RE: feedback nylon tapping hedges

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

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
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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
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> talking about the Brazilian guys like Baden Powell, who
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> batteria with percussive slaps and scrapes on his guitar.
> This was happening
> back in the 60’s at least.
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> From: samba -
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> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009
> 9:05 AM
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> Subject: OT:feedback nylon tapping
> hedges
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> "... two hand tap acoustic guitarrists,... since
> Michael Hedges invented it."
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>   Heges was brilliant,inspiring etc. But definately
> didn't invent tapping. My friend 
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>  Paul Prince,(an excellent guitarist,prolly the first to
> apply tapping to African guitar styles) 
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>  told me about sitting with Hedges at the old Varsity
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>   in Palo Alto ( sort of the clubhouse for Windam Hill)
> listening to Tuck Andreas,who was tapping
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>   and Hedges saying "that's it" He got the
> idea from Tuck. 
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>   But maybe you meat Hedges picku system,which wa highly
> worked out,esp fro his modern harp guitar.