In my opinion tapping is one of the most overused and misused guitar techniques out there. Poorly executed tapping sounds juvenile, whereas majestically executed tapping sounds beautiful. If you want to hear some absolutely superb tapping technique check out Nuno Bettencourt on the songs "He-Man Woman Hater" and "Get the Funk Out". Nuno tends to play arpeggios via tapping and that is one of the most fluid, smooth ways to play arpeggios. If Nuno's technique doesn't get you fired up, then check out Jeff Watson's solo on the Night Ranger song "You can Still Rock in America". There Jeff shows off his 8 finger tapping technique for which he is well known.

In this lesson I will go over some basic tapping exercises and then end with some more advanced exercises that demonstrate tapped arpeggios.

In this exercise, we are simply adding a note to the previous exercise. The added note will force you to develop coordiation with your tapping finger, as you will be continually shiftinf from the 15th to 20th fret with the tapping finger.

Here we see the C Major triad arpeggio from the previous exercise, with the C added at the 20th fret.

With this exercise, use your right hand to tap onto the 15th and 20th fret. Use whatever finger you feel comfortable with. You could even use two fingers to tap if you wanted to be really adventurous. But for now just concentrate developing the coordination needed to shift positions with the tapping finger.