6 Finger Tapping Pentatonic - Theodore Ziras Free Lessons

[HotRodSixString]

Rip It 

[DHOTS2007]

i think its not the tuning, as you know so many guitars after 12th fret are out of tune thats why you'll need something called tempered fret or something .. like IA eklundh and Vai did ...

[slayersdiciple]

@DHOTS2007 That's because 99% of guitarists are stupid and don't even know how to set up their own instruments. You wouldn't belive how many people don't even know how to set up their own floyd roses.

[sermerlin1]

@slayersdiciple it's true m8... i play guitar for like year and 1/4, i don't know how to set up string tension and height... nor i don't know whats up with that neck micro deformation and such... but i know to play guitar descent and am not stupid. I just don't know how old telecaster system works oh and im playing metal also...

[randompinc7]

@DHOTS2007 or you could just change the length of the sadles on the bridge, helps improve intonation across the whole fret board

[guitarnukka724]

it's weird how it sounds kinda gay and too bluesy when it's played slow, but played fast it's the sound of someone's head exploding. well played sir.

[James0543]

@guitarnukka724 bluesy is gay? FUCK YOU!

[guitarnukka724]

@James0543 it's just personal preferance obviously. i just find it kind of bland since the 'in between' notes aren't in there to give it color. that's how i feel.

[chromatic1976]

his guitar being out of tune takes nothing away from what theodore is showing us here, it is a free vid anyways, he is giving us his valuable time to show us something, Go and purchase a vid, then you can complain about all the little nit picking shit that doesnt really matter.

[Senlocc]

@chromatic1976 well said man :)

[HEREoverHERE]

very good, as usual

[morgncyde]

i'm going to apply this technique to my bass. I really like the shred techniques of Kyle Honea. It's something I've yet to learn. Your lesson pretty much broke it down for me at a slower speed, and for that I am grateful. :) Keep jamming man. And yea, perhaps the intonation was off on the video, but that's to be expected as you'd have to bend the strings a bit. as a bassist I know this. everyone should just appreciate this for what it is - a very insightful lesson for those wanting to learn.

[JeszeeLaw]

Nice work tziras!

[BeefSupreme288]

there is no such thing as a guitar in tune..... thats just a guideline to what strings "should" be set to. If anyone talking shit about the guitar not being tune,they just dont know shit about music, because plenty of professionals purposely tune one string down, and possibly even 3, just to make solo's easier.....and if thats not the case, then he just doesnt have it tuned to E standard, in which no real soloist actually uses.

[chromatic1976]

@BeefSupreme288 lols u r a guitar goose! warning!

[destrucktor]

I'm pretty sure it's not the guitar out of tune, it may be the way he's tapping the higher frets, or the intonation may be a bit off towards the top. It's still a good lick though, and i's well played.

[spyclanhectic]

@destrucktor or his neck could be warped.. sounds cool though

[Triatic115]

that is alot of pickups... good job though

[thunderheart530]

might be the intonation

[GuitarFretMan]

Keep it up.I love your style,brother.

[OfAllTheyHad]

@Fluffypopcicle oh yea? well yngwie can kick bucketheads ass at guitar with anything

[Fluffypopcicle]

@OfAllTheyHad

really? not with emotion. buckethead made an album called colma, and it was dedicated to his mom who was dying of colon cancer. that along with his electric tears, too many humans, and his new album shadows between the sky. tngwie has nothing on buckethead except speed.

[clwnz777]

@Fluffypopcicle i agree with everything. buckethead is amazing. but i remember him being #1 at speed right above yngwie not too long ago in an article lol.

[Fluffypopcicle]

@clwnz777 yeah, if he finger nubs he can get around 28 nps (notes per second). the cool thing is he invented his own 8 finger tapping technique, finger nubbing (which i mentioned before). tiago della vega has the world record for bpm though, and francesco fareri can hit 33 nps which is insane.

