Tapping Explained

Tapping Explained Hey, what’s up guys? What are we doing here? So we have one person here from one of the students. So, it’s Walt. There he goes, he said it, tapping. Tapping is perfect timing. The idea of tapping is simply just taking your right hand and using that as another tool or utility in order to play more notes on the guitar. So now, obviously what your left hand is going to be doing in tapping is playing one thing as legato. So there are two kinds of playing all the guitar. There is staccato which is using your pick. [Demonstration] And there is also [Demonstration] And there’s also legato. So, notice how the legato I did not use my right hand and in the staccato, I did. [Demonstration] Now, staccato means to play short and legato means to play long or smooth or connected. So when you play with a pick. [Demonstration] Staccato sounds like that and when you play with legato, it will just sound. [Demonstration] It is more connected. By the way, before we begin the show, your page is on the front page, your magic trick. Congrats on that, it was awesome. I really want to do to in a couple of my friends, once I get my new phone. So now, the idea is that when I go to play with tapping, my left here is going to be playing legato. My right is going to do the tapping. So a way to go get this is that put your right hand, you can go with your middle finger or your ring finger and the sounds will be like [Demonstration] And also a strategy technique is that something like to have a grasp of the guitar can go like this. [Demonstration] As if to have balance so the thing you do is something like this. [Demonstration] I needed to float and the reason why I need my hand to float is so I can hammer it. So, it’s going to be like this. [Demonstration] That is fine, I needed more tack. [Demonstration] So that’s tapping, the way that you do tapping is that you simply hit a note. [Demonstration] Demonstration] And you’re going to pull off so that the sort of the way you pull off, you’re going to pull off coming on through this. [Demonstration] So the way you pull off is you simply go like that, so you can hammer on, so just practice that for a minute. [Demonstration] You will never get it for the first time. [Demonstration] So now let us put our fingers on the first string on the third fret of the A string any of this. [Demonstration] So the next step that we will be doing is a different variation of it, so when you hammer on, [Demonstration] We pull off. [Demonstration] And then we hammer on with our left hand. [Demonstration] So then we have this. [Demonstration] So, that’s the idea and then the other thing is that let’s say that we were to stretch the air pull so big intervals can be sound very kind of--I’m going to say spacey because of course space with it but they kind of say I’m more floating. So if I would to do something big like this, let’s say the notes C. [Demonstration] And let’s go to the note A. [Demonstration] And then let’s go to the E. [Demonstration] In case, you can't hear it in A minor chord in tapping. [Demonstration] But now, we can also change those, right? [Demonstration] You don’t have to just keep going. [Demonstration] We can also do. [Demonstration] Pull off, hammer on, slide up if we wanted to, so we can go. [Demonstration] So that’s one thing I think it can step further and maybe use three finger on the tabs so now either this. [Demonstration] So, let us come on here. So now, we can have this. [Demonstration] And the thing is that I’m the one on acoustic guitar which is super difficult, if I were on any lessons guitar will be completely at the ball game. You will be able to hear how big it sounds, I will be able to do it a lot faster. So the thing is that when you practicing tapping don’t practice it on acoustic guitar. Try on something simple like an electric guitar, take your time but don’t try to do it super fast and then, there is also different techniques too. You can take a step forward too is you can maybe walk up straight. So you can go like this. [Demonstration] Okay, if I were the one that has electric guitar, I would stand and try, let me try to get a little closer to the microphone. [Demonstration] Okay, like it tends to say I like something from hell but so, and the reason why is much in minor but I’m actually playing minor in different keys so I’m going on a G-minor, I’m going C minor, and here I’m doing F-minor which is here so I'm going— [Demonstration] Which is the same thing that I'm doing here. You can also take a step farther and do sliding with your right hand, so now you can start to see how fall you can take this, you do like hammer on, pull off, hammer on, slide, slide, pull off, hammer on, slide, slide, pull off so it will sounds like this. [Demonstration] Here we go. [Demonstration] So if I have another minute to practice, I will really have it but that’s the idea. So when you could take that and then start doing string skipping right, or you can go hammer on and go. [Demonstration] So, that’s it, kids. Try them in patterns, do different things so that at the end of the day just try your new techniques and see what works and what doesn’t. You might hate tapping but you’ll love tapping when you teach it to friend. The best teacher may be best tunes and the best tunes make us of teachers. So that’s truly how it goes and don’t stop. That’s it. So that’s an acoustic guitar, it’s actually nylon guitar which is even worse than in acoustic for tapping. But I hope it helps with your tapping, question finger and here there we go, that’s the page concentration yet. It was the phase of concentration for about 20 seconds and if I think 20 more seconds that will be able to have killed it but I don’t because it’s a tutorial and beauties on the fly. Alright guys, it’s exactly 8:00, we’ll see you back here tomorrow.