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Tapping Chords (Part 1)

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The tapping technique is great for playing chords on the bass as it enables us to play notes in both the low and higher registers simultaneously. This means that it is possible to play chords with better separation between the notes than we would be able to achieve simply from just fretting a chord.

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This course is 22 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Tapping Major Chords

This lesson covers the basic structure of the humble major chord. Different ways of tapping this chord are then demonstrated.

2. Tapping Other Chord Types

This lesson takes the chord voicings that we covered in the previous lesson and adapts them for minor, diminished and augmented chords.

3. Voice Leading

This lesson covers the concept of voice leading and demonstrates how it can be used to create smoother-sounding chord progressions.

4. Exercise #22

This exercise uses the two-handed tapping technique to play a simple I-IV-V-I chord progression in the key of C major.

5. Exercise #23

This exercise has a longer chord sequence: vi-ii-IV-V-vi. As before, a mixture of three- and four-note chord voicings is used here.

6. Exercise #24

This exercise is a longer progression that uses all of the chords in the key of C major, moving up by a fourth each time. This progression is I-IV-vii-iii-vi-ii-V-I.