Lead Guitar Techniques - Make Your Solos Sound Awesome!

1. Intro Video : Hello and welcome to my course, lead guitar techniques. In this course, I will show you all the important playing techniques you will need to know if you want to start diving into lead guitar and solo plane. We will start with the basics like the vibrato technique or hammer ons and pull off. And how you can apply these techniques on simple pentatonic licks. Later, we will also dive into more advanced techniques like pinch harmonics and tapping. The course contains a lot of different exercises to all the techniques, including downloadable PDF tablature files, and of course, GitHub profiles. Alright, so now grab your guitar and enjoy the course. 2. Hammer On and Pull Off Technique Explained: Alright, so in this video we will learn the first two techniques which are hemorrhoids and pull offs. And they sound something like this. We will start with the hammer ons because it's a bit easier to learn for you. And let's say we have two nodes on one string, fifth fret D string, and seventh fret D string. And usually we would pick each note individually like this. And if you want to make a hammer on, we only pick the first node, so only the fifth fret. And then we are hammering down our wing finger with our fingertip to the seventh fret, D string like this. Okay, so at the beginning it's really okay to see it's like a hammer motion. So you are hammering your finger to the string. Okay, and now try it on different strings, e.g. on the D string, 0 with the pinky on the high E string, fifth to the eighth fret. The piggies little bit harder. I know. Then you can do a little exercise like this, e.g. where you are using all your fingers. Okay? And you can move that on each string, like on the B string. So you get comfortable to the different strings because it's different on the highest drinks compared to the lowest ranks. So I can recommend you to just try that a little bit. One the fretboard. So just some random hammer ons that you get a feeling for all that. And if you get comfortable with it, then makes sure to make the whole motion, these hammer motion, a little bit smaller or a little bit quicker so that you get more flexibility. First, get the feel for it and the white attack you will meet with your finger. And then you can start working on the perfect motion. Okay, So now move on to the pool ofs which are exactly the opposite. So let's take the seventh and the fifth fret again, but this time on the high E string. So we played seven to five. And if we want to do a pull off, we play the seventh fret and then we kind of flick off our ring finger like this. So you can imagine like you would pick the string with your ring finger. So if you were just released the finger, it would sound like this. So you can't really hear the fifth fret. So that's why you have to flip it down like this. This is a little bit harder than the hammer ons actually, and you will have to practice that a little bit. Tried to play it first on the high E string only. So you can take this exercise problem, the hammer ons, e.g. okay, If you are comfortable with the pull offs on the high E string, you can move on to the next string, which is the B string. And let's say we're doing nine to seven on the B string. That you have to be very careful with the high E string, which is below the B string. So you have to mute it with your index finger. If you don't do that, it can sound something like this. So by flicking off the finger, you will touch the high E string and it will win. So that's very important that you mute the high E string with your index finger. Make sure if you are grabbing here that the high E string is muted. Okay, And that's the same on all other strings, except for the high E string because there's no string below. Okay, and then we can move the exercise which we have done before on high E string, two different strings. So let's start on the B string and on the G string. Okay, so try to get comfortable with the pool ofs and tried to do it with different fingers on different strings. And then you can try to combine the hammer ons and offs. And you can do the exercise like this and so on. So you can really just try to do different combinations of debt on the fretboard, different strings, different positions, et cetera. And for the beginning of the timing doesn't really matter if you play for you. So without a metronome or something like that. But if you get comfortable to the whole motions of the hammer ons and offs, you can go over and try the exercises which I have prepared for you. In the next video, I have recorded all the exercises in different temples so you can start very slow and then increase the tempo. But I can also recommend you to download the GitHub profiles and use GitHub pro for practicing. Because there you can set your own tempo and will it increase it in small steps? Alright, so now Have fun with practicing hammer on and pull off. And I hope you have fun with the following exercises. 