Buckethead tapping lesson

[Harpua352]

Very well explained! Thank you!!!



[qwerkirk]

gr8 playing man!!! thumbs up!!

clean as buckethead himself keep it on you crazy freak \m/\m/

[oilkills]

The riff you explain at 2:54 isn't Bucketheads!

It belongs to his hero and good friend Shawn Lane!!!

And everyone does it now Bucket, MAB, Gilbert, Cooley.

They all worship Shawn... & use his Intervallic lick. RIP Master

[stone314687]

that guitar is a beast! its beautiful

[stone314687]

right on, 

[mammonderulian]

Tide detergent, fucking awesome \m/

[dydziooo]

what does chromatic mean?

[retrowheels]

@dydziooo all the notes are a semi-tone apart from each other. They don't follow any particular scale, you can pretty much use any notes on your fretboard.

This isn't the best way to explain it, and I'll probably get flamed for it, but this is the easiest way to understand it.

[chrhem1234]

very awesome video extremely helpful

[technicalnote4t]

By the way you kinda look like Buckethead himself ::P

[sikaudio]

Cheers for the Bucket Tapping mate. Much appreciated. You got some natural talent there in both Axe tapping & Flipping your Sk8board.  Keep the guitar vids coming man!

[salvapuzzavero]

Thank you!

[DERRRREEERR]

omg what effects you are using

[retrowheels]

@DERRRREEERR none. i'm playing through a line 6 spider III combo amp with a little bit of distortion

[shaolin0000007]

Nice video,

Eat more. 

[ThomasDemko]

please tell me how u dont touch the other strings/not allow it to make noise!

that is my main problem with guitar and its blocking me fromwhat i can do

[retrowheels]

@ThomasDemko palm muting?

[ThomasDemko]

@retrowheels i just jizzed, thanks. :)

[ThomasDemko]

@retrowheels apologies i get a lil talkative, its a pain in the ass not getting my palms on the wrong strings. xD

[golilik]

@ThomasDemko hi,im using hair fastener..use it..works for me..

[retrowheels]

@golilik that's kinda cheating, just learn how to properly palm mute it. Your just digging your self into a hole by using a hair fastener to hide sloppy playing.

[ThomasDemko]

@golilik sounds a lil weird?

[ZombieZomb1]

@ThomasDemko I had this problem for a while myself. Simply either learn how to palm mute well or do some exercises for more precision and accuracy. Better yet, do both!

[popalltheway]

lol at the Tide in the background xD

[ExperienceJacob]

Same! Fucking thanks man! Been looking for something like this hard.

[xandercamp123]

listen dude i don't care what other people say. i learned a lot from this vid. it deserves way more views.

[dannyhood66]

Your in a drop C tuning?

[retrowheels]

@dannyhood66 Yea. Buckethead plays half a step down from standard tho (Eb)... so technically im in the wrong tuning to play buckethead stuffs. But ohwellll

[dannyhood66]

@retrowheels Wow you really are tuned to drop C tuning? Or C# sharp, I'll just take your word for it,.When i seen your video yesterday i didn't check my guitar to see where you were at on the tuning..And i didn't think you were tuned that low.

[retrowheels]

@dannyhood66 well i had the guitar set up for drop C cuz all i really play with my 6 string is metalcore or progressive melodic metal type shit...

for a while i went through a Buckethead stage and learned all the techniques i could from his playing, where i might have tuned up to D standard.

but this video was posted like half a year ago almost, and i cant quite remember now..

[dannyhood66]

@retrowheels Do you use light gauge strings? Reason i ask is because your other bucket lick video your playing his sweep pick tapping with pinkie lick..Which is harder to play i think than this six million dollar bionic man computer going nuts riff..What chord inversions do you use for that sweep? If you don't for sure its cool, but i could not tell if was major or minor chord sweep?

[retrowheels]

@dannyhood66 i use heavy guage strings for lower tunings.

the sweeping lick is infinitely harder to do that any of the stuff in this video. probably the hardest technique he does.

for that video i used a minor sweep pattern because its what im most confortable with.

Buckethead usually uses a major sweep pattern and then taps in an augmented/whole tone scale

[dannyhood66]

@retrowheels Looks like a B minor sweep on three strings..Its funny cause im seeing it but not hearing it on the taps, I mean the notes tapped are clear,'' i don't hear the B minor chord? Anyways for that lick man i give up because unless i practice it for a year its not happening. You have the fingers for it dude i think? But i don't for this one..That means i gotta except it and go back to van halen licks.!aH .Embarrassing isnt it? Because listening to mom and dads music is not cool

[gooseaskreply]

man!!! where the hell did u get that guitarr!!??? I want one of those.....ibanez s5...right??

[retrowheels]

@gooseaskreply american musical supply... and yup ibanez s5470

[Bucketbotjr]

Holy shit dude! This was one of the best Buckethead technique covers ive seen, thanks for posting it man! Im going to give it a try, tho I prob wont be very good...ever hah.

[mobgripone]

tide in the backround :)

[pumpkinheadjrb]

After i tap a string and move on to the next, im having some trouble keepin control of that string from rining out. Any tips?

[retrowheels]

@pumpkinheadjrb lots of palm muting with ur tapping hand

[Cedrictheheadric]

the beginning wtf You just fight your camera bro?? lol good job thanks for the vid

[smkonwater23]

Hi Retro, thanks very much for this video.,,,U explain it and show the tapping technique really well for someone who learns really slow like me :) lol

As for recycling patterns etc..the best players USE it all the time...repeatedly. Coltrane is one of them.

[soulscout]

"and thats hard as hell"

and thats what she said

[flipedup]

wow... nice lesson.. learned ALOT!!!!!!!

[GangBoxer]

Thanks! I always wanted to do the thing at 3:00!

[maximilianC9]

ahhh sick dude, thanks for the parts: 3:00 4:12 i'm a huge buckethead fan.

and at 4:50, i'm pretty sure that little riff comes from chicken feed?

[retrowheels]

@maximilianC9 thanks! it may be in that song. but the particular one i did i think was from jowls... buckethead recycles a shit tone of patterns in all his songs and solos

[tapPOOH]

lmao @ the ending... he slammed the camera :D

nice lesson man, really helped me on the tapping part, also check my nottingham lace cover if you have time!

rock on!

[retrowheels]

@tapPOOH i checked the video out, great stuff man, really is... im surprised this video helped u all considering ur current skill.

[P5ychoMant1s]

ADAAMMMMM!!!!!

[retrowheels]

@P5ychoMant1s what nagger