Greg Howe: premier guitar column III

Greg Howe shares a tapping technique using hammer-ons...

went on to become a key component in my overall note delivery style. Tapping is a term generally associated directly with two-handed guitar playing. It’s basically a technique performed by forcefully bringing one or more of the fingers of the picking hand toward the fretboard and onto a string in an effort to extend the role typically occupied exclusively by the fretting hand. Because of this, tapping will often involve the use of hammer-ons and pull-offs, whereby the fingers of the fretting hand play sequences that are synchronized with the tapping hand. This is usually for the purpose of creating lightning-fast repetitive sequences, often involving intervals that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to finger conventionally.

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