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The Tapping Revelation

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, In : Guitar Tapping 


Two ways of playing the Pentatonic scale using Tapping, the first way is to play the Pentatonic scale as a three notes per scale pattern and then adding one note as Tapping, using this way you play a new pattern on every other string.

The other way is to play the good old Pentatonic pattern you may know using two notes per string, then the cool thing is that the pattern you would play on every other string, in this case the A, G and high E string you add to the same string using a two note Ta...
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Crazy creativity with Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, December 9, 2018, In : Guitar Tapping 


Dont hate me for the intro I do ha ha ! I just accidentaly started to play that
riff and I realised how well it worked with Tapping.

Anyway in this video I give you some fun ideas to start being more creative
with Tapping, im goofing a little bit off but the ideas is I just take a scale and
then decide how many fingers I want to use in each hand and work from there
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Dorian Extreme Tapping Omit Seven

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, September 27, 2018, In : extreme tapping 


About
So this technique is actually the same we make us of as the Major scale Extreme Tapping lick we did last time, we just change the major third into a minor third and this way get the Dorian scale except for the seventh note of the scale but other than that its the same fingering I make use of and the same technique

Technique
This technique is something I invented because I wanted to use as many fingers as possible for tapping but still keeping the pick between my index finger and thumb. Th...
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Extreme Tapping Major Scale

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, September 21, 2018, In : extreme tapping 


About
So this lick or scale is one of my ultimate trademark licks that really got my playing going and it can for you too. Once you get a hold of this baby you will be able to shred like a maniac for sure

Theory
This is sort of a Ionian scale but it can also work as a dominant scale since there is no seventh in it, so its a complete major scale with no seventh and therefore you can use it either as a Ionian scale also called the major scale or you could use it as a dominant step scale, or a mix...
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Advanced Sweep Picking Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, December 21, 2016, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


About Scales
This lesson is all about four note Arpeggios and in this case the A Major seven and the E Dominant seven, as I explain in the video you can easily incorporate it into the A major scale or of course the Major scale in general, start it from the first step of the Major scale, regarding the technical stuff

Technique
As you can see I combine Tapping using two fingers and in this example I use the long finger and the Little finger, this helps me easily go into the Sweep picking techniqu...
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Sweep picking Tapping Mastery - Chopin Etude 1

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


About
This piece is not only to learn an extremely cool Frederik Chopin inspired Etude but also a lesson that takes you through the crucial elements of really mastering a technique to the fullest, in this case Sweep picking combined with Sliding and multi finger Tapping

Step 1
This is the step where you will learn all the fundamentals like getting down all the right notes and the fingering which is an absolute critical part. As well as the picking patterns. This is also the step where you can j...
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Blues Shred Arpeggios

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, In : blues shred 


About
It's obviously not often that you would use sweep picking Arpeggios in a standard Blues, but you can absolutely get the sweet benefits of the Blues sound in almost everything else, so here are a standard Blues Vamp using four note Dominant arpeggios with added the minor thirds or raised ninths if you will into the Major seven Arpeggios which is a typical "trick" that are one of the "building stones" of creating the Blues sound. As I also state in the video its extremely important that ...
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Neo Classical Shred Guitar Sweep picking 8 finger tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, April 17, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar 


About
Hello again, here are yet another Neo Classical Shred Guitar lesson that are a lot of fun both to listen to and to play. I have again chosen to focus on the combination of Sweep picking and 8 finger tapping as well as the 8 finger tapping alone. So I believe that the sliding of the pick up the index finger using the thump is essential to be able to do this technique since its crucial to have access to all four fingers on both hands if you want to play those sweet 8 finger tapping patter...
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Neo Classical shred guitar extreme 8 finger tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, April 10, 2015, In : Neo Classical Shred Guitar 

About
This lick contains a lot of different techniques like Sweep picking, Alternate picking, Legato, 8 finger tapping and combinations of those techniques as well. But in the lesson part I want to concentrate on the Sweep picking 8 finger tapping combination as well as the all out 8 finger tapping part. 

Technique
As I also talk about in the video, playing 8 finger tapping and also the combination os Sweep picking and 8 finger tapping you really need to master the Dampening game bless you want...
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Sweep picking - Tapping - Cross hands technique

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, April 5, 2015, In : stunt guitar 


About
Hey hey ! here is the first new blog post since my old website was hacked and destroyed. As you may know this is the new url where things are going down from now on. I wanted to congratulate that all the old blog posts are up and running again and now with this latest addition to the blog posts you'll get a very short and sweet lick addressing both Sweep picking tapping and my crazy Cross hand technique. Obviously this is not something that is easy to use in improvising and therefore I ...
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Extreme Tapping Arpeggios combined with Guitar Scales

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, April 2, 2015, In : extreme tapping 


About
This lick is one of my trademarks and what I normally call Extreme Tapping. Its a killer pattern that sounds really extreme once you got the technique down. One of the first things regarding this technique that most people find a little weird is something like starting a lick out with a hammer on which can feel a little awkward in the beginning. The nex thing is to make the string skipping lose the possible breaks between the notes and obviously also the string noise that can happen when...

