How to Perform a Two Hand Tapping Rock Lick
Hey, guys! This is Will Christy. I wanted to show you guys a tapping lick which is kind of cool. A little different and some of the typical tappings, but first thing you want to do is get ready to tap on the 17th fret. Your other three fingers, I use my first, second, and third on the 10th, 12th, and 13th. So you tap, pull-off to the 13th fret. Pull off your third finger from the 12th fret and let it down, hammer back on the 12th, and then hammer back on to the 13th. So that’s the first part.
Well to the next part makes it pretty cool is, I just tap again on the 17th fret, back to the 13th. So that’s all I do. So, I’m going to do that twice. Now I’ll just move my tapping finger up one fret to the 18th fret, and up to the 19th fret. So, we got a bit of a chromatic move here.
So if you’re going to play that riff works over D, switches the right note D chord I’m moving up to A on the third string, same as that tapping thing. So, the notes are A, F, E, D, E, F, A, and then you just do the one tap. So you can go. So you get that quick double tap there. It doesn’t seem as if I did in on the example but -- so you got to get the tap, pull, pull, pull, hammer on, hammer on.
Now, I’m using my hand to mute the other strings. There’s a lot of noise here with the distortion and stuff. So if you’re using a pick most of the time, you can use your second finger to keep the pick as you would normally do it, tap with your second finger. Stuff like that.
Some people take the pick maybe put it with their second finger gripping it like that. So, then you can go back using your. Now, you just got it ready to go again but you can just tap it with your second finger. So, you got a really fast tapping there and try over different chords. So, just understand you’re playing, outlining a D, D minor. So, try doing that over different chords. Give it a try. See you guys.
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