The Most Simple PERCUSSIVE GUITAR Technique for Beginners.

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The thumb-slap is one of the most popular, intuitive, and fun guitar techniques for beginners and advanced guitar players.
This technique allows you to add a percussive slap to a chord progression.
It's called thumb-slap because we slap one of the bottom strings with the side of the thumb. The noise is produced by the string hitting the fret wires close to the body of the guitar.
Usually, the thumb-slap technique is performed on the E, A, and D string. Why? Because it is done with the thumb, which is the finger that usually plays the bass note of a chord. It is also done on the same string as the bass note of the chord.
If the chord you are playing has the bass on the low E string, you will perform the thumb-slap on the low E string. You will do the same with the chords that have the bass note on the A and D string.
In this video, we will put the thumb-slap into practice and use it over a beautiful chord progression in E major.
Enjoy the lesson.
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I stopped playing guitar a few years back, never took it seriously and slowly my passion to play started to disappear. But recently I've been wanting to get back to it, learn again and truly focus on my technique. I never learned how to do these percussive slaps and after 30 min of playing over and over your lesson I finally got it right :) thank you, it sounds so good and it just boosts my motivation to keep practicing, hopefully I'll be able to play the songs I like with it!

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Hey Marco! Thanks for the great video! I always tried to do the thumb slap and strum like what you did and always failed miserably. Thanks for making a video where you focused on that. Appreciated man

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Is it normal that the slap echoes sllot

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How to not make the slap too loud? Thats what I'm struggling with right now. Plz help

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Standard tuning.

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