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Tappin The Blues

This document introduces a simple tapping technique for blues, jazz, and rock guitar playing. It demonstrates the technique through two examples, showing how to incorporate tapping into a minor blues progression. The technique involves simultaneously tapping two strings with the picking hand fingers.

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Tappin The Blues

This document introduces a simple tapping technique for blues, jazz, and rock guitar playing. It demonstrates the technique through two examples, showing how to incorporate tapping into a minor blues progression. The technique involves simultaneously tapping two strings with the picking hand fingers.

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➧ CHOPS ➧

Tappin’ the Blues


BY BOB BALSLEY


SO, YOU THINK TWO-HAND TAPPING wannabes, and bass monsters such as Stu including our dual-tap at the 12th fret. In bar 2,
Hamm? Truth is, there’s a fun way to incorporate a juicy, close-voiced A9 is plucked and imme-
tapping into your everyday blues, jazz, and rock diately livened up with a dual-tap at the 7th fret.
playing, and it starts with learning the simple Finally, in the second ending, you’ll find a tasty,
move in Ex. 1—a simultaneous tap on the fourth tap-happy II-V turnaround, with C9 acting as a
and second strings with the picking hand’s index tritone substitution for the II chord.
(i) and middle (m) fingers.
To put this approach in motion, try the
swingin’ maneuvers in Ex. 2, which work great Bob Balsley is a guitar and recording instruc-
over a minor blues in E. The phrase starts with tor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Visit
the open low string being sounded with your him online at mp3.com/balsley. g
thumb. Next, pluck the Em7 triad. From this
is only for metal freaks, shredders, Van Halen point on, the rest of the first measure is slurred,
Ex. 1 Ex. 2
1. 2.
Freely Em7 A9 G/A C9 B9
Em

   4         
Swing feel
 
1

    

     
2

     
   
2 4

 4 
1


   
1

3 1

*T
T
3
T T

T
12 T  8
7
7 8 12 7 8 2
4
7 2 3  5
7
10 5 4
6
9 4
A 12 A 9 7 9 12 7 9 5 7 5 8 10 8 7 9 7
B B
0 5 8 7
*T = tap w/ i and m.

E 7 E 7
3
  = G6 D7 G7 C
  
G5

D7

    
      

  

2

      1
4  ( ) ( )

( ) () 
4
    
4

 
( ) 1 1 3 4

  

4 4 3 2 1 1

4 ( ) ( ) 2


   
2 1
2
1
hold hold hold

let ring - - - - -

grad. pre- pre-
B* - - - - - - - B1/2 B-------- B--------

T
12 12 13 13 14 14 15 13 (13)
A
15 (17) 15 14 (14) 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 (11)
B
17 14 14 17 16 (16) (15) (15) 14 14 13 13 12
15 (19) (19) 17 17 16 15 (15)
10 (10)
*Bend string off fretboard.

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