Two handed tapping


pogohead
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pogohead
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12/05/2005 7:36 pm
I think I might have been making some mistakes for the last few years. Because of Total Guitar (pffft!) I believed two-handed tapping involved tapping a note with the right hand then using a hammer/pulloff technique to play 2 more notes with the left. Because of this, when ever someone said 'can you two-handed tap?' I'd just play them some Eruption or something and sit there looking smug. However, something that was mentioned before about tapping made me wonder;
am I wrong? Are tapping and two-handed tapping something different?
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Armenian
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Armenian
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12/05/2005 10:55 pm
i dont think so
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12/06/2005 2:26 am
As far as I know...two handed tapping would be like hammering on some notes with both hands consecutively. For instance...u could play a chromatic type thing so one hand would play like 5,6,7,8 on the high e string and ur other hand could play 9,10,11,12 right after that. Thus using all 4 four fingers on both hands. Jennifer Batten did a crazy two handed tapping version of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the bumblebee utilizing two handed tapping in this chromatic fashion. That's what I've always thought two handed tapping was. Hope that helps.
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12/06/2005 11:20 am
kinda like 'day at the beach' by satch then?
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12/06/2005 2:42 pm
Umm...day at the beach by satch? I've never heard that song sorry. I know Satch does it on "Bamboo" off his last album and I think he does it on a song called "Midnight"...i suck at remembering song titles tho. I know for a fact tho that he does it on bamboo because i've seen him play it and I'm listening to it now. Satch does a bit of two handed tapping...especially live.
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