Chord Tapping

Hit that Board

Chords are one of the more difficult techniques in acoustic tapping, but practicing can help your accuracy. Simply what a chord tap is is to tap two or more notes using multiple fingers. This adds another voice to the music and creates a more unique sound, I don't recommend chord tapping for anyone who hasn't mastered the basics of tapping. You will want to hold your arm parallel to the fret board with your first two fingers a little bit hooked, when you hit the strings tighten and straighten your fingers but not so much that you lose control. Remember when you pull off with your tapping fingers that you want to pull your fingers down just like normal tapping so you let the next notes ring out a bit.
Try this exercise in DADGAD:

With this exercise all you want to practice is tapping the 7-7 chord loud and accurately. Make sure both notes are sounding in the chord, and that its not buzzing, if it is buzzing hit it in a slightly different spot. Your left hand will move down the fretboard this shouldn't be that hard but I added it in just to give the exercise more of a sound.



Now try the exercise again but this time tap back and forth between the 7-7 chord (you were practicing earlier) and now the 9-9 chord on the same strings. Like so:

I admit these exercises sound quite bad, but at least it gives your fingers something to do, so bare with the bad sounds.

Accuracy Tapping

For this exercise you are going to be tapping two seperate voice melodies in other words it will take a little bit of concetration to keep this exercise accurate. Also the chords are seperated by two strings so it will make for a bit of a challenge.
Accuracy Exercise DADGAD:

The tapping hand and the fretting hand have slightly different melodies played over eachother so it can get complicated but just play it slow, you will get it. By the way this is another exercise in triplets so count the chords "1 trip let 2 trip let...".