WEBVTT 00:00:09.297 --> 00:00:11.910 Hi, how ya doing? It's Justin, I'm back, 00:00:11.910 --> 00:00:14.573 and uh I had quite a few email requests 00:00:14.573 --> 00:00:17.640 for some finger tapping. So, I'm just 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.109 going to run through some really basic 00:00:19.109 --> 00:00:20.789 finger tapping that might explain kinda 00:00:20.789 --> 00:00:22.910 the basic principle of it. It's kinda a 00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:24.989 beginner level finger tapping, we're 00:00:24.989 --> 00:00:27.657 not going to go too mad today. But 00:00:27.657 --> 00:00:29.155 I might go on further if this proves 00:00:29.155 --> 00:00:30.536 popular, I get on and do some harder 00:00:30.536 --> 00:00:33.302 ones. Um, so, the principle of finger 00:00:33.302 --> 00:00:35.663 tapping for those who aren't familiar 00:00:35.663 --> 00:00:37.911 with it, is using your right hand, uh, 00:00:37.911 --> 00:00:39.929 going to tap on the finger board to get 00:00:39.929 --> 00:00:41.667 a note out. Now you can do that if you 00:00:41.667 --> 00:00:43.833 just leave your fingers resting on the 00:00:43.833 --> 00:00:45.450 guitar neck there and loose on the 00:00:45.450 --> 00:00:48.033 strings; you'll find just by tapping 00:00:48.033 --> 00:00:51.507 with your finger here (notes being 00:00:51.507 --> 00:00:53.042 played) you can get a note. But you 00:00:53.042 --> 00:00:54.175 have to hammer it down quite hard. 00:00:54.175 --> 00:00:55.768 So, really, think of the pressure as 00:00:55.768 --> 00:00:57.207 being quite a hard downward motion. 00:00:57.207 --> 00:00:58.914 Now, there's lots of different kind of 00:00:58.914 --> 00:01:00.259 ways of finger tapping, lots of 00:01:00.259 --> 00:01:01.499 different people do it different ways. 00:01:01.499 --> 00:01:03.058 I'm going to show you the way I do it 00:01:03.058 --> 00:01:04.437 that doesn't mean any other way 00:01:04.437 --> 00:01:07.251 is right or wrong. Um, the two kind 00:01:07.251 --> 00:01:09.076 of main ways, the two options, is using 00:01:09.076 --> 00:01:11.119 your first finger in which case, you can 00:01:11.119 --> 00:01:13.259 kinda grab the guitar neck with all of the 00:01:13.259 --> 00:01:14.904 rest of your hand and leave your first 00:01:14.904 --> 00:01:16.769 finger out to do the tapping like this. 00:01:16.769 --> 00:01:18.710 (notes being played) I prefer a method 00:01:18.710 --> 00:01:20.486 where I rest my whole arm on the guitar 00:01:20.486 --> 00:01:22.872 and I use my second, so kinda my palm of 00:01:22.872 --> 00:01:25.322 my hand is muting all of the extra strings 00:01:25.322 --> 00:01:27.826 and I use my second finger to tap. That 00:01:27.826 --> 00:01:29.684 way, also, if I'm holding a pick. which I 00:01:29.684 --> 00:01:31.434 don't have any pics here just now, but 00:01:31.434 --> 00:01:33.446 if I was holding like that I could also be 00:01:33.446 --> 00:01:34.947 able to tap like that while still holding 00:01:34.947 --> 00:01:36.848 my plectrum, which I think is quite useful 00:01:36.848 --> 00:01:39.957 to get in and out of tap and run without 00:01:39.957 --> 00:01:41.934 having to hide your pick away and then 00:01:41.934 --> 00:01:43.314 tap with your first finger then put it 00:01:43.314 --> 00:01:45.306 back. So, um, what we are going to do 00:01:45.306 --> 00:01:46.434 is we're gonna just look at a quick 00:01:46.434 --> 00:01:48.116 A minor pentatonic tapping riff. So, 00:01:48.116 --> 00:01:51.509 what we are going to be using is our 00:01:51.509 --> 00:01:53.100 finger here on the fifth fret of the 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:54.410 thinner string on the note A 00:01:54.410 --> 00:01:56.007 Then we are going to reach out with 00:01:56.007 --> 00:01:57.608 the third finger on the note C on the 00:01:57.608 --> 00:01:59.346 eighth fret, which is two notes from the 00:01:59.346 --> 00:02:00.905 A minor pentatonic scale and the note 00:02:00.905 --> 00:02:02.890 we are going to be tapping is going to 00:02:02.890 --> 00:02:04.870 be up here on the twelfth fret and like I 00:02:04.870 --> 00:02:06.511 said I'm gonna use my second finger, 00:02:06.511 --> 00:02:08.282 but you might want to use your first. 