Legato & Tapping Rock Guitar Etudes: Master Fluid Legato & Tapping Techniques for Faster, More Dynamic Guitar Solos (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781789334586)

Master Effortless Speed and Precision on Guitar with Legato and Tapping Techniques

Struggling with inaccurate legato timing or messy note placement?

Do your guitar solos lack fluidity and expressiveness?

Are you frustrated by unwanted string noise when playing with distortion?

Legato & Tapping Rock Guitar Etudes is the definitive guide to mastering smooth, high-speed legato and tapping techniques, and quickly teaches you the art of fast, articulate, yet expressive rock guitar playing.

Authored by renowned guitarist and educator Shaun Baxter, this book delivers a step-by-step approach to developing flawless legato, combining them with advanced right- and left-hand tapping to build seamless, fluid guitar technique.

In Legato & Tapping Rock Guitar Etudes, you'll unlock the full potential of your fretting hand, improving your speed and precision by learning nine bespoke musical pieces.

Each exciting etude focuses on a different challenge of legato and is supported by targeted exercises and detailed breakdowns that are designed to systematically build your technique.

For intermediate guitarists looking to develop and finesse their legato playing, this method goes beyond basics and teaches you to integrate advanced legato and tapping into every aspect of your playing.

You'll master:

Left-Hand Strength and Control Develop clean, articulate legato lines with minimal effort from the picking hand.

Right- and Left-Hand Tapping Combine both hands for fast, flowing solos while maintaining articulation and timing.

Damping Techniques for Clean Playing Learn essential methods to eliminate unwanted string noise when playing with distortion.

Rhythmic Precision and Mixed Note-Groupings Improve timing with advanced odd-note groupings like quintuplets and septuplets, adding rhythmic complexity to your solos.

Combining Legato with Economy Picking Maximize your efficiency and fluidity by strategically blending picking and legato for seamless transitions between notes.

You'll also perfect a whole range of musical skills, such as palm-muted left-hand tapping, lateral motion, circular patterns, odd note-groupings, string skipping, adding right-hand taps to bends and much, much more...

Learn Nine Legato Etudes That Go Beyond Boring Exercises

This book doesn't just teach technique-it breaks down nine complete musical etudes that allow you to master legato and tapping techniques in actual musical scenarios. Each etude is designed to blend technical study with musicality, helping you to quickly integrate everything you've learned into your own playing.