Summary: Tapping is a great lead guitar technique that makes it sound like you are playing more notes than you actually are. Learn how to play lead guitar riffs in Em (E Minor) in this free video clip guitar lesson.
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"This example, I'm going to show a little tap lick you can do. You're not even picking at all, you can literally tap everything over a clean progression and not really over playing, just kind of like adding the different kind of little technique, that'll give it a nice tone, to the solo. And, with the progression, it'll sound like this. What I did there is pretty much just tapped everything, but kept it, you know, minimal. You know, instead of sitting there going, you know overplaying, and it sounding kind of ridiculous. You know, you kind of want to play to the mood of the music you're playing over. So, in this one, what I simply just did was. So, instead of picking, like, adding that tap gives it kind of a nice little effect to it, so, you know, basically going. You know, and being able to do like slides. You know, gives it a nice little effect, that just doesn't like it's a picked out scale."
eHow Article: Lead Guitar Tapping Tips