Original Acoustic Tapping Music

Batstone · Post by **Batstone** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:21 am

hey, i was just wondering what some ppl thought of my playing.! i have been palying for 2 and a half years.. i play acoustic, electric and classical guitar. I recently wrote out a few original songs for acoustic guitar, its 2 handed tapping and that stuff. Anyway, have a listen and tell me wat u think? i know i posted a couple songs here before...

http://www.myspace.com/adambatstone

thanks! ps.... add me on myspace if u have a site

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:57 am

It's great!

It makes me want to develop my tapping skills which, as of now, are pretty basic.

Do you have any advice or material I could use?

Thanks a lot.

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:05 am

I like it a lot. The first song didn't load for me, but the second two were great. You seem to be able to hold to a great melody while still tapping, something that many people find hard. (Some of the best best advice I've ever recieved on tapping was from justin king on his boards, about the importance to remember that even if you're tapping, it's still music; remember the melody!)

so basically that's the long way of saying I like it a lot.

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:11 am

sfmartins wrote:Do you have any advice or material I could use?

I'll answer this too if you don't mind...

I started with simple, single-string tapping riffs/songs, such as Led Zeppelin's Eruption and Hot for Teacher. This are pretty easy, and didn't take long to get down.

Then, I went for Justin King songs, because he was my first exposure to tapping, especially acoustic tapping. I'd recommend trying his 'main' songs in this order:
-Phunkdafied (the beginning is slap/pop, which is also useful to have under your belt, but the tapping section is great.)
-Untitled Project (this might look/sound challenging, but it's really pretty easy. there is one fast tapping part that I haven't got down yet though.)
-knock on wood (while the intro riff and main melody are pretty simple, when put together it might pose a problem at first; your two hands are doing *entirely* different things. The part of this song that I found the most difficult was actually getting the drumming down and in sync with the intro riff.)

You can find tabs for these at batstone's site http://www.freewebs.com/justinking/tabs.htm

and videos of them at video.google.com, search for Justin King

Obviously, Justin King isn't the only person doing this, though I might venture to say that, at least right now, he's the best. Others you should check out: Trace Bundy, Kaki King, Michael Hedges.

good luck! (I'm not trying to answer for batstone, I just always like a response now, instead of later. hope I helped!)

Batstone · Post by **Batstone** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:59 pm

b_fost wrote:
sfmartins wrote:Do you have any advice or material I could use?
I'll answer this too if you don't mind...

I started with simple, single-string tapping riffs/songs, such as Led Zeppelin's Eruption and Hot for Teacher. This are pretty easy, and didn't take long to get down.

Then, I went for Justin King songs, because he was my first exposure to tapping, especially acoustic tapping. I'd recommend trying his 'main' songs in this order:
-Phunkdafied (the beginning is slap/pop, which is also useful to have under your belt, but the tapping section is great.)
-Untitled Project (this might look/sound challenging, but it's really pretty easy. there is one fast tapping part that I haven't got down yet though.)
-knock on wood (while the intro riff and main melody are pretty simple, when put together it might pose a problem at first; your two hands are doing *entirely* different things. The part of this song that I found the most difficult was actually getting the drumming down and in sync with the intro riff.)

You can find tabs for these at batstone's site http://www.freewebs.com/justinking/tabs.htm

and videos of them at video.google.com, search for Justin King

Obviously, Justin King isn't the only person doing this, though I might venture to say that, at least right now, he's the best. Others you should check out: Trace Bundy, Kaki King, Michael Hedges.

good luck! (I'm not trying to answer for batstone, I just always like a response now, instead of later. hope I helped!)

hey, yeah me and a freind created that fansite and made up the tabs!

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:08 pm

Thanks a lot guys! I'll be checking that this week!

Cor · Post by **Cor** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:22 pm

b_fost wrote:
sfmartins wrote:Do you have any advice or material I could use?
I started with simple, single-string tapping riffs/songs, such as Eddie Van Halen's Eruption and Hot for Teacher. This are pretty easy, and didn't take long to get down.

FYP

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:34 pm

I've just checked Justin video of Know on Wood:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ustin+King

And I don't understand that kind of bend he does at the end. He seems to be pushing the guitar arm... How does he do it?

Batstone · Post by **Batstone** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:07 pm

he pushes the neck of the gutiar forward, slackening the tension on the stings, cause in the pitch to drop...its essencially a whammey bar effect.. except its on acoustic guitar

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:09 pm

Isn't it dangerous to the neck?

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:02 pm

Cor wrote:
b_fost wrote:
sfmartins wrote:Do you have any advice or material I could use?
I started with simple, single-string tapping riffs/songs, such as Eddie Van Halen's Eruption and Hot for Teacher. This are pretty easy, and didn't take long to get down.
FYP

heh, thanks. I don't know my 80s music too well.

sfmartins-Doing that will not damage the neck. I do it every now and then. I would not recommend doing it with very much force, ie don't expect to get a 1/2 step bend, but doing it a little bit should be fine.

Batstone · Post by **Batstone** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:01 pm

yeah, u can screw ur neck up for sure by doing it too much aha

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:18 pm

I've checked the videos from the songs you suggested and it seems i'm gonna take some time to get them.

Phunkdafied will be on my mind for the next weeks...