The guitar tapping technique involves tapping or hammering on any note of a string using the middle finger of your picking hand. Then you pull off to a note you are holding with your fretting hand. After that, you would pull off to a second fretted note and maybe hammer-on to a 4th note. This is the last of the guitar techniques that use hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Guitar tapping is a variation of the hammer-on and pull-off technique. The only difference is the first hammer-ontap is done with either the index or middle finger of the picking hand. Then that same finger lifts or pulls off to play the next note.
That’s really the basics of guitar finger tapping – it’s just a hammer-on. But let’s take a closer look at the technique.
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First off, know that you need to fret the 2nd and 3rd note to be played, and you use your normal fretting fingers. I prefer fretting a minor 3rd with my index and ring finger. That’s the first step – you want to be ready with those notes after the tap.
In the first example below I hold down the A 5th fret 1st string with my indexpointer finger and the C at the 8th fret with my ring finger. The first note I play is the tapped E at the 12th fret and I use the middle finger of my picking hand.
Keep two things in mind. First, I only play my acoustic and this technique is best suited for an electric guitar. As a result, I need to pull off with my tapping finger to be able to hear the second note.
Guitar Tapping Exercise Sheet Music For Guitar (mixed Duet)
Secondly, I’m not a huge fan of this technique. It’s cool and I work it in from time to time, but it’s not a go-to guitar technique for me.
Anyway, you come straight down on your target note with the picking hand middle finger. which is the “tapping” part of this technique. Then you either pull-off (acoustic) or lift off (electric) to play the 2nd note. Immediately follow that with another pull-off to the note held by your index finger.
For the two TAB examples below I have 4-note 16th note and triplet riffs with a resolve to the tonic minor or major chord, however, go to any other chord that works for your riffs.
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The first set of exercises involves an A minor triad resolving to an A note. The 2nd chord can be looked at as an Am add9 or a Cmaj13 no 5th and I resolve that to a C note. For the Am riff, it’s the 5th, minor 3rd, and root note.
The following TAB starts with a C7 no 5th (E-C-Bb) resolving to F major, followed by a Bdim (F-D-B) or G7 no root resolving to C major.
Come up with your own arpeggios or scale riffs with as many or as few notes that sound good to you. Try a dominant 7th without the 3rd like D7 no 3rd (D-C-A). Experiment and get creative!
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The hardest part of this guitar technique is correctly tapping the first note and have it ring out clearly and in time. And then maybe the pull-off with the tapping finger if you are playing acoustic like me. After that, it’s just pull-offs and hammer-ons.
Give it a shot and add another tool to your guitar technique toolbox. For real-world examples listen to songs with these guitar players that I like: Stanley Jordan, Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Allan Holdsworth, and Michael Hedges.
Check out my Guitar Techniques article for a list of all the embellishments available to you as a guitar player. Also, look at the Wikipedia article on Tapping for history on the technique.
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We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you accept the use of cookies.I AcceptIf you’ve ever watched a video of Eddie Van Halen playing the electric guitar, you know just how cool finger tapping can sound (and look).
Well, yes. However, with practice we can learn to conquer the strings and stick this awesome technique in our guitar toolkit for future use.
In this lesson, we’re going to give you a beginner’s crash course using five tapping exercises that will light up your hands and get you sounding like a virtuoso!
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Whether you’re playing tapping exercises on one string or six, it’s going to take some work and coordination to nail the parts.
It’s important not to get put off during the practice phase. This lesson is designed to give you an introductory run through two-handed finger tapping exercises that will open up your hands and bring some flexibility.
Pro Tip: This is an unorthodox technique, and the position of your hand means more than the notes you play. If you feel a strain in either of your hands, take a minute to re-evaluate your hand position (especially your picking hand) to see how you can better position yourself.
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Unless you come from a classical background of learning where fingerpicking is a must, learning how to coordinate your picking hand without a pick can be difficult.
Pro Tip: Leave the pick on the table for this one. Find your G string and place your index finger (fret hand) at the 5th fret. With your picking hand, take your middle finger and begin ‘tapping’ the G string at the 12th fret.
We want to tap down hard enough to dig in on the string at the 12th fret, and then pull-off the way we would in our other hand.
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Not only is it a practical way to create cool rhythms on the low strings, but it also helps us to build some good calluses on our picking (or tapping) hand.
Begin to develop a repeated motion between your two hands over these three steps. When you complete the third step, cycle back to the first step and repeat.
Each string feels a little bit different when getting used to tapping, and so we should experiment to see what those differences are.
Randy Rhoads Style Melodic Tapping Exercise Using Common Tones
Instead of pulling off to the open string, we leave our index finger of the fret hand on the 5th fret. That way we can pull off from the picking hand at the 12th fret to the 5th fret in the fret hand.
If you really want a challenge, you can alternate between the 7th and 8th fret hammer-ons to spice up your tapping lines and work your fingers harder.
Eddie set a large benchmark for tapping, and he conveniently did it in such a way that is easy to break down into an exercise.
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Once you have this exercise down, you can focus on trying to pick up speed with it. For now, practice it slowly. Check out the tablature below:
Two-handed tapping isn’t just great for lead guitar – we can use the technique learned in the tapping exercises above to build some pretty amazing rhythm sounds as well.
We want to make sure that we aren’t hitting or vibrating any other strings in the process, so make sure to take it slow and commit to practice in order to get the most out of these tapping exercises.
Tapping Exercise 1 — Erik Ryde
There isn’t a lot of room for sloppiness in this playing style, and therefore slow practice with a metronome is the key to success.
Any chord in any position can be played a number of ways. One of our favourites is to tap the notes in the chord in an arpeggio-like fashion.
In 2019, there are a lot of forward-thinking musicians on the internet that can get you incredibly excited about learning new tapping exercises.
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Now more than ever, guitarists are striving to break old traditions and venture down new paths through the use of new techniques and improved versions of old ones, as well as a slew of different effects that will boggle your mind.
We’ve written about a few of our personal favourites below who utilize two-handed tapping as a medium for playing the guitar, either acoustic or electric.
Sarah Longfield: Guitarist for The Fine Constant as well as her own solo material, Sarah Longfield is a force to be reckoned with in the world of two-handed tapping and eight-string guitars
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Yvette Young: The inventive guitarist of Covet, Yvette combines two-handed tapping with open tunings to create beautifully ambient atmospheres with all kinds of movement within them.
In order to master this technique, you’ll need to put the time in to truly get the feel of it under your fingers and into your ears.
If you’re interested in seeing some more tapping exercises and what they can do for your playing, check out some of these YouTube videos below:
How To Practice Tapping In Guitar
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Learn how everything fits together quickly, easily and effectively. We share ninja tips (for instant fun!) but also timeless fundamentals that will deepen your understanding.When playing the guitar using normal hand positions for your fretting hand, you will be limited in note range when voicing a particular chord, or arpeggio.
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