This challenge will help your student memorize two areas of the fretboard simultaneously. By using tapping the student can practice playing the same scale over an octave. It's a simple challenge but can make a dramatic difference to how the student sees the fretboard and how they choose to use scales.
Most students first find out about tapping in the standard rapid fire style popularized by Eddie Van Halen. This challenge will teach your students to think about tapping in creative ways and apply the technique to come up with interesting chord progressions. The chords produced with this technique aren't possible without tapping.
The challenge will also test your student's understanding of the notes on the fretboard as well as their chord theory knowledge.
This lesson plan will teach your student how to start applying tapping in their improvisation. Each exercise will teach the student a different aspect of tapping and will slowly introduce new techniques and concepts. It's recommended that the student complete lesson TEC-07 before moving on to this lesson. You can also use lesson PRO-03 Eddie Van Halen as it focuses on how he uses tapping.
The exercises are presented in a musical way and the included Teacher's Guide gives advice on how to extend these basic idea around the fretboard.
This lesson gives your student an overview of a couple aspects of Randy Rhoads' style of playing. Randy was well known for his lead playing so the lesson looks at his use of legato, tapping and phrasing. One aspect of his rhythm playing is also covered so your student can have a glimpse into both areas. If your student enjoys the style of licks used in this lesson you can take it further by giving the student one of his songs to work on.
This lesson will teach your student:
The Teacher's Guide explains each lick so read through the guide before giving this lesson to your student.
This guitar lesson plan looks at a few unique aspects of Joe Satriani's playing style. Each example focuses on one specific technique to help you gauge the student's interest in the technique or style. The pieces are quite technical so are not suitable for beginners. If the student is interested in the pieces used it would be worth spending some time working on some of Joe's songs.
This lesson will teach your student:
The Teacher's Guide explains each example in detail so you can properly teach it even if you aren't familiar with the techniques or Joe's style of playing.
This guitar lesson plan will introduce your student to the lead style of Eddie Van Halen. The purpose of the lesson is to teach the student how he would use techniques such as tapping, legato and violining to create musical ideas. While techniques are dealt with in other lesson plans, this lesson plan focuses on how Eddie Van Halen uses them in musical context.
This lesson will teach your student:
This lesson will greatly assist your student in their ability to improvise and think outside of 'licks'. The Teacher's Guide will help you explain the techniques and how to think creatively after the student has mastered the examples.
Most students enjoy learning to use tapping as it's quite fun to play and sounds great. Before you give this resource to your student, ensure they feel comfortable with basic legato techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides. The exercises in this resource are easy to explain and will help your student focus on the technique side of things without having to worry about difficult licks.