Tapping

Tapping is a mainly for guitars, mostly electric guitar and occasionally also E -Bass, Applied stop technology. Bassists use this technique mainly to play a bass line and chords simultaneously. On the acoustic guitar, this technique is also applied.

Technology

When tapping the strings with the fingers of the picking hand (usually with the index or middle finger) more or less peppy pressed or pushed, so when hitting the frets at the appropriate point the string is vibrated on the fretboard. The sound is different from the usual attack with a pick or plucking with the fingers. This technique is performed with the gripping hand called Hammering. The combination of hammering and tapping game offers tech-savvy guitar players the opportunity to play fancy solos, as larger pitch intervals can be used as usual here.

Briefly, peppy Tapping on the frets of the fingerboard Harmonics can be generated.

Most often this technique is used on the electric guitar in connection with a distorted sound (see distortion, eg, He Man Woman Hater Extreme ), in many cases, however, this technique is also applicable to the acoustic guitar (eg Spanish Fly from Van Halen ).

Provide specially developed for the tapping technique instruments like the Chapman Stick, the Warr Guitar, Mobius Megatar, Kelstone, the Tenayo Ziggy, Markus Reuters touch Guitars or Koyabu Symmetric Board " Tappern " also have the opportunity to expand their sound discretion and at the same time, similar playing the piano, to connect chord and bass play together. These special Tapping-Instrumente/Gitarren are offered in most cases, with 8, 10 and 12 strings and played with both hands and a 3, 4 or 5 finger technique ( with the help of the thumb ). Mood they are mostly in inverted ( mirrored ) Quinten (on the bass strings ) and ascending ( pure ) quarts (on the melody and guitar strings ). This expands the range of sounds, especially the simultaneous grasping of several notes is possible, and these can be supplemented with different chords or single notes. The sound spectrum at Tap- Guitar is therefore very large, and even in popular musicians who come from classical music and jazz. Tap guitars belong to the family of the electric guitar, but are offered by different manufacturers as a semi-acoustic version. In general, they have a stereo output and can be operated on demand via different amplifiers and effect.

History

In the early 1970s tapped Steve Hackett on several boards of the English progressive rock band Genesis, first heard the song "The Musical Box " on the album Nursery Cryme by 1971. Hackett may have been one of the first who used this technique, although interestingly, his name in connection with the Tapping rarely falls. In contrast, however, the name Eddie Van Halen, the patting made ​​so popular with his solo eruption in 1978 that the tapping is classified as a repertoire of the most accomplished rock guitarists.

Electric guitarists such as, inter alia, Enver Ismailov, Stanley Jordan, Steve Lynch, Ritchie Kotzen, Greg Howe, Jennifer Batten, Buckethead and especially Randy Rhoads built this technique of a virtuoso.

On electric bass became inter alia John Myung of Dream Theater with his 9- finger technique celebrity as well as Billy Sheehan, bassist virtuoso U.S. hard rock band Mr. Big. In addition, John Entwistle, Tony Levin ( King Crimson, Peter Gabriel ) and Trey Gunn made ​​(and King Crimson) the tapping on specially specialized instruments - the Chapman Stick and Warr Guitar - popular. Again, the tapping instrument had its focus in use as a rhythm instrument or alternative to electric bass. A familiar example is the often polyrhythmic interactions Tony Levin on stick and the two guitarists Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew in the 1980s - era King Crimson.

On the acoustic guitar this technique as Michael Hedges, Billy McLaughlin and Preston Reed, Vicki Genfan, Thomas Leeb, Eric Roche, Erik Mongrain Kaki King and Newton Faulkner will be used.

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