Who invented what tapping technique?

Dayvenkirq wrote: Who invented what tapping technique? There is pick-tapping and there is finger-tapping. I know what you might be thinking: "Oh, God, here it goes again. Who invented tapping." Actually, I have been to a forum (http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=518592) and they had Steve Hackett, Harvey Mandel, and even Django Reinhardt. Steve used both techniques. I don't know much about Mandel and Reinhardt.  Do you know anyone before Hackett and Mandel? What are your responses? You are more than welcome to write more than one name.

It is very possible that Django Reinhardt played a tapping style in one point of his life. His fingers were burnt off when the caravan he was travelling with caught fire. I recall that his index finger (from the left fingering hand), and his middle were intact while his ring and pinky formed a stub. He may have developed a tapping style to experiment with, although I don't recall hearing it. But with his level of playing, I don't find his experimenting with tapping to be doubtful. He was with the "Hot Club of France" and his soloing was the speed of John McLaughlin. One analogy was that he would bar with the index finger, sliding it up, and making it sound as if 20 notes were being played in a few seconds. I doubt this to a degree as there was something evident in his sