Category: Finger Tapping

Beginner Finger-Tapping Guitar Exercise Consisting of a Tap/Pull-Off Pattern

11/29/2018

This is something I give to a lot of guitar students when they start learning how to finger-tap. The constant tap/pull-off pattern helps improve the timing/rhythm of developing good finger-tapping technique.

Here is the Guitar Pro 6 tab for this lesson:

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Basic Finger-Tapping Riff (tap-pull-hammer) Only the Tapping Hand Changes Frets

11/24/2018

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This was given to a student to introduce them to the basic finger-tapping pattern of "tap, pull-off, hammer-on". The fretting hand continues to play the same two notes throughout this, while the tapping hand moves to a new fret/note each bar.

finger tapping guitar riff tap pull-off hammer-on

Here is the Guitar Pro 6 tab for this lesson:

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Basic Finger-Tapping Riff (tap-pull-pull) Only the Tapping Hand Changes Frets

11/24/2018

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This was given to a student to introduce them to the basic finger-tapping pattern of "tap, pull-off, pull-off". The fretting hand continues to play the same two notes throughout this, while the tapping hand moves to a new fret/note each bar.

finger tapping riff tap pull-off pull-off

Here is the Guitar Pro 6 tab for this lesson:

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String Skipping Tapped Arpeggios

7/15/2017

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I just heard some of the smoothest arpeggios played on a guitar I have ever heard.

And, there was NO SWEEPING done!

Guthrie Govan uses a tapping method to create super SUPER smooth sounding arpeggios that utilizes string skipping.

Check out this video to learn how to create some really cool sounding arpeggios: