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u10ajf
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u10ajf
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02/04/2003 3:37 pm
when you swap hands round it's called REVERSE TAPPING
it's cool cause it looks mega posy but is no harder than regular tapping, in fact some things are easier to play reverse tapping them, its all down to the shapes the hand is most comfortable with on the fretboard.
Nb/ by bottom I mean the higher strings, by top, lower strings.
The left hand (as a rough rule) is happier playing with the first finger towards the bottom of the fretboard at a lower fret and at a higher fret and the little finger towards the top. The right hand, by contrast, is happier with the little finger towards the bottom at a lower fret and the 1st towards the top at a higher. For this reason some things may be easier to reverse tap than to regular tap.

Satriani quite sometimes uses his right hand to damp the strings while he plays a left hand legato, e.g. that "OH my God! How the ****? Riff from Mystical potato head" that sounds like a sweep but isn't."

If I couldn't laugh at myself how could I laugh at someone less ridiculous?