Guitar Lesson 40: Practical applications for adding tapping and sweep picking into your playing

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Guitar Lesson 40: Practical applications for adding tapping and sweep picking into your playing (https://tunein-toneup.com/2018/11/22/guitar-lesson-40-tapping-sweep-picking/) In guitar lesson 40, we look at some techniques and practical applications of those techniques. I ask Dan for some help in using tapping and sweeping in my actual improvisations and we begin to examine how you can practise applying these techniques over a backing track. With hints and some licks throughout, this promises to support adding some advanced techniques into my improvisations. Main timings: 00:01:27 Dan's improvising over the back track from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehMzv6V3b0 (Funky Blues Rock | Guitar Backing Track Jam in A) 00:06:42 Some thoughts about over intellectualising our playing and what level you should be to be in a band 00:09:14 Debunking waffle you might hear on forums and the myths surrounding the myths around the techniques 00:09:45 What is the complexity and difficulties you might find when tapping 00:10:40 Ultimately what does tapping mean - what function does it play? 00:11:44 Don't just play the same licks all the time - use techniques to incorporate into your sound 00:13:40 Debunking tapping 1: muting 00:16:15 Debunking tapping 2: get used to using lots of fingers to tap 00:17:00 Adding tapping into something else 00:18:54 Coming up with a lick that we can add a tap to... 00:21:09 Learning point: phrasing idea - borrowing from the rhythm of a lick to extend into further improv 00:23:39 Debunking tapping 3: if there's a note you can't reach then tap it. 00:24:52 Use the idea of tapping to reach notes out of reach of your right hand 00:25:31 Start of backing track with tapping hand sticking in the occasional note 00:31:39 Debunking tapping 4: Getting the rhythm right for tapping licks (often a tap is adding two notes) 00:33:29 Using open strings when tapping 00:35:35 hearing that lick over the backing track 00:36:33 Keeping it based around the pentatonic scales 00:36:41 Tapping in more places up the neck 00:37:06 Playing the pentatonic with the left hand over the tapped dorian scale 00:40:04 Steve Lukather style bending licks echoed in your tapping hand 00:41:09 Debunking tapping 5: Practise getting the same finesse of feel with your tapping hand as with your fretting hand 00:44:01 Backing track to conclude the part of this lesson on tapping 00:46:32 Debunking tapping 6: allow the vibrato and bends to come through from the left hand into the tapped note 00:47:13 Start a flurry with a tap off the right hand 00:47:50 Tapping an arpeggiated idea 00:48:51 Sweep-picking 00:49:23 Starting with three-string sweeps 00:50:14 Useful phrase where the top note keeps dropping chromatically 00:51:42 Slipping the three note per string sweeps into some improv 00:53:07 Go up the Am three string arp and come back down the C arp 00:54:18 Using the Am C lick 00:56:33 Now look at extending across more strings 00:57:41 The reason for adding the additional note - so the lick rhythmically fits 00:58:18 How to make the tone on your guitar sound better for sweep picking 01:01:28 Going up a swept arpeggio in chunks and smaller rhythmic phrasing 01:02:13 Take the sweeps and investigate through the scale. See whether you can find other uses 01:05:01 Summarise the part of the lesson on sweep picking 01:05:40 Sweep picking all the chords for Hotel California