Right handed tapping instruction manuals or exercises?

[cswolfe]

I don't tap worth bupkis. Never got started on it. And one reason is I have never been "shown" its applications.

With "traditional" guitar exercises, you do them a billion time and eventually their use shows in your solos and seems to come "out of nowhere." I LOVE that.

I'd really love a good source of right handed tapping exercises so I could go straight to doing and practicing it a few minutes a day and not having to "reinvent the wheel" for its applications.

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks very much. If I know how to use a tool then dismiss it then one thing. But for my own playing personally, if I dismiss a tool without actually knowing how to use it (as I seem to be doing now), that's ignorance.

sterling

[nasum]

what kind of tapping are we talking about? Simple tapping a la Eruption, or more complex stuff like what Buckethead does?

[cswolfe]

Definitely not the buckethead or that "8 fingered" approach of that guy formally of nightranger that's absolutely jaw dropping (jeff watson?)

I'd like to learn to walk and see if I like it before I ever even consider flying.

"Simple" stuff. But mainly, what I'm looking for is "simple" one right finger tapping exercises. I find when I exercise something to death, it naturally slips into my playing without even trying.

[nasum]

well there is always the tried and true 0-4-7-12 interval. Tap the 12th fret with your right hand (finger is optional, I tend to use my middle finger so that I can still hold the pick normally) and then pull it off.

The initial tap should be hard enough to sound the note, yet light enough to make the successive notes dynamically similar. If you hit it too hard the rest of your passage will be too quiet.

Pointer finger of left hand goes on the 4th fret, pinky on the 7th. Go up, go down, alternate, whatever. That is a good starting place. 5-8 instead of 4-7 also works fairly well.

[Serious_Poo]

Steve Lynch from Autograph wrote the bible on tapping when he was at GIT, and it should be available on the net with a little looking. Highly recommended.

[cswolfe]

Thank you, SP. I'll see if I can hunt that down.

[Gambolputty]

Try the Troy Stetina Lead Guitar books. He has a web site with a forum, book details, etc

[cswolfe]

Excellent. Thank you. I've also ordered the book that GIT had available. Will follow your recommendation (and the others) as well.

best,

sterling

[cswolfe]

Okay. I've ordered a pretty darn significant amount of his stuff. I'm sure I'll have lots and lots to work on. Thanks again.

[murkat]

Steve Lynch from Autograph wrote the bible on tapping when he was at GIT, and it should be available on the net with a little looking. Highly recommended.
I belive I still have an original copy (hand written/copy machine'd) when he did clinics on the west coast when He was indorsing Westone guitars!! I am sure I still have it, it is damm cool!

[Serious_Poo]

I belive I still have an original copy (hand written/copy machine'd) when he did clinics on the west coast when He was indorsing Westone guitars!! I am sure I still have it, it is damm cool!
How cool! I still have mine, too. Tapping was what he was most known for when he was at GIT, and his graduation performance was supposedly just insane. Wish I could have seen it. For anyone reading this who hasn't heard Steve play, check out Autograph's 80's classic "Turn up the Radio". Steve's solo turned a lot of heads when that song hit the airwaves.

[nasum]

someone actualy endorsed Westone? my mind has now been boggled.

[Robotechnology]

Shred is not Dead by Terry Syrek is another good book for 2 hand tapping (as well as every other technique).

Here are some great webpages on the subject too (not just the simple stuff):

http://www.guitar9.com/columnist251.html

http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_ziras2.html

http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_achi1.html

[cswolfe]

Shred is not Dead by Terry Syrek is another good book for 2 hand tapping (as well as every other technique).

Here are some great webpages on the subject too (not just the simple stuff):

http://www.guitar9.com/columnist251.html

http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_ziras2.html

http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_achi1.html (http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_achi1.html)Thank you, Robo. I will bookmark those sites. It's always nice to have online stuff that's easy to access when you're at the computer as well as books that are easier to misplace in some other room.

Edit. Wow. That tapping arpeggios is especially amazing. I'm going to put a pdf coy of that on my desktop. Thanks again.

[Serious_Poo]

Shred is not Dead by Terry Syrek is another good book for 2 hand tapping (as well as every other technique).

Here are some great webpages on the subject too (not just the simple stuff):

http://www.guitar9.com/columnist251.html

http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_ziras2.html

http://chopsfromhell.com/guest_achi1.html
Thanks for posting these links - that guitar9 site is fricken' awesome.

[Cheebatone]

Bruce Kulick did an instructional video in the 80's that had a pretty impressive (to a teenage me, that is) section on tapping on it. All 8 fingers blazing! I'd love to see that again...