How do you do this

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:25 am

How do you hook up an electric guitar to play like a piano? I want to try this. Looks like fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1AXBo9p ... re=related

58525 · Post by **58525** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:19 am

I don't think there is anything special about the guitar (except that it's a nice PRS). I believe he's just using both hands to tap the notes.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PEjH12owqiE Typical Rock/Metal tapping (i.e. AC/DC Thunderstruck)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bb9cidk0Bfs Fingerstyle tapping

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jmyxYbQO9iE Another cool example

Jeff

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:36 am

HMM I didn't know you could do that and have it ring. It doesn't work that well with and acoustic which is what i have.

livecollective · Post by **livecollective** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:52 pm

uhm yeah it does... your not doing it right obviously. Most tappers use acoustic's plugged in because the sound is better...

but yeah... tapping for sure works on an acoustic...

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:53 pm

well god damn. I need to figure out how to do that.

vermi · Post by **vermi** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:01 pm

ai, thats cool. best thing was the music though, sounds fucking amazing! (the vid in the first post)

livecollective · Post by **livecollective** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:47 am

its not hard man, just tap down on the note you want, leaving teh string open wth your right hand...

that will give you a noise, not do poly rhythms with all your fingers on different notes...

jessejames · Post by **jessejames** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:35 am

livecollective wrote:uhm yeah it does... your not doing it right obviously. Most tappers use acoustic's plugged in because the sound is better...

but yeah... tapping for sure works on an acoustic...

Yeah but an unplugged acoustic won't sound like that. Which I think victor was getting at.