--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 10:40 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > And I've seen folk guitarists of all sorts doing it, and its a > > common flamenco technique as > > well. As I said, its been around for centuries. > > > Two hand *fingerboard* tapping is not flamenco technique; tapping on > the soundboard is, in fact it appears in standard classical guitar > notation. >
Yes, but there's a wealth of techniques out there. The Music Box (can't remember the Spanish name, sorry) by Franciso Tarrega, combined a right-hand harmonic technique combined with picking of open strings. Even the lute gets into the action. John Dowland wrote The Forlorn Hope Galliard, which required complex double-string ornamentation using the left hand only. I used to wow my friends by holding my guitar vertically off the ground and using hammer-on pull-off arpeggios to play a multi-string Segovia scale (slowly and unevenly, I'll admit). Paganinni was doing percusive techniques with the violin way back when. I assume he picked up the technique from his forrays as a street-guitarist. Varous rock guitarists extended the technique beyond what you can do with an unamplified instrument but the technique has been around since musicians have changed the pitch of a string by pinching one end on the body of the instrument and maybe as long as there have BEEN stringed instruments (bows) since you can get some kinds of sounds off of plucking a bow with the wrong hand, and not just harmonics.
