Video Guitar Lesson 5: Tapping techniques; usable ideas and exercises for improvisation

In Tune in Tone up’s second full lesson we explore the theme of tapping: using the strumming / picking hand to hammer on to notes which would normally be out of reach for your fretting hand.

Dan gives me some hints and useful tips to get me started and help me to develop in this area and we also spend some time trying to put some of these ideas into some improvisation over backing tracks.

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