If one were to pay attention to the chronological lay out within this video, one could clearly tell this is a summery of this approach to playing on frets and strings...i.e. tapping within the last last 80 - 90 years. I have included what I consider to be the most relevant in it's development historically and what I was able to document. I did not mention Steve Hackett, Billy Gibbons, Merl Travis, and a list of others that were known to use/experiment briefly with it at some point in their career because 'it wasn't relevant to this disciplines advancement'. Remember, Jimmy Webster was highly skilled at this discipline and wrote an instructional book before the majority of these mentioned players had even considered the possibility. I mentioned Eddie Van Halen only because of the impact that he made on popular culture. I highlighted Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker and Emmett Chapman because if it weren't for these men the advancement of this disciplined would not be what it is today. Footnote: I was born in 1960 and had read and listened to a lot of interviews (decades before the internet), and heard those that calmed to have used tapping first or even had invented it. E.g. Steve Hackett saying he did it before Eddie in 1972, and Eddie saying he came up with it (yes I remember him clearly saying that, as well I also heard him change his story to fit a particular given moment... believe it or not). I have heard Stanley Jordan say he invented it... etc. Let it also be clear that I'm giving a nod to all these fantastic even amazing players as musicians and artists, but one can clearly see this video sets the record straight on its history so to conclude its been around for a very very long time.
nice bro the story of the tapping style ! i m french guitarist professional ...look at my misty tapping chord melody on my channel ! just sub your channelruclips.net/video/lXJOlgcCaUg/видео.html
Although I am not familiar enough with the catalog to point to the example(s), I recall reading in a guitar magazine that Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush) had also done some tapping prior to EVH. Eddie didn’t claim to have been the inventor of the technique, but certainly popularized it and made it a staple of his playing. I remember agonizing over trying to figure out how to play “eruption” and it clicked when someone who’d seen Van Halen in concert said “It looked like he was doing something with both hands on the neck, it was crazy.”
I think Eddie Van Halen brought it out to the vast majority. I play jazz and used to be into classical guitar, and never heard or saw anyone do it like Eddie. Frankly, none of the other people did anything approaching Eddie Van Halen. More like using the other hand to reach a chord extension, etc., aside from the Italian gentleman: he was doing some really sophisticated things, both chord-wise and lead playing.
Jordan said he was influenced by EVH in an interview. Jordan came onto the scene around 1984. I remember seeing him do Eleanor Rigby on the tube tv show. I immediately brought his magic touch album. My mate at the record shop had to order it for me direct from blue note. Had to wait 4 weeks to get it.
Eddie Van Halen is one of my favorite guitar players, easily my top 5. But, he got it from Terry Kilgore who was a childhood friend of his , Eddie took lessons from him. Terry Kilgore took lessons from Harvey Mandel of Canned Heat so that’s where Terry got it from then eventually showed his childhood friend Eddie Van Halen. But of course tapping is popularized by Eddie Van Halen.
Randy, I really appreciate the way you give us significant time to hear the different players' technique. For us actual players, it's just super to have more than a 1 1/2 second clip, so we can actually see/hear what they were doing! Thanks so much for this!
why it is missing Steve Hackett (Genesis) it plays the most influential musician about this technique ... practically unknown (to the world) until 1971 (album : Nursery Crime)
I've been fascinated by the tapping thing for years. The stick was the first time I heard of it, and while I'm impressed by the stick, I don't like his crossed hands thing or the backwards idea on the bass strings. Plus, I don't want to play bass on mine, I want to look at it more like two guitars. So when I built mine (it's a lot easier to build than buy, both from an availability standpoint as well as a cost one), I did mine with a baritone for the left hand so I could go a little lower, and a regular guitar range for the right hand for leads. I learned a bunch of stuff on that first one, and am currently working on building #2. I don't cross hands, so the bari is on the left hand side of the instrument, the "regular' on the right. That way you don't need to worry about your hands running into each other. In case anyone is actually interested, here is a video I made for an audition for a spot on a local PBS radio show a few years ago. I didn't win. But it was fun doing the recording anyway. ruclips.net/video/zveSfoWwdZQ/видео.html The hardest thing about this kind of playing is getting your hand to work separately after however long you've been working on making them work together. But it's a TON of fun once you get it working, and it really makes you appreciate piano players more. And it can double your sound in a trio setting. Another guy to check out is Adam Fulara, a Polish guy who has been doing this style for a LONG time. Check out his Back and Scott Joplin recordings. VERY impressive.