00:02:08.282 --> 00:02:09.842 Um, so, we are going to be a technique 00:02:09.842 --> 00:02:11.760 to start off with where you, what's called 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:13.959 lead with your tapping finger. Which means 00:02:13.959 --> 00:02:15.936 that the tapped finger, or the tapped note 00:02:15.936 --> 00:02:18.400 is the first note on each new string when 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.752 you change strings. Um, to start off with, 00:02:20.752 --> 00:02:22.774 we're just gonna do it on the one string. 00:02:22.774 --> 00:02:24.283 So, what you're going start with is 00:02:24.283 --> 00:02:26.499 tapping with the second finger on the 00:02:26.499 --> 00:02:28.570 twelfth fret, tap it, hit it down quite 00:02:28.570 --> 00:02:30.966 hard (sound of notes being played) 00:02:30.966 --> 00:02:33.159 Get the note clear, your first finger is 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.078 already down, so when you flick off that 00:02:35.078 --> 00:02:37.839 second finger, (music notes played) 00:02:37.839 --> 00:02:41.142 you flick it down and you've got that note 00:02:41.142 --> 00:02:42.386 with your first finger and then you'd 00:02:42.386 --> 00:02:45.038 hammer, with your third finger down. So, 00:02:45.038 --> 00:02:47.003 you've got like a little triple. So you'd 00:02:47.003 --> 00:02:50.842 have tap, flick off, third finger hammer. 00:02:50.842 --> 00:02:58.951 Tap, flick, hammer. Tap (notes replaying) 00:02:58.951 --> 00:03:00.345 It is really important you get that order 00:03:00.345 --> 00:03:09.501 right. (repeat notes played over and over, 00:03:09.501 --> 00:03:12.593 faster and faster) So, you can hear it can 00:03:12.593 --> 00:03:13.700 get quite quick. Now, it is definitely 00:03:13.700 --> 00:03:15.262 worth practicing that really slowly and 00:03:15.262 --> 00:03:16.615 getting it right. There are other tapping 00:03:16.615 --> 00:03:18.527 techniques you can do, like going from the 00:03:18.527 --> 00:03:20.331 tap, flicking off from the third finger 00:03:20.331 --> 00:03:23.773 and then down to flicking that off to the NOTE Paragraph 00:03:23.773 --> 00:03:28.910 first. (notes being played) But I'd 00:03:28.910 --> 00:03:30.702 recommend that to start off with, you do 00:03:30.702 --> 00:03:33.290 the tap (example sound) flick off with 00:03:33.290 --> 00:03:35.408 your first finger (example sound) and 00:03:35.408 --> 00:03:38.869 then hammer with your third. (example) 00:03:38.869 --> 00:03:40.998 Again, just start like this really nice 00:03:40.998 --> 00:03:43.220 and slow (example sounds) and then 00:03:43.220 --> 00:03:47.817 gradually build up your speed. Now, if 00:03:47.817 --> 00:03:49.994 we move that over to the second string, um 00:03:49.994 --> 00:03:52.534 to be technically correct within the 00:03:52.534 --> 00:03:54.670 pentatonic scale, we should move the tap 00:03:54.670 --> 00:03:56.443 to the thirteenth fret, but it actually 00:03:56.443 --> 00:03:58.040 sounds really cool if you leave it on the 00:03:58.040 --> 00:04:00.633 twelfth fret, it becomes the ninth or the 00:04:00.633 --> 00:04:02.215 note B in the key of A and it sounds kinda 00:04:02.215 --> 00:04:04.615 hip. So the next thing that I think that 00:04:04.615 --> 00:04:06.510 is worth practice, is practicing doing 00:04:06.510 --> 00:04:09.107 four taps on the first string, on the 00:04:09.107 --> 00:04:10.966 thinner string and then moving it over and 00:04:10.966 --> 00:04:13.042 doing four taps on the B string, so you 00:04:13.042 --> 00:04:15.415 end up making sure you lead with the tap. 00:04:15.415 --> 00:04:20.243 So, we have here (example tap) one, two, 00:04:20.243 --> 00:04:26.122 three, four. Now tap on the B string..... 00:04:26.122 --> 00:04:32.962 three, four. Thinner string again. 00:04:32.962 --> 00:04:51.033 (examples increasing in speed) 00:04:51.033 --> 00:04:52.875 Yeah, so you can hear it kinda works out 00:04:52.875 --> 00:04:54.213 pretty good, even though it is quite a 00:04:54.213 --> 00:04:56.310 straightforward link. It is not particularly 00:04:56.310 --> 00:04:58.499 hard. Um, if you want to move it over 00:04:58.499 --> 00:05:02.117 another string, then a, we have first 00:05:02.117 --> 00:05:04.010 string, second string, now we are going 00:05:04.010 --> 00:05:08.743 to move it to a third string, we are still 00:05:08.743 --> 00:05:11.075 going to tap the twelfth fret, but then 00:05:11.075 --> 00:05:12.945 we are going to do first finger and the 00:05:12.945 --> 00:05:15.803 third finger is going to go into the 