Bass Tapping Lesson - Complete technique guide and two full riffs in the Style of Vai / Sheehan 

Rudimentary and very basic yes. I’ve been playing 30 yrs and sometimes it’s good to visit the fundamentals. Nice to be reminded of what I’ve forgotten over the years 😂.

ive been playing guitar for 2 years and recently made the decision to switch to bass and tapping was a real hard thing to translate to the thicker strings. thanks for this video it really helped!

Awesome lesson! I really appreciate you starting out with the basics. Im new to tapping, but ive been messing around and doing some of the techniques you show. I just never knew exactly what i was doing. Thanks for everything man. Informative as always! Time to practice.

Rodney , many many thanks for your tutorial , ive been playing in a Sabbath/ Die show here in Sydney Australia for the last 5 years , but have never experimented with tapping until now ....ive been glued to the screen and my bass for the last two evenings ....and I'm finally wrapping my fingers and head around it ..... Many thanks....Cheers Joihn

Thank you! Definitely gonna use this as an exercise and try to incorporate that descending lick into my playing

Great video. I've been looking for good videos on this and I think you nailed it. I'll be watching repeatedly.

A great big thanks. I added some of these lines coming out of the intro to The Trooper and it left some friends jaw dropped. Been learning a lot here. Keep on keeping on

Thanks Rodney a great lesson learned so much! Explained it in a way that makes sense.

I love these instructional videos!

Thanks! This is clear, pedagogical and stimulating. I started to play again less than two months ago, after stopping to play for more than 17 years. I would like to start to learn tapping and this really helps a lot 👍

As a learner, following your teaching feels intuitive. Great lesson.

Excelente! Irá contribuir bastante nos estudos! Obrigado.

Awsome tap lesson ive been struggling with my tap but this has definitely helped. Keep up the good work sir 👍

Awesome tutorial, Rodney! Many thanks for this; you are a natural instructor. I love your coverage of the basic theory behind the method versus just diving into a bunch of tapping... This is the missing link in so many instructional videos. What I'd love to see as a follow-on would be a tutorial with five or six additional licks to build a reasonable inventory and also to develop proficiency with a variety of experiences. BTW, based upon your recommendation, I just acquired a Schecter SLS Elite 4 Blackfade for my collection. Super nice axe! Thanks again, brother.

Didn’t really understand how to tap well before this video. Just trying random things on my own sounded terrible, as I probably should have expected. Watched some videos by Stuart Hamm, who is great, but still felt like I wasn’t quite getting there. Just 8 minutes into this video and I already felt like I was on my way to turning this into a usable skill. Thanks, Rodney!

Rodney I just love the way you teach you are so awesome~!

Awesome. Love the videos

Dude, this is awesome!,.. So happy to see how far you have come!

1:55 some good moves uesefull in... other areas...

That's so cool. I'm gonna work on this.

So Cool!

Understandable even for non native english like me....thank you

'elephant talk', by king Crimson, tony levin a marvel in tapping amongst other techiniques

Awesome! 👏👏👏

Wow very very helpful

Excellent video, now I gotta pick my bas back up, I just put it down lol

This is so cool. Thank you so much!!

Thanks a lot ❤❤❤😊

I saw a video on Billy Sheehan’s tapping technique. He actually puts the tip of his middle finger on top of the tip of his index finger for more support.

Nice vid! Thx:)

Just stumbled upon you, great site! I have yet to sit down with the bass and try this lesson (and I will!), but was wondering about theory on which notes we can use in a tapping pattern. *Do you follow scales?* That is, do you use certain notes/intervals, when making up riffs or is it all pretty much trial & error, by ear kind of stuff? I'm imagining that your followers don't want to hear a lot of music theory, but I'm hoping that there are at least a few of us out here who would enjoy knowing more about the underlying theory of tapping pattern construction. Again, I'm asking about *note selection when putting lines & riffs together.* Thanks!

Late to the party. Awesome video lesson.

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Good tutorial as always rodney, another question is do you ever use DR black beauties? I feel like they would sound great on that bass

cool

very good lesson

Nice lesson! Do you have any advice on piano style two handed tapping? I'm struggling with patterns when I have to use all of my fingers on my right hand not just the 1st and the 2nd. Even if I try to have my hand as perpendicular to the fretboard as possible I often miss notes due having the frets covered my 3rd / 4th fingers.

I tap like a pissed off stenographer 🤘👁️🖤🔥

What amp manufacturer do you use?

I see im late to the party on this one but should you have a pretty low action to help make it easier

Tap that finger board like a mafia phone line.

It was really....upto the description given..... zero to shredding

Im struggling with 3 finger tapping. Any advice?

anyone have a full version of the intro?

Just out of curiosity how long would you say it takes a rusty bass player to get the hang of this

First!!!! lol