3. Hammer On and Pull Off Exercises: Okay. No. No. 4. Vibrato Technique Explained: Hello and welcome back to another lesson. In this video, I will show you another technique which is called vibrato. So this is a technique that you usually don't do on every node you play. So you do it on nodes that are ringing. So usually at the end of certain lakes or tone sequences, if you would play it on every node of a lake, it would sounds like this. So it doesn't really make sense. But if we do it wide, we use the last node like this. Then it sounds way better. And in general, it's pretty easy to learn technique. But you can also do a lot of stuff wrong here. And I will show you how I do apparatus or how I developed my vibrato and some very important things that you have to keep in mind when you play and practice by Pareto's, okay, first of all, what is a vibrato? So general, you play a single note, let's say the fifth fret G string. Then by bending and releasing denote a little bit like this. You will get that kind of vibrato sound if you do it a little bit faster. And you can also do it with bending up in the up direction. But I usually do it with town bent except of the high E string, which I will explain you later. And in general, what I'm doing is vibratos with the index finger or if the wing finger, I will first show you the whole thing with the index finger because it's very common to do that. Okay, So you play the fifth fret on the G string and you let the node ring and then you do slow pens and releases. So now we come to the important things. Because what I often see when beginners start to play vibrato is something like this. And there are two things that are wrong in my opinion on that. And the first important thing is that you shouldn't use an angle like this. So you should use a 45-degree angle, so kind of like this. And then you also have to make sure that your index finger, so this part of your index finger, the side here is touching the neck. So it's kind of an anchor point for you. And every time when you bend down the string, this part of your finger touches the neck, okay, and that's a very important thing. So you get a lot of more control in your parameter with that. The second very important thing here is that you shouldn't do finger motion. So instead, you have to do it like this. So the whole wrist is moving. So it's not that kind of movement, It's more like a slightly rotation of your whole list. And then in combination with the index finger, which touches the neck here, you have the most control about your bipyramidal, okay, and when we do vibratos on the high E string, we can't really do down bands because then this happens. Okay, So there's no more fret board where we can bend the string two. So we have to do appends in this case. But it's in general, exactly the same as if you do down bends. Okay, so you've bent up and then release it, bent up. Release it. Okay. So as I said before, I like to do by brothels with the index finger and with the wing finger. Depending on which precision I'm playing. General, you can use all fingers. You can also use the middle finger, the pinky. But it's just for me more comfortable to use the ring finger and index finger. So if you use the wing finger, then you have to make sure that the middle finger and index finger are also on the same string so that they're aligned behind the ring finger. This is to support the wing finger to get more strength in your vibrato. And it's the same thing. So your index finger also touches the neck here. And the whole motion is exactly the same as if you would do it with the index finger. Same when you use the pinky, which is a little bit harder. With the middle finger. Always use the other fingers as some kind of support. And you're good to go. When it comes to the vibrato speed, it really depends on what you're playing. So if you playing something more slow like this, it makes more sense to do a slower browser. But if you play more like crazy fast metal stuff, you can also do a faster vibrato, but I personally think more mid to slow tempo vibratory sounds more controlled and it has more fields to it. So I usually use mid to slow tempo apparatus. Okay, So now try to do some vibratos on every string on different positions on the neck and get comfortable with it. It's hard to do some exercises for vibrato, but I've put a small exercise together for you, which contains some small leaks with my Pareto's where you can practice them. Alright, So now have fun with practicing by burritos. 6. Slide Technique Explained: Hello and welcome to this video. In this lesson, I will show you another technique which is slides. So this technique is pretty similar to the hammer ons and offs. So you can use it to connect to nodes on one string. So let's say we take the fifth and seventh fret on the D string. Again, this would be a hammer on. A slide is pretty similar. So we also play the fifth fret with our index finger. We will keep the finger press down on the fret. We will slide over to the seventh thread, which is our target node. Okay? And the most important thing here is that you hold the right amount of pressure on your fretting hand. So if you take two less pressure than you won't hear any slide sound. So the tone will tie. And if you take too much pressure on your fretting hand than it can happen that you will get stuck in-between the frets. So it's important to find the right amount of pressure that works for a slide. So now you can simply go through all the strings 5-7. Of course you should