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Sweep picking advanced Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


About
Rightyho !! here is once again one of those crazy ass sweep picking triad arpeggios combined with tapping. And in this one I obviously do the sweep picking with the thumb and index finger which then gives me the possibility to tap with the long finger, ring finger and little finger. I want to tell you that it is a good attitude to have towards anything you want to learn that you can easily reach the goal that you have set for yourself but its also important to know that - that being said...

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Extreme Sweep picking Tapping plus slides

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Thursday, March 26, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


About
Here is a very sweet sounding lick in E minor using all three of the minor inversion of the minor triads using a variety of five and six strings. Notice the first inversion might be a little uncommon in the fingering, if thats the case for you, play the root note E as the first note on the A string using the index finger hammering on to the little finger instead. This lick also takes up quite a bit of the fretboard so make sure you are in a key where there's enough space on the fret boar...
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Harmonic minor Sweep picking Tapping advanced

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 23, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


About
This lick is really cool and I have used it quite a lot on my recordings like in Infinity Overture: The Infinite Overture pt.1 and my solo album Sthenic. Its a combination of a minor sweep picking triad and a lot of notes added from the Harmonic minor scale with tapping with three fingers on the right hand 

Technique
One element that to some degree can make a very advanced lick like this seem a little easier is the hammer on´s I do as a help to make the shift between the sweep picking tec...

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Advanced Tapping lesson

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Guitar Tapping 


About
It´s guitar tapping time ! In this one I start in a basic E dominant tapping arpeggio which expands into a frenzy of an E9 and finally into an E11 tapping arpeggio. Notice that I use the long finger when I tap on the A string and the ring finger when I tap on the G string and the little finger when I tap on the high E string. This is simply something I came up with just to work on the precision of those fingers when I started out with the extreme tapping many years ago. You dont have to...
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Extreme Guitar

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : stunt guitar 


About
I think we can all agree that this extreme guitar lesson is totally and completely over the top. It features a variety of techniques such as Sweep Picking, Legato, tappin and 8 finger tapping and three and four notes per string patterns. I guess you can also see and here that its highly improvised and that is the reason that I did not slow it down. I basically play a E minor sweep picking pattern and the first time I do it I add a four notes per string on the high E string played legato ...
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Guitar Tapping tutorial

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Guitar Tapping 

About
By public demand ;) I created this video showing you some of the concepts and ideas that make up licks, chops and phrases that are possible on the guitar. Of course there are endless resources available as soon as you start to get your mind going on what you can do with the concet of guitar tapping. In this video im showing you a few basic concepts from the Pentatonic scale in the key of E minor. I touch upon the subject playing the full scale and then both minor triad arpeggios and four...

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Dominant arpeggio and scale tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, In : how to improvise 


About
About
Here in this example you will get first of all a really cool way to play a four note arpeggio, it's a Dominant arpeggio using quite a bit of Legato in between this Sweep picking Arpeggio. But you will also learn how to use Tapping to play a scale in a really cool way that does not take up a lot of the freeboard which is often the case when Tapping a three notes per string scale with additional Tapping. In this idea you will usie two fingers to tap, I use the long and ring finger mos...
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Sweep picking tapping advanced and easy version

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Wednesday, March 11, 2015, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 


About
This lesson gives you a sure fire way into start using the quite advanced technique Sweep picking Tapping in your own playing and even more importantly when you improvise
Tablature



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8 Finger Tapping

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Monday, March 18, 2013, In : 8 Finger Tapping 


One of the very important elements in playing 8 finger tapping is to be able to play it without having the surrounding strings buzz making it sound awful in general. When I go from one string to another I make sure that I lower my right hand palm to damp the strings as much as possible. Good luck !

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Sweep Picking Exotic Arpeggio 3

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 3, 2013, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 
Sweep Picking Exotic Arpeggio 3

This arpeggio is composed from the first position of the Melodic minor and gets that cool kind of whole tone scale sound between the fourth the fifth, natural sixth and raised seventh. Again you have to work on using three fingers from the picking hand for tapping. Good luck
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Sweep Picking Tapping Exotic Arpeggios 2

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 3, 2013, In : Sweep Picking Tapping 
Sweep Picking Tapping Exotic Arpeggios 2

This is another contribution to the Exotic Arpeggios using sweep picking, tapping. Take note on the quite advanced guitar tapping I do in this video and also the fact that I actually play on the fret board. This is a technique that does take some dedication but it will definitively benefit you in the long run. Good luck !

Tablature  
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Guitar Tapping Muting Techniques

Posted by Niels Vejlyt on Sunday, March 3, 2013, In : Guitar Tapping 



About
This video clears up one of the typical problems that occurs when you start tapping with more than one finger. In here I am showing you the way I avoid making a lot of noise when I play extreme guitar tapping and ways and techniques to mute the strings surrounding the one you are playing. make sure you wath the video in its entirety and good luck !
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