One-on-One Tapping Lesson 4
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Today we are going to look at a style of two handed tapping technique that's typical to Greg Howe (and probably a bunch of other shred guitarists too!).
As this video lesson hopefully will demonstrate, it's a very versatile technique. The first two licks demonstrate how smooth, legato sounding, this pattern can make the pentatonic scale sound.
It is also an excellent tool for creating fast runs, in either improvised or written solos. All the licks in this tapping 101 serie work well to combine with each other.
Major 7 arpeggio and "China" licks |
Here we will investigate how to create fast two handed runs with a bit more complexe harmonies.
The first example is a C major 7 arpeggio (se arpeggio diagram below). A major seventh arpeggio is simply the four notes of a C major sevnenth chord ( C - E - G - B) played "all over" the guitar.
C major7 chord (also known as CM7): |
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| e|--------0--| b|------0----| g|----0------| d|--2--------| a|-3---------| e|-----------| |
e|---------3--| b|-------5----| g|-----4------| d|---5--------| a|-3----------| e|------------| |
Wait a minute...you said four notes, there are more here...?!
- Some notes are doubled - the bold notes are the same but in different octaves.
The provided backing is fusion sounding and another favorite backing of mine, the key is E minor. You might be asking yourself why on earth we are playing CM7 arpeggios over E minor. This is in fact a cool substitution technique which I like to use.
Explanation: We are just going down 4 frets from the key (E), to C and playing a Major 7 arpeggio from there. So if you were in the key of A minor, you would simply have to go down four frets to F - and play an F major 7 arpeggio to get the same cool effect!
Oh and good luck with the China licks!
See you in Hong Kong... 
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C major 7 arpeggio E and B strings
C major 7 arpeggio G and D strings
C major 7 arpeggio E, B, G and D strings
E minor pentatonic (Blue dots = root note, E)
If we put the two boxes together you can see where the notes of two-handed patterns come from:
E minor aeolian/minor
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11th November 2006