practice that. We've all fingers. So with your middle finger, ring finger, and pinky, and so on. So you can practice that on your own. And of course what you also can do is slide in the other direction so we can go from the higher node down to the lower note, this case from seven down to five. Here you will see and feel that it's a little bit harder than sliding up a node. So the amount of pressure that you put on your fretting hand is more important here. So you really have to figure out how much pressure you should do and use to do a slide from a higher note down to a lower note. Also the thumb is important so you slightly have to release it when you start to slide. And then when you get to the target node, you have to press again. So I can try to demonstrate it. Okay, I hope you could see that, but this is a motion that will come naturally, at least it came from me naturally. Then another important thing is, how do you know which finger you should use to do slide? So it always depends on the node that comes after the target node. So let's say we have this lake. So again we have the slide 5-7. Then after the target node, which is seven. The next note is the fifth fret on the G string. You have to figure out which fingers make sense to use here. So if I would use the index finger for the slide, then we would have this motion like this. But that's a big jump from the seventh to the fifth fret, which really makes that much sense and also looks a little bit weird. So here it makes sense to take the ring finger because then we can use the index finger for the fifth fret. Okay, so you have less movement and Greek motion, and that's what we're looking for. Then let's say we have this lake, e.g. so here it's a little bit different. So the target node is again the seventh fret on the D string. And the note that comes after that is ninth fret on the G string. And if we would use the wing finger for that, it would go like this. And then we would have that jump from here from the seventh fret, the 9th squared, which not really make sense. So again, you have to find the right fingers for that. And here it makes sense to use the index finger. Because when we are here on the 7th, where we can easily use the ring finger to go to the ninth wet. And we have a quick emotion so it's easier to play. Of course, you can also do bigger distances with slides. So we just done like a two frets. But you can also do like 45 threads, threads. So e.g. let's take the second fret on the G string and we slide up to the seventh fret on the G string. We can also slide back. He will see and feel that it's not that easy to get the target node, right? So sometimes you will get the OneNote depending on how fast you're doing the slide. So long distance slides are a little bit harder to do, but I also have an exercise for that in the next video. For now, just try to go from the second fret up to the seventh, which through all strings like this, then try to do it in the other direction. So the tempo doesn't really matter at the beginning. So it's more important to get right feeling for that and that you don't miss the target node so that you get the right node at the end. Another very common thing is mostly on guitar solos, that you can slide to a target node out of nowhere. So entablature It looks like this. So we have to target node and then a slash before it. Usually a slide entablature would look like this. So we have two nodes which are connected with that slash. And do you know you slide 5-7, but if there is no node before only a slash up to a target node, then it kind of sounds like this. So we are here on the fifth fret G string. And what you want here is just that slide sound to the fifth fret, so you don't want to hear the first node that you are picking. So if you're on the fifth fret, it makes sense to use the second fret, e.g. you can also use the third fret and it will sound pretty similar. Or the first fret. It doesn't really matter because the slide is so fast usually that you only will hear the slight noise. And then the target node, it also works in the other direction. So from a higher node down to the target node. But it's more unusual than sliding up. So both versions are possible. Another thing that you can do with slides, which I've showed in the intro, is that you can connect courts with it, especially power chords like this. It works exactly the same as if you would do a single node slide. Just that you're pressing down two fingers or three fingers if you do the power cord like this at the same time and then you do the slight motion. It can be a little bit harder to do because you have to move two or three fingers at the same time to the target node. And it can happen that one thing, it goes too far. It can be very helpful to also practice that first with two fingers. So a power chord like this. Then you can also add three fingers if you want. Of course, it also works in the other direction, which is of course also a little bit harder to do. So try to pick some random power cords and connect them with slides and get a feeling for that. Okay, so now you know how to do slides. The next thing is that you have to practice them. In the next lesson you will find a few different exercises which you can use to practice the slides. I've tried to make these exercise as versatile as possible so that you have all the different types of slides in there. 