Your first guitar tapping exercise (step by step)

guitar techniques lead guitar Oct 13, 2026

This guitar tapping exercise is an excellent one to get down even if you’ve never used tapping before.

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Tapping on the guitar is thought of as something exclusively reserved for metal or rock, but you can use it in any style if you get creative with it.

In this video, I break down my favorite guitar tapping exercise into a series of manageable baby steps (my favorite is #5).

In the last step, I demonstrate tapping to play little fills while improvising.

I think it’s pretty fun!

Whether this is the first or the fiftieth guitar tapping exercise that you’ve worked on, I think you’ll enjoy this one.

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~ Jared

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