Help! Thumb and Finger Slapping

GuitarGuy610 · Post by **GuitarGuy610** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 9:44 pm

Hey guys, I have seen videos of tim reynolds do this kind of thing and that justin king guy did alot of it...... but I can;t figure out how to do it! Esp. when it is farther up on the fretboard of the guitar- I'm so lost!! I have looked it up on google, but maybe I am looking for the wrong thing

Does anyone know how to do this or sites that explain it? Thanks guys!

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 10:53 pm

GuitarGuy610 wrote:Hey guys, I have seen videos of tim reynolds do this kind of thing and that justin king guy did alot of it...... but I can;t figure out how to do it! Esp. when it is farther up on the fretboard of the guitar- I'm so lost!! I have looked it up on google, but maybe I am looking for the wrong thing Does anyone know how to do this or sites that explain it? Thanks guys!

Its called finger tapping, not slapping.

Don't bother looking for something on the internet to help with this technique, i seriously doubt you will find anything that helps. you just have to be able to see what the guitarist is doing and figure it out on your own

GSR · Post by **GSR** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 11:19 pm

fatjack wrote:
GuitarGuy610 wrote:Hey guys, I have seen videos of tim reynolds do this kind of thing and that justin king guy did alot of it...... but I can;t figure out how to do it! Esp. when it is farther up on the fretboard of the guitar- I'm so lost!! I have looked it up on google, but maybe I am looking for the wrong thing Does anyone know how to do this or sites that explain it? Thanks guys!
Its called finger tapping, not slapping.

Don't bother looking for something on the internet to help with this technique, i seriously doubt you will find anything that helps. you just have to be able to see what the guitarist is doing and figure it out on your own

slapping is a bass technique thats usually used in funk. i'm sure you could do it on acoustic guitar, but it doesn't really work because y'all have thinner strings, and the sound would be thin. bass strings are thicker. slapping on bass is all in the wrist, you smack the strings with the side of the first knuckle of your thumb usually. its important to have your thumb "bounce" off the string.
tapping on bass is usually done by anchoring your right thumb on the fretboard and hammering on with your first to fingers, whilst your your hand hammers too. but you probly know this already, and you can look it up, and you don't play bass so who cares!
i know what you're talking about though, timmy does it during live in chicago. i know he slaps, but i'm not sure if he taps. haha, funny out of context.

BaitChunker · Post by **BaitChunker** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:35 am

are you talking about tapping, like eddie van halen does in eruption, or rythmic thumb slapping with the right hand like john mayer does in neon...

GuitarGuy610 · Post by **GuitarGuy610** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:54 pm

GSRLessard14, yeah, thats what I am talking about, also Justin King does some sort of the two in the video here

I wish there was some sort of video lesson on this, lol

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 12:57 pm

Yea, in live in chicago, tim does thumb slapping on the fretboard, as well as fingertapping like it the video posted 2 times on here from albinoblacksheep

GuitarGuy610 · Post by **GuitarGuy610** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:17 pm

any idea of how to do it? thanks.

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 1:23 pm

Uhh.. LOTS of practice.. Elliot(Gcom) accomplished it in a day i believe, but he's just really good:) The hardest part is getting volume when slapping/finger tapping

EnFuego · Post by **EnFuego** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:02 am

hey...is this what youre looking for?

http://www.wholenote.com/default.asp?iT ... 3Fl%3D2387

fatjack · Post by **fatjack** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:06 am

DMBFan63 wrote:Uhh.. LOTS of practice.. Elliot(Gcom) accomplished it in a day i believe, but he's just really good:) The hardest part is getting volume when slapping/finger tapping

no he didn't, he was just trying to act badass

Cor · Post by **Cor** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:56 am

fatjack wrote:
DMBFan63 wrote:Uhh.. LOTS of practice.. Elliot(Gcom) accomplished it in a day i believe, but he's just really good:) The hardest part is getting volume when slapping/finger tapping
no he didn't, he was just trying to act badass

Ok, I haven't done one of these in awhile, but;

Cory

NoNotThat · Post by **NoNotThat** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:57 am

i think ever since dusty dave, there's been a general drop off in the usage of that smiley.

DustyDave · Post by **DustyDave** » Thu Jan 01, 2004 11:49 am

Well thanks alot ....

Cor · Post by **Cor** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:25 pm

NoNotThat wrote:i think ever since dusty dave, there's been a general drop off in the usage of that smiley.

Very true. Everyone is scared of using it. not me!

Cory

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:39 pm

I like

the most. I think of it more as a grin then a wink

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