So sayeth the great
Tapping Types
What are the different techniques involved with tapping? All I do when tapping is Tap-Pulloff-Pulloff.
# 1
well there are a lot of tapping parterns that were popularized by Van Halen, including tap-pulof-pulof, tap-pulof-hameron..
e|--t12--p5--h8-----------|
e|--t12--p8--p5-----------|
e|--t12--p5--h8--p5-------|
e|--t12--p8--p5--h8-------|
these are just few examples of the Van Halen, I'm sure you can think of many more..
also there are advanced tapping and more complicated than this, for example, the 2 handed tapping like Joe Satriani's 'Midnight' ..
some people like Michael Angelo Like to combine Tapping & Sweeping, which is simply SweepDown-Tap-PullOff-SweepUp...
Also check out Steve Vai's Tapping style, he's just amazing..
e|--t12--p5--h8-----------|
e|--t12--p8--p5-----------|
e|--t12--p5--h8--p5-------|
e|--t12--p8--p5--h8-------|
these are just few examples of the Van Halen, I'm sure you can think of many more..
also there are advanced tapping and more complicated than this, for example, the 2 handed tapping like Joe Satriani's 'Midnight' ..
some people like Michael Angelo Like to combine Tapping & Sweeping, which is simply SweepDown-Tap-PullOff-SweepUp...
Also check out Steve Vai's Tapping style, he's just amazing..
# 2
# 3
Two handed tapping is more simple than you probably think... but it's very hard to explain, check out Joe Satriani's 'Midnight' from the 'Surfing with the Alien' album , and get it's tabs, the tabs are available on the web, go to olga.net and you'll find it...
# 4
Two handed tapping is usually on one string and you will be mixing two melodies together, one by tapping a treble pattern on the right hand, and one by using a kind of platform on your left hand eg:
19p12-t-15p12-t-19p12-t-15p12...
(I don't know if that actually makes sense, it's just to show you the pattern.) (What you'd have is the positions of each different tap or pull, corresponding to a major or minor chord so you're using repeated sequences showing the chord...)
the index finger of your left hand remains on 12th fret, and you use the pick on the 19th at first, tapping to make the original sound. When you pull, it goes to 12th, and when the note's ringing on 12th, you use your 4th finger to tap 15th and then pull back to 12th.
So essentially you're using both hands. You make the actual melody by moving the chord patterns whilst tapping, using more or less fingers (that example was a very simple one,) and changing the base note.
An awesome example is Joe Satriani's "Surfing with the Alien" at about 2 mins after the interval he starts some insane tapping... listen to that and you'll understand.
Take it easy. Any corrections on what I've just said would be welcome...
19p12-t-15p12-t-19p12-t-15p12...
(I don't know if that actually makes sense, it's just to show you the pattern.) (What you'd have is the positions of each different tap or pull, corresponding to a major or minor chord so you're using repeated sequences showing the chord...)
the index finger of your left hand remains on 12th fret, and you use the pick on the 19th at first, tapping to make the original sound. When you pull, it goes to 12th, and when the note's ringing on 12th, you use your 4th finger to tap 15th and then pull back to 12th.
So essentially you're using both hands. You make the actual melody by moving the chord patterns whilst tapping, using more or less fingers (that example was a very simple one,) and changing the base note.
An awesome example is Joe Satriani's "Surfing with the Alien" at about 2 mins after the interval he starts some insane tapping... listen to that and you'll understand.
Take it easy. Any corrections on what I've just said would be welcome...
Lyrics: a waste of time between solos.
# 5
go to the homepage. there is a tapping tutorial written by Schmange and it is probably the best there is
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# 6
Originally posted by bodders
Two handed tapping is usually on one string and you will be mixing two melodies together, one by tapping a treble pattern on the right hand, and one by using a kind of platform on your left hand eg:
19p12-t-15p12-t-19p12-t-15p12...
Well actualy the example you've just showed is a normal tapping pattern, it has nothing to do with the 2-hand tapping that I've mentioned, and in your example, what you do with your 4th (or 3rd) finger is called a hammer-on not tapping, although they're very similar.
The 2-hand tapping is not executed on one string, well I guess I'll have to show an example from Joe Satriani's 'Midnight' , just to give a clear meaning of the 2-hand tapping..
Here's the Intro to 'Midnight' from 'Surfing with the alien' album
L1 L3 R2 R1 Repeat three times L1 L2 R2 R1 x3
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------12---------------------------------------------14-----------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------12------------------------------10------------14------------|
|-------9-------------------------------------9--------------------------------|
|--7---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
L1 = left index R1 = right index
L4 = left pinky R4 = right pinky
Usualy the tab may look a little messy here, copy it and paste it in a wordpad or a text document , so it may look a little better, just put in your mind that above each note there is an indication for the finger that is used...
Hope this helps.
Keep on Shredding Folks !
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