My first exposure to it was Michael Hedges. I had heard Eddie Van Halen before, but his was something to give your solos flare. Not a songwriting style. I actually only recently heard of Preston Reed. Like a few months ago. I just saw an interview with him, the first one I saw, and after that I will no longer seek out interviews of Preston Reed. The influences he mentioned were Jorma Kaukonen, John Fahey and Leo Kottke. He does say he heard Van Halen and Michael Hedges, and he lumps them together, saying they did this fingertapping thing, but he, Preston came up with what he calls, “integrated percussive guitar playing.” suggesting that Michael Hedges did not do that, and he makes no mention of Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman.
Yeah Stanley Jordan says he came up with it do to his study related to the piano. The stories abound within the last two generations of those who seen someone doing it first. I did this video to put an "!" on what Jimmy Webster said " Tapping is as old as frets and strings", and to give credit to the pioneers that have advanced this discipline of playing, most notably Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker and Emmett Chapman, and to give a wink and a nod to the rest.
At 2:52 That way he is tapping, I have been doing that since I was a teenager, and I didn't learn it from him or eddie van halen or anyone else. I never heard Jimmy webster before. So, reconsidering, when some people say they invented something, they maybe telling the truth. Not Preston Reed, because he obviously heard Michael Hedges and knew what he was doing as percussive too. But maybe Stanley Jordan was sincere about it. Here is one of my songs where I am doing it, on my channel, if links are allowed. Iwa'ih (original song) ruclips.net/video/ov5ibRtSnjM/видео.html
Thank you very much, I just want to say that eddie van halen by himself told that the first time he saw a sort of tapping tech in his life was when he watched a live show of genesis with steve Hackett on guitar, all these talented people from your video were not popular enough to turn the tapping tech to a popular style, as we all can see on your video, these are rare and historical evident items, in 1978 eddie van halen and his band had a great luck, the van halen band was the opening act for the international black sabbath tour that continued one year, just imagine how many people saw him and his tapping tech in only one year, that explains the one night success of the debut album of van halen and why so many people in the world tie the tapping tech with eddie van halen name
@@lembkamb As i said steve hacket was the inspiration for the respected and now late eddie van halen, frank zappa played the tapping tech in an instrumental track that was recorded live on a tv show in 1976, you can find that film of zappa on youtube, the guitar players that you mentioned didn't use the tapping tech
@@RobertWeingher Thank you for the reply, so basically it was eddie who put it in the mainstream, because I guess steve hackett and frank zappa is not really well known with regular audience, they are more like satriani and steve vai which is popular within the guitarist community , I guess.
The Van Halen's were trained pianists. Considering his curious nature, I assume Ed looked inside the back of their piano witnessing the wooden felt covered hammers tapping the strings to make sound.
Why mention Hackett? Hackett never tapped. He used his pick on the strings while hammering on. John Cann of Atomic Rooster actually tapped in 1971: ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
Tarrega, as well. Check out a piece of his called "La Alborada". He has sections where he does harmonics with one hand and tapping with the other at the same time. Beautiful piece and a good challenge to play. The story was that he wrote pieces just for the left hand so he could keep playing while he smoked a cigar.
Yeah nah. Hackett never actually tapped. He used a pick. John Cann tapped in 1971. He clearly is the first to apply tapping to rock guitar. ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
Jimmy Page influenced EVH to tap. Ed saw Zeppelin live and when Page did the heartbreaker solo at one point page raised his right hand doing a half Jesus pose and pulling and hammering with the left. This made Ed go what if....? He never said he invented it but no one ran with it like EVH. Billy Sheehan said he saw Billy Gibbons tapping in an interview.
While EVH spun that tall tale, he also said he learned all of the Clapton solos suggesting that Clapton was his influence. Meanwhile, Eddie stole most of his sound from Jim McCarty of Cactus. Alex said that he and Eddie were huge fans of this as teens: ruclips.net/video/d_y_m0mImGw/видео.html Here is the guy likely who first applied tapping to rock guitar and he did it in 1971. ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
On spotify there is no music available for jimmy webster or emmet chapman. Even here, Emmet has to go on some seventies game show to get heard. But he has solo albums, but they are generally unknown and hard to find. And the Italian flamenco guitarist was a doctor, not a professional musician, so most didn't know about him. No wonder people generally still believe Eddie revolutionized tapping.
Jimmy's book was published in 1952, (for those commenting about Steve Hackett) don't you think Steve was aware of this publication? What Steve did was simply a technique he used to accommodate an intervocalic part which he otherwise conventionally wasn't able to do. Great player, but he doesn't relate to this topic. As well as Billy Gibbons, according to Billy Sheen he had seen Gibbons use this technique in the early 70's, and I didn't mention him for the same reason. Outside of its historical beginnings, this video is about the developing discipline of touchstyle playing and those innovators such as Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman who have advanced this hands on strings approach to music making. If one is to take anything from this video that would be it.
@@robertcowart1 Outside of its historical beginnings, this video is about the developing discipline of touchstyle playing and those innovators such as Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman who have advanced this hands on strings approach to music making. If one is to take anything from this video that would be it
@@guitarran sorry for my harsh reply. your video came up in regards to eddie van halen and i knee-jerk reacted in support of steve hackett 'cause he certainly was a pioneer with amplified electronic effects for his hammer-tap contribution in '71, well before jamie was cryin'
I read a book about Eddie's early days of playing. He would turn his back to the crowd when he played. He did not want anyone copying what he was doing.
Jimmy's book was published in 1952, (for those commenting about Steve Hackett) don't you think Steve was aware of this publication? What Steve did was simply a technique he used to accommodate an intervocalic part which he otherwise conventionally wasn't able to do. Great player, but he doesn't relate to this topic. As well as Billy Gibbons, according to Billy Sheen he had seen Gibbons use this technique in the early 70's, and I didn't mention him for the same reason. Outside of its historical beginnings, this video is about the developing discipline of touchstyle playing and those innovators such as Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman who have advanced this hands on strings approach to music making. If one is to take anything from this video that would be it.
Like the narrator said, "it becomes popular if utilized by a well know artist". Hackett, as a prog rock artist, could not popularize it at the same extent as Eddie did. Unfortunately, prog rock is not music for the masses. It is my favorite genre but that is the way it is.
YES guitarist Steve Howe did some tapping on one of his songs back in the early 1970s. I always thought it was cool. This can be listened to at 1:53:30 here: ruclips.net/video/qXN2Tojqhts/видео.html. (From Yessongs, "Yours is No Disgrace.")
@@mpmonzon, Jordan's _Magic Touch_ came out in 85. If this video cared about giving us an accurate history, he would have shown Michael Hedges' album from the year before, _Aerial Boundaries_ ('84). ruclips.net/video/YaIN13aDbCc/видео.html
Here is video proof of tapping in rock years before Eddie Van Halen when Eddie was only 16: ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html Until otherwise disproven, John Cann of Atomic Rooster invented applying tapping for six string rock guitar in 1971.
technic of violin touch chord far of the brain of Steve Hackett touching of right and other hands touching chords but is so far of Creation of Steve Hackett tapping of Guitar its not tapping guitar
No mention here of the utterly astonishing guy at the end of the clip??!! What's up, Randy? All the other white guys get acknowlegement and the respect shown by giving their names for this wonderful history lesson. But not the black guy at the end? Fix it, please...
@M T Thanks, I wish his name was up here in lights. I had vinyl records in the 70's with Stanley on them but never made much of a memory of what he looks like.
@@rmgrmg2488 Of course, and all those slaves, they were all racists, too. I noticed how they used to complain about their mistreatment and lack of freedom.
My first exposure to it was Michael Hedges. I had heard Eddie Van Halen before, but his was something to give your solos flare. Not a songwriting style. I actually only recently heard of Preston Reed. Like a few months ago. I just saw an interview with him, the first one I saw, and after that I will no longer seek out interviews of Preston Reed. The influences he mentioned were Jorma Kaukonen, John Fahey and Leo Kottke. He does say he heard Van Halen and Michael Hedges, and he lumps them together, saying they did this fingertapping thing, but he, Preston came up with what he calls, “integrated percussive guitar playing.” suggesting that Michael Hedges did not do that, and he makes no mention of Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman.
If one were to pay attention to the chronological lay out within this video, one could clearly tell this is a summery of this approach to playing on frets and strings...i.e. tapping within the last last 80 - 90 years. I have included what I consider to be the most relevant in it's development historically and what I was able to document. I did not mention Steve Hackett, Billy Gibbons, Merl Travis, and a list of others that were known to use/experiment briefly with it at some point in their career because 'it wasn't relevant to this disciplines advancement'.
Remember, Jimmy Webster was highly skilled at this discipline and wrote an instructional book before the majority of these mentioned players had even considered the possibility. I mentioned Eddie Van Halen only because of the impact that he made on popular culture. I highlighted Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker and Emmett Chapman because if it weren't for these men the advancement of this disciplined would not be what it is today.
Footnote: I was born in 1960 and had read and listened to a lot of interviews (decades before the internet), and heard those that calmed to have used tapping first or even had invented it. E.g. Steve Hackett saying he did it before Eddie in 1972, and Eddie saying he came up with it (yes I remember him clearly saying that, as well I also heard him change his story to fit a particular given moment... believe it or not). I have heard Stanley Jordan say he invented it... etc.
Let it also be clear that I'm giving a nod to all these fantastic even amazing players as musicians and artists, but one can clearly see this video sets the record straight on its history so to conclude its been around for a very very long time.
nice bro the story of the tapping style ! i m french guitarist professional ...look at my misty tapping chord melody on my channel ! just sub your channelruclips.net/video/lXJOlgcCaUg/видео.html
Further proof that you can do whatever you want to an instrument as long as you can make it sound cool.
Yes, the same thing applies to chords and notes.
At 5:45, tapping the bass line with index finger, while strumming with pinky. 🤯 How is it these amazing guitarists of the past are not better honored?
They are not honored because they did nothing to promote the technique into popular music the way Eddie Van Halen did...
You've now been schooled 🎓
@Juno Donat ...agreed 😄
@@politicaloutsider413 They are not honored because People forget the past !!!!
It's very crazy right
@@kelvinfrye5648 be quiet Kelvin go back to being a unit of temperature
Although I am not familiar enough with the catalog to point to the example(s), I recall reading in a guitar magazine that Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush) had also done some tapping prior to EVH. Eddie didn’t claim to have been the inventor of the technique, but certainly popularized it and made it a staple of his playing. I remember agonizing over trying to figure out how to play “eruption” and it clicked when someone who’d seen Van Halen in concert said “It looked like he was doing something with both hands on the neck, it was crazy.”
I think Eddie Van Halen brought it out to the vast majority. I play jazz and used to be into classical guitar, and never heard or saw anyone do it like Eddie. Frankly, none of the other people did anything approaching Eddie Van Halen. More like using the other hand to reach a chord extension, etc., aside from the Italian gentleman: he was doing some really sophisticated things, both chord-wise and lead playing.
Stanley Jordan was on tv a lot in the 80s. His two handed tapping song hit was Eleanor Rigby. This was around when Van Halen also hit the big time.
Van Halen hit it big in 1978 with their debut album. That's when tapping became popular in rock/metal.
Jordan said he was influenced by EVH in an interview. Jordan came onto the scene around 1984. I remember seeing him do Eleanor Rigby on the tube tv show. I immediately brought his magic touch album. My mate at the record shop had to order it for me direct from blue note. Had to wait 4 weeks to get it.
Nice work Randy, great narration and much appreciated.
Very informative & inspiring. "Touch technique's just as old as the instrument & the string themselves"
Eddie Van Halen is one of my favorite guitar players, easily my top 5. But, he got it from Terry Kilgore who was a childhood friend of his , Eddie took lessons from him. Terry Kilgore took lessons from Harvey Mandel of Canned Heat so that’s where Terry got it from then eventually showed his childhood friend Eddie Van Halen. But of course tapping is popularized by Eddie Van Halen.
Harvey Mandell "Shangrenade".
Randy, I really appreciate the way you give us significant time to hear the different players' technique. For us actual players, it's just super to have more than a 1 1/2 second clip, so we can actually see/hear what they were doing! Thanks so much for this!
why it is missing Steve Hackett (Genesis) it plays the most influential musician about this technique ... practically unknown (to the world) until 1971 (album : Nursery Crime)
Well done, my friend! Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
6:09 .. sounds like he's playing a double base and a guitar at the same time!
I've been fascinated by the tapping thing for years. The stick was the first time I heard of it, and while I'm impressed by the stick, I don't like his crossed hands thing or the backwards idea on the bass strings. Plus, I don't want to play bass on mine, I want to look at it more like two guitars. So when I built mine (it's a lot easier to build than buy, both from an availability standpoint as well as a cost one), I did mine with a baritone for the left hand so I could go a little lower, and a regular guitar range for the right hand for leads. I learned a bunch of stuff on that first one, and am currently working on building #2. I don't cross hands, so the bari is on the left hand side of the instrument, the "regular' on the right. That way you don't need to worry about your hands running into each other.
In case anyone is actually interested, here is a video I made for an audition for a spot on a local PBS radio show a few years ago. I didn't win. But it was fun doing the recording anyway.
ruclips.net/video/zveSfoWwdZQ/видео.html
The hardest thing about this kind of playing is getting your hand to work separately after however long you've been working on making them work together. But it's a TON of fun once you get it working, and it really makes you appreciate piano players more. And it can double your sound in a trio setting.
Another guy to check out is Adam Fulara, a Polish guy who has been doing this style for a LONG time. Check out his Back and Scott Joplin recordings. VERY impressive.
My first exposure to it was Michael Hedges. I had heard Eddie Van Halen before, but his was something to give your solos flare. Not a songwriting style. I actually only recently heard of Preston Reed. Like a few months ago. I just saw an interview with him, the first one I saw, and after that I will no longer seek out interviews of Preston Reed. The influences he mentioned were Jorma Kaukonen, John Fahey and Leo Kottke. He does say he heard Van Halen and Michael Hedges, and he lumps them together, saying they did this fingertapping thing, but he, Preston came up with what he calls, “integrated percussive guitar playing.” suggesting that Michael Hedges did not do that, and he makes no mention of Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman.
Yeah Stanley Jordan says he came up with it do to his study related to the piano. The stories abound within the last two generations of those who seen someone doing it first. I did this video to put an "!" on what Jimmy Webster said " Tapping is as old as frets and strings", and to give credit to the pioneers that have advanced this discipline of playing, most notably Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker and Emmett Chapman, and to give a wink and a nod to the rest.
At 2:52 That way he is tapping, I have been doing that since I was a teenager, and I didn't learn it from him or eddie van halen or anyone else. I never heard Jimmy webster before. So, reconsidering, when some people say they invented something, they maybe telling the truth. Not Preston Reed, because he obviously heard Michael Hedges and knew what he was doing as percussive too. But maybe Stanley Jordan was sincere about it. Here is one of my songs where I am doing it, on my channel, if links are allowed. Iwa'ih (original song)
ruclips.net/video/ov5ibRtSnjM/видео.html
Excellent. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you very much, I just want to say that eddie van halen by himself told that the first time he saw a sort of tapping tech in his life was when he watched a live show of genesis with steve Hackett on guitar, all these talented people from your video were not popular enough to turn the tapping tech to a popular style, as we all can see on your video, these are rare and historical evident items, in 1978 eddie van halen and his band had a great luck, the van halen band was the opening act for the international black sabbath tour that continued one year, just imagine how many people saw him and his tapping tech in only one year, that explains the one night success of the debut album of van halen and why so many people in the world tie the tapping tech with eddie van halen name
It's sort of like Columbus discovering the New World.
So there is no well known guitarist like jimmy page pete townsend jimmy hendrix etc who use ths technic before eddie did?
@@lembkamb As i said steve hacket was the inspiration for the respected and now late eddie van halen, frank zappa played the tapping tech in an instrumental track that was recorded live on a tv show in 1976, you can find that film of zappa on youtube, the guitar players that you mentioned didn't use the tapping tech
@@RobertWeingher Thank you for the reply, so basically it was eddie who put it in the mainstream, because I guess steve hackett and frank zappa is not really well known with regular audience, they are more like satriani and steve vai which is popular within the guitarist community , I guess.
I would love to hear a death metal drum track to that Chapman stick riffs. Metal asf.
Anyone know where to find Jimmie Webster songs? I really like the one at 2:54
I've Search all over and I can't find them
The Van Halen's were trained pianists. Considering his curious nature, I assume Ed looked inside the back of their piano witnessing the wooden felt covered hammers tapping the strings to make sound.
Or he saw a video of Vittorio. The italian tapper.
Vittorio da Man ...
on a Classic guitar yet 👏
Was gonna say whatt about Stanley Jordan but you ended the vid with him. But still no mention of Steve Hackett from Genesis
Why mention Hackett? Hackett never tapped. He used his pick on the strings while hammering on.
John Cann of Atomic Rooster actually tapped in 1971: ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
Besides playing Stanley Jordan at the end, this video didn;t address how important he is to the popularity of two hand technique
Thank you very much! I did not know Paganini was related with this technique. Grazie !
Tarrega, as well. Check out a piece of his called "La Alborada". He has sections where he does harmonics with one hand and tapping with the other at the same time. Beautiful piece and a good challenge to play. The story was that he wrote pieces just for the left hand so he could keep playing while he smoked a cigar.
Steve Hackett of Genesis probably was the first to use it in a rock song.
... probably not ... Jeff Beck was doing that back in '66
Jimi Hendrix done it too
i can name 10 Genesis songs that have clear tapping on them, which Beck and Hendryx songs have the actual 2 hand tapping technique??
.. Jeff's Boogie that he recorded with the Yardbirds
Yeah nah. Hackett never actually tapped. He used a pick.
John Cann tapped in 1971. He clearly is the first to apply tapping to rock guitar. ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
Jimmy Page influenced EVH to tap. Ed saw Zeppelin live and when Page did the heartbreaker solo at one point page raised his right hand doing a half Jesus pose and pulling and hammering with the left. This made Ed go what if....? He never said he invented it but no one ran with it like EVH. Billy Sheehan said he saw Billy Gibbons tapping in an interview.
While EVH spun that tall tale, he also said he learned all of the Clapton solos suggesting that Clapton was his influence.
Meanwhile, Eddie stole most of his sound from Jim McCarty of Cactus. Alex said that he and Eddie were huge fans of this as teens: ruclips.net/video/d_y_m0mImGw/видео.html
Here is the guy likely who first applied tapping to rock guitar and he did it in 1971. ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
It's steve hackett
@@iamboomer.4673 Meanwhile the video of John Du Cann tapping predates when Hackett himself claims to have tapped.
Good luck!
@@johnp.johnson1541 aight,that's true.
Tapping ends up sounding one dimensional after a while. I like the sound of strings being plucked and strummed vs tappity tap tap
Gary Moore does some tapping during a solo from the 1977 concert by Thin Lizzy at the Sydney Opera House in Australia
On spotify there is no music available for jimmy webster or emmet chapman. Even here, Emmet has to go on some seventies game show to get heard. But he has solo albums, but they are generally unknown and hard to find. And the Italian flamenco guitarist was a doctor, not a professional musician, so most didn't know about him. No wonder people generally still believe Eddie revolutionized tapping.
great video!
Roy Smeck, Wizard of the Strings!
Awesome video, thank you a lot for making it!
Can't believe Eddie's fashion sense never caught on thank god.
The Bulgarian Bagpipe Technique 🤟🎼🤟
Seems like Roy Shmeck was plucking more than he was tapping .. although from the top of the fretboard.
That's exactly what I was thinking - still amazing though!
What's the name of the track by Jimmy Webster at 2:53!? Sounds awesome!
Like, wow
I was lucky to see Emmett play not long after he invented it.
Jimmy's book was published in 1952, (for those commenting about Steve Hackett)
don't you think Steve was aware of this publication?
What Steve did was simply a technique he used to accommodate an intervocalic part which he otherwise conventionally wasn't able to do. Great player, but he doesn't relate to this topic. As well as Billy Gibbons, according to Billy Sheen he had seen Gibbons use this technique in the early 70's, and I didn't mention him for the same reason.
Outside of its historical beginnings, this video is about the developing discipline of touchstyle playing and those innovators such as Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman who have advanced this hands on strings approach to music making. If one is to take anything from this video that would be it.
Steve Hackett doesn't relate to this topic! get your head out of your ass!
@@robertcowart1 Outside of its historical beginnings, this video is about the developing discipline of touchstyle playing and those innovators such as Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman who have advanced this hands on strings approach to music making. If one is to take anything from this video that would be it
@@guitarran sorry for my harsh reply. your video came up in regards to eddie van halen and i knee-jerk reacted in support of steve hackett 'cause he certainly was a pioneer with amplified electronic effects for his hammer-tap contribution in '71, well before jamie was cryin'
It exists everywhere but north Africa is where European got the idea. The crusades. Even DADGAD is from the Oud .
I read a book about Eddie's early days of playing. He would turn his back to the crowd when he played. He did not want anyone copying what he was doing.
Chad I read it was Alex's idea for Ed to turn his back on the crowd cos some of the guys from the glam band Angel were in the crowd.
I understand why he would? There were some great guitar players in LA. Eddie was not the first person to do it. He was the first to put it to Rock.
More EVH revisionism by himself that is or was. Eddie turned his back because he did not wish to be seen if he flubbed parts.
jimmy webster he designed the Gretsch white falcon stereo guitar. He was Gretsch company's number one man.check out an album Jimmie webster unabridged
What's the name of the song at 2:52?
Wow...
Where is Stanley Jordan, in this video?
Pianists: Hey!?!?
No mention of Steve Hackett? Shame on you.
Jimmy's book was published in 1952, (for those commenting about Steve Hackett)
don't you think Steve was aware of this publication?
What Steve did was simply a technique he used to accommodate an intervocalic part which he otherwise conventionally wasn't able to do. Great player, but he doesn't relate to this topic. As well as Billy Gibbons, according to Billy Sheen he had seen Gibbons use this technique in the early 70's, and I didn't mention him for the same reason.
Outside of its historical beginnings, this video is about the developing discipline of touchstyle playing and those innovators such as Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman who have advanced this hands on strings approach to music making. If one is to take anything from this video that would be it.
Like the narrator said, "it becomes popular if utilized by a well know artist". Hackett, as a prog rock artist, could not popularize it at the same extent as Eddie did. Unfortunately, prog rock is not music for the masses. It is my favorite genre but that is the way it is.
I think you mean Steve Tappit
@@MarshallAmpMan 🔊😝
Interesting!
Esse vídeo é maravilhoso
YES guitarist Steve Howe did some tapping on one of his songs back in the early 1970s. I always thought it was cool. This can be listened to at 1:53:30 here: ruclips.net/video/qXN2Tojqhts/видео.html. (From Yessongs, "Yours is No Disgrace.")
he's not tapping there, it's just the open string.
.....or Steve Hackett playing
nice video~~
Tim Henson won’t like finding out he’s second place
Play like a dance at the bar cords
Eddie had to have seen that Italian guitarist, what a phenom. Both are shredding
Beer brewers: When does it start and what's all this musical stuff?
Who is the last one in the video?
Stanley Jordan
@@scottarivett496 thank you
@@mpmonzon, Jordan's _Magic Touch_ came out in 85. If this video cared about giving us an accurate history, he would have shown Michael Hedges' album from the year before, _Aerial Boundaries_ ('84).
ruclips.net/video/YaIN13aDbCc/видео.html
@@dahawk8574 or hans reichel in the 70´s although i on´t think there are videosi
Vittorio Camardese
Here is video proof of tapping in rock years before Eddie Van Halen when Eddie was only 16:
ruclips.net/video/W_nD2Ki598E/видео.html
Until otherwise disproven, John Cann of Atomic Rooster invented applying tapping for six string rock guitar in 1971.
The top virtuoso of tapping is called Adam Fulara... no contest
Sorry bruv he's no match for Stanley Jordan....
@@HrhFish I've seen both. Stanley is great but Adam is in another level, go ahead and watch him
He is pretty remarkable, isn't he? Love his earlier stuff, the Bach and Joplin stuff. Really impressive.
Harvey Mandel
I thought it was invented in the 80's
It's "Smeck" not "Shmeck."
EVH that’s it....
I'll just leave this here: ruclips.net/video/5P3YyIv7dJ0/видео.html
It's not "tapping", it's actual fretting - with the right hand. If you tap you get harmonics.
stop trying to save over rated eddie v h with all his fx that he use the guy the first guy did tap the strings lmao
@@truthfinder4973 You know nothing about him.
technic of violin touch chord far of the brain of Steve Hackett touching of right and other hands touching chords but is so far of Creation of Steve Hackett tapping of Guitar its not tapping guitar
wah?
Of course Spanish guitar
The guitar was invented in spain..dhaa
No mention here of the utterly astonishing guy at the end of the clip??!! What's up, Randy? All the other white guys get acknowlegement and the respect shown by giving their names for this wonderful history lesson. But not the black guy at the end? Fix it, please...
@M T Thanks, I wish his name was up here in lights. I had vinyl records in the 70's with Stanley on them but never made much of a memory of what he looks like.
@@rmgrmg2488 Of course, and all those slaves, they were all racists, too. I noticed how they used to complain about their mistreatment and lack of freedom.
My first exposure to it was Michael Hedges. I had heard Eddie Van Halen before, but his was something to give your solos flare. Not a songwriting style. I actually only recently heard of Preston Reed. Like a few months ago. I just saw an interview with him, the first one I saw, and after that I will no longer seek out interviews of Preston Reed. The influences he mentioned were Jorma Kaukonen, John Fahey and Leo Kottke. He does say he heard Van Halen and Michael Hedges, and he lumps them together, saying they did this fingertapping thing, but he, Preston came up with what he calls, “integrated percussive guitar playing.” suggesting that Michael Hedges did not do that, and he makes no mention of Jimmy Webster, Dave Bunker & Emmett Chapman.