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- TappingLEVEL 4This technique allows for wide intervals at high speeds.
- Basic TappingLEVEL 3Tapping technique on only one string, the high E
- Tapping PracticeLEVEL 8A very useful tapping exercise built on a smooth and wide harmony!
- Tapping from Heaven 2LEVEL 5Tapping is a difficult technique because every note must sound correct and at the same time, your concentration and speed must be very high!
- Melodic Tapping 2LEVEL 7Second part of these 8 fingers melodic pieces series.
- Rhythmic Tapping CombinationsLEVEL 8We'll work on rhythmic variations with the tapping technique using one and four fingers.
- Tapping Etude #1LEVEL 7This is a short etude, for all you tapping enthusiasts. Learn another way to tap your arpeggios!
- Michael Romeo TappingLEVEL 7This time I'm pleased to be playing something similar to the style of Michael Romeo from Symphony X (highly recommended listening).
- Beginner Legato & TappingLEVEL 34 popular shapes in a slow tempo etude.
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Juan M. Valero29th August 2008thanks mates !!!! nice comments
Lian Gerbino19th April 2008great lesson juan, i love this one becouse i love tapping too.
saludos compañero, y toda la suerte
Danilo Capezzuto15th March 2008good lesson Juan. Maybe you need some elastics?
Carlos Carrillo5th March 2008hey juan!!!!!!!!!
great lesson!!!!!!
beutifull melody!!!!!
Nick3252nd February 2008the tab in the videos are different from the link for the full tab next to backing tracks
- Juan M. Valero31st January 2008
hehe, nowadays I'm working in another tapping solo lesson
so, I hope you can enjoy it soon !!!
thanks for your coments !!
Nick, what is exactly the problem ??? mmm I try to resolve it ... 
Gwazi31st January 2008Yeah! More tapping!
777-HAIRMETAL4HIM-77726th January 2008SWEET tapping is my favorite trick ever
just lettin you know i was working on sweeping, saw this dropped that and went back to make my tapping technique better...... haha
THANKS AGAIN- Nick3259th December 2007
how come the lessons tab and tab link are different?
- Juan M. Valero1st November 2007
Yeah, thanks for your coments
and don't worry Oazle, I will upload more tapping lessons
oazle28th October 2007Really great, thanks, i need this kind of lessons
Ben N25th October 2007thats what a call taping great stuff!!!
jammer9127th September 2007How come theres no pull off signs in the vid? (im getting totally confused)
- Juan M. Valero30th August 2007
mmm, I don't have picks, but it is a very common thing...
- Nick32530th August 2007
ok ill try my best to find close to wat u have. would u be able to post a pic of them up close so i have a better idea.
- Juan M. Valero29th August 2007
Nick325: I don't know what's the real name, so I called them 'Hair Elastics'... I bought it in a druggist shop. It's the tipical thing that women use to hold their hair
- Nick32529th August 2007
how come that the last frets are the tree of life?
- Nick32529th August 2007
where did u get those "hair-elastics"??
- Juan M. Valero27th August 2007
Yes, I use a JEM Jr =)
MattE27th August 2007Is that a JEM Jr?
- Juan M. Valero25th August 2007
Muchas gracias Gustavo !!! no te preocupes que ya habrá más lecciones de tapping jejeje
Me alegro de que te haya gustado =) - Gustavo25th August 2007
muy linda leccion
yo andaba necesitando un poco de tapping
gracias - Juan M. Valero24th August 2007
Muchisimas gracias Gabriel !!! Me está gustando mucho el GMC !!!!!
Un saludo compañero 
Gabriel Leopardi25th August 2007Hola Juan!! Muy buena leccion! Bienvenido a GMC!
gabriel.-- Juan M. Valero24th August 2007
XD I supose you enjoy it !!!! Muahahaha Thanks a lot Leviathan !! = Levia-THANKS (oh, what a stupid joke, please don't kill me !!! XD)
XxLeviathanxX24th August 2007Holy sh*t dude, that is crazy!
