I know this is a ten year old video but I've got to give you props for not only showing us the tapping but saying it's hard as hell. It's hard enough to make someone throw their guitar down like Steve Vai after the karate kid schooled him
Thanks much for the lesson. Very easy to understand under your word. I've always been amazed by these tricks of Buckethead's. Now I can practice on them! Thanks again. Regards.
To make it sound more evil Buckethead plays each of those tapped notes 3 whole tones apart. For example, on each string tap 12p6-11p5-10p4 (Sorry I don't really use tabs lol I try to play stuff by ear...)
Cheers for the Bucket Tapping mate. Much appreciated. You got some natural talent there in both Axe tapping & Flipping your Sk8board. Keep the guitar vids coming man!
@dydziooo all the notes are a semi-tone apart from each other. They don't follow any particular scale, you can pretty much use any notes on your fretboard. This isn't the best way to explain it, and I'll probably get flamed for it, but this is the easiest way to understand it.
Hi Retro, thanks very much for this video.,,,U explain it and show the tapping technique really well for someone who learns really slow like me :) lol As for recycling patterns etc..the best players USE it all the time...repeatedly. Coltrane is one of them.
@dannyhood66 well i had the guitar set up for drop C cuz all i really play with my 6 string is metalcore or progressive melodic metal type shit... for a while i went through a Buckethead stage and learned all the techniques i could from his playing, where i might have tuned up to D standard. but this video was posted like half a year ago almost, and i cant quite remember now..
I typically use thicker strings because I never tune above D standard, and usually stay in Drop B. But even with that being said, you should be-able to play this loudly regardless of your string's gauge.
wow thanks!!! i love buckethead and this videogame sound he makes with the tapping just blows me away, but it blows by so fast i couldn't figure out that it was a chromatic figure! yay! now it seems accessible!
I use my right hand sometimes for tapping, but only my index finger haha, my ring finger already has a blister! x.x great video thanks so much I love this riff type thingy that he does and have needed to learn it!
@dannyhood66 Yea. Buckethead plays half a step down from standard tho (Eb)... so technically im in the wrong tuning to play buckethead stuffs. But ohwellll
please tell me how u dont touch the other strings/not allow it to make noise! that is my main problem with guitar and its blocking me fromwhat i can do
@retrowheels Do you use light gauge strings? Reason i ask is because your other bucket lick video your playing his sweep pick tapping with pinkie lick..Which is harder to play i think than this six million dollar bionic man computer going nuts riff..What chord inversions do you use for that sweep? If you don't for sure its cool, but i could not tell if was major or minor chord sweep?
@dannyhood66 i use heavy guage strings for lower tunings. the sweeping lick is infinitely harder to do that any of the stuff in this video. probably the hardest technique he does. for that video i used a minor sweep pattern because its what im most confortable with. Buckethead usually uses a major sweep pattern and then taps in an augmented/whole tone scale
@retrowheels Wow you really are tuned to drop C tuning? Or C# sharp, I'll just take your word for it,.When i seen your video yesterday i didn't check my guitar to see where you were at on the tuning..And i didn't think you were tuned that low.
@maximilianC9 thanks! it may be in that song. but the particular one i did i think was from jowls... buckethead recycles a shit tone of patterns in all his songs and solos
lmao @ the ending... he slammed the camera :D nice lesson man, really helped me on the tapping part, also check my nottingham lace cover if you have time! rock on!
I won't "flame" you, because you know what you are saying. But maybe you can say that a "chromatic scale" is a set of all 12 pitches in Western music (counting "enharmonic equivalents" like F# & Gb as one pitch), each a semitone (or one fret) apart. You can center them around a tonic pitch, but there will be a lot of "out" notes. The major & minor scales are subsets of chromatic scales that include 7 pitches, and pentatonics are subsets of major/minor scales with 5 pitches.
you got finger length! although you shouldnt need long fingers for this particular lick. it helps though over the years i learned most "shredders"can hold a basketball with one hand
The riff you explain at 2:54 isn't Bucketheads! It belongs to his hero and good friend Shawn Lane!!! And everyone does it now Bucket, MAB, Gilbert, Cooley. They all worship Shawn... & use his Intervallic lick. RIP Master
@retrowheels Looks like a B minor sweep on three strings..Its funny cause im seeing it but not hearing it on the taps, I mean the notes tapped are clear,'' i don't hear the B minor chord? Anyways for that lick man i give up because unless i practice it for a year its not happening. You have the fingers for it dude i think? But i don't for this one..That means i gotta except it and go back to van halen licks.!aH .Embarrassing isnt it? Because listening to mom and dads music is not cool
who says i will use all the needley-nerpity-noodality in my own stuff, or that if i do, i will do it in the same way? even buckethead has a musical training history -- including study with paul gilbert (who bores me) -- that contributed to what he eventually became.
@golilik that's kinda cheating, just learn how to properly palm mute it. Your just digging your self into a hole by using a hair fastener to hide sloppy playing.
if you use silly string buddy slinky tech puddy , unorthodox fashion wont be a lot of out cast uninvited house guest rejects because one insest infest notes
I know this is a ten year old video but I've got to give you props for not only showing us the tapping but saying it's hard as hell. It's hard enough to make someone throw their guitar down like Steve Vai after the karate kid schooled him
listen dude i don't care what other people say. i learned a lot from this vid. it deserves way more views.
Thanks much for the lesson.
Very easy to understand under your word. I've always been amazed by these tricks of Buckethead's. Now I can practice on them! Thanks again. Regards.
To make it sound more evil Buckethead plays each of those tapped notes 3 whole tones apart. For example, on each string tap 12p6-11p5-10p4 (Sorry I don't really use tabs lol I try to play stuff by ear...)
Cheers for the Bucket Tapping mate. Much appreciated. You got some natural talent there in both Axe tapping & Flipping your Sk8board. Keep the guitar vids coming man!
and yet, buckethead is one of tapping gods.... beside his crazy legatos...
@dydziooo all the notes are a semi-tone apart from each other. They don't follow any particular scale, you can pretty much use any notes on your fretboard.
This isn't the best way to explain it, and I'll probably get flamed for it, but this is the easiest way to understand it.
Hi Retro, thanks very much for this video.,,,U explain it and show the tapping technique really well for someone who learns really slow like me :) lol
As for recycling patterns etc..the best players USE it all the time...repeatedly. Coltrane is one of them.
@dannyhood66 well i had the guitar set up for drop C cuz all i really play with my 6 string is metalcore or progressive melodic metal type shit...
for a while i went through a Buckethead stage and learned all the techniques i could from his playing, where i might have tuned up to D standard.
but this video was posted like half a year ago almost, and i cant quite remember now..
that guitar is a beast! its beautiful
gr8 playing man!!! thumbs up!!
clean as buckethead himself keep it on you crazy freak \m/\m/
I typically use thicker strings because I never tune above D standard, and usually stay in Drop B. But even with that being said, you should be-able to play this loudly regardless of your string's gauge.
Hell yeah drop B
very awesome video extremely helpful
Very well explained! Thank you!!!
wow thanks!!! i love buckethead and this videogame sound he makes with the tapping just blows me away, but it blows by so fast i couldn't figure out that it was a chromatic figure! yay! now it seems accessible!
Very cool, dude, very cool! Good lesson too.
I use my right hand sometimes for tapping, but only my index finger haha, my ring finger already has a blister! x.x great video thanks so much I love this riff type thingy that he does and have needed to learn it!
right on,
Props for the n64 in the background
@retrowheels apologies i get a lil talkative, its a pain in the ass not getting my palms on the wrong strings. xD
@dannyhood66 Yea. Buckethead plays half a step down from standard tho (Eb)... so technically im in the wrong tuning to play buckethead stuffs. But ohwellll
please tell me how u dont touch the other strings/not allow it to make noise!
that is my main problem with guitar and its blocking me fromwhat i can do
you are amazing, dude
@gooseaskreply american musical supply... and yup ibanez s5470
Thenks!! great video!
omg what effects you are using
Great!!!!
lol at the Tide in the background xD
the beginning wtf You just fight your camera bro?? lol good job thanks for the vid
After i tap a string and move on to the next, im having some trouble keepin control of that string from rining out. Any tips?
That last part sounds like what rusty cooley does.
@retrowheels Do you use light gauge strings? Reason i ask is because your other bucket lick video your playing his sweep pick tapping with pinkie lick..Which is harder to play i think than this six million dollar bionic man computer going nuts riff..What chord inversions do you use for that sweep? If you don't for sure its cool, but i could not tell if was major or minor chord sweep?
@dannyhood66 i use heavy guage strings for lower tunings.
the sweeping lick is infinitely harder to do that any of the stuff in this video. probably the hardest technique he does.
for that video i used a minor sweep pattern because its what im most confortable with.
