Transcripts
1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Dan. Thanks for joining me today. I'll be teaching you how
to start your journey with the wonderful technique of
rhythmic guitar tapping. This class will demonstrate
important techniques and exercises to put your guitar
game ahead of anyone else's. But really it's about pushing
yourself to get better. We will move through different
stages and ways you can apply tapping so you can start
creating your own licks. Go on plugin so we can
start to rock it out.
2. Project Overview: The main project for
this class is to perform a short
tapping piece that shows you have applied
the skills from each lesson correctly
and effectively. Each video will demonstrate techniques like right hand
and left hand tapping, arpeggiated tapping, CTL
tapping, melodic tapping. Each lesson will
be easy to digest, so you can build them
together for the final video, which will be uploaded
to the project gallery. I chose this project to show people that there
is so much more you can do with your guitar
than the simple stuff we hear or a toilet by most
people in the industry. I have the tools to open up your creative side and
give you the skills you need to apply these in a real-world or
compositional scenario. We need more guitarist pushing the boundaries and the
limits of the instrument. Before each lesson, be
sure you are in tune, comfortable, and
won't be interrupted. These techniques will
be tricky to sawed off. But like anything, the human
mind is supremely good at adoption and will soak in everything you
programmed into it. Take your time, focus
on the quality of the notes and keeping in time.
3. Posture and Technique: Hi everyone, Welcome to lesson one of rhythmic guitar tapping. First, we were looking at the techniques and
the posture required. Firstly, we'll look at
two postures you can use. Secondly, the almond
palm, the claw. And using the left-hand and right-hand
tapping techniques. First, we're looking
at the postures required to do
tapping techniques. Over here, you can see I'm demonstrating the
classical posture. The classical posture
use generally the best with any style of music. But because we're tapping, we need full access of our
arm around the guitar needs to come over so we can hit
the fret board appropriately. And the left arm
comes around with no restrictions on any of the arm and it sits
upwards like this. You get full reach. As opposed to say over here, I'm demonstrating the
seating position, which generally most
people will use nowadays in a
contemporary setting. Tends to sit more towards the side of the body
here and pulls back so you get a little bit
more restriction on there. I think only experienced
people should try to use this saving
position over say, a beginner, I would
say beginners should use the
classical position. Moving onto what are our arms doing during a
tapping technique. You can see here, the classical posture
is very superior. The OMB has full
access to the front of the guitar and can tap
anywhere it needs to. It's just free to do
whatever it wants. So this is gonna be
the best way and you can start doing you're
tapping techniques. The more important one
though is the left. The left. First of all, you're going to want
your forearm and your palm to be strike
together. Forearm, palm. Nice rhyme theater. Remember what you want to avoid is the bent
wrist like this. Bent risks will cause pain in the wrist and also in
the thumb over time. So you want to minimize
it as much as possible. Some people have trouble
doing a straight wrist. But for this you'll need a, just a small amount. Because the tapping fingers
needs to move on the top. You just want to avoid this. You don't want the wrist
on the other side of the neck, just bring it behind. If you can do that about there. We come around. We're ready to go
and we can start playing a tapping. Next one. Moving on to the claw technique, what I'd like you to do is make a Cat Claw
gesture like that. One more time freeze
frame it and then grab it twisted around and place
it on your guitar. There's two things
that that does. It gives us a nice placing
of the thumb on the neck. So just under halfway. The fingers are all nice
and arched like this. And the hand is more on the
front of the neck like this. It's more straight on what
you want to avoid is this. You don't want to be
on the side like that. You weren't full, stretched fingers ready to
move around because you will be doing a lot of movement with these
fingers so they need to be stretched apart. Once again, taking the claw
freeze-frame, bring it over. And that's your idea.