00:05:15.803 --> 00:05:18.411 seventh fret, which is in keeping with 00:05:18.411 --> 00:05:20.176 the pentatonic scale. You can keep it on 00:05:20.176 --> 00:05:21.900 the eighth fret and use the blue note, 00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:23.955 or the blue tone for the pentatonic, but 00:05:23.955 --> 00:05:25.477 it kinda sounds cooler back at the seventh 00:05:25.477 --> 00:05:27.413 fret. So in this case if we are doing four 00:05:27.413 --> 00:05:28.798 on each one again and going back up we'd 00:05:28.798 --> 00:05:31.649 have this (example playing, increasing in 00:05:31.649 --> 00:05:44.125 speed as he continues to play) So, here 00:05:44.125 --> 00:05:46.620 we go, the exercise in full. So we start 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:52.110 with the tap, flick....... 00:05:52.110 --> 00:06:05.699 (example played slowly then 00:06:05.699 --> 00:06:29.006 increasing in speed) 00:06:29.006 --> 00:06:30.685 That's it, that is kinda of basic, very 00:06:30.685 --> 00:06:33.466 very basic finger tapping technique. Um, 00:06:33.466 --> 00:06:35.389 one of the things that you wanna try and 00:06:35.389 --> 00:06:36.843 work out is how to start and finish your 00:06:36.843 --> 00:06:39.088 tapping as well. Like I said, if you are 00:06:39.088 --> 00:06:44.911 playing a solo (example) you can see now 00:06:44.911 --> 00:06:48.579 I've used a little bend there (example) 00:06:48.579 --> 00:06:50.638 to let myself get into position, then I'd 00:06:50.638 --> 00:06:55.435 start tapping (example) and using a little 00:06:55.435 --> 00:06:58.040 bend at the end or something like that in 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.088 order to get my hand back to be able to 00:07:00.088 --> 00:07:02.070 play again, cause it kinda sounds some- 00:07:02.070 --> 00:07:03.777 times a bit dodgy if you just playing a 00:07:03.777 --> 00:07:05.475 solo, stop, finger tap, and then stop 00:07:05.475 --> 00:07:07.532 again and start playing your regular song 00:07:07.532 --> 00:07:09.051 you'll want to try to incorporate it in a 00:07:09.051 --> 00:07:11.033 little bit. It is one of the things it would 00:07:11.033 --> 00:07:14.842 definitely be worth practicing. Um, so 00:07:14.842 --> 00:07:16.500 that would be a really basic technique to 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:18.266 try and get down. Uh, like I said I will 00:07:18.266 --> 00:07:20.694 come and do some more complicated ones 00:07:20.694 --> 00:07:22.441 if you'll all leave some nice comments for 00:07:22.441 --> 00:07:24.706 me on this YouTube page, and say "hey, 00:07:24.706 --> 00:07:27.026 how bout some other stuff" and I'll jump 00:07:27.026 --> 00:07:29.601 in there, um I'll give you one more little 00:07:29.601 --> 00:07:30.895 tidbit, just because this is a really cool 00:07:30.895 --> 00:07:32.907 quite simple trick that you might want to 00:07:32.907 --> 00:07:34.957 try. Um, whereas before, on the top string 00:07:34.957 --> 00:07:36.811 there we were playing the tap at the 00:07:36.811 --> 00:07:39.295 twelfth fret (example) flick it off to the 00:07:39.295 --> 00:07:41.211 first finger, and then hammer with the 00:07:41.211 --> 00:07:44.156 third....a really cool little trick is to 00:07:44.156 --> 00:07:46.348 tap in the same fret as your third finger 00:07:46.348 --> 00:07:48.571 So, if you move it down here we'd tap 00:07:48.571 --> 00:07:51.151 in the eighth fret (example sound) then 00:07:51.151 --> 00:07:53.635 flick it off to the first finger, and then 00:07:53.635 --> 00:07:56.361 hammer on the same fret with the 00:07:56.361 --> 00:07:58.014 third finger, and flick off, tap, flick, 00:07:58.014 --> 00:08:01.316 hammer, flick (continuing example) 00:08:01.316 --> 00:08:07.601 You can hear, you can get really really 00:08:07.601 --> 00:08:09.361 really quick little tricks with that. So 00:08:09.361 --> 00:08:12.394 it is quite a nice, easy, very very easy 00:08:12.394 --> 00:08:15.127 way of getting into your super fast finger 00:08:15.127 --> 00:08:17.675 tapping licks. So, um, hopefully you found 00:08:17.675 --> 00:08:20.252 that useful and interesting, have fun, uh 00:08:20.252 --> 00:08:22.468 if you wanna see some more leave me a 00:08:22.468 --> 00:08:23.672 message and I'll start putting up some 00:08:23.672 --> 00:08:25.766 harder stuff. Um, have fun, I'll see you 00:08:25.766 --> 00:08:33.476 soon. Take care!