Pick tapping
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Pick tapping is a guitar playing technique wherein the side of the guitar pick is used to fret notes on the guitar neck. It is very similar to finger tapping except the pick is used, rather than the finger. Pick tapping may produce a cleaner sound than finger tapping, but it is harder to add vibrato to the tapped note than with the finger. Generally, it is also easier to tap more rapidly with the pick than the finger. One of the most notable artists to use this technique is virtuoso Joe Satriani.
An example of this technique can be heard near the beginning of the Randy Rhoads guitar solo on Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train", where rapid taps on the G string are performed while the left hand is slowly bending and releasing a fretted note lower down on the string. This gives an effect similar to that of a whammy bar being depressed and released.
