Guitar Techniques

In The Woodshed

Chord tapping is a technique that allows us to manipulate chords in a number of ways. We can use our two hands to create voicings with spans of notes that wouldn’t be possible with just one. We can use tapping to add melodies to chords, as well as creating chord-based rhythmic ideas between our two hands. Players like TJ Helmreich, Tosin Abasi, Misha Mansoor and Joe Satriani have used these approaches to unlock their genre bending music. With experimentation you too can discover that

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