7. Slide Exercises: No. No. No. 8. Bending Technique Explained: Hello and welcome to this video. In this lesson, I will show you another technique which is called string bending. So basically what bending is, it is playing a note on a string and then increasing the pitch of that note by bending the string. Okay, so pretty simple to understand, but it is one of the hardest techniques to do, right, especially for a beginner. So it's very important to have a good technique and to know what to do and what not to do. And this is what I want to show you in this video. So first of all, we will start on the eighth fret of the B string with our ring finger. So we will place our wing finger here. And then we will also place our middle finger and index finger on the frets before. So on the 7th and on the sixth fret. And these are just here to support the bend of the wing finger. So we will usually bent with the wing finger and have these two fingers as a support. You can also use other fingers for bending, but for the beginning and in general for most of the times when you will do bending, you will use the ring finger and then the whole motion goes like this. Okay, so the first important thing is that you should also use a 45-degree angle like this. Not like this. This will also work, but you won't have that much of control. So make sure to use your fingers angled like on the router like this. Then you will also notice that the size of your index finger is also touching the neck here. And that's also very important to get more control in the bending. And then the whole motion, which is kind of like this, is also a risk motion. So no finger motion. It's the whole breast that is slightly rotating. So you can see it like this. Then what's also important is the thumb placement. Usually you have your thumb behind the neck. But in this case, it makes sense to put it here up the neck and it really can stick over here. That's because if you start bending, your hand will automatically will kind of do that grabbing motion, even when you turn your hand like this. And then you will get more control if you grab your fretboard from above like this, then if you have your thumb behind there. Okay, so 45-degree angle of the fingers than the thumb above the fret board here. And then a waste motion. So really don't do something like this. It will work but not very well. Okay, so now play that string and try to do some bindings. It's not important that they are in tune. It's just to get the right feeling for it. So the next step would be bending in tune. Usually you will do full step or half-step bands. So that means if we do a full step bend on the eighth fret, our target node is the 10th fret on the B string. So this is our target node. And then we bend the eighth fret up until that node. Okay, And that's a great way to learn to bend in June. So first play the target node, and then do the band. And you will instantly here if you are in tune or not, then you can also do halftone bands. That means it's just one fret higher. So in this case, the ninth fret. Same thing here. So it's the same thing. It's just a different amount of pressure you have to put on your fingers. Alright, so if you are comfortable with half-steps and whole-steps bands on the B string, then you can move over to the G and high E string. So let's say on the G string, the target node is the ninth fret. So we have to bend the seventh fret if we want to have a full step bend. Okay, So that's a good place to practice and you can also practice the half-step ends here as well. So with eight thread. And then depending on the seventh fret again. And you can also go to the high E string. And there it makes sense to use the eighth fret again. So target node is the tenth read. For a full step bend. And half-step end would be the ninth fret. Okay, so feel free to go to different threads as well. So you can go to the 12th fret, 15th bread and so on to get a feeling for the string tension and how much pressure you have to put on your fingers to do a half-step and a full step bend. Okay, so now let's say we want to do a node that comes after the bend, like this. So we do the bend on the eighth fret, B string again. And after that we go with our index finger on the fifth fret B string. And what usually happens is this. Once again. And what you can hear in this case is that after the bending will hit that slide, we lease sound because you want to move your fingers from here to here. And of course you will release the string. Then you will get that kind of release sound that you maybe don't want. And in this case you have to mute the string after the bending. So at the point when you move over to the fifth fret with your finger, you have to mute the B string with your right palm. Once again slowly. Okay, and then you won't hear that sound. Okay? But let's say you want to hear that really sound, because that's pretty common. And a very common problem here is that you will have some string noise like this. So when you bend and then release the string, your fingers here touching the G string and also sometimes the D string. And they will win after that. And you