• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Topic: TAPPING

What is tapping in fact?
- pushing with your fingers on the strings on your fretboard? I can't create a decent sound doing this. That's the reason of my question.
- Is it easy, is it difficult?
Please give me advice on this

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  • From: Gander Newfoundland
  • Registered: 2007-05-05
  • Posts: 246

Re: TAPPING

Tapping is basically a series of hammer ons and pull offs using your picking hand as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-51iHvqP0Rs

That's the lesson that taught me; good luck!

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
  • Posts: 3,403

Re: TAPPING

SGinCYQX damned, what a nickname, I think the SG stands for the GIBSON or EPIPHONE SG model?
I have an incredible list of guitars, I'll mail the list to you.
I own one GIBSON SG = Gibson SG Menace, a killer guitar.
My ultimate "wet" dream about guitars is the ACOUSTIC PRS who is in production, and I received an answer from PRS that the prices will be 3000 - 4000$ quit expensive, but as told, I wrote every year an email to PRS and they confirmed it this year.
I love my MENACE, not TOO expensive and plays as butter. I have to sell a guitar, my GIBSON FLYING V FADED with heavy humbuckers 496R "Hot Ceramic" & 500T "Super Ceramic", and being a collector it always hurts to sell a guitar. Due to y medical condition, I can't play on my flying V, try to play that guitar while sitting, and the money I get goes to a Duesenberg 49er.
Do you have the "tapping" skill? I will go to that site.
Thanks

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- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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  • From: San Antonio, Texas
  • Registered: 2007-06-12
  • Posts: 353

Re: TAPPING

SG ... do you ever have any problems doing pull-offs on any strings?  I do pull-offs fine on the high "e" but when I try to do the same on the other strings I hit the next closest string

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  • From: Gander Newfoundland
  • Registered: 2007-05-05
  • Posts: 246

Re: TAPPING

Yeah, I do. All the time. It's worse on the Casino.

DocPhil, here's how my name deciphers:

SG-My guitar
in-like "in" a car
CYQX-The code for the airport in my hometown.

"You have to get over the love of power, and enjoy the power of love, in order to know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix.