i saw this and i though wow

[Fret spider]

i saw this and i though wow

http://guitarsolos.ja82.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=31

anyone know half the techniques he is usin. seems to be a fair bit of say flamenco and a lot of amazin two hand tappin. i really want to learn. dont suppose anyone wants to tab that out for me :)

[Kevin Taylor]

Excellent. Right handed too.

[Fret spider]

only one reply. a shame i was hopin to recieve pearls of wisdom :(

[Kevin Taylor]

Don't drink and drive.

[hunter60]

That was amazing. Simply amazing. :)

As far as pearls of wisdom, "Tip your wait staff", "Try the veal" and "Stay off the moors...."

[Fret spider]

Don't drink and drive.


a very good piece of advice but maybe not quite what i was looking for


:p

[Superhuman]

"Stay off the moors...."

Don't forget... "Beware the moon..." :D

[starstuff]

Awesome video.

That's Carlos Vamos. Looks like his tapping hand (left in this case, since he's left-handed) is also doing some picking while fretting notes on the same hand. I'd love to know how he gets such a clear sound from tapping on an acoustic guitar.

Maybe send him an email...?

http://home.hetnet.nl/~ksund/index.html

Oh, and "Buy low, sell high".

[holy diver]

It seems that starstuff is right, tapping and picking... correct me if i'm wrong but it looks like there's some thumb slapping as well.
Whatever he's doing, I wish I could play like that.. Truly amazing!
If that's what you aspire to, good luck and hope to see you on guitarsolos.com!

[Kevin Taylor]

Definitely a need for a top of the line acoustic guitar that's well set up with brand new strings.
There's no way my $300 Yamaha is capable of doing that.

[Silimtao]

Anyone notice the guitar is upside down? Really some amazing playing.

[Fret spider]

Anyone notice the guitar is upside down? Really some amazing playing.

um i think hes playing a left handed guitar...

as to what i aspire to this is one of the things i aspire to. anyone got any tips for achieving it. guess i gotta get good at finger style better at tapping and maybe get some slappin and poppin skills. thats quite a lot to do. the main thing i wonder about is when ive played arround with this stuff i find it quite hard to coordinate my right hand (picking) to play melodies that are intracate. due to the angle you have to hold your hand. also i find it quite hard to play different parts at the same time.

maybe its just because i have to go back to square one again and i dont really like being bad so i avoid it. gotta get a practice regime down

[Kevin Taylor]

Definately...tapping is like starting over again cause you have to totally train your right hand from scratch.
I hated it when I first started cause I couldn't get any accuracy at all. After a few months though it started clicking...Then after a few years playing with the right was the same as playing with the left.

One of these days I've gotta continue on with the All About Tapping tutorial I did way back about 5 years ago. I did about 50 pages of stuff on tapping mostly with 1 finger and some 4 finger stuff but only did a few lessons on chord tapping before I moved on to other stuff.

If you want to start with some simple exercises, try the simple chord tapping stuff like these:

http://guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=3192

There's no videos yet and these are really early lessons so the MP3's are low quality but I'll upgrade em in the next few months and continue on with the rest of the lessons.

[Silimtao]

um i think hes playing a left handed guitar...

What I meant was, take a look at the scratch guard, it's on top.....

[Kevin Taylor]

It just means he rewired his regular guitar left handed. It's the same thing as using a left handed guitar. If you look at the strings, the low E is still on the top.

[Silimtao]

It just means he rewired his regular guitar left handed. It's the same thing as using a left handed guitar. If you look at the strings, the low E is still on the top.

I was kind of wondering how he wired his guitar- e.g, would it have been easier for him to play the way he does if he was wired righty while playing lefty. I googled him, and he mentioned in an article that it was difficult for him to find a lefty acoustic.

In any case, this guy is amazing. Was just looking at your tutorial, Kevin. I've tried tapping, but for some reason, I can't get the tapped tones to keep ringing, and it's not for lack of a good guitar/pickups/amp. I just don't know what's wrong.

When I took some lessons from Lenny Breau many years ago, he introduced me to his unique way of playing artificial harmonics he'd pick with his right hand 12 frets above what he was chording with his left, so I was pretty familiar with chord shapes with my right (picking hand).

Even with the exact same setup as another guitar player, I can't do anything but the most basic 1 finger tap, in my case meaning just hammering the string with my index finger. So I don't know what I could possibly be doing wrong. I know it's me, not the responsiveness of the equipment.

I listened to your mp3- what was your setup? Pedals? I have a mess of pedals also. I'd appreciate any light you could shed. Not that I'm not working on a whole mess of other stuff. I've returned to playing after a big layoff, but I'm really interested in tapping! Nice to meet you, Kevin. Thanks in advance-I'll be looking at your other tutorials when I can.

[Silimtao]

I can't help you on tapping, as you can see from my post to Kevin. I just looked at your profile, and see we have the same interest ('cept I'm almost 30 yrs older than you, lol.)

I've been playing almost 40 years, and THERE'S STILL SO MUCH TO LEARN :eek:

Anyway, my martial art is Wing Chun, been doing that almost as long as playing the guitar- what are you into? While a student at the Berklee College of Music, I used to joke (with a straight face) that we should start a boxing club. Didn't go over too well. All the musicians, especially the keyboard players were compulsive about protecting their hands. I was compulsive about not breaking my nails on my right hand. I mentioned Lenny Breau in my other post; if you don't know who he is, google him. I'm really not into jazz, but he made me look at the fretboard in a different way. Berklee really messed up my head by only looking at things in a very narrow way. I'm trying to reopen my mind as to how I view the fretboard, and how to really listen again.

You're lucky that there's places like this site- I wish I had that when I started out. Never would have gone to Berklee.

If there is any advice I can give you (unless you don't already know)- LOOK AT THE FRETBOARD AS A WHOLE, as opposed to a set of "boxes"; connect all the boxes, and see the board as one. I wish someone had told me that when I started out. Only after meeting Lenny, did my eyes start to open up, Berklee shut them again on me. And theory- I was really resistant to music theory, as I was self-taught. Lenny couldn't read music, but he knew his theory inside and out (but couldn't explain it well, lol.) I only had a handful of lessons with Lenny, but almost 30 years later, I'm studying stuff he wanted me to know.

Anyway, cheers!

[Kevin Taylor]

I was kind of wondering how he wired his guitar- e.g, would it have been easier for him to play the way he does if he was wired righty while playing lefty. I googled him, and he mentioned in an article that it was difficult for him to find a lefty acoustic.

In any case, this guy is amazing. Was just looking at your tutorial, Kevin. I've tried tapping, but for some reason, I can't get the tapped tones to keep ringing, and it's not for lack of a good guitar/pickups/amp. I just don't know what's wrong.

When I took some lessons from Lenny Breau many years ago, he introduced me to his unique way of playing artificial harmonics he'd pick with his right hand 12 frets above what he was chording with his left, so I was pretty familiar with chord shapes with my right (picking hand).

Even with the exact same setup as another guitar player, I can't do anything but the most basic 1 finger tap, in my case meaning just hammering the string with my index finger. So I don't know what I could possibly be doing wrong. I know it's me, not the responsiveness of the equipment.

I listened to your mp3- what was your setup? Pedals? I have a mess of pedals also. I'd appreciate any light you could shed. Not that I'm not working on a whole mess of other stuff. I've returned to playing after a big layoff, but I'm really interested in tapping! Nice to meet you, Kevin. Thanks in advance-I'll be looking at your other tutorials when I can.

It's partly to do with very low action and using a bunch of compression to even the notes out. I usually use a bit of reverb and chorus to sweeten the sound up a bit. Last but not least, I put a hair braid 'crunchy' thing around the 3rd fret to stop the open strings from running on.
I think I go over all that stuff in the first chapter of the tapping tutorial.

Other than that it's just tons and tons of practice. Ya have to train your right hand to be almost equal in technique to your left so it takes forever to get your skills up.

[Silimtao]

Thanks for input. I'll have to read your tutorial & lessons. Thanks much!

[Fret spider]

hey again lots more posts this time. yah. soz it took me so long to reply i mannaged to lock my keys in my room and hd to wait till monday evening so i could get the spare set

as regards to tapping im not bad at it as long as i dont have to use more than one finger on my right hand. iuse my second so i dont have to put down the pick. but ive got a long way to go till its comfortable with all fingers.

silimtao i've just properly read ur name for the first time ever. its weird how putting the sylables in the wrong palce completely changes the sound of the word. ive been doin wing tsun for 2 and a half years now. i got a long way to go but i do love it. to be honest i think i train more than i play guitar at least at the moment. probably due to the fac i started stagnating on the guitar and . i dunno i need to get back to serios improvement. started guitar before wt (wing tsun) so i got some good practice then.

i enjoy them both, they are my main hobbies. im glad theres another person on the boards who is into it. its cool to chat, especially because wing chun is slightly different from wing tsun. different lineage. so theres lots to chat about and compare. how long you been trainin for.

anyways thanx for the advice ets. to be honest i think the thing that would be best to do would be to just buckle down and practice more. but finding the time is hard.

[Silimtao]

Didn't mean to change the tone of your thread, but since this is your thread, I'll answer here. If the chat gets too long, maybe we should start a new thread in the open discussion forum. I'd think there's plenty of guitar players into martial arts also. My 2nd instructor was a guitar player.

I've been practicing WC almost as long as I've been playing guitar- so that makes it about 34 yrs. I've had only 2 instructors; first one I wont name, but my 2nd instructor was a first generation student of Duncan Leung, a disciple of Yip Man. I'm in a few of his instructional videos he put out some years ago. I had no interest in learning the pole and butterly forms, so I can't say I've learned the whole system. I was a student for over 10-12 yrs, then I was given permission to teach. I was an assistant instructor for my first teacher for awhile, then I quit his school, because I felt he was using me just to teach . I then taught privately for awhile (didn't charge). I've cross-trained in Aikido, boxing, kali, grappling. Learned how to apply a proper choke from Royce Gracie. WC, like music, is a never ending journey. I miss the workouts, and doing chi-sau, but there's no one I can work out with. When they learn who my teacher was, they beg off. I've managed to break my pinky on my fretting hand a few times, never set right, so I sometimes have a problem fingering certain chords. To tell ya the truth, I wish I had stuck with Tai Chi. My father was a master at it, but I was into all that flashy stuff like most kids.

WT, eh? Leung Ting has produced some really good fighters. I don't like the BS politics of WC/WT; it's like "who's the best guitar player?" I've always told my students, it's not the art, it's the fighter. When they got too cocky, I'd smack 'em around to teach them some humility. I'm all for full contact sparring; if you don't know what it feels like to get hit, you'll never last on the street, imo.

Music and WC, never will give either up! I'm now teaching my son both. Catch you on the boards! :)