have to mute the strings to have a clean lake. And in this case, you mute it with your index finger of the left hand. So you release it from the B string and you place it here on the BG and D string. And then you only bend with the middle and ring finger. And the index finger is just slightly touching the strings that they are muted. And that is really the best way to mute the other strings when you do band releases. Then another very common banding technique is to prevent. So that means that you first bend the node and then playing it with your pig like this. And then often you do a release after that like this. So you don't do this. You start with the bend right at the beginning. This is pretty hard to get right in tune. So let's say this is the target node. So you really have to know your guitar pretty well. And I can recommend you to use the same string gauge every time so that your fingers and your muscles know the amount of pressure they have to put on the string for Ben. And if you do a pre band release like this, It's the same thing with the index finger, so you also have to put it here to mute the other strings. Then you can, of course, also do paintings on the thickest string. So under low E string, a, and D string. But this case you have to do the bends in the other direction, so downwards like this. Um, so in general it's the same thing just in the other direction. And it's little bit more unusual to paint these strings. So mostly you paint the highest rings, but sometimes you also have pens on the thickest strings. So you can also practice that just some random notes over the fretboard. Yeah, just get comfortable with that and the whole motion. And then what you also can do is pending with one finger, usually with the index finger, which is willing. Not that easy because you don't have the support from the other fingers. But in some cases it will make sense. Let's say we are in the a minor scale and has this shape. We have these half-steps here. And we want to do that in Ben's. Which sounds pretty cool. But if you would go over with the wing finger here, you would have a very big hand movement, which you usually don't want. So it makes sense to paint with the index finger. It is just a half-step end, which is not that hard. You will notice that it's a different feeling when you bend with the index finger. So you can also practice half-step ends with the index finger as well. So like this. And so on. And yet just go around the fretboard and practice different kinds of bindings. And if you are comfortable with that, you can move on to my exercises, which you will find in the next video. 9. Bending Exercises: Okay. 10. How To Spice Up Simple Guitar Licks: Alright, so after you have learned the basics of the rock guitar techniques like hammer ons, pool of slides, spendings, and vibratos. I want to show you how you can use them to spice up very simple lakes. So let's say we are here in the a minor pentatonic, and we play five-seven on the T, two, five-seven on the G string. It sounds pretty boring, but we will change that now. So let's add vibrato at the last node. And now let's add some hemorrhoids. Or instead of the hammer ons, we can use slides. And it already sounds way better. So let's combine slides with hammer ons. Or we can also add an pending on the G string. So you have quite a few options here to play these four nodes, and they all sound a little bit different, and that's the cool thing. So you can play four notes in a row and you can always make them sound different with these techniques. Okay, so let's play this leak in the other direction. So 7-5 on the G string, 2725 on the D string. And we add the vibrato at the end. Now we add pull ofs. Now slides, slide and pull off. And we add depending on the D string. So you can see there are also a lot of different options you have. And let's take a more simple league with three nodes. So five on the B string, seven on the G to five on the G. Okay, First the vibrato. Than a pull off, a slide. You can also slide in the first node like this. Also sounds pretty cool. What's really useful on this lake is that this node is the same as this node here on the G string. So we can do appending from the seventh fret up to the ninth fret. We have the same node. So we can basically make this link to something like this. Okay? So, uh, prevent, release, pull off and vibrato. Or you can do a simple prepend. You can use a simple band release, which would be more something like. But also sounds great. So you can see the options are really endless and it's a lot of fun to spice up these simple leaks. So what you should do now is really take some very simple leaks out of the pentatonic scale, just a tone sequence of four nodes, e.g. and then add some of these techniques and different combinations. And you will see that the simple leaks can sound awesome. 