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I seriously need to thin the herd a bit so I've been sitting here playing several guitars trying to figure out what to sell and what to keep. I got to the beast and knew it wasn't for sale before I touched it. Well I had my laptop's headphone out plugged into my #2 input on my interface and the beast plugged into #1 and the interface was also connected to my monitors into which I plugged in my headphones so the neighbors heard nothing
I was playing these guitars to backing tracks on Youtube when I came upon EVH's Jump backing track with vocals. That was the song that taught me to tap it was the early 80's MTV hadn't been on the air but a couple of years and was running the video non-stop and I was in a working rock cover band so we had to learn it. I recorded it on my new VCR they were just becoming very popular and a must have for every home and I think I paid about $600 for it they were high priced items. Anyway I watched Eddie's hands and kind of figured out what he was doing I somehow stumbled on to with the root pressed down tapping either the 3rd, 5th or 7th fret past the root was a dang good start to figure out just what the heck he was doing. So I learned both the song and how to tap at the same time I was so excited to play it at the Hotel Lounge we were booked at that catered to a younger rock and roll crowd at the end of the song in gratitude for the tremendous effort I had put forth to have conquered such a difficult task they clapped like they always did at the end of a song and we took a break.
I have no idea why I wrote all of that but I did get interested about who the first to tap was and the answer will make your jaw drop and can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapping#: ... %20Go%20Go.
Tonight I've used the 2 handed tapping technique more than I have since we recorded this. Just never had much call for with the set list we used.

That was impressive ,you nailed it , Adding my clapping to the crowd

Paganini is also alleged to be the first to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for his talent, inspiring Robert Johnson and the cross roads mythology. Perhaps the devil taught him tapping.

When I think of tapping, the first to mind is Stanley Jordan:

All I have to say is that I really take for granted the internet age for learning songs on the internet. I've always been able to type a song into a computer and be able to find access to it to learn by ear. And 90% of the time there's already chords or tabs available for it as well. I'm sure you also had to lug your gear uphill both ways when loading into gigs back then

RockYoWorld wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:02 pm All I have to say is that I really take for granted the internet age for learning songs on the internet. I've always been able to type a song into a computer and be able to find access to it to learn by ear. And 90% of the time there's already chords or tabs available for it as well. I'm sure you also had to lug your gear uphill both ways when loading into gigs back then

I believe the door swings both ways and for good and for bad. Before I ever thought about pre-playing (it's been a long journey for me to play so poorly) I read one of the guitar magazines and it always had the music and tabs for songs. I also think that I would be better if I practiced and played like the good old days instead of playing bi-polar roulette and going down the youtube rabbit hole. Kinda like spelling and spellcheck/auto-correct instead of learning all the spelling rules and the million exceptions.

I am grateful for the access through internets, but maybe I would be better, but maybe I wouldn't be where I am if I couldn't listen to my friend who said "learn that 1 song you want to play" and have been able to googles it and take that first serious step.

Don't go provoking deep thought kid, respect your elders.

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RockYoWorld wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:02 pm All I have to say is that I really take for granted the internet age for learning songs on the internet. I've always been able to type a song into a computer and be able to find access to it to learn by ear. And 90% of the time there's already chords or tabs available for it as well. I'm sure you also had to lug your gear uphill both ways when loading into gigs back then

No question that our tools today make things a lot easier. Even if there isn't sheet music or tab available for something, I'm now so accustomed to being able to use a program to slow it down without changing the pitch, or play around with the stereo balancing, or whatever. I'm really amazed when I think about people wearing out records, as they used to do, listening to something over and over trying to get it! I know I've mentioned the story before of the Beatles finding out that there was a guy across town who knew how to play the F7 chord! or whatever, and making a pilgrimage to go see him and learn it, which is unimaginable now.

And although 90% of the time there is chords or tabs, 90% of the time it's at least slightly wrong, too, so you still get some practice that way!

Great thread.
Wiki has Harvey Mandel listed as one of first blues/rock tappers. That makes sense. I recently bought a 2 CD set of his early Mercury recording years. His 1969 album Games Guitars Play has been a favorite of mine for 40 years and is on that cd set. "Slight of hand" slick riffs mixed into psychedelic, blues, and country gumbo.

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RockYoWorld wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 1:02 pm All I have to say is that I really take for granted the internet age for learning songs on the internet. I've always been able to type a song into a computer and be able to find access to it to learn by ear. And 90% of the time there's already chords or tabs available for it as well. I'm sure you also had to lug your gear uphill both ways when loading into gigs back then

Young players today do have access to tremendous teaching tools and the gear is unbelievable for very little money. My generation may have had to "lug our gear uphill both ways" (now that was funny touché) but we got to to live in the greatest time period of Rock and Roll the world has ever seen. Because of that time period I got to see incredible groups some while they were paying they're dues. I saw Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Stones and so many more The first time I saw ZZ Top was in Charlotte NC they were opening for Leon Russell if you can believe it. So we may have had to do things the hard way compared to today but we had a blast doing them.