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How to Play Guitar With Your FEET – Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson

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This is no joke! Playing guitar WITH YOUR FEET is almost more important than using your fingers!

In this guitar lesson, I’ll show you how I use my FEET to “play” the guitar and get it grooving.

Keeping a solid pulse with your heel will ground your guitar playing.

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0:00
Intro

0:16 Tapping Your Foot Properly

0:57 Dizzy Gillespie Calls out FUNNY FEET

1:46 Use your LEFT foot

2:36 Diz Demonstrates the HEEL tap

3:20 Let’s see the FOOT in action

4:10 Connecting Your Hands and Feet

5:22 Slow foot groove on YESTERDAY

6:01 Outro

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About Adam Rafferty

I’m Adam Rafferty – a guitar player born and raised in New York City, and currently spending most of my time on tour playing concerts and coaching my guitar students online at StudyWithAdam.com

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