11. Natural Harmonics Explained: Alright, so in this lesson, I will show you how to do natural harmonics. So first of all, if you want to learn how to do natural harmonics, I can recommend you to use a guitar sound that is overwritten or distorted like this. Because it's way easier at the beginning to get these harmonics. So basically the easiest way to get the natural harmonics is using the notes on the fifth fret, seventh fret, and the 12th fret. So, okay, so it's also possible to do them on other threads. But it's a bit harder to get them. So it's easier to use the fifth, seventh, and 12th thread harmonics at the beginning. So I'm, what you're actually doing is you're laid down your finger. In this case, I use the index finger on the fret, not in-between the fret if you're grep anode. So we're really on the fret. In this case, on the fifth fret, You just slightly touching the string. So if I go to the low E string on the fifth fret, will it just slightly touch it? And then I pick the node on the a string. The string. And you can see you can release your finger after that. G string, B string. And high E string. Really just slightly touched a string. Then you can release your finger. Okay, So as I said, it works on the seventh fret. And I think it works best on the 12th fret. Okay, so just try to get these harmonics on the fifth, seventh, and 12th fret, get comfortable with it and learn how to not use pressure on the strings. Then you can try to put it in certain lakes or worse like I did at the beginning. And then the next video, I will show you a few different exercises are like melodies lakes, which contain these harmonics which you can practice. 12. Natural Harmonics Exercises: Yeah. 13. Tapped Harmonics Explained: In this lesson, I will show you how to do tapped harmonics and they sound like this. So they are really my favorite type of harmonics. And I really like to use these techniques in certain solos. And how this basically works is you play note, let's say the fifth fret on the G string. And then you tap with your right hand and with the index finger, e.g. 12 frets higher on the fret. So that means one octave higher. Fifth fret, G string, that would mean the 17th fret. And you will eat, just tap the fret like you do on the natural harmonics. So just a slightly touch, and then we get that harmonic sound. The cool thing is it works with every node, so we can just take the fourth fret on the G string. And then we just have to move our right ten to the 16th threat. And then it sounds like this. On the third fret. Second. It also works with a distance of 5.7. Threats like on the natural harmonics. So like this. But it doesn't work that well in my opinion. So I like to use the octaves, but just that you know, that there are different options. Let's try it on the seventh where D string. What you of course can do is also adding, bending or vibratos, which make it sound even more awesome. So what you really have to practice here with your right hand is the precision so that you're always get the right node tapped. But riff a little bit of practice, of course you will get that as well. Okay, so in the next video you will get a few different exercises so that you can practice that tapped harmonics. 14. Tapped Harmonics Exercises: Okay. 15. Pinch Harmonics Explained: Alright, so in this video, I will show you another harmonic technique which is called pinch harmonics, are also known as squeals. So this is also really cool sounding technique, and it's also, I think the hardest harmonic techniques so far. And it usually works on every node on the fretboard. But there are certain areas where it works better and that are mainly the D and G string. And for the beginning, we will take the fifth fret of the G string. Also make sure to have a guitar sound with a good amount of distortion. It makes it way easier to get the pinch harmonics. So what you're doing with your right hand. So first of all, you have to place your thumb pretty near the tip of the pick. Something like this. Because what you're basically doing is you're picking the node. And then after that, your thumb is touching the string. And that's what makes the harmonic sound. And the motion is something like this. So you pick and then you touch the string after that. Okay, So now with sound on. So it's really not easy to get that if you've never have done that. And it's also that you have to have a certain precision here to find where the pinch harmonics is working. For me here on the fifth fret, It's like the back of the neck pickup. So in this position where it works great, but it also works on different position. So if you go along the string, you get different kinds of harmonics. Okay, So now try it with the seventh fret on the D string, e.g. and that you can also find different precisions for your right hand. If you're slowly get comfortable with the pinch harmonics, then you can also add fat routable. And of course you can also use it with spendings, which makes it sound really, really cool. So on the highest drinks, it also works, but I think it doesn't really sound that good. So I mostly use it on the G and D string or on the lowest strings, which also can sound pretty cool. So let's say here fifth fret on the a string, on the low E string. Of course, with the vibratory sounds even more cool. And yeah, that's basically it. That's how pinch harmonics work. So now go over the fretboard, try some different positions for pinch harmonics and get comfortable with it. And of course, in the next video, I will show you a few different exercises which you can use to practice the pinch harmonics. 