THUMPING Tutorial! 3 LEVELS (Examples with TAB!) 

The tab has been added in the description for anyone that has been asking. Be sure to get it FREE before May 31st, as it will only be available through direct purchase on my website beyond that (along with other tabs and instructional content). Thanks so much to everyone that has been watching and supporting the channel, I appreciate you all. ❤️

Watching this while I'm not home is a mistake. The inspiration is flowing right now and I just wanna get home to grab my guitar 😆 I stopped practicing thumping awhile ago but this makes me really want to sharpen my skills. Thanks Gabriel ❤️

I wanted to learn thumping for a long time now, I watched a ton of videos on it, but this one was the best by far. Including Tosin's tutorials.

Definitely deserves more views, I'm sure the guitar community would absolutely love this

Incredible video, especially the part towards the end for compound time!

Thanks for that wonderful and inspiring tutorial. 👍🏼

Great tutorial!!

Great video! Thanks for sharing this! All the best and godspeed!

When I heard the AAL I was like wooooooow that makes it so much simpler

Best video on thumping! Thank you!

It's amazing this content is free. Awesome video Gabriel, keep up!

Out of every video I watched, this helped me the most. I couldn't figure out how to thump after countless hours, countless number of days, of messing around with the strings, and finally it happened because of this video. I almost lost hope and thought thumping was some superhuman ability some people were born with, but I was wrong. Anybody can actually do it, it just takes time, effort, and analyzing.

Fantastic tutorial for breaking writers block and approaching this technique! You worked with just a scale, but showed us how many new doors get opened up by this technique with each level of added complexity. Really well laid out presentation and super inspiring how many musical expressions/articulations this provides like holy cow

Awesome vid, found the excercises really helpful, not many thump videos show how you should progress and what you should really be aiming all in a musical context. Thanks

Thanks man, you're amazing! 😊

Finally I learned thumping! the best lesson. you explained and very simple!

Nice video! I'm trying to learn this technic and your videos are very helpful. I really love how it sounds. Greetings from Chile.

This is extremely generous video! Thank you so much! 🙏

You just gave your all secrets, this video is more than anyone seeking…may you receive all the happiness of the world.. Thank you Gabriel, you are the real master..!!! Cheers!! 👍👏

That is such a great tutorial! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this! Guess I need a Rick Toone guitar now lmao! Seriously dude the clarity you have shown in this video has helped so much already!

This has already helped inspire my playing quite a bit, you laid out great ways to practice this in an easy way to understand. I subbed and checked out your music, and it’s fantastic.

This is probably the best and most comprehensive guitar lesson video that I’ve ever seen, plus all of your original pieces you used for exercises are so good.

This is by far the most practical and detailed video explaining how to use thump and how to learn it since I've learned about Tosin and his AAL stuff and keep on trying to make it a skillset of mine. This deserves way more views and appreciation. Even though I still have a question. How do I confirm the firmness of my sound? Even though hitting the string with excess strength I can't get a tone much different from simply fingerpicking. I wonder if there is a certain movement or placement of my thumb needed to get that percussive feeling sound despite touching the string below the one I'm thumping.

Solid video, really helps with showing how to apply the technique. My only suggestion is to maybe also include some information about hand placement and the mechanics of the thump itself. I spent so much time struggling with this technique because my right hand wasn't placed properly and it was forcing me to use more wrist than necessary. Great content.

Dude thank you so much for this. This is the best tutorial ive seen for this!

I do love the fact that I can apply this to bass. I have been doing it for about a year now and I am still learning so much about it

Enlightening lesson, thank you kindly !

sounds great and awesome tutorial. thank you!

Excellent presentation. Instant sub great work and thanks for the pointers.

Wow thank you for this lesson!

Why haven't I come across you before? So amazing and generous. I am currently more into classical and flamenco music - but this is going to be so useful (eg. combining with alzapua technique)

Fantastic video, thanks man

I was only thinking of this and YT algo just recommended this video. I have tried to learn in from Tosin's demo but I think the lessons in this vid can gradually teach some discipline properly. Thank you again! :) subbed!

This is great value content. Nice job !!

Thnk you man Your video is really helpful thanks to you, I will practice everyday this one in addition to my usual exercices that I'm already working on ! You're explaining also clearly and slowly so that's great :) thanks encore from France

dude this is awesome thank you so much!!

Just the video I needed. I figured out the double thumb technique on my own a few months ago completely on accident. I’ve heard it used a few times but I never realized how it was done. I’ve been practicing it hard for about 6 months now and it is hands down the fastest way you can play by far. And when you get good enough it’s almost effortless. It’s like rolling down a steep hill in a barrel lol. If you do it just right it’s like you are flying.

super good instructional video!

Incredible lesson! Subscribed. 👍

Criminally underrated channel. I genuinely hope you continue to make content. Ill now take a moment to pray to the algorithm lords above and below us with hope for your channels continuation.

Fantastic explanation! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

That exercise with focising on the upstroke seems to help a lot.

Thanks for the tutorial! this helped alot, Clear explanation and great exercise ideas, I have a sore thumb but worth it 🎸

This is possibly the nicest step by step thumping technique explanation for me.

