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Old 08-30-2006, 10:42 PM
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can someone tell me how and what hes doing in this vid

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ive read that its called touch style, i just dont know how to get that. any tips.. lessons or anything like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xd7v...elated&search=

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The most well-known title for that stuff is called two-hand tapping. That's sort of a broad term for everything it encompasses (everything from this stuff to Van Halen where 90% of the tapping involves hammer-ons and pull-offs), but if you do some searches for "two hand tapping," you'll find a wealth of information and lessons. TB's Alvaro Martin Gomez A. did some video lessons on it he posted on this site as well.
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That stuff is SWELL

Loads of natural and articial tapped harmonics in there. Not a very "advanced" technique but you have to know how to do them.
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Stu Hamm is very good at two handed tapping, you should check him out.
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i know two handed tapping.... it just seems different to me, he doesnt seem to be actually holding down any strings with his right hand more just hitting them no sustain kinda thing. harmonics then.
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i know two handed tapping.... it just seems different to me, he doesnt seem to be actually holding down any strings with his right hand more just hitting them no sustain kinda thing. harmonics then.
Two-hand tapping doesn't require any sort of sustain. He's playing it basically like a touch-style instrument like a Chapman Stick or Warr Guitar, but on guitar and bass it's still generally called two-hand tapping so as not to confuse someone as to what instrument you're playing (if you say you play touch-style, people will probably thiink you're playing a Stick).

For the harmonics, he's just tapping them. You can do it easily with either hand- just find the harmonic points you want to ring out (start with the 5th or 7th frets if you're new to them as they generally ring out the loudest), and quickly tap them directly over the fret.
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He's using his right hand to hit the string 12 frets above his fretting hand to produce harmonics.

Other than that, he's doing the 2 hand tap thang.

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