Intro to Tapping

[Hutzbordello]

how does one do it?

anyone know any good videos?

also an easy tapping song/excersice would be good

 

[champbassist]

Check out Stu Hamm's instructional vids. In his lessons, he devotes a lot of time exclusively to tapping.

 

[BillW87]

Check out Stu Hamm's instructional vids. In his lessons, he devotes a lot of time exclusively to tapping.

+1

Stu Hamm is a great guy to look into for some solid bass guitar tapping technique. Victor Wooten's got a lesson or two floating around on youtube as well on tapping for bass. Stu Hamm's cover of Moonlight Sonata on bass is a good song to start out with once you get past the basic excercises because it really utilizes both hands without being too intimidatingly difficult like a lot of Wooten's stuff.

Finger tapping is an awesome tool to have in your technique arsenal if you want to play more melodic-style bass, and once you learn to blend it back and forth with your fingerstyle technique you'll find that there's very few melodies that you can't play on bass.

Also, shameless self-promotion but since its on topic, here's a finger tapping song I wrote for my piccolo-tuned bass (I play it on my standard-tuned when I'm performing it with my band):

 

[coldfoot_luke]

When I was primarily a guitard, I accidentally shaved off a chunk of my thumb with a meat slicer at my night job. I couldn't do anything besides tap for about two months. At the time, I was listening to heaps of Minus the Bear, great for relatively simple non-wanky tapping. I hope I'm not being sacrilegious by bringing guitar to attention:



This was a huge influence on me... tapping is fun, great possibilities for atypical intervals, have at it!

 

[coldfoot_luke]

...and this is not me playing in the video, but I have been working on learning this song on bass, it is a great melodic excercise:

Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier"

 

[Green1]

Randy Coven had a DVD where he covered some tapping, I'm sure its still out there somewhere

 

[YYZDMV46&2]

Check out some Primus, like Jerry Was A Racecar Driver and DMV.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Please allow me to suggest you some videos I created trying to cover the basics of the tapping technique. Audio/video quality isn't great, but everything's clear there (I think). It's a six-part tapping mini-course that you can find here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tapping+mini-course&aq=f

Hope this helps.