy trick I came up with -- yes, I'm taking the credit for it, but that doesn't necessarily make me credulous! -- is to COMBINE sliding your tap finger along with regular finger tapping. This is also part of the Tao of Shred! Good Luck!
The TABS below illustrate three different methods of slide tapping, including:
- Sliding your tap finger up into oblivion (out upwards)
- Performing various normal slide movements, but with tap finger
- Alternating between tap slides and normal slides
Example 9:
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Weird Stuff
Same Note Tapping
A tapping technique leaning more towards the "realm of the unusual" involves repeatedly tapping the SAME note that you hammer, alternating between a tap and a hammer. The pattern just uses two notes at a time: the anchor note and the tapped/hammered note.
You can move the pattern up and down the neck to create a little melodic phrase out of it, increasing tastefulness and awesomeness simultaneously. Including open notes here and there also adds flavor. Check out the examples!
Example 10:
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Hopping Around: Large Intervals
For an effect that makes you sound trippier than Albert Hoffman and smarter than Albert Einstein, you can leap through large intervals of notes with finger tapping and hammering. This is not a very practical move and there are limited applications for it, but it's a neat trick just the same!
Using the two-handed tapping approach in slow motion, don't actually PICK any notes, just PRESS them.
Example 11:
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