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Rock Guitar Tapping Technique
$19.99
Rock Guitar Tapping Technique is your comprehensive guide to fretboard tapping mastery. It’ll teach you to go beyond the limitations of the fretting hand to create dazzling licks that will make jaws drop. Tapping is now an essential guitar technique and has found its way into most modern genres. Once mastered, a whole new palette of sounds and textures is available to enhance your crea-tivity. And who better to teach you than renowned technical virtuoso Chris Books?
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Master Tapping Technique for Rock Guitar and Beyond
Ready to master effortless tapping on guitar?
Need a powerful guide packed with technical insights and dozens of great licks?
Rock Guitar Tapping Technique is your comprehensive guide to fretboard tapping mastery. It’ll teach you to go beyond the limitations of the fretting hand to create dazzling licks that will make jaws drop.
Tapping is now an essential guitar technique and has found its way into most modern genres. Once mastered, a whole new palette of sounds and textures is available to enhance your crea-tivity. And who better to teach you than renowned technical virtuoso Chris Books?
In Rock Guitar Tapping Technique You’ll Learn:
- Tapping technique fundamentals and options
- Single string drills and licks
- How to create tapped pentatonic and blues licks
- Tapped diatonic scale runs
- Creative tapped arpeggios
- Multi-finger tapping technique and monster licks
You’ll also discover harmonics, slides and hand-crossing embellishments that’ll turn you into the ultimate guitar god!
Master the Basics Then Ignite Your Skills
Go from zero to hero, starting with a powerful tapping primer that covers which fingers to use, clean technique, and how to create powerful tones, before enhancing your skills through a range of exciting licks, tricks, advanced techniques and etudes. You’ll quickly become an accomplished technician of guitar tapping technique.
Complete The 6 Powerful Tapping Modules
Module 1: Learn the perfect mechanics for tapping, such as anchoring and string muting. Learn a range of cool licks and discover articulation techniques.
Module 2: Get the most from single-string tapping with a collection of scale sequenced, arpeg-gio-based and ostinato licks. Learn etudes in the style of Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads.
Module 3: Learn how to extend pentatonic patterns with tapped notes to create powerful licks. Discover polyrhythms and explore advanced blues scale ideas.
Module 4: Create diatonic modal licks and sequences. Learn three-note-per-string legato runs in the style of Reb Beach and Steve Vai. Play string-skipping taps in the style of Guthrie Go-van and Michael Romeo.
Module 5: Master three-octave string-skipping triads, seventh arpeggios and extensions, and how to sequence arpeggios. Play lines in the style of Nuno Bettencourt, Michael Romeo, Guthrie Govan, Greg Howe and Steve Vai.
Bonus Module 6: Get refined with tapped harmonics, crosshanded tapping, and multi-finger lines. Learn the approaches of the greats with a collection of absolutely killer licks.
Hear it, Play it, Perfect it
Hear every example in Rock Guitar Tapping Technique by downloading the audio FREE from the Fundamental Changes website. The audio brings the exercises to life.
Every example is played at two speeds: slower, to help you master the shape of the lick, then faster so you can nail the phrasing.
If you’re ready to dive into the most comprehensive tapping book on the planet…
Buy it now!
Reasons to Buy From Us
Over 1,000,000 happy customers.
No joke – and not a word of a lie, we’ve sold over a million music tuition methods on Amazon.
Over 10,000 5* Reviews
Our books are consistently the best-selling music titles on Amazon and have received tens of thousands of positive reviews.
Get every example in your book as an audio file – for free!
Reading from your screen is one thing, but learning music is all about hearing it in action. Every book contains a link to download every example and backing track right to your computer
Instant Delivery
Every book is delivered via download and email as soon as you hit buy now.
Learn from legendary musicians
We publish books by the greatest and most influential musicians in the world.
“Whenever I teach students, I ask them about what books they have and they always like the books from Fundamental Changes. You guys have a great reputation! And, of course, I thank you for the opportunity to publish my own book – you did it so well!”
Mike Stern
“I’ve published eight books with Fundamental Changes and each one beautifully teaches a different element of my musical voice on guitar”
Dr Martin Taylor MBE
“The artists you work with, and the quality of your work speaks for itself.”
Tommy Emmanuel
“Wow! You guys work hard and the material you produce is great!”
John Patitucci
“I wish these books had been available when I was learning to play. I can’t recommend them highly enough!”
Ulf Wakenius
“I can’t believe all the great books you’ve published!”
Jennifer Batten
“These books are great! You guys really know your s**t!”
