“Exploding Solo” transcribed – update (1/2011)

To celebrate the 5 YEARS of Guitar Shred Show I’m giving you this present. I’ve recieved sooo many request to do the transcription to this solo during the past five years. This is the album version. The original Guitar Shred Show.com version is slightly different.

Anyways this solo is indeed a demanding one. Don’t try to master it all at once. I’d recommend practicing a bar or two at once. Starting very slowly and making sure everything gets clean and nice.  And after all the repeats finally speeding it up to fastfinger tempo. Hope you enjoy the two pages of terror techniques…

Zing Zing – The Tap

Here’s the tapping version of the same Zing Zing pre-chorus. Based on the same chord progression of C- Dm – Bb – F as the riff. On the song the riff changes into this tapping pattern on the second (and third) round.

Mr. Fastfinger – Zing Zing – The Tap

Licence to Tap

Here’s a nice little excercise for tapping. Came up with this lick during a guitar lesson I was giving. It has those hammer-ons from nowhere happening (you don’t always need to start now string with a tapped note). Found out it is a good excercise. Practice with a metronome. Begin with slow tempo. Pay attention to the flow of your notes. Make sure you got nice even rhythm going with the line. Later speed up the tempo just a little bit. Also try playing this one octave lower on 3rd and 4th strings.

Tapping with a Bird III

Here’s my ode for a bird and some ideas how to use the material from these “Bird” lessons in music. Grab your guitar, take a trip to a forest and enjoy the summer!

Mr. Fastfinger – Ode to a Bird

Tapping with a Bird II

Here’s more tapping ideas, inspired by a bird! Again we use the pick to tap the notes. Check out the previous “Bird” lesson first!

Tapping with a Bird I

I was walking in the forest when I heard a sound. It was a very percussive tapping tone of a woodpecker.