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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: re: Stanley Jordan
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 06:05:37 EST
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> 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)

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