- Juan M. Valero24th August 2007
Don't worry I will do more tapping lessons using 2 fingers tapping. Next one is one of my songs, but in the 3rd lesson I try to do some cool tapping exercices
Eat-Sleep-andJam24th August 2007Ha ha alright Juan
- John- Juan M. Valero24th August 2007
Eat-Sleep-andJam: mmm well, I do the tipical scale exercices (up and down the scale) but with the right hand hehe, it's a bit difficult but I like
Wait for my next lesson, one of my songs arraged for poliphonic tapping !!
Rakemitri: Que bueno leer unas lineas en castellano por aquí, jeje, es un alivio no tener que buscar en el diccionario las palabras que no sé, jejeje... Ánimo con ese tapping, que poco a poco verás como va saliendo !! ya prepararé unos ejercicios para la iniciación al tapping con 2, 3 y hasta 4 dedos (y porque no tengo más !!!) XD
Un placer Rakemitri !!! 
rakemitri23rd August 2007Excelente lección!! Aunque creo q todavía me queda "un poco" para poder hacer tapping con dos dedos xD
Great job!- Eat-Sleep-andJam23rd August 2007
No Juan I just wanted to know if there was any excercises that applied to the tapping with the 2 and 3rd fingers
-John - Juan M. Valero23rd August 2007
Eat-Sleep-andJam: in the video I use fingers 2 and 3 to tap in the frets because I don't drop the pick, but you can also tap with fingers 1 and 2.
(I cannot drop the pick because there was a riff with alternate picking before and I don't have time enough to put the pick in my mounth or wherever) 
ezravdb23rd August 2007Awesome stuff!
- Mark Schiewe23rd August 2007
Hey Juan, another Jem user on our fair site! Glad to have ya in the club. Jem555 i take it?
krimzen23rd August 2007i there there is a JEM cult movement goin on...
- Eat-Sleep-andJam23rd August 2007
How does that excercise apply to the tapping with two different fingers in the first video ?
-John - lefthandman23rd August 2007
srry bout the redundency
- lefthandman23rd August 2007
hello rest of the night and great lesson Juan definently somethin 2 work on 2nite
- Juan M. Valero23rd August 2007
Thanks Capn' Jef, I try to upload more stylistic tappings
Thanks for your coment - Capn' Jef23rd August 2007
That was really a really stylistic tapping lick - which is hard to pull off these days.
Definitely spending some time with this one. - Juan M. Valero22nd August 2007
Eat-Sleep-andJam: Oh, you have problems with the double tap... mmm... Try to practice this simple patern: (in every string)
(t14)-12-(t14)-12=(t14)-10-(t14)-10 and repeat
and then go up and down in the scale (D Major for example...)
GuitarDude: yeah, thank you for visit myspace !! mmm the link is really broken and I don't know where I put the tab
If I find it I give you the link, ok? - Nick32523rd August 2007
your the new EVH lol (tapping)
GuitarDude22nd August 2007you have a really cool execise video on your myspace site can you please post the tab for it couse the link is broken
- Eat-Sleep-andJam23rd August 2007
Woops its video 2 not 3 my mistake.
- Eat-Sleep-andJam23rd August 2007
Juan Im trying this and my fingers physically dont tap that fast with the double tap thing in video 3. The other tapping licks arent bad, but the postioning of that one is just odd and hard to get up to speed, any suggestions or excercises I could do to get that up to speed ? And what ever your taking, give me some
- John 
The Uncreator23rd August 2007Excellent stuff, great tune and awesome soloing!
- Juan M. Valero22nd August 2007
Thanx to all for your nice coments !!!
