Tapping pt 2.

Written by Morten Gjermundsen(trollstjerne@yahoo.no)

In this lesson i will show you a few tapping licks using chords.That is we will first find a chord we want to use and then find the notes of that chord higher up the neck.For example an E minor chord use the notes E - G - B.There is many place on the guitar you can play that chord.In this example weŽll use the one shown on the tablature :) 
                    
||------7--------||
||------8--------||
||------9--------||
||---------------||
||---------------||
||---------------||
By looking at the fretboard we can see that all these three notes can be found on the 12th fret. 
                     
||------12--------||
||------12--------||
||------12--------||
||----------------||
||----------------||
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Now fret the first chord with you left hand and then use you right hand index finger to tap and pull off the notes on the 12th fret one after another.
Listen 
                                  
||----------------12t-7---------||
||---------12t-8---------12t-8--||
||--12t-9-----------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
Now try to create similar tapping licks using the same idea.

Here is an short and simple example using A minor and E minor.

Listen 
                                    
||-----------------12t-8----------|
||---------13t-10---------13t-10--|
||--14t-9-------------------------|
||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|


                                 
-----------------12t-8----------|
---------13t-10---------13t-10--|
--14t-9-------------------------|
--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|


                               
----------------12t-7---------|
---------12t-8---------12t-8--|
--12t-9-----------------------|
------------------------------|
------------------------------|
------------------------------|


                                 
----------------12t-7----------||
---------12t-8---------12t-8---||
--12t-9------------------------||
-------------------------------||
-------------------------------||
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IŽll leave you with the backing track so you can practice this.Try to find as many different ways you can to tap over this backing track.Also try to this tapping thing over some of my jam tracks. Good luck.

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