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The tapping is a mode of expression which was popularized at the end of the seventies thanks to the arrival with the front of the scene of a virtuoso of the guitar: Edward Van Halen. However, at the beginning of last century. Through famous plans you will learn how in this course to control this technique!

Tapping

The technique of the tapping consists to tapp with the index of the right hand on the site of a note on the handle. To make sound this note, striking must be carried out with force and precision. While slackening, you must give a light inflection downwards or upwards as for the sweater-off in order to obtaining a more precise sound.

Thus, one can make use of it for fast lines melody, without using the médiator, which was very with the y' mode is 20 years old, or to reach a note perched too high for example.

In a tabs, the tapping note is generally surrounded and indicated by one T.

Tapping by "pivot"

In these examples, the typed note is a note pivot, i.e. which it remains the same one. One carries out initially the note typed with the right index, then sawckening (pull-off) to make sound the second note with the left hand and finally one always types the third with the left hand (hammer-on).

Here a first easy example: a movement of pentatonic range in tapping:

This movement is very well with the solo since it makes it possible to carry out fast lines. Here the beginning of the solo of One de Metallica (of the album And Justice For All). Retain well the site of the pull-off and hammer-on, it is that the greatest difficulty of this solo. The Guitar Pro tab here

The tapping in "pivot" is well with the execution of neo-classic songs (ex Fugue extracts from the Toccata of J.S Bach). The song which really launched the fashion of the tapping comes from Van Halen with Eruption.

The tapping by reversed "pivot"

This technique is the reverse of the preceding one. This time the left hand blocks a note pivot and the right hand plays a melody line in tapping. All the fingers of the right hand are used in the same way that if one played with the left hand.

An example with Tocatta of J.S Bach

The tapping with two hands

For this technique, also called technique of the tapping with eight fingers, the two hands play the same part. The left hand types the notes represented by one T surrounded on the fingering chart, and the right hand types the notes represented by simple T. Jennifer Batten, for example, is a champion (and yes that exists!) tapping with eight fingers.

For this technique nothing of such as working on the tab of a master: Satriani with Midnight.

Here with that - and much of drive will arrive to you on a correct level.