Tapping efficacy

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Tapping efficacy

It’s all in how you play!

Do you think SRV would’ve sounded better with 8s or 9s? Or Jeff Beck? Or Matt Schofield? Or David Grissom? Or Warren Haynes? Or Sonny Landreth? Or Derek Trucks?

If you and some other people like super light strings, cool. Enjoy them. Just quit acting like anybody who doesn’t like them is doing so for any other reason than they like the sound.

 

[Francois]

Re: Tapping efficacy

Derek Trucks?

For regular fretwork you can use any gauge, but for pure slide (by "pure" I mean not mixed with fretted notes) 9 is to avoid otherwise it may rattle in the frets quite a bit. For slide I recommend 11 or more !

And back to "Tapping Efficiency" :

Two nights ago did some experiment on my last GAS guitar which has a particularly wide fretbroad and I noticed that that wider string spacing was inducing new technics :
>>> tapping a note and then slide it into another one (tap + legato slide).

I concluded this sounded OK and was not hard only because the neck was big as you do have to mid too much about adjacent strings.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Tapping efficacy

Do you think SRV would’ve sounded better with 8s or 9s? Or Jeff Beck? Or Matt Schofield? Or David Grissom? Or Warren Haynes? Or Sonny Landreth? Or Derek Trucks?

If you and some other people like super light strings, cool. Enjoy them. Just quit acting like anybody who doesn’t like them is doing so for any other reason than they like the sound.

They would sound exactly the same. Do you sound different with different gauge strings?

I don’t.

And I wasn’t the one who started saying light gauge strings sound thin. The fact stands that tapping is easier with big frets and light strings since they are easier to set in motion.




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[LLL]

Re: Tapping efficacy

I never really got into tapping. In the 80's it was the Van Halen schtick that every kid on the block did to impress.

It became a total cliche'd gimmick.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Tapping efficacy

Agreed. Screw the gimmicky stuff ...just play your guitar :bigthumb:

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Tapping efficacy

They would sound exactly the same. Do you sound different with different gauge strings?

I don’t.

I don't like how guitars with light strings play, and I know I play better with a guitar setup to my liking. If I'm playing better, I know I sound better. I'm betting everybody who's been playing long enough to have a preferred setup is similar to varying degrees.

And I wasn’t the one who started saying light gauge strings sound thin. The fact stands that tapping is easier with big frets and light strings since they are easier to set in motion.

Fair enough. My apologies for belaboring the point, and if ever find ourselves in the same place in real life, the first round's on me.

 

[NegativeEase]

Re: Tapping efficacy

Gotta say.. I totally prefer good old straightforward "shred-o-rama" to the the "complex polyrythms/nuanced/harmonic content/incredible progressions that can be foundations of compositions" kinda stuff..

To me tapping is yet another fun way of blazing away on on your axe & having a ton of fun in the bargain ...can't say it bores me at all (neither watching someone tear things up nor tearing things up myself!)

Diff'rent strokes I guess :bigthumb:

NO. this is the internet. YOU are WRONG! :lmao:

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Tapping efficacy

NO. this is the internet. YOU are WRONG! :lmao:

Damn I was afraid of that... :laugh2:

Well then, complex polyrhythms & sweet nuanced stuff it shall be..