Nick325, those are my trincks:
1. To mute the strings I use two "hear-elastics" (mmm I don't know what's the translation to english).
2. To do the last note I use a ring, hehe, it's a trick that I copy to IA Eklundh, you can use your ring like it was a slide =)
Fire: the notes of the piano are wrote in the guitarpro tab, but if you want I can send you a jpg archieve with the score
Eat-Sleep-andJam: XD, great coment, I'm a pharmacist (that's true, I promise !!) so I recomend you to buy some drugs !!!
Thanx for your words 
Roo22nd August 2007Pretty intense, I like it!
GroovinMastiff23rd August 2007¡Bienvenido a GMC Juan!
Me gusta mucho su "tapping".
I hope you enjoy your stay here
Ryan23rd August 2007Wow dude that was great
- Eat-Sleep-andJam23rd August 2007
Ha ha theres so much tapping im getting a headache
Amazing first lesson. Im going to make a very bad joke right now.
"If there was such thing as the talent polic, youd be arrested "
- John 
Jerry Arcidiacono22nd August 2007I like your tapping.
Welcome on GMC.- Victafor22nd August 2007
incredible! i must practice ths
- Nick32522nd August 2007
Juan agradable de lección. where can u get those string muters u use. and wat do u use for that wierd harmonic at the end?
- fire22nd August 2007
Great lesson
( asking for my sister : Can you share the notes from the background-piano line with her ?
Would be great!! - GuitarDude22nd August 2007
awesome lesson welcome to Gmc!
- dk222nd August 2007
damn i got to get a ring:)
- Juan M. Valero22nd August 2007your English is good!
Are you sure ?? 
I will tell you a secret... I hate rings, I use them only when I play those tricks !!! hehehehe
Robin22nd August 2007Crazy
Jeff22nd August 2007Thanks Juan. This is quite a challange especially tapping with both 1st finger and 2nd. I'll work on this. Glad to have you here - your English is good! thanks for clearing up the tab for me too. Now I need to get a ring for my first finger!
- Juan M. Valero22nd August 2007
Thanks Jeff !! yeah, there are a few mistakes in the notation, in fact the basic pattern is:
1. tap with right hand
2. pull of to the left hand
You must do a pull of with the right hand and "pinching" the string (or nipping the string, I don't know what is the correct translation...) - Juan M. Valero22nd August 2007
Thanx Andew, Muris, and Pavel, I'm very happy !! it was a hard work because I must learnt how to use the lesson editor but now I feel happy to share the lesson with all of you
David Wallimann22nd August 2007Excellent first lesson!
Welcome!- Jeff22nd August 2007
Excellent lesson Juan!! I have question related to the tab and the tapping. The tab has a tap on every note. Video 2 looks like there is a pull-off between the taps. Like a tap on 19 and pull off to 16 and 14? I'm not an expert on tabbing so when tabbing this is it supposed to be that way?
I love the part where you slide your ring up to play the high note. Very original! Nice guitar too man! 
Pavel22nd August 2007Congrats on your first lesson! And very cool tapping!!
Muris Varajic22nd August 2007Awesome job Juan,great taps!!!
Andrew Cockburn22nd August 2007Nice guitar Juan, and great firts lesson!
- Juan M. Valero22nd August 2007
hehe, thanx for the first coment !!!
I use these thinks to mute the open strings, hehe... it's a good trick =) 
shredmandan22nd August 2007Cool first lessom Juan ! Can you tell me what or why you have those white things wrapped around your neck on the 5th and 7th frets ?
- Lesson
- My notes
Hello !!!
My name is Juan M. Valero, I'm from Spain and I write very bad English... so, excuse my misspellings :P
This is my first lesson, It's a cool exercise in D Major played with tapping. In fact this exercise would be played with sweep tecnique but I think it sounds more clean with 2 hands tapping.
I play tapping with fingers 2 and 3 because in the context of these song I need to keep the pick in my hand, so that's the best option (for me), but if you want you can tap with fingers 1 and 2 of your picking hand.
Well that's all, thanks !!!!
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