can you give me some tips on how to learn how to "tap"?

[Aaron Cheney]

call it 'the 12 inch super-pinky'.

If only I had a nickle for every time I've heard that.

Aaron
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[Natural Gass]

I've always liked the tapped-out intro to Women In Love (VanHalen II). Also, I think that part in Light Up The Sky where Eddy & Dave break-it-down is really cool. Its not tapping but it kind of grabs me by the booboo and just makes me want to play my guitar. That's what good music does!

 

[Aaron Cheney]

The tapped portion of the solo in Dance the Night Away is great too, not to mention Spanish Fly. Who says VH II was their lamest album??

Aaron
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[King Elvis]

I am not sure about Yngwie, I think his was all finger stretches and sweep picking. Randy Rhoads was fantastic and a tragic loss. The solo to "Flying High Again" is some cool tapping. Wasnt it that Metal Method guy that would advertise playing his axe upside down?? I used to hate when groups like Briney Fox would swing their guitars over their shoulders and catch them. What a damn waste of time. I hated to see Cinderella do all of that glam crap because they were and AWSOME blues rock band!!!

 

[King Elvis]

Getting back on the subject though, the first tapping that I can recall hearing was from Ace Frehley. On Kiss Alive II he does a solo after Shock Me where he is doing some tapping, not fast like EVH did it but still...Ted Nugent used some tapping techniques back in the 70's to create artificial harmonics. Eddie really brought it to the masses back in '78.

 

[64Firebird]

The first guy I heard tapping was Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. I think it was around 74.

 

[King Elvis]

The first guy I heard tapping was Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. I think it was around 74.

Yeah, the Reverend Billy F Gibbons!!!
another TOTALLY underrated player!!!

 

[Aaron Cheney]

I've also heard that Steve Howe was doing very early on...


Aaron
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[carlosguardia]

And I've seen Brian May do his share of tapping here and there in a very tasteful and discrete manner; back many years ago. Billy Gibbons and Steve Howe ROCK!!!! But, IMHO, Steve Lynch, tapping-wise, does circles around them. Reb Beach was another tap monster. I wonder what he's been up to lately.

Carlos