[Fluffypopcicle]

@OfAllTheyHad

no he can't. buckethead is far more emotional, and versatile, yngwie is more of the same every time. youre full of bull shit. plus these people minused me for a couple of reasons. 1. they are idiots 2. they are too closed minded to admit buckethead rules and 3. they mistook my comment as an insult to this guy. all i said was that buckethead is more advanced and creative than this guy, and is better yngwie, and that is pure fact. btw your comment didn't appear in my inbox.

[smallz312]

hes fucking sick

[Fluffypopcicle]

nice, but buckethead can tap with all 8 fingers ON ONE STRING!!! he invented the technique too, it's called finger nubbing.

[Stride278]

i think your the nubb

[MF31101994]

FUCK YOU!!!!!

[fullofblood]

re man paizeis gamata...se ksekourdisti ki8ara???eleoos!

[ndrea232]

See Daniele Gottardo.

[3absi]

check out Chris Broderick for this shit haha but this is good :)

[blingvato]

i'm not a fan of tapping but, i would throw some in after finishing a riff and slow down the tempo

[DuhJeffmeister]

watch guthrie govan's licklibrary video on tapping. he has a good philosophy.

[sputnik163]

SOOO BRUTAL!!!

[cornypoop123]

Out of tune it sounds like.

[thebeatles4664]

@cornypoop123 yoda?

[stevanstreet]

@cornypoop123 It's the scale he's using It sounds out but it's not

Penantonics sound a little of sometimes

[PabloDarioLi]

@cornypoop123 That's expected, he had to slightly bend the string in order to get greater sustain, when this technique is applied that slightly out of tune is something expected, when you play patterns like these really fast that out of tune is almost unperceptable.

[cornypoop123]

@PabloDarioLi

No. It's out of tune. Thats about it.

[09phillt]

@cornypoop123 intonation

[xD0NKEYx]

@cornypoop123

Yeah cause tuning really matters obviously SO when you're doing a technique video...

<_< ...

[heroofguitar322]

@cornypoop123 i dont think hes outta tune, hes probably just bending the strings a little too much wen hes tapping

[Blacksage959]

Nice. i have to work on my 8- finger tapping myself. Just like all of you other forum posters lol.

[jackson71728]

starting at 23-26 seconds it sounds like cowboys from hell..

[Thelambe123]

To: jackson71728,

Thats because the intro to Cowboy's From Hell is basically just the pentatonic scale (which is the same scale this guy is tapping), if he moved his fingers up to 12 and 15 (a E and G note) then he would be playing the intro. It's only a couple frets difference.

[torturer6067]

LOL at some comments. This is 4 finger tapping due to four fingers used on every string.

If we would count all the fingers involved in guitar playing than everything wed play would be 10 finger guitar playing.

:D

[gfunst]

Actually, this is 6 finger tapping, because he uses 2 fingers on his picking hand, and 4 fingers on his fretting hand, which means there are 6 fingers tapping, because he doesn't pick anything. The most we can ever use to tap on a guitar is 8, unless you somehow figure out how to use your thumb, and not all of your fingers are always involved in guitar playing. In acoustic and classical playing, it's normal to use some of the fingers on your picking hand, but rarely all of them.

[0MrRib0]

well one reason why people may not like this riff so well is because, you can play that by extending your right hand so it stretches over enough frets and by tapping with one finger.

example:

Rusty cooley style playing

[ibanezxiphos700]

this is 4 fingers isnt it?

[Yunghunt79]

at times but it's 6 altogether

[lidesnowi]

I can play that with one hand?

[sbosters]

At least he could have tuned his guitar!!

[JMACBIGMACJ]

Agreed

[stevanstreet]

@sbosters it's just the panantonic scale it sounds off but, it really isn't :)

[ComfortablyMuffin]

@sbosters  Overdrive combined with bad recording on his little camera.

[gouzman666]

@sbosters yeah... can you play as him at your tuned guitar??? if so plz just show me that...i wan to see the difference...

