Great lesson to improv on the tapping
Thanks guys really glad you liked the lesson!
And by the way this lesson sounds faster than it actually is! Must because of really good technique!
Wow that that lesson already helped me a lot with my tapping! Thanks, I`ll keep practicing, tapping is cool..
Hey Conrad, I like your style - a great contribution to GMC, as I'm sure every one can appreciate. Keep them coming...
Great first lesson!!! Welcome to GMC Conrad
Great first lesson!!! Welcome to GMC Conrad
Great job Conrad - Welcome once again !
cheers...thanks
Awesome lesson man. You have very good control. Welcome to GMC
Welcome aboard man, monster taps
Great first lesson Conrad!! God bless you!!
You've got some cool lines there mate!
Nice first lesson!
Thanks again for your comments guys
Great first lesson Conrad, welcome to GMC.
great
sweet Conrad...sick name too....and guitar....very cool lesson, cant wait for the beginner tapping lesson since i cant tap in the middle strings cleanly haha
Many cool exercises and licks there! Well donde Conrad!
Great lesson, Conrad!
Nice first lesson Conrad, welcome to GMC once more.
Thanks for all the positive comments about this lesson guys - i hope that it helps with your playing...
I appreciate your kind words
I love the backing! It makes these exercises much more fun. Welcome again, nice to have you here
great lesson and welcome again!
Great first Lesson Conrad!!!
Great lesson Conrad! Congrats on your first lesson!
Welcome to GMC man!
Your first lesson is very interesting and I'm sure it will help a lot of future guitar heroes
Halfway though this allready, great lesson
Welcome in GMC Conrad! Great playing in the lesson and the material provided in the introduction video. I plan to work on tapping in the summer, as it is quite an easy way to obtain higher speed, and include more variation to solo work.
Awesome lesson!
Will try to get myself to learn this, really needs to get myself into tapping. Great lesson
Awesome first lesson Conrad! Welcome to GMC once again!
Superb debut lesson, Conrad! Great sounding custom instrument as well.
Looking forward to seeing (and hearing) more.
Awesome first lesson !
Great first lesson Conrad. Tapping in style of Van Halen is very useful
Nice lesson! It surely helps developping tapping. Thanks!
Great topic Conrad - welcome to GMC once again!
PS Conrads introduction thread can be found here.
Lesson number one includes some regular tapping techniques, used by many players, started by the likes of Van Halen and Randy Rhodes, among others. Played over a funky 4/4 backing. I am playing mostly 8th note triplets, at a tempo of 120 BPM. 20 or so years ago, this lick would have been considered an advanced tapping lick. The technique has developed so far in that time however, that it would now be considered as fairly standard for the modern day rock player.
Musically, the key of the lick does not deviate from Em, so you can can pretty much concentrate on solidifying the tapping technique ready to be used in harder examples in the next few lessons.
Areas of potential difficulty to watch out for in this exercise are in bar 7, when the lick transcends over the strings, and in bar 11 where I throw in a descending "Vai ism".
As with all exercises,take it slowly at first building accuracy, then gradually speed up to the relevant tempo. I played this exercise with my Framus Diablo custom guitar on the bridge pickup setting, through the high gain channel of a line 6 flextone amp. I also used a string mute (hairband! - not my own you understand...) just above the nut to negate unwanted string noise.
Good luck with it!
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