Trying to learn Tapping and failing quickly

**MaltarDraco** · Joined: 11 Jun 2013 Posts: 19

Okay, I only have Guitar Hero 3 and I am currently unable to complete the game on hard because One!

Turns out it requires a technique I thought was completely exclusive to expert difficulty, Tapping!

I've seen a number of tappable sections when using practice mode in expert difficulty at full speed and out of all of these, Monsters - Bridge 3 Blah Blah Blah appears to be easiest.

So I started on that on the slowest speed.

I think it goes something like this.

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Number format as follows: 1 = forefinger to 4 = pinky finger, black is fret hand, red is strum hand and from left to right is green to orange.

My first strategy was 12123 but that was too confusing, the way it used both of my hands for tapping and only one from the left and my brain simply wouldn't make my cursing finger come off the

when it was time for the

.

So naturally I went for 11234 and this got me the furthest but I couldn't hit the

with my pinky, the position of the strumming hand at frets is too unnatural for me to get this to work with all four fingers, only three.

And lastly I tried 11123 and this makes a lot of sense because of the way I usually play a lot of sections on hard and expert is 11234 because the forefinger is by far the fastest finger. But when it came to the

, I found that I just couldn't do that.

And yes, I have read a lot of the tutorials on this but I simply can't get my fingering right.

**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA

For a section like the one in Monsters, you really only need one tapping finger. So simply anchor the lower note (Red, then Green, etc.) and tap with either (1) or (2) the higher note. (2) is more comfortable for me, personally. Just keep tapping the high note, shifting as the notes change. It may take some getting used to but it's way easier than keeping your fingers at 1(1234) or 12(123). Those kinds of fingerings are for much more complex sections, such as TTFAF intro.

Speaking of which, why do you need tapping for One on hard? Are you trying to pass it, 5* it, or FC it? Because you only might need tapping for the FC, and even that is not completely necessary.
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**ArmourTheLlama** · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 501 Location: Surrey, England

If you're trying just to PASS it, tapping is not at all necessary! But tapping is fun to do so it is worth learning regardless ;) don't assign a finger to each fret, that's actually overcomplicating it - do as alex says, anchor lower note with left hand, tap higher with right, as simple as that

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**MaltarDraco** · Joined: 11 Jun 2013 Posts: 19

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**ihatebarracuda** · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 470 Location: Yakima, WA

Also, on GH3, you can tap faster than the section really is without breaking combo. Just spam the higher note as fast as you can without tensing up or getting sore.

For that section, I would play all the greens and reds with 1, always anchoring. And then I would play all the yellows, blues, and oranges with 2, just spamming. Except at the very end for the

I would anchor the yellow with 3 and spam blue with 2.
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