[sbosters]

@gouzman666

By saying that his guitar sounds out of tune, I didn't mean to say anything rude about his very impressive playing at all. In fact, 10 people liked my comment and another 20 people liked someone else's comment (cornypoop123) that also said that it sounded out of tune. Man, I think music is not about who is the better or faster player at all, there's so much more to it...we're all different, unique, and we're entitled to say something with this beautiful art form.

[GuitarBill13]

@sbosters he is a master of guitar,a real virtuoso...you think he may not have noticed if the guitar was out of tune??

[666ShahMat666]

@sbosters maybe its in Drop C or one of those crazy tunings

[stewpedashoe]

I studied it as carefully as possible -- as in, I just can't stand to waste another second watching this guy after seeing what was done to that poor Corvette...but it appears that he is only "tapping" with two fingers, and the other two are just moving up and down as his hand has to move. The pinky is curled up underneath -- and his middle finger is always right over the fret. It's 2 fingers, gents; and that poor Corvette has been RUINED.

[Sandemose]

Is it by accident you change key, or is it supposed to be like that? It sounds like you start in e-minor and end up somewere else...

[0MrRib0]

his guitars a little out of tune,

but i believe that its the same scale dude

[Sandemose]

Yeah, but I clearly hear a flat 5 at 0:23 which isnt played at slower speed. Fun stuff perhaps, but for me its useless. Best, Sandemose

[JoeSnakes]

Very good.

But only 2 finger tapping.

AND NO ONE CAN DO 6 FINGER TAPPING;

ONLY CHERNOBYL VICTIMS :-)

[snakeyjake666]

hahaha point

[SPEEDFREAK200008]

very wrong dude..the guitar player from night ranger..jeff watson = 8 finger tapping !!!!

[MetalXMind]

i think you don't get the point it is 6 finger tapping couse he is tapping with all five finger of the one hand and on finger of the other hand so 5+1=6

[JoeSnakes]

Errr no its not!

Its still only one finger thats doing the tapping right!?!?

Oh and by the way, he's only got 4 fingersd on the other hand, not 5!

[MetalguitarlessonsUK]

With this kind of lick you do add up the fingers on both hands, he is doing left hand tapping as well as right. So it is correct to call this six finger tapping, four fingers with his left hand, and two with his right. Hence if you go to a music college, or guitar center you will hear people talking a great deal about 8 finger tapping, it does not mean they have 8 fingers on their right hand, just that they are doing left and right hand tapping.

[JoeSnakes]

Why don't you just fuck off and die you cunting know it all!!!

I have been to music college thanks and what you've just said is utter shite!

BYE

[MetalguitarlessonsUK]

Uhuh sure you did.

[JoeSnakes]

I'd buy and sell ya son!

[MetalguitarlessonsUK]

Well that sounds appropriately paedophilic...

[parquar]

he obviously wasn't fretting with his left thumb lol at least you didn't mess up the math but it was 4+2 not 5+1 obviously

[staticxfrk]

hes tapping with his left hand to... cause if you look he doesnt use a pick so it basically is tapping, homo

[JoeSnakes]

no that's called a hammer-on.

You special person!

[micahwolfe08]

hammer-on's are when you hammer on a note with the regular playing fingers, he's tapping some of the notes with his other hand, hence the name finger tapping

[JoeSnakes]

I know my friend, you have missed some of the original argument.

But I know one thing it is definitely NOT 6 finge tapping. It is 4 finger tapping on the right followed by hammer-ons woth the left.

[ser9mail]

0:30

[guitaralbert0]

outta tune, man... but good!

[nemogre]

Oraia askhsh thodori! Isos na htheles na tsekareis ta video mou, h gnomh sou shmantikh

MIKE

[metallicas123]

is that a six, or seven string?

[ChefJeremy2001]

six string

[philippaps44]

exis vgali kanena cd na agoraso?

[rockstar28]

you only used 4 fingers....two left and two right...

[Aauzraam17]

look closer buddy, hes using 4 on his left

[Metalheadddddd]

Auta kai alla polla

[i8i7]

auta einai!

[slayer62804]

your good

[DjosueD]

that was fast :)