| Guitar Tapping Lessons: Where it started | | | | were. None of this caught on or became popular. |
| I don't know how many you have heard the | | | | Guitar Tapping Lessons: Emmit Chapman |
| guitar solo, "Eruption", by Eddie Van Halen. It | | | | Then in August 1969 in Los Angeles jazz guitarist |
| seems like his guitar explodes in the wall of sound. | | | | named Emmit Chapman came up with the a new |
| All lot of this is due to tapping on his guitar | | | | way of tapping by holding his hands perpendicular |
| keyboards with his fingers. As a matter of fact, | | | | to the fret board, this allowed him to have a very |
| when people think of guitar tapping, many of | | | | smooth sound. Chapman called this the "free |
| them think of Eddie Van Halen, but in reality | | | | hands" method. |
| tapping has existed in some form or another for | | | | Guitar Tapping Lessons: The 1970's |
| centuries. Paganini used tapping techniques on his | | | | In the 1970's Steve Hackett of Genesis began to |
| violin in the 1800's. Techniques very similar to | | | | use tapping in such songs as "Supper's Ready ", |
| tapping are used in Turkish folk music. Tapping | | | | and "The Return of The Giant Hogweed". Harvey |
| has even been used on the banjo and can be | | | | Mandel, also around the same time and known for |
| seen in early films and records from the early | | | | his psychedelic guitar playing, used two handed |
| 20th-century. | | | | fretboard tapping. But the two guitarists that |
| Guitar Tapping Lessons: The early pioneers | | | | brought guitar tapping to the mainstream are |
| Jimmy Webster used tapping in the 1950's and he | | | | Eddie Van Halen and Stanley Jordan. |
| wrote about it in his book called Method For | | | | Guitar tapping can create quite an exciting sound |
| Electric and Amplified Spanish Guitar, published in | | | | on electric guitar but of course you should learn |
| 1952. Webster got the idea from an electric | | | | how to play the guitar first. After all, tapping is |
| pickup designer named Harry deArmond. He used | | | | only the icing on the cake. |
| tapping to demonstrate how sensitive his pickups | | | | |