How to Do Tap Harmonics on The Guitar

Video Transcript

"In this lick using tapping, we're going to do what's called Tap Harmonics. I've covered Pinch Harmonics before, where I went. Where you're artificially picking the Harmonics. On this, what I'm going to do is tap them. And in rock, particularly in you know, the older, say in the eighties, that type rock, what they would do typically is pick, basically tap, the octave to make a nice effect on a scale, or on a lick. So I could be going, as an example. So, it's like picking out of an A Minor pentatonic, hammer on on the fifth and seventh fret of the G and then go tap here which is the nineteenth fret, twelve frets from the seventh. And tap on the seventeenth fret, which is the octave for the fifth there, so. Instead of going, you can go. You have a nice full sounding rock effect there. "