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Re: feedback nylon tapping hedges



but who is talking about a golpe?

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--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: feedback nylon tapping hedges
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 11:50 AM
> Classical guitar has a long tradition of using the
> "golpe" technique that
> Greg describes ... it really isn't a 20th century
> invention.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM, greg williams
> <gregorwilliams@comcast.net>wrote:
> 
> > I have some Baroque guitar tablature (Sanz, Murcia,
> etc.) which contains
> > specific symbols for 'golpe', making a
> percussive sound on the face or
> > bridge of the guitar. It's rare, but it is there,
> mid/late 1700s.
> >
> > ~Greg
> > www.myspace.com/gregwilliamsguitarist
> > http://www.magnatune.com/artists/greg_williams
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: L.Angulo [mailto:labaloops@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:42 PM
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: RE: feedback nylon tapping hedges
> >
> > i really dont know how to describe that style,you guys
> know better than i
> > do
> > about the true inventor,off course we could even go
> back to the blues and
> > there were guys tapping on the guitar but i mean that
> slap harmonics over a
> > harmonic node and the use of right hand hammer-ons
> with bass notes and the
> > left hand for hammer-ons and pull offs, percussive
> slapping on the guitar
> > body,unusual strummings tunings etc. if he didnt
> invent that then it was
> > Preston Reed or who you guys are mentioning,but i
> guess he was given credit
> > for that.In any case because of that style i believe
> there were few pickup
> > systems at that time like the FRAP(now trance
> audio),but i see a lot of of
> > cats now that do that sort of style having to get
> special custom made
> > systems for them,so the market must still be too
> small...
> > like looping was!!
> >
> > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
> >
> >
> > --- On Fri, 1/2/09, samba -
> <sambacomet@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: samba - <sambacomet@hotmail.com>
> > > Subject: RE: feedback nylon tapping hedges
> > > To: billwalker@baymoon.com,
> loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> > > Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 12:24 PM
> > > I don't think Tuck was the
> originator,didn't mean to
> > > suggest it,just that Hedges, wasn't. He was
> great
> > > though.He was a fan of my old band,so I was very
> slightly
> > > acquainted,great guy too. I thought of mentioning
> Farlow,but
> > > he didn't exactly tap melodic passages or
> riffs so much
> > > as use it for articulating chords,as far as I can
> tell.I
> > > never heard him live.I know he had huge hands 
> could reach
> > > insane voicings,and would do stuff like strum a
> chord
> > > fingered high  up the neck,then tap a low
> position bass note
> > > with the right hand 1st finger while holding the
> chord. Or
> > > strum a chord with the little finger while
> holding a bass
> > > note with the 1st .Yeah the great Baden
> Powell,and other
> > > Brasileiros ,like the Flamencos did all sorts of
> percussive
> > > tapping.
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> > > If
> > > we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal
> duration but
> > > timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those
> who live
> > > in the
> > > present.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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> > > Ok well, as far as I know Tal  Farlow beat
> > > everyone to it,  at least to the finger tapping
> part.and
> > > that's not
> > > talking about the Brazilian guys like Baden
> Powell, who
> > > could mimic a samba
> > > batteria with percussive slaps and scrapes on his
> guitar.
> > > This was happening
> > > back in the 60's at least.
> > >
> > > Bill.
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> > > From: samba -
> > > [mailto:sambacomet@hotmail.com]
> > >
> > > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009
> > > 9:05 AM
> > >
> > > To:
> > > loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> > >
> > > Subject: OT:feedback nylon tapping
> > > hedges
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "... two hand tap acoustic guitarrists,...
> since
> > > Michael Hedges invented it."
> > >
> > >   Heges was brilliant,inspiring etc. But
> definately
> > > didn't invent tapping. My friend
> > >
> > >  Paul Prince,(an excellent guitarist,prolly the
> first to
> > > apply tapping to African guitar styles)
> > >
> > >  told me about sitting with Hedges at the old
> Varsity
> > > Theater,
> > >
> > >   in Palo Alto ( sort of the clubhouse for Windam
> Hill)
> > > listening to Tuck Andreas,who was tapping
> > >
> > >   and Hedges saying "that's it" He
> got the
> > > idea from Tuck.
> > >
> > >   But maybe you meat Hedges picku system,which wa
> highly
> > > worked out,esp fro his modern harp guitar.
> >
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> 
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