17. Tapping Technique Explained: Alright, so in this lesson, I want to show you the tapping technique. So this is probably the technique which you can use to impress the most non-musicians and non guitarist. Because it looks very cool with two hands on the fretboard and stuff like that. But it's actually not that hard to do. So it looks way harder than it actually is. Basically it is an extension of your hammer on and pull off technique. Because you've just add some hammer on and pull offs with your index finger of your right hand. And first of all, how I see the tapping patterns is that I'm with my left hand in the a minor pentatonic scale. So on the fifth fret pattern. And I take notes from that pattern for, let's say, the fifth fret and the eighth fret on the B string. And I do like hemorrhoids. And then I add another pentatonic pattern, a minor pentatonic pattern, e.g. this here. And then I tapped nodes from that pattern on that same string, which would be the 13th fret or the 15th fret. So just that you know, how I find my notes for tapping lakes, then how you actually tap. So first at your index finger on the fifth fret, B string, and then put away you pick, you won't need it for now. Then your right hand placement. First of all, we are tapping with the index finger because it has the most strength and I think it's the easiest way to tap. And before you tap, you lay down your thumb and your palm like this on the top of your guitar neck. If you want to tap the 13th fret, you're on the B string, then make sure to place your hand in that area that you can easily reach the 13th fret. And it's important to lay down you're handling this because if you're tapping out of nowhere, you will have absolutely no control. So make sure to place your thumb and your palm up here. And at the same time drum muting the lowest drinks with your palm here. So if you would do tapping without doing that, you would get something like this. So the other strings will start to ring. So make sure to place your hand here and the lowest rings with your palm. Then the fifth fret is grabbed with the index finger of the left hand. And then you take the index finger of your right hand and your tap, the 13th fret. Just like a hammer on. And then you do a pull off. It works the same way as with the left hand. So you kind of flip it down. Of course, you have to make sure that the strings are muted. So it's basically the same thing as you would do. Hammer ons, pull offs with the left hand. Okay, So if you can do that, you can try to add another node with your left hand. So eighth fret of the B string, because that's also in that pentatonic pattern. So what you're doing is tap off and then hammer on the 8th through them again. And if you get a few for that motion, you can try to do it a little bit faster. And it starts sounding really cool. There are also other orders you can play the notes. So e.g. this. So tap the 13th spread than approve off to the eighth fret on the B string. So you always have to grab that and pull it off to the fifth fret. But I think the other way, it's much easier. But you can try what works for you. So what do you then also can do is moving to positions of your right hand. So you can instead of only tap this node, you can also move over to the 15th fret like this. And then you can, like move back and forth. Or you can do something like this. Okay. So you can also move the notes with your right hand, but make sure to stay in the pentatonic or in a minor, major scale so that the nodes are working together. Of course, you can also do it on different strings. So if you are staying in the a minor pentatonic and we go to the G string, we have to use the fifth fret on the G string and the seventh fret on the G string. And with our white hand, we can do the 12th fret and the 14th fret. Okay, so try it on different strings. Make sure to stay in the pentatonic patterns. And you can basically play the whole pentatonic on two patterns with tapping like this. But if you want to do that, you have to be very familiar with the pentatonic shape on your left hand. Because it really has to happen unconscious because you're focusing on your right hand that you get the right notes. But you see there are endless options. What you can do with tapping. And these are, I would say just the basics, which already sound really, really cool. So now let's say you are playing a lake and then you want to add a tapping patterns. So you have, you're picking your hand like this. Just an example. What do you have to practice is to move your pig in your hands. So this is your standard holding precision. And then if you move to the tapping, what I do is kind of moving the pig on the backside of my hand and grab it with my wing finger. Pinky. So it's a motion that happens very fast, kind of like this. This is my picking position. Then have my index finger and my thumb, which I can use to tap. I tried to demonstrate it slowly. Once again. So you really have to find your technique here. And for me it works to really fast it back to the wing finger and the pinky and grab it here. Alright, so in the next video you will find a few different exercises which you can use to practice your tapping skills. And these are also really cool links that you can use in your own plane. 18. Tapping Exercises: No. No, no, no. No.