3 Techniques with Two-Hand Tapping | Heavy Metal Guitar

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Two handed tapping was popularized initially by Eddie Van Halen, who caught on, and was used by a lot of different guitar players, including yours truly. I try not to use it too much, because it has become somewhat of a cliché, but you can do some really cool stuff with it.

I want to start by looking at a lick loosely based on a piece by a former teacher of mine, Joe Satriani. And this type of lick involves playing a power chord. Right? So it's all tapped. So with my left hand, I'm tapping the bottom two notes. I'm doing the same thing, but just reversed, an octave higher. So everything is tapped.

The lick from Eddie Van Halen's, "Eruption," which is basically taking a triad and hammering on all the notes, and then pulling off with the right hand.

So once you're doing that, you have a lot of possibilities. You can shift your whole hand to the left. See what happens.

I can lower the bottom note.

And now I can lower the top. You know you can do any sort of pattern with it.

So I'm going to play what I just played, with full volume.

[Maceta]

FInally Howcast is doing something useful.

[Drift]

sweeny todd plays guitar? what a shredder

[CHRSSM]

Damn this is crazy i used to watch how cast years ago for loom bands back when i was like 9-10 now im 18 trying to learn two hand tapping for guitar

[carloseduardodv]

Nice video, thanks for that. Picking up my metronome and doing some training now 

[christianangelocolacion]

I can do one hand tap, left or right as long as they're separate, but when I do both I'm having trouble with coordination. Anything I could do for that?

[Microtonal_Cats]

Good tutorial. Question: was this recorded in the back room of a Guitar Center? When he's just talking and not playing, if you listen carefully you can hear what sounds like several people noodling on guitars. lol.

[RegulusDex]

Skolnick doesn't get nearly enough recognition.

[TwoHandsGuitar]

Two Hand you say? That’s when I click on a video

[disskies]

1:00 Sound like an intense Tekken match

[animal]

My problem with tapping is that it's always insanely quite on my guitar/amp setup. Using a mustang v 1 amp

[fergorro]

"a former teacher: Joe Satriani" caught me off guard 👌🏼

[kevinbear]

did he say his teacher was joe satriani???

[jabarichamberlain]

Would it be better to lower my action?

[monjurulkarim]

his face has 3d effects for some reason

[raakareiska]

I dont really get the logic to say tapping is cliche but still do the shredding wich is also cliche in rock and metal

[bykeman]

'its cliche' but I'm going to sort of show you how to do it after I name drop and title my video "tapping"

[burgessshale]

Let's get the facts straight. As far as I know, Steve Hackett (Genesis) was one of the first, if not the first, to use two-hand tapping. Van Halen picked it up from him. Check it out.

[stuhntmehnbrhos]

Sweet Child O' Mine is in Eb !! or D#

[guesser]

Steve Hackett was doing this when their mothers were wiping their noses. Frankly I think this is just as Baz Alton of Brass Alley would have aptly called "Party Tricks".  I hate these formula / scale shapes guitarist, you don't see the top top guitarists like Clapton / Knopfler, Hackett (the true tapping master) and going back to Hendrix using tapping as their main thing doing these "tricks", they rely on the quality of the notes they are playing. Knopfler's guitar work is beautiful, this heavy metal tapping stuff well a machine can do it.