Guitar Lesson 1: Percussive Slaps

Here's a short lesson to get what will hopefully be a series started. This lesson talks about the basic technique required to play percussive slaps on acoustic guitar (and sometimes electric) common in many styles of music. You can leave any questions below by commenting and I will try my best to answer them. If you guys like this one, then let me know and I'll make some more. Thanks for watching and remember to subscribe!

Edit: Upon listening to Stop This Train again, he's actually doing the slapping on the offbeats, not on 1 & 3. I actually can't think of a song off the top of my head that has slapping accents on 1&3 at the moment. My apologies for the confusion.

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Music

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• acoustic
• guitar
• lesson
• chords
• rhythm
• slap
• percussive
• john
• mayer
• eric
• clapton
• simple

[geysergaeshi]

what are the two songs played at the end?

[EShinMusic]

@geysergaeshi One of them is Why Georgia by Mayer and the other is just random stuff that I made up on the spot to show the technique

[kyufleck]

this helped a lot thank youu :D

[stevelovesguitars]

"with percussion it sounds like this" - play the chord progression with hammer ons and pull offs to make it sound better^^

[MrBeach360]

i think that was a little more than a few slaps but ill give r a go

[dillonfrye]

bad ass man.....:))

[emptylove]

pro!

i wish i had the self motivation to try to learn ;[

ilu tho! awesome vid

[lyanneshelladope]

So... beautiful :')

[murda1991]

those little finese movements with the hammer ons pull offs and stuff on each of those chords are awesome im going to learn all of them right now

[freshasalwayz]

OO snap, i think im really going to enjoy this series.