Finger Tapping with Harmonics & Chords on a Left Handed Guitar

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"Another further elaboration of the tap harmonic technique is to actually utilize chords with the technique. Again populized by and pioneered by Eddie Van Halen. He would do something typical like play a fifth chord, which is simply or also referred to as power chords. And play the tap harmonic equivalent up on the upper register of the fret board where the notes would be played in conjunction with the chord. So for example he would tap, say if he was on the seventh fret, ninth of the fret of the D and G making E 5 chord, he would go: and simply tap the harmonic notes on the octave of the E 5 chord, so he would something like:"