Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: re: Stanley Jordan Message-ID: <1195@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 06:05:37 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1195 Posted: Fri Nov 1 06:05:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:12:57 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 26 > From: h-sc1!shiue (Steve Shiue) > What is special about Stanley Jordan is that he plays the > guitar in a way that I believe no one else has ever done it > - he taps the strings along the fretboard, playing it like a > keyboard (I believe that they do something special with the > amplification of the guitar). This enables him to play > independent bass and treble parts simultaneously on > different parts of the fretboard... While I have no dearth of admiration for Stanley Jordan, this technique you describe is not new, though Jordan has used it more extensively than most. This "two-handed tapping" is relatively common amongst heavy metal guitarists. Eddie Van Halen is a maestro of this technique, and he is the one responsible for its current popularity. And actually, Jeff Beck was doing a bit of it back in the 60's, and I would not be at all surprised if someone like Chet Atkins or Les Paul was doing it a decade or two earlier than that. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM