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Introduction

Tapping is a rather unconventional technique, but in the right hands, it can be a valuable musical tool. In this series of courses, we’ll be getting started with the fundamentals. We’ll be covering finger dexterity exercises, muting, and we’ll be talking about the best way to set up your bass for using the technique. We’ll also be covering arpeggios and chord voicings and of course we’ll be learning to play some cool tapping lines along the way.

If you’ve never used the tapping technique before, this is the course for you because we’ll be starting with the absolute basics. By the end of this Beginner course, you’ll have taken a significant step towards mastering the tapping technique.

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Tapping – Beginner Level

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This course is the perfect place to start if you are new to the tapping technique. Throughout this series, we'll be looking at each element of the technique in turn, learning how to use it, then employing it in a series of real-world exercises.

Each of the video courses shown below contains several sub-courses containing many hours of detailed instruction. For each of these, there is a downloadable resources folder containing PDF worksheets(available to subscribers only).

Getting Started

In this short course we’ll be looking at some basic considerations: the setup of your instrument, muting techniques, and the various different ways in which tapping can be notated.

Basic Tapping Technique

The aim of this course is to get to you started with the tapping technique using a series of warm-up and finger strengthening/dexterity workouts. Spending time on these exercises in the early stages of learning this technique will be a huge help when it comes to performing complex pieces later on.

Tapping Arpeggios (Part 1)

This video course is the first of two that will help you to begin playing arpeggios on the bass using the two-handed tapping technique. A good understanding of basic music theory will be very helpful to you when studying these two courses.

Tapping Chords (Part 1)

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. We'll be getting started with chords in this video course.

Tapping Arpeggios (Part 2)

This course expands on the previous tapping arpeggios course and adds sevenths to the triad arpeggios that we looked at last time. You will find that adding sevenths to the basic major, minor and diminished chord types creates some considerably more colourful chords and arpeggios.

Tapping Chords (Part 2)

This video course will cover seventh chords. We'll be looking at some of the most effective ways of playing them and then putting them to use in some more complex chord progressions.

Providing Accompaniment

In this video course we'll be using everything that we've learnt so far to play some accompaniment-style tapping lines. These exercises are an excellent illustration of the potential of the tapping technique.