Sweeping/Tapping exercise
 

The following excercise uses some very familiar and easy shapes to allow some 
scarily fast shredding. I actually think that the first three bars could be very instructional to a begginer since they cover a lot of fretboard in familar shapes (mainly root position triads on the lower 3 strings and 2md inversion triads on the higher strings). The upstroken bits are easiest and can be played up to 16 notes a second or so but to play the whole thing smoothly is much more difficult and requires much slower practice. Don't worry if this takes some learning, it took me a while to learn and now it's easier. The final bar is a mother, I can't get all the notes cleanly yet but it's got the potential for some horrific speed - the tapping necesitates that you put your plectrum down and use your right hand thumb nail for the sweep "picking" - I use the back of my thumb nail at a pretty shallow angle to do this. All the "1 string" work is played with tapping/hammering on/pulling off. If anyone gets it cracked and can record sound files I'd be interested to hear it so send it to u10ajf@abdn.ac.uk and I'll we'll see if we can get it posted! 


Key = C major


  E |-1---------------------3-5---------|--------7-8-----------------10--------|
  B |---3-----------------5-----6-------|-------8---10-------------12-----------|
  G |-----2-------------4---------5-----|-----7-------9----------10------------|
  D |-------0---------2-------------3---|----5---------7--------8-------------|
  A |---------2-----3----------------5--|--7------------8-----10----------------|
  E |-----------3-5--------------------7|8---------------10-12------------------|

 
        E   
  E |-12----------7----------------|7-8-9t12t13t15t13t12-9-8-7---------------|
  B |---14-------------8-----------|--------------------------8--------------|
  G |-----13-------------9---------|---------------------------9-------------|
  D |-------12-------------7-------|----------------------------7------------|
  A |---------14-------------8-----|-----------------------------8-----------|
  E|-----------15-------------10---|------------------------------10-7-rt3-0-|