Most tapping lessons stop the moment you can slap one index finger onto the fretboard and pretend you're Eddie Van Halen. This one keeps going — because here your picking hand has to tap with two different fingers, which is roughly the moment my own right hand filed a formal complaint with HR.
It's Lick #27, lifted straight from my band Atomic Symphony's Nightfall solo, so you're practising an actual musical phrase instead of yet another dry, soul-crushing tapping drill. Nineteen seconds of video, one very real two-finger tapping lick, and a coordination problem you didn't know you had.
How this two-finger tapping lick actually works
Standard tapping is a duet: your fretting hand hammers and pulls off while one tapping finger jabs in a higher note. This lick promotes a second right-hand finger to tapping duty, so your picking hand suddenly has to fret two distinct pitches cleanly — usually the index and the middle finger — while the left hand keeps doing its own hammer-on / pull-off homework. The whole trick lives in the pull-off: when a tapping finger leaves the string, it has to flick sideways and lightly pluck, or the note just dies instead of ringing. That tiny sideways snap is what separates a clean line from a bag of mush.
Concrete takeaway: practise it stupidly slow and watch the muting. Rest your fretting-hand fingers lightly across the idle strings and let the palm of your picking hand guard the low strings, because two tapping fingers means twice as much open-string squeal waiting to embarrass you. Get the muting boring and reliable first — speed is just clean repetition with the brakes off. If your tapping fingers still feel clumsy, go back to Tapping Basics and rebuild from one finger up.
Fair warning: after enough reps you'll start tapping on tables, steering wheels, and other people's foreheads. It's a known side effect. If you want the Guitar Pro file and the slowed-down version so your two fingers can suffer in glorious detail, they live on my Patreon.