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Hi, how ya doing? It's Justin, I'm back,

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and uh I had quite a few email requests

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for some finger tapping. So, I'm just

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going to run through some really basic

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finger tapping that might explain kinda

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the basic principle of it. It's kinda a

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beginner level finger tapping, we're

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not going to go too mad today. But

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I might go on further if this proves

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popular, I get on and do some harder

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ones. Um, so, the principle of finger

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tapping for those who aren't familiar

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with it, is using your right hand, uh,

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going to tap on the finger board to get

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a note out. Now you can do that if you

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just leave your fingers resting on the

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guitar neck there and loose on the

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strings; you'll find just by tapping

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with your finger here (notes being

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played) you can get a note. But you

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have to hammer it down quite hard.

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So, really, think of the pressure as

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being quite a hard downward motion.

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Now, there's lots of different kind of

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ways of finger tapping, lots of

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different people do it different ways.

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I'm going to show you the way I do it

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that doesn't mean any other way

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is right or wrong. Um, the two kind

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of main ways, the two options, is using

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your first finger in which case, you can

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kinda grab the guitar neck with all of the

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rest of your hand and leave your first

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finger out to do the tapping like this.

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(notes being played) I prefer a method

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where I rest my whole arm on the guitar

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and I use my second, so kinda my palm of

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my hand is muting all of the extra strings

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and I use my second finger to tap. That

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way, also, if I'm holding a pick. which I

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don't have any pics here just now, but

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if I was holding like that I could also be

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able to tap like that while still holding

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my plectrum, which I think is quite useful

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to get in and out of tap and run without

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having to hide your pick away and then

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tap with your first finger then put it

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back. So, um, what we are going to do

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is we're gonna just look at a quick

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A minor pentatonic tapping riff. So,

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what we are going to be using is our

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finger here on the fifth fret of the

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thinner string on the note A

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Then we are going to reach out with

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the third finger on the note C on the

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eighth fret, which is two notes from the

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A minor pentatonic scale and the note

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we are going to be tapping is going to

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be up here on the twelfth fret and like I

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said I'm gonna use my second finger,

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but you might want to use your first.

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Um, so, we are going to be a technique

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to start off with where you, what's called

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lead with your tapping finger. Which means

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that the tapped finger, or the tapped note

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is the first note on each new string when

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you change strings. Um, to start off with,

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we're just gonna do it on the one string.

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So, what you're going start with is

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tapping with the second finger on the

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twelfth fret, tap it, hit it down quite

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hard (sound of notes being played)

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Get the note clear, your first finger is

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already down, so when you flick off that

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second finger, (music notes played)

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you flick it down and you've got that note

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with your first finger and then you'd

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hammer, with your third finger down. So,

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you've got like a little triple. So you'd

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have tap, flick off, third finger hammer.

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Tap, flick, hammer. Tap (notes replaying)

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It is really important you get that order

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right. (repeat notes played over and over,

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faster and faster) So, you can hear it can

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get quite quick. Now, it is definitely

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worth practicing that really slowly and

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getting it right. There are other tapping

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techniques you can do, like going from the

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tap, flicking off from the third finger

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and then down to flicking that off to the

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first. (notes being played) But I'd

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recommend that to start off with, you do

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the tap (example sound) flick off with

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your first finger (example sound) and

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then hammer with your third. (example)

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Again, just start like this really nice

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and slow (example sounds) and then

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gradually build up your speed. Now, if

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we move that over to the second string, um

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to be technically correct within the

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pentatonic scale, we should move the tap

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to the thirteenth fret, but it actually

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sounds really cool if you leave it on the

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twelfth fret, it becomes the ninth or the

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note B in the key of A and it sounds kinda

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hip. So the next thing that I think that

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is worth practice, is practicing doing

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four taps on the first string, on the

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thinner string and then moving it over and

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doing four taps on the B string, so you

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end up making sure you lead with the tap.

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So, we have here (example tap) one, two,

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three, four. Now tap on the B string.....

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three, four. Thinner string again.

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(examples increasing in speed)

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Yeah, so you can hear it kinda works out

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pretty good, even though it is quite a

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straightforward link. It is not particularly

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hard. Um, if you want to move it over

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another string, then a, we have first

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string, second string, now we are going

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to move it to a third string, we are still

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going to tap the twelfth fret, but then

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we are going to do first finger and the

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third finger is going to go into the

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seventh fret, which is in keeping with

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the pentatonic scale. You can keep it on

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the eighth fret and use the blue note,

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or the blue tone for the pentatonic, but

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it kinda sounds cooler back at the seventh

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fret. So in this case if we are doing four

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on each one again and going back up we'd

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have this (example playing, increasing in

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speed as he continues to play) So, here

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we go, the exercise in full. So we start

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with the tap, flick.......

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(example played slowly then

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increasing in speed)

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That's it, that is kinda of basic, very

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very basic finger tapping technique. Um,

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one of the things that you wanna try and

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work out is how to start and finish your

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tapping as well. Like I said, if you are

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playing a solo (example) you can see now

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I've used a little bend there (example)

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to let myself get into position, then I'd

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start tapping (example) and using a little

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bend at the end or something like that in

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order to get my hand back to be able to

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play again, cause it kinda sounds some-

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times a bit dodgy if you just playing a

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solo, stop, finger tap, and then stop

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again and start playing your regular song

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you'll want to try to incorporate it in a

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little bit. It is one of the things it would

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definitely be worth practicing. Um, so

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that would be a really basic technique to

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try and get down. Uh, like I said I will

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come and do some more complicated ones

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if you'll all leave some nice comments for

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me on this YouTube page, and say "hey,

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how bout some other stuff" and I'll jump

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in there, um I'll give you one more little

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tidbit, just because this is a really cool

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quite simple trick that you might want to

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try. Um, whereas before, on the top string

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there we were playing the tap at the

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twelfth fret (example) flick it off to the

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first finger, and then hammer with the

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third....a really cool little trick is to

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tap in the same fret as your third finger

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So, if you move it down here we'd tap

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in the eighth fret (example sound) then

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flick it off to the first finger, and then

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hammer on the same fret with the

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third finger, and flick off, tap, flick,

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hammer, flick (continuing example)

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You can hear, you can get really really

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really quick little tricks with that. So

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it is quite a nice, easy, very very easy

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way of getting into your super fast finger

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tapping licks. So, um, hopefully you found

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that useful and interesting, have fun, uh

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if you wanna see some more leave me a

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message and I'll start putting up some

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harder stuff. Um, have fun, I'll see you

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soon. Take care!