[Thumb Slap Guitar Tutorial] - Slapping Thumb Technique

In this video, I am going to show you how to add the thumb slap guitar technique to your playing.

The thumb slap provides a percussive element to your guitar playing that has your thumb slap the strings of the guitar on beats 2 and 4. This emulates the sound of a hight hat or snare drum, bringing an undeniable groove to the chords and progressions you play on guitar.

I will first show you how to work on the thumb slapping guitar technique in isolation so you can be sure to get this down first.

From here, I will show you how to integrate the thumb slap into a chord progression with picking and strumming chords on beats 1 and 3, and slapping your thumb of you picking hand down onto the strings on beats 2 and 4.

The result is a very cool groove that has a very percussive sound to it as you go about strumming and picking chords on your guitar.


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