What you don't want it stuck together thing is
they need to be free. They need to be doing
what they want to do. Best. Practice that with some scales, doing some major
scales up and down, some minor scales,
practicing keeping your fingers nice
and spread out. Then you'll be on your way
to doing since happening. Lastly, we will be looking at the left-hand and
right-hand tapping. The left hand needs a
low thumb position. Then the fingers themselves are gonna be nice and
arched, spread out. And the tapping itself
is not a press. You don't, you're not
just pressing down like you would when
you'd normally play. This is more like a
whip or a hammer. I'm using the tips of my fingers because that's the
bony as part of the finger. And it creates a nice
percussive sound. We can do the same
with the right-hand. Using the fingertips. Altogether. You can see I'm
whipping all the fingers down there, All hammer ons. That was a look at the left-hand and right-hand
tapping technique. I'd like you to practice all of the techniques we
looked at today. Practice them with
some scales or some other songs that
you may know already. This will be crucial
before we move on to some actual exercises.
4. Troubleshooting: Hi everyone. Welcome to lesson two of rhythmic
guitar tapping. Today we're gonna be looking
at troubleshooting some of the issues you might have when trying to
do the technique. First, we'll be looking
at Fred buzzing, then hammer on and pull off. First we're gonna be looking
at some of the fret buzzing issues that might occur while you're trying to do
a tapping technique. When we play normal guitar, the best place to press down is in the middle of the fret to just
behind the middle bar. And obviously, the
further back you go. Pausing like that. With tapping it a
little different. It's more pressure
related buzzing, which can happen while
playing normal guitar. But what should happens here as I press down and
release the pressure, you'll see the buzzing come in. All I was doing was pressing and slowly releasing
the pressure off. If you are getting Fred buzz
while you're doing a tap, you want to make
sure that you've got the right
amount of pressure. So combining that with the whip of the hammer
is going to be tricky. So you want to whip and you'll really want to
hold it down really firm. Because if it's not, if it
doesn't have enough pressure, you're gonna get you're gonna
get that type of sound. So you need a EB, need to be very aggressive
with the tap itself. Let's take a look at
some of the hammer on issues you might have
when doing some tapping. So first of all, the hammer on itself
is not a press. That's the mistake
that most people get. Watch what happens here? Most people think it's
more like a press tap. It's not it's more like a whip from the fingertip,
which runs by the way. Neither the different
states a lot more calcium compared to this. I'm pressing down with the
finger pad there as well. Once you change it to the tip of the finger and add
that with motion in. Sounds a lot more vibrant. You have to do is follow that up with your
other things as well. Let's move on to pull
off tapping now. So you'll always want
to pull off a finger. Because if you pull off to an open string, it
sounds a little messy. So here's what it sounds
like when I pull off with anchoring
fingers behind it. It's very clean. I have both these
fingers behind it to do some Fulbrighters or
whatever is going on. Watch what happens now
when I move to an open? That kind of works because it's the same note from the 12th
fret releasing to an open. When you start getting
into some other string listening, what happened? It rings out quite a little
bit and it's not so acidic, pleasing to the ears. Have your anchoring
fingers behind it. And that's, this is most of
the idea that we're gonna be doing throughout the
exercises in this course. The second issue you
might have with pull off is how to do it itself. So with a pull off, the idea is you always
want a finger behind it. In a normal pull off scenario, we would pull off
to another finger. So third to one. Like that. In this case, we're pulling
off to our other other arm. That's the first
thing. Secondly, when we do the tap pool, you're tapping it with the hammer and then you're
you're pulling away. So you have to push and then
pull away at the strength. Because what you're
doing, you're plucking the string like that. Tap, pull away, tap and dig in and pull
away a little bit. You can hear the
noise I'm making near that pool and dig in and push away. You go with that. That was an overview of some of the troubleshooting
you can use to rectify some of the techniques that are involved
with guitar tapping. I urge you to practice the strategies we
talked about today. Because that'll be very
crucial for moving on to our first exercise
in the next video.
5. Staccato Hammer Tapping: Hi everyone, welcome to lesson three of rhythmic
guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and today
we're gonna be doing a 159 using staccato. Staccato is short
and sharp notes. And this links to our
exercise for the fact that the staccato
technique is more of a fundamental feel of what the tapping technique
is all about. This exercise is
available in a PDF which has notation and Tab, and it comes in three
different tempos. I suggest that you
start off with 60 and walk your
way up to the 120.
6. Normal Tapping: Hi everyone, Welcome to lesson four of rhythmic guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and today we
are going to be doing the 159 using normal tapping. This exercise is exactly the
same as the previous one. Although this time
we'll be letting the notes ring out
to the total length. So it will sound a lot nicer. As always, this exercise, we'll have the PDF and the backing track
resources available.
