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Hello, how you doin'?

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It's Justin here again.

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And this time I'm gonna teach you how to tap your foot.

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Which, kind of really sounds funny to me to

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even say that I'm gonna teach someone

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how to tap their foot.

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Because it should be the most rudimentry,

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most ridiculously easy thing ever known to mankind.

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Only it isn't.

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So, what do I need to tell you about tapping your foot.

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Well, first of all, tapping your foot is really important,

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cause it kind of locks you into the rhythm,

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and especially if you're playing in a band or whatever,

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or if you're playing with yourself,

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keeping rhythm is really, really important,

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it's probably the most important thing you can be doing

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while you're playing,

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other than getting kind of all the notes right.

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So, obviously developing some sort of

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strong rhythmic feeling is

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really important.

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So, tapping your foot is important,

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on a, if you like, a musically spiritual level.

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God, that makes me sound like a hippie,

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but just it makes, it gives you the feeling,

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gets your body moving, part of your body

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is feeling the pulse of the music.

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And one thing that you can definately do,

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which it doesn't matter how you tap your foot,

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but a really good excercise is to [br]just tap your foot all the time

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when you listen to music.

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As soon as there's music on,

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whether you're in a car,

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or on the bus, or listening to your iPod on the tube,

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or whatever

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you should be trying to tap your foot along all the time.

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Really, really important.

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Probably not tapping your foot that's on the accelerator,

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if you're driving a car,

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that could be a little hazardous, but otherwise

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you should always be trying to tap your foot.

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Now, I'm also gonna give you a few hints

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on exactly how to tap your foot,

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because it's amazing, the problems that can happen

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if you just don't think of the consequences in the way you tap your foot.

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So, the first thing is, which foot you're gonna tap.

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Now, if your guitar is sitting here,

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it's sitting down on my right leg.

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Yeah?

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So if I'm sitting on a seat, [br]I know right now I'm sitting on the floor,

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so right now tappping my foot doesn't make any difference,

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but if I was sitting up on a chair,

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and I'd tap the foot that's connected to this,

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my right foot, then it's gonna be

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bumping my guitar up and down like this

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every time I tap my foot.

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So, probably, it would be a lot better idea

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for me to tap my left foot, than it would be my right.

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If you're left handed, [br]you probably want to be tapping your right foot.

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So, the foot that you're gonna tap is the one

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that the guitar is not sitting on.

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If your guitar is sitting on your right leg,

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then you're gonna tap your left foot.

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Seems really simple, but it makes a really big difference.

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Now, some people don't like doing that.

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I've come across people before,

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students, personal students that I've known,

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private students

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that were not good with tapping their left foot,

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cause it kinda feels weird.

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Now, if that's you and you don't feel

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like you can tap your left foot,

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and you really wanna your right,

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Then you have to tap with your toes,

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and not your heel.

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Now, if you do that, it tends to feel

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a little bit awkward,

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and for me it's not as solid as feeling of tapping,

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but it's the only way around it,

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or you tap your toes inside your shoe.

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Which, it means that other people wouldn't be able

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to see that you're tapping your foot.

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But it doesnt' matter,

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really, you're tapping your foot for you.

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Now just to demonstate these things,

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I'm gonna go to a quick stand-up

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with me sitting on my sofa over there,

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so you can see the results,

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the way that you should be able to tap your foot.

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Particularly with the toe tap,

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cause it's a little bit unusual.

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So let's go and have a quick look at that.

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OK, so what I just want you to have a look at:

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First of all, is the effect that

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if I tap my left foot, my guitar stays still,

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no matter how or what I do with my left foot,

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it's all cool.

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But with my right foot, as soon as I tap that,

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the guitar body is jumping up and down,

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I don't know if you can see the headstock,

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in the shot or not, but it's jumping.

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Now, if I'm trying to change chords like that,

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it ain't gonna work.

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And now, if you just have a look at the close-up

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of my foot there, you can see,

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if I'm using the heel,

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which is how a lot of people like to tap,

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that's what's moving my whole leg,

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whereas if I just tap with my toes,

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the rest of the top part of my leg doesn't move at all,

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so it's definately much better for you to,

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if you wanna use your right leg,

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use your toes to tap, not your heel.

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Or, even more preferably,

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just use your left foot,

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cause then you can tap with your toe,

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or your heel, or however you like.

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Also, the alternative,

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if you look closely at my foot there,

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You see, if I just tap with my toes, inside my shoe,

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you can kind of see my shoe moving a little bit,

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but it doesn't really matter.

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And it's enough for you to get your vibe,

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and you can quite comfortably tap away like that

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inside your shoe.

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Even like this, now I'm tapping my foot,

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and you probably can't even see it.

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OK, so now I didn't go to the sofa, right.

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I went to the chair, cause

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we couldn't get the camera,

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to be in shot properly with the sofa,

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it was all a little bit weird.

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So, apologies for these of you

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who were expecting to see me sitting on the sofa then,

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and then saw me sitting on a chair,

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it must have been very shocking.

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Anyway, not as shocking as the riduculousness

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of me trying to teach you how to tap your feet.

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I still think that's a really funny concept.

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But, I'm amazed at the amount of times

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I've taught people how to tap their foot properly.

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It's, so that's one,

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I'm trying to teach you this, and I know it sounds funny,

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and you're probably just gonna leave all sorts of

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ridiculously horrible comments about me on youtube.

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So, I'm doing it for your own good,

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I'm trying to help you out here.

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So, first of all, make sure you tap your foot now

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all the time, along with any music any time you hear music,

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or you're playing music, try to tap your foot along.

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Especially, would it be a great thing to

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go through some of the chord sequences,

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either from stage one

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or from this stage,

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and start going through it as you're playing them,

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put your metronome on at, let's say 60 BPM,

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click, and get your foot going, and your downstrum

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all at the same time.

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So, metronome, your friend the metronome,

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at, say 60 BPM,

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and actually this is not gonna work out very well,

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because I'm just gonna have to keep talking for a second

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while I adjust it, because it's all on a funny setting.

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So, metronome, it's 60 BPM here,

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turn the volume up a little so you can hear it,

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then you'll be tapping your foot,

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tap, tap, tap,

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and then you'll be strumming,

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. . .

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downstrums at the same time.

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. . .

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Now, I'm tapping my knee, that's an

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especially advanced move.

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A kneetap,

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you don't wanna get into doing a kneetap yet.

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right?

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. . .

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But this the idea.

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What I want you to do is

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have the metronome, your downstrum and your foot

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all going at the same time.

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If you spend a little bit of time on that,

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I know it seems a bit riduculous me saying this now,

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but it will make a huge difference to how well you

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pick up your rhythm guitar in the next stage.

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So, please, have a bit of a go at that,

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when you can stop laughing at me.

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And, erm, I should see you for another lesson very soon.