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Progressive Tapping Licks: Lessons and Tab for 75 Extreme Guitar Tapping Ideas | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean Marc Belkadi
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $9.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 323441
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 40
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 8.6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0634027603
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 073999957488
EAN: 9780634027604
ASIN: 0634027603
Publication Date: November 1, 2003
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Product Description
Tackle tapping one-on-one in this Private Lesson with MI instructor Jean Marc Belkadi! He covers: blues and classic tapping licks; scalar tapping licks; triads and arpeggios; advanced tapping licks; string skipping, multi-finger tapping, tapped bends, pedal points, open strings and other devices; and so much more. The book is in standard notation and tab, and the accompanying CD contains 75 demo tracks for listening. Each example is played at full tempo, and most are repeated at half speed.
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 Would not rebuy this book November 24, 2008
Normally I don't leave bad reviews on a book. However I was disappointed enough with this book that it warranted a bad review.
The Cons:
The book is paper thin. There isn't even an introduction to tapping and the style itself. A little more background and talk of the technique itself would be very useful.
If you don't know how to do some tapping already this book won't teach you. It assumes you know how to tap and can expand on what you know.
The Pros:
The CD is good quality
There are some progressive tapping licks in here that sound pretty hip.
Honestly if you know how to tap and want a book to give you some more ideas then it's probably worth the money. If however you are knew to tapping then I'd look else where.
 chock-full of great tapping licks October 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was thinking about dropping tapping from my practice routine because it seemed to be getting so stale and boring. I bought this book as a last-ditch efort to inspire my tapping---and that's exactly what this book did. The first chapter is those old run-of-the-mill Eddie Van Halen-esque licks which made me think about dropping tapping in the first place; but the next three chapters redeem this book, and are truly interesting and inspiring. Chapter 2 scalar tapping licks are extremely cool and versatile enough to be fit into many, many different playing situations and chord changes. Half the fun is transposing these licks to your favorite keys. Every mode of the major scale is covered, including the 7 chord which is sorely under-represented in most technique books. There're also a few licks using modes of the melodic minor scale. Most licks (with a few exceptions) are fairly short, but they cover a wide area of technique in terms of single-string, ascending, descending, string-skipping, etc., and are sure to give you a solid basis on which to form even more licks of your own. Chapter 3 is a very technically challenging one in the sense that it's difficult to keep notes from ringing out accidentally in many of the licks. I spend an hour each day with one or two of these licks at a time and even the most difficult of them will reward patience and diligence. Chapter 4 features the most insane tapping on offer. This is the stuff Jennifer Batten does. You'll be asked to use three fingers on the right hand in some of the licks, and there's plenty of really great chordal tapping. Again, there're plenty of licks to satisfy guitar players of very diverse styles, especially jazz, progressive metal and rock-type stuff(but a few licks even had a sort of country-twang to them---very cool!). It's amazing how good some of these chordal-tapping licks sound . For example, Belkadi offers an amazingly cool way to spice up familiar chord progressions with some chordal tapping stuff, and it truly inspires me to know that even the simplest things can have new life breathed into them if you know where to look. Again, this book will put some fire into your playing and hopefully inspire you to take these techniques into new areas. I know I'm going to be throwing a lot more tapping into my playing.
Finally, there's the CD included. Another reviewer commented on the poor guitar tone, and he's right. But the main thing is that the CD shows you how the licks are supposed to sound over a groove, and they show you that Belkadi can actually play these crazy licks at full speed, which is comforting to know.
 Guitar-Tapping Manual November 23, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tapping has been part of metal and rock guitarists arsenal of techniques since popularized by Eddie Van Halen. In this book, the tapping techniques presented go beyond that to include triad tapping, scalar tapping and advanced techniques similar to that used by players like Vai, Satriani,Greg Howe and Jennifer Batten. An excellent resource and reference.
Good, styles ranging from V.Halen to Jordan March 7, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Jean Marc presents some cliched triad lines to get you started in the first chapter, so the initial impression was that I wasted my money, but things start to get more interesting by the second chapter, some scale concepts, string skipping and the usual arpeggios are explored, some licks are tricky and difficult so it was cool to learn some new tricks, the ideas presented here have helped me get that fluidity going and come up with new stuff as well, some of the ideas work great using legato instead of tapping too, so I tried lots of the ideas here using simple hammer ons and pull offs with the left hand, the stretches helped my technique too so I ended up liking this book, most of the ideas presented are short so if you're looking for long licks look elsewhere, there are some cool satriani type chord tapping ideas and Jean Marc comes up with some interesting applications of this technique ...
On the downside most of the tracks sound awful, I'm aware it's not a production showcase but more careful engineering and production would result in more inspiring material, in a couple of tracks the guitar sound is just plain horrible, i'm not asking for super pro production, dude just buy a POD, use some plug ins, get a decent sound and call it a day, we'll appreciate it ... oh and fire yor engineer, he's terrible !
note to begineers : this book won't baby sit you thru the material, it starts easy but it picks up quickly with almost zero explanations and no photographs, you get the idea, it's more of a "play me if you can" affair, I'm an experienced player so that didn't bother me at all, if you get past that I think you'll welcome the challenge and benefit from this book, I'd like to add that this book is not the tapping holy grail, as some people expect too much from such books, go thru the licks, learn them, assimilate them, and then expand on them by applying them in different ways scales and keys to develop your own ideas, 3 and a 1/2 stars
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