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I got the tongue switching thing started. Care to share any of the technique behind turning that into tapping? I hear a lot of the tongue switching on your cds, and it reminds me of how SRV would play a solo and something that sounded like a rhythm guitar part behind it. Being a rather large Eddie Van Halen fan, I would love to learn more about the tapping.Rock Like the Wind!
Fugz
Fugz,"Care to share any of the technique behind turning that into tapping?"
I guess the real secret to the sound of these techniques is finding a few patterns you like and then playing them very, very fast. The speed hides the technique behind the riffs. A lot of the original ideas for my TS techniques came from note patterns Eddie Van Halen was already doing. Because of the layout of notes on a diatonic and chromatic I couldn't always do the exact same notes he did, but the feeling was the same.
I never really came up with a great system of tab for what I do because it is so "out there" and advanced and frankly not enough demand for it, so it's hard to write precisely what is going on and include the TS sides of the mouth with the notes. Give this one a try though, the first note of the pattern is tongued blocked out of the right side and the second two are from the left side of your mouth:
6B 4D 4B
6B 4D 4B
6B 4D 4B
6B 4D 4B
6D 4D 4B
6D 4D 4B
6D 4D 4B
6D 4D 4B
REPEAT
Play on,
Dave
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