Forget Pick Tapping And Learn Tapping Picking

  Tapping is a dazzling guitar technique with tons of flair that’s an awful lot of fun to play. But despite all its flash, tapping can be a tricky technique to integrate organically into your playing. There are many different exercises, tricks, tips, and techniques to help guitarists overcome this challenge, but in this piece, we’re going to looking at one of my favorites. There isn’t a good forma

Hammer-ons and pull-offs are a pair of closely related guitar techniques that involve playing notes that smoothly blend into each other, creating an effect known as legato. Legato playing allows you to create buttery guitar lines where seamlessly bleed into each other in a way that, when done well, can be quite beautiful. Hammer-ons and pull-offs aren’t the only ways to achieve a legato sound on g

Hammer-ons and pull-offs are a pair of closely related guitar techniques that involve playing notes that smoothly blend into each other, creating an effect known as legato. Legato playing allows you to create buttery guitar lines where seamlessly bleed into each other in a way that, when done well, can be quite beautiful. Hammer-ons and pull-offs aren’t the only ways to achieve a legato sound on g

  You’ve probably heard those light, high-pitched guitar notes that seem to float over the rest of the ensemble a fair amount in the music you’ve listened to. Those kinds of notes are called harmonics, and they’re to be found in just about any style of guitar music, from the “pig squeals” associated with heavy metal to the gentle chord harmonics popular in modern folk guitar. The sonic options of

If there’s one technique that proves that guitarists will always strive to find new ways to play their instruments past what their creators intended, then it’s probably tapping. Tapping is a guitar technique where notes are played by pressing directly onto the fret with one finger instead of being traditionally strummed. Tapping can involve both the left and right-hand in the fretting of notes, an

Kyle from New York Guitar School shows us how to bend the strings behind the nut. Enhance your playing with this cool new technique! Click here to learn more about Kyle!