7. Left Hand Dyad Tapping: Hello everyone,
welcome to lesson five of rhythmic guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and today
we're gonna be doing diet tapping Using
the left hand. Dyad is two notes played
at the same time. In this exercise, we'll be
doing that with our left hand. Right hand will be picking up the melodic extension Notes.
8. Right Hand Dyad Tapping: Hello everyone,
Welcome to lesson six of rhythmic guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and
today we're gonna be doing right-hand dyad tapping. This exercise will be very
similar to the previous one, except now I'll right-hand
will be picking up the dyad. Left hand will be playing
melodic bass notes.
9. Adding Fingers Left Hand: Hello everyone.
Welcome to lesson seven of rhythmic
guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and
today we're gonna be adding fingers to the left hand. Will start by setting
up the left hand with a A-flat major
seven arpeggio. The right-hand will
tap out extensions on the 15th and 17th
fret of the G string. We'll follow this up
with the left hand by making a F major seven arpeggio. And the right hand will
tap the extensions on the 12th and the 14th
fret of the G string.
10. Adding Fingers Right Hand: Hello everyone,
Welcome to lesson eight of rhythmic
guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and
today we're gonna be adding fingers to
our right hand. This exercise is all about adding more fingers
and monarchs to your arpeggios will
begin with an E-flat major and tapping the
extensions with our right hand. The right hand will tap the
octave with the first finger. Then the fifth with our third. Will then repeat the same
process with C major.
11. Melody & Tapping Combination: Hello everyone,
Welcome to Lesson Nine of rhythmic guitar tapping. My name is Dan, and
today we'll be doing a combination dyad
melody tech department will be a 159 followed
by its bass note. And then attach the diet will be doing this
on the 10th fret, sixth fret, seventh fret, and returning to the 10th fret.
12. Plucked Chord with Tapping: Hello everyone. Welcome to lesson ten of rhythmic
guitar tapping. My name is Dan and
said I will be doing a plucked code with
a tapping extension. Will begin with an
E flat major seven, which is plucked
without right hand, will then quickly move
that hand over to tap the extension of the code. Will also move to do this
without C major seven.
13. Plucked Chord with Tapping Slide: Hello everyone,
welcome to lesson 11 of rhythmic guitar tapping. My name is Dan and
said I will be doing a plucked code with
a tap slide melody. This exercise will be very
similar to our previous one. Although at the
end of our shape, we'll be doing a tap
with our first finger, which will slide up by one
time and then slide back down by one time to finish
off the whole phrase. We'll be doing this on
the A-flat major seven. On the C major seven.
14. Song-like Tapping Slide: Hello everyone,
welcome to lesson 12 of rhythmic guitar tapping. My name is Dan. Today we'll
be looking at outflux detached slide and the
more song-like scenario. This exercise will be very
similar to the previous one. Although we'll have a few
rhythmic and note changes, will begin on an E
flat major seven. Moving to our C major seven. This exercise will also promote a more real-world
tapping scenario.
15. Final Exercise: Hello everyone, Welcome to Lesson 13 of rhythmic
guitar tapping. My name is Dan and
said I will be looking in our final task. This exercise will be
our longest one yet. It also helps to promote a
lot of the techniques and strategies we've talked about
throughout this course. I've supplied many
different backing track speeds so you can build
up your confidence. Hope you've enjoyed
this course and you found it very insightful. But most of all, I
hope you've enjoyed the journey and
you've learned lots. I'm looking forward
to hearing, send me your original ideas.
16. Conclusion: Congratulations on completing rhythmic guitar tapping
beginner's guide. You feel proud to
have come this far. And now you're in the
driver's seat to start creating some of your
own original tapping links music or to cover
someone else's tapping song. Be sure to share your skills in the project gallery
because you deserve it. You should now have a
good understanding about basic tapping melodies and chords with your right
hand and left hand. Feel free to expand on this knowledge with your
own creative perspective. My name is Dan from
transcend Gita school. I'll see you guys next time.
Dane Simms
