I can see your point gromit, but tapping is a useful alternative when you can't quite wrap your fingers around a solo.

someone tell me what 'tapping' is.

Tapping is when you tap the fret board instead of plucking the string, the tap will also produce the note of the particular fret you tapped upon. Does that make any sense???

i'm with you on that mustang...it can be quite useful...and definitely in its place can sound awesome. I'm just not a fan of tapping-overkill, know what i mean?

how do you tap the fret? isn't the fret the marker for half notes? you tap them? i'm gonna try.. it totally doens't make sense.. tap the fret? or the string? if you tap the string.. its kinda ridiculous.. i'll ask the teach.

Not tap the fret, the fret board. It's kinda hard to explain, you tap the string onto the fret board with the tip of your finger. It's like depressing the string to make a note, except you tap it to achieve a different sound.

Get your teacher to give you a demonstration, or better yet watch an old van halen video. Eddie Van Halen can get through a solo without resorting to tapping.

yup, a demo is what i'll ask for. do they teach this stuff? or is this just some other trick thing.

don't do it! don't do it! walk to the light...!

aaarggh! too late!

haha...another player sucsesfully turned to the darkside...
my work here is done...


as for what tapping actually is, it's just a trick that makes any song, and every song, 100,000,000 times more cool, right along side divebombs, artificial harmonics and sweep arpeggios
however, i think kimk's got a lot of learning to do yet before he's ready to learn tapping...so i won't confuse him...

my band just recorded a song that's got a cool tapping solo at the end. once its mixed i'll let you guys here it. anyone listen to those other songs i posted?

Kyp

I haven't slept for 10 days because...that would be too long...
- Mitch Hedberg

Edited by - kyp durron on 28-08-2003 20:30:26

say MHael, that's some fine music you're doing there.
Next time you are on tour here in Holland, would you mind coming to anna paulowna and book the bar 't Ouwe Veer and drop me a note. Then I will certainly be there, because I just love Irish and Scottish folkmusic.

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anyone listen to those other songs i posted?

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Yeah, musically I thought it was pretty good for thrash/death metal, as good as most ive heard.

Some constructive critisicm, the vocals really let it down. You guys should think about getting someone in who can really belt out a tune, cause it'll really give your stuff an extra punch. Even just in the areas where you want some normal singing. The guy you've got really needs to train his voice some more, he sounds unsure of how to use it.

yeah...vocals could be better, but really there's nobody else around here that can even remotely sing, and we don't want another guy in the band...
so we just make do with what we got