Play Guitar How To: Guitar Tap or Guitar Pick?

Somewhere I read about how you catch a monkey.

You hollow out a gourd and drill two holes in it. Use one of the holes, with a rope, to fasten the gourd loosely to a tree.

The other hole is just barely big enough for a monkey to stick its hand inside.

Inside the gourd you put some candy.

HOW YOU CATCH YOUR MONKEY

The monkey comes along, and he wants the candy, so he reaches in and grabs it.

Only now, his fist won't come back out of the hole in the gourd. He's so stubborn he won't let go of the candy, and so it's as if he's now been tied to the tree.

He's only stuck there because he won't let go.

But he won't let go.

HE'S STUCK

There he is. Can't move forward. Stuck.

Now, maybe this is a change of subject -- or maybe not -- but ... have you ever wanted to play music? Have you ever wanted to play the guitar?

Have you ever tried, and you felt stuck? You knew something about it, but not enough, and you couldn't move forward? You were stuck.

Or maybe you wanted to learn, but you didn't know how to move forward. You were stuck.

How would it be if there was a way to learn guitar fairly easily, and make good progress, and be enjoying playing music and your friends thinking it was just as cool as you do?

How would it be if there was a way to do that-

No, wait. How would it be if there were TWO different ways you could go about it ... and win?

THERE IS A WAY TO LEARN QUICKLY. OOPS! TWO WAYS!

Well, you're in luck. Because I've uncovered two completely different paths. And both of them will have you having more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Both of them will have you playing music.

Quick, Fast, and In a Hurry.

STILL GOT TO PRACTICE ... BUT IT CAN BE FUN

Of course, you will have to practice. Just like shooting hoops, or writing good paragraphs in English class, there is no substitute for practice. But, with the right method, practicing can be fun.

With the right method, what practicing means is just ... playing music. Would you like that?

Bet you would.

PATH #1 - LEARN TO PICK

Don't stumble around trying to figure it out. Most of us either fail, or sooner or later (because we don't know better) we wander down some unknown path, and become lost.

You can always get a teacher. That's a good path, assuming that you can find a good teacher, and keep it up.

Or ... find the most time-tested, proven fast-learning method from the hundreds that are available.

FAST LEARNING TO PLAY GUITAR WITH A PICK

I would recommend the Jamorama Guitar Method. Thousands and thousands of people have learned to play guitar with the Jamorama method, because it's designed to be a very complete and easy to follow guitar learning system. He gives you step by step video instructions that show you the secrets of how to play the guitar in great detail.

This is not some "Play Guitar for Dummies" course. It's quite a focussed and intelligent approach. And these videos really work.

They take you from being an absolute beginner right through to playing some of the most advanced guitar techniques around. If you want to play the guitar, Jamorama is great.

Now, if you already play, and you like blues, I'd also recommend 50 BLUES, because playing blues is really, really fun. But it's way funner when you play with others, and the best practice is playing with real blues tracks. Get your timing and your licks down, and develop the confidence that makes it all the more fun.

If you're already a playing musician, and you want to expand another area, to suddenly hear new things, to hear new melodies, to be able to better hear where you are and where the changes are going, well, that's simple. Learn the Pure Pitch method. Thousands can do it. You can too.

But now, let's consider something radical. Let's consider something completely different. A completely different way to play music, that provides surprisingly fast learning, great music, and a whole lot of fun ...

PATH #2 - LEARN TO TAP

The guitar is the most popular instrument in the world, it seems. In the USA, for every six homes, one has a guitar, and hopefully a guitar player.

It's portable, sounds good, affordable, and we like guitars. The only problem is ... the guitar was tuned in a peculiar way by Spaniards seven hundred years ago. Their guitars didn't have much sustain and they didn't have amplifiers.

THOSE DARN SPANIARDS

To get a full sound, they learned to thump on the guitars -- Flamenco music! -- and they did lots and lots and lots and lots of strumming all six strings. Just to get a full sound.

And to make the six strings sound in the same key, they made the second smallest string tuned a little different from the way the others are tuned. Now this is swell for strumming and strumming.

But now, every time you learn a scale, you have to learn it three different ways. Did you know a scale has a regular and repeating shape?

But as the scale notes are played on that one string, these scale notes have to be shifted. And on the highest string they have to be shifted as well.

So instead of just learning one simple shape to play a scale, you have to learn three different varieties of the scale to allow for the scale notes to travel across this one string, tuned funny by Spaniards, and we're still tuning the same way!

BUT ... TIMES HAVE CHANGED

Nowadays ... we have guitars with good sustain. We have amplifiers. We don't need to tune the guitars funny any more.

In fact, these days we don't even need to strum. We don't even need to pick the notes. With the right set up, you can just TOUCH the string to the fret and the note will sound.

And in fact, that will let us play with both hands at the same time.

Now probably it may seem like it would be more complicated to play with both hands playing notes at the same time. But stop and think.

Aunt Martha can do it on the piano. You can do it on the guitar. In fact, with the right method, it's actually easier to learn than piano. In fact it's easier to learn than regular guitar.

FASTER TO LEARN THAN PIANO OR REGULAR GUITAR?

When you learn your scale, you only learn it one time, not three times. Without using the old Spaniards tuning, the scale is one simple, repeating pattern.

When you learn to play chords, you can learn one set of chords, not hundreds. By abandoning the old Spaniards tuning, you learn one set of repeating shapes, not hundreds.

Most people don't ever stop to think about it, but when you play a guitar, you have to use both hands. One to pick, and one to hold the string to a fret.

And the two hands are doing completely separate things.

PATTING YOUR HEAD. RUBBING YOUR TUMMY

As a young child probably some grown-up one day told you to pat your head and rub your tummy. It's not easy to do, is it?

We're grown up now. But it's still not easy to pat the head and rub the tummy.

Because a human just isn't built to operate that way.

THE EASY WAY TO LEARN TO PLAY

What if you could play music in a way where both hands were operated just the same way. Your left hand or your right hand could create notes just the same way? And it was clear and simple?

Would that be wonderful?

This is the revolution of the two-handed tapping method of playing guitar.

And to make this more powerful -- and much, much easier to do -- you don't use the old Spaniards tuning and you don't use a normal guitar.

Instead you get a special guitar that has a separate set of strings for each hand.

Now each hand can operate separately without interference, and learning can take place at a surprisingly rapid rate.

There's lots of excitement and lots to learn about Two-Handed Tapping on a specialty instrument. You could do this on the Chapman Stick, but they do use an odd tuning that requires you to use your two hands differently. The same old Spaniard problem in a new suit. However, using the right two-handed tapping method allows both hands to operate the same way.

With the right method, learning to play quickly becomes as easy as tapping on your head and tapping on your tummy.

Except, gee, it's kind of more fun!

Here is a two-handed tapping demonstration video that shows how simple it can be to begin playing music now, fast, quick, and in a hurry ... with the right method.

MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO? MONKEY THINK DIFFERENT!

It's a radical idea. Because it's not the same way the old Spaniards did it. It's not the way we've been thinking about it. A new way to think ... provides a new way to play music ...

Of course, like that monkey, to even *think* about this new fast and easy method ... you have to let go of the old thoughts.

And when you do, you'll move forward fast.

Does that sound like a fun new way to play music?

It does?

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Click here to examine two-handed tapping guitars and two-handed tapping instrument pricing, and think.

Think about how it will feel, holding it in your hands, listening to it sing beneath your touch.

Are you ready to play music?

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"The music floats into the air ... and it cannot return." -- John Coltrane

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