Slide Tapping

Trust Me... Your fingers are going to be soar!

Slide tapping is a ton of fun and hurts like a... yeah you know, it really does a number on your right hand sliding it along the strings for hours upon end. I am getting ahead of myself though, tap sliding or slide tapping is where you tap with your right hand fingers and slide them up or down the fretboard. They let your transition to notes quicker and more smoothly without notes in between. When slide tapping you want to tap like you would regularly and then straighten and tighten your finger a bit and slide up or down. If you keep your finger too bent it will not slide fluently.
Try the First Exercise:


Sliding and Legato

This next exercise will be tougher because you will have to be doing some legato with your left hand. Just try to keep your sliding as accurate as possible. Now for the Exercise:


Now try it going sliding down:


Sliding Skips

One more thing to cover.. which is sliding skips which are sliding up or down more than a whole step. In the other exercise the most frets you would slide in a given tap would be two, so now we are doing 3 and 4 to help accuracy and control. In this next exercise remember to slam your fingers very hard and to keep them pressed very hard so the notes sound. The further you slide on a guitar the more the note dissipates, so try to be very stern with your slides.