--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 11:03 AM, sparaig wrote: > > > As an example, La Source du Lyson, written by Coste about 150 years > > ago, includes short > > samples of slappig the fretted strings to produce special sounds. > > There's a specific > > annotation in guitar sheet music and tablature for such a thing. > > > Not the same thing at all. I'm a classically trained guitarist, and > this ain't *anything* like your example. In two hand technique your > not merely slapping the strings, you're fretting legato type passages > with your right hand in extended slurring, hammer-ons and pull-offs. >
I'm a classically trained guitarist also (England,Spain, USA), and there's plenty of techniques out there. It's much easier to do with an amplified instrument, but its been done forever even with non-amplified instruments.
