Tapping in Metal

[EspaDa]

What are your favorite tapping parts in metal songs? I'm actually a sucker for tapping riffs and solos. I don't think there is a tapping lick I do not enjoy. My examples:

The intro [0:00-0:48]


[0:22-0:54]

The intro riff again, a fucking classic



One of my all time favorite songs from Maiden. The intro once again.


The intro melody that drags through the entire song


Another well known riff


I don't take up Eruption because everyone knows it. And it's not metal. Still great tho.

So, go on and share some nice tapping with me. I appeal to HamburgerBoy to not mistake it with fapping.

 

[Sirjack]

l don't think Flash of the Blade is tapped...

Spiritual Healing comes to mind

 

[EspaDa]

It is, my friend. I would not create a thread without earlier insight .

 

[Sirjack]

nah, it's just a picked note with an open string, you can clearly hear the pick.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

You probably already know, but Tipton and Downing used tapping fairly often from the late 1970s onward. You can hear one of the more famous examples around 1:38 in this video.

I mainly felt like posting about them since their playing was so influential on a lot of other bands.

 

[Burkhard]

My favourite Helloween-song on their debut EP and also one of my overall favourite Helloween-songs (I could also have posted it in the guitar solo-topic) - the tapping-part starts at 4:58:

 

[Baroque]

This stuff is on like 50%+ of prog metal songs in existence, too many to list here. Maybe name a specific subgenre?

 

[EspaDa]

So be it. It may be every genre except for prog. Also love that Exmortus interpretation, shredfest at its best.

 

[EspaDa]

Another one

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Tapping starts at 3:30 approximately. One of my favorite album closers of all time.

 

[EspaDa]

Great solo indeed.

The solo [2:50-onwards]

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Almost anything Eddie Van Halen has ever done, and it all kicks ass.

 

[Luoto]

The tapping riff in this song at 3:34 is genius.

 

[Mort Divine]

Almost anything Eddie Van Halen has ever done, and it all kicks ass.

nah

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

nah

Fight me.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Fight me.

Don't fight with anime girls.

 

[EspaDa]

And elderly people.

 

[Mort Divine]

Don't fight with anime girls.

he can pick a fight if he wants

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Why do you have such a staunch opponent of gun control as an avatar?

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Don't fight with anime girls.

You're right, they might break a nail.