You're an amazing teacher I've ever saw.

Awesome🔥

Just got back into guitar seriously after injuries stopped me from pursuing MMA. Thank you for a good way to get thumping down :)

Love this thank you

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this amazing tutorial it's really very inspiring and full of enthusiasm It would be great to see more tutorials from a nice and creative teacher like you, again many thanks

Instant new subscriber! Quality teaching right there!!

Big Bro thank you for this lesson .

Just found this channel. 1.) Great stuff 2.) pretty amazing to see all these Rick Toone guitars in one place

Thank you Gabriel for this amazing tutorial.😀 As a fan of Tosin, i'm thankful for RU-vid algorithm for showing this vid of yours. It's hard but will take your advice to take "slow" Cheers! SUBSCRIBED!👍💯

This was explained really well. Ik not great at it yet but I wasn’t confused about anything.

Man you are best🙏🔥 and i want to learn about Thumping Tone too. sometimes i feel like I'm confused about Tone.

amaizin!!!! awsome!!! please part 2!

awesome man!

Ty I was watching guitar player using their thumb and not sure what the hell was going on. The history made since also. ❤

Incredible teaching and clear communication. Best video I've seen on this.

I found something finally useful, thanks man for the video so many guitarist can learn, I am happy that I am going to learn after 2 years not able to learn this technique.

Your the best bro!

I instantly bought the tab. Chapeau!

golden!

this looks fun as hell!

Thank you for making me come to the realization that I need to be incorporating different scales when practicing mechanics instead of practicing the same excersises over and over.

Very helpful! Found you in the horizon device group. Subbed!

Best video on the topic that can be found online, this is the thumping bible.

Bro this is gold! Thank you! 🥹

thanks I'm practicing this skill lately, for some reason your angle is better than Tosin Abashi and Tim Hanson's video angles. At least for showing the thumb joint part.

i was just by the ocean at night, under the stars and i was listening to an infinite regression and just said i need to learn this technique I've been dreaming of doing it for so long, now I have so much to try on my guitar tomorrow morning thanks a lot for the great video and joining me on the bench I'm sitting on :>

Hey! thanks for share all of this! Your tone is pretty sick too. Any tips to get a better tone on thumping technique? Greetings from Brazil

Very cool.. looks easy when you do it, but it is actually very hard to learn this. Thanks man

Looking forward to your new music!

Thank you for going into the history. Cool addition a lot of how to videos skip over

Can't wait to combine this with selective picking and other techniques

aye nice thumping bro

Dude you should upload more, you're an excellent teacher and obviously write cool songs

THANK YOUR YOYO

I learn this technique from tim Henson it’s probably one of the best techniques out there and not to show of or anything but it clicked with me almost immediately

so great. want to give a millions likes

You are a life changing person 😅

Damn even the exercises sounds badass 😂

Here. Take my sub. I've finally found the chosen one who actually can explain thumping in human terms.

Hi Gabriel - I've been using your content to get inspired and learn some new techniques, so first of all thank you! I'm gaining some comfortability with selective picking and the options that it opens up, and want to get into thumping in this style as well so I can ultimately use both very comfortably. My question is - I have never been one to keep long nails - do I need nails on any of my right hand fingers to get that comfort with the thumping technique? Then a follow up question - if nails aren't needed, do I just need to put in the time to build up calluses bc my office work hands are soft and esp my thumb have been blistering up practicing thumping. Thanks and keep up the great content!

can you make a video about dialing in a good thumping tone like Tosin on axe fx3?

On the upstroke is it normal for your nail to graze the string, because when I do it my grazes the string and shreds some of my nail skin lol can someone tell me if this is normal or should I use the part of my thumb that bends instead of hitting my nail on the upstroke

Yes.

Just something you could add as far as explaining the initial thumb through and up is to relate that to a pick. Technically you should be able to do anything you can do with a pick with your thumb.

This makes my right hand feel like it's never played guitar before.

I came here to learn different kind of thumbing but this video ia so good that I bought 8-string guitar and I have a new hobby now. 😄

Thank you! Do you have tabs? Also, I think it’s great that you addressed timing. It’s a tough subject to tackle. At least for me

Awesome Tutorial - thank you SO much. There is one question though: do you need a special length for the nail of your thumb? Like a pic of your thumb would help a lot - cant really see it from that angle. Keep it up, your vid about thumping is the best on the net (and i have tosins course as well)

Great video! Thanks. You have cool sound here, would you share the preset you used? :)

The example you play at 10:41 is absolutely stunning. What song is it?

I bought the thump course. Yet, i still found your video not just useful, but also so creatively inspiring. Excellent!

best explanation so far on this technique. I have just started exercising. One question, how long would it take to "master" it with an average daily practice?

This is a weird question but do you guys reckon it is possible to learn this even if i have a clubbed thumb? lol. My thumb feels like its the wrong shape to achieve the upstroke, the string keeps rubbing against the nail

Interesting bit of info, this goes back way before Reggie and Victor. It's actually called alzapua in flamenco guitar, look it up on RU-vid 👍🏻

View to like ratio is through he roof!!