Buckethead usually uses a major sweep pattern and then taps in an augmented/whole tone scale
In order to make it really sound louder, is it mandatory to use thicker strings ??
@retrowheels Wow you really are tuned to drop C tuning? Or C# sharp, I'll just take your word for it,.When i seen your video yesterday i didn't check my guitar to see where you were at on the tuning..And i didn't think you were tuned that low.
man!!! where the hell did u get that guitarr!!??? I want one of those.....ibanez s5...right??
@maximilianC9 thanks! it may be in that song. but the particular one i did i think was from jowls... buckethead recycles a shit tone of patterns in all his songs and solos
Surprisingly very easy, nice tutorial!
ahhh sick dude, thanks for the parts: 3:00 4:12 i'm a huge buckethead fan.
and at 4:50, i'm pretty sure that little riff comes from chicken feed?
@tapPOOH i checked the video out, great stuff man, really is... im surprised this video helped u all considering ur current skill.
@golilik sounds a lil weird?
ADAAMMMMM!!!!!
Looks so easy but I cant mute⋯can u give me some advice?
hey man, ive got a tribute to big b up using this tapping technique, let me know what you think
@DERRRREEERR none. i'm playing through a line 6 spider III combo amp with a little bit of distortion
lmao @ the ending... he slammed the camera :D
nice lesson man, really helped me on the tapping part, also check my nottingham lace cover if you have time!
rock on!
I won't "flame" you, because you know what you are saying. But maybe you can say that a "chromatic scale" is a set of all 12 pitches in Western music (counting "enharmonic equivalents" like F# & Gb as one pitch), each a semitone (or one fret) apart. You can center them around a tonic pitch, but there will be a lot of "out" notes. The major & minor scales are subsets of chromatic scales that include 7 pitches, and pentatonics are subsets of major/minor scales with 5 pitches.
you got finger length! although you shouldnt need long fingers for this particular lick. it helps though over the years i learned most "shredders"can hold a basketball with one hand
Nice video,
Eat more.
@ThomasDemko palm muting?
Fantastic!R u in A-440 pitch?
Your in a drop C tuning?
The riff you explain at 2:54 isn't Bucketheads!
It belongs to his hero and good friend Shawn Lane!!!
And everyone does it now Bucket, MAB, Gilbert, Cooley.
They all worship Shawn... & use his Intervallic lick. RIP Master
Same! Fucking thanks man! Been looking for something like this hard.
fancy
That's so fuckin Awsome dude
Do you use distortion at all?
LOL
tide in the backround :)
@pumpkinheadjrb lots of palm muting with ur tapping hand
@retrowheels Looks like a B minor sweep on three strings..Its funny cause im seeing it but not hearing it on the taps, I mean the notes tapped are clear,'' i don't hear the B minor chord? Anyways for that lick man i give up because unless i practice it for a year its not happening. You have the fingers for it dude i think? But i don't for this one..That means i gotta except it and go back to van halen licks.!aH .Embarrassing isnt it? Because listening to mom and dads music is not cool
By the way you kinda look like Buckethead himself ::P
tide fuck yeah!
who says i will use all the needley-nerpity-noodality in my own stuff, or that if i do, i will do it in the same way? even buckethead has a musical training history -- including study with paul gilbert (who bores me) -- that contributed to what he eventually became.
@golilik that's kinda cheating, just learn how to properly palm mute it. Your just digging your self into a hole by using a hair fastener to hide sloppy playing.
1st three seconds, fucking earthquake
DAMMIT MY FINGERS ARE'NT STRONG ENOUGH WAT SHOULD I DO?!?!?!?
+Jruby 733 I've actually learned it now, douche
ahah ;)
ThatShreddyDude 423 Sorry about that man. (Beginning of Sarcastic Joke) I won't be as good as the guitar god Lil Wayne. (End of Sarcasm)
+Jruby 733 whatever. Also Lil wayne is a guitar god, so stfu. (sarcasm)
if you use silly string buddy slinky tech puddy , unorthodox fashion wont be a lot of out cast uninvited house guest rejects because one insest infest notes
Hahaha , go and practice man , you can t play like Big B :)
No one can, lol.
I don't like atonal music.
I love it.
+Andrew Emsley Ya gotta find the right kind. Sorry for resurrecting dead comment.
+Xzendren Fair point mate. and yeah I know what you mean about 'resurrecting' dead comments lol :D