Tap-Run Exercise for Guitar
In this video I am covering a great exercise I call the Tap-Run Exercise! This exercise concentrates on how to make guitar chords faster by having us “tap” the guitar body and then create the chord as quickly as we can. It will help not only with making the chord faster, but also is practice for jumping between chords and soloing!
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So I wanted to make a quick video about an exercise I call the Tap-Run Exercise! It's really quick. It's really simple. The whole idea is that you're trying to get your chords faster, especially in the open position. And the idea is that you can jump from chords to different places on the neck, maybe for like a solo or something or a riff. So the way it works is you start with your chords, say you're working on the C major chord. Make sure it's nice and clean if it's not clean, you gotta fix it. And you let go, tap the guitar up here, slide back down, and it's forward again. You see how fast you can do that while keeping the chord clean. You're building that muscle memory so that when you’re making the C major, your fingers go right there, and there's just no thought process in there. Tap C major… Tap C major And the idea is if I'm going to go up here and do a solo or something, then I can get there or back to C major if I need to. And you can do that with any chord, G major. You can do it with barre chords. And it'll just work out great because you're just jumping around. Really getting that muscle memory for those chords. That way you don't really have to second-guess it or think, "Wait, what chord am I making?" just F major. And you could also do it with scales, things like that. If you're doing just individual notes or maybe jumping into a riff, tap, maybe I'm playing in G minor pentatonic or something. And I want to do a couple of riffs with that. Tap up here, G minor, or tap up here, riff. And you just see how fast you can get it. Hopefully that tip helps with just making your playing a little better. Have some fun with it, experiment and happy practicing!