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Two Hands Tapping Technique

Diposkan oleh lala on Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Two Hands Tapping TechniqueMost of you are apparently absolutely accustomed with the cliched borer licks like fast trills, three and four agenda patterns, etc. Here I will appearance you some anarchistic but actual air-conditioned uses for this abundant technique:

First, the addendum in brackets are addendum to be ashen by the appropriate (or picking) hand. The accepted 'T' characters for borer would accomplish abounding of these examples actual difficult to apprehend and understand.

This archetype uses the 'reaching over' address which I anticipate was pioneered by Eddie Van Halen. Here, the appropriate duke holds bottomward a ashen agenda while the larboard duke plays legato curve on the aforementioned string:


Fig 1:
e|-15p13p12p(3)h12h13h15p13p12p(3)/(12)h15~
B|-----------------------------------------
G|-----------------------------------------
D|-----------------------------------------
A|-----------------------------------------
E|-----------------------------------------

Another technique involves using multiple right hand fingers to tap on the string. This is used by a few guitarists including Steve Vai, but Jenifer Batten is most famous for it (and is very good at it! )

Fig2:
e|-----------------------------------------
B|-0h12h15h(17)h(19)p(17)p15p12p0----------
G|-----------------------------------------
D|-----------------------------------------
A|-----------------------------------------
E|-----------------------------------------

This can be taken further to play piano-like arpeggios as in Joe Satriani's 'Midnight'. Here is an excerpt from that song

Fig3:
repeat 3X
e|-----------------------------------------
B|-------(12)-----------------------------
G|-----------------------------------------
D|-------------(12)------------------------
A|----9------------------------------------
E|-7---------------------------------------

repeat 3X
e|-----------------------------------------
B|---------(14)----------------------------
G|-----------------------------------------
D|-----11--------(14)----------------------
A|-10--------------------------------------
E|-----------------------------------------

There are many other approaches with tapping that can be used. Fortunately, tapping is an area of guitar technique that is far from exhausted, so feel free to be innovative.