12-Week Shred Guitar Mastery

Shred Routine: Week 11

Tapping

Back in Week 1, we explored two tapping patterns on a single string. This week, we’ll expand with two more single-string patterns, and then apply tapping across all six strings.

Examples 1–5 (20 minutes)

Let’s get into it:

1. One-String Tapping Patterns

We will practice these patterns on all strings later.
Ex 1–5 (20 minutes)

2. Here’s one of the pentatonic scale patterns we learnt in Week 1 (Pattern 1), but now we will play it on all strings.

3.This is Pattern 2 on all strings.

4. Here’s a nice descending diatonic idea based on Pattern 3. This is the full version using all 6 strings.

5. Here’s Pattern 4 across all strings.

Tapping Arpeggios

Alright, so now let’s play some more advanced stuff. A cool way to play arpeggios is with tapping. They will sound much more clear than with sweep picking—almost like a lead keyboard sound.

The hard part with this kind of playing is the first note of each string. We won’t pick any notes, so we need to hammer-on that first note to make it sound loud enough. That technique is commonly called a “Hammer-on from nowhere”.

Let’s go through 4 different types of arpeggios with 7ths: Minor, Major, Dominant, and Diminished.

Ex 6–15 (40 minutes)

6. Here’s the Em7 arpeggio:

7. Here’s the Emaj7 arpeggio:

8. Here’s the E7 arpeggio:

9. Here’s the E diminished (Eº) arpeggio:

These next ones are arpeggios with some extended notes.

10. Here’s an E minor 11th arpeggio (Em11):

11. Now let’s add the 6th to E minor:

12. Here’s an E major 9th add 6th (Emaj9add6):

13. Here’s an E dominant 7th flat 9 arpeggio (E7b9):

14. Here’s another dominant chord variation: E7b9b5

15. This is the last example—another altered dominant 7th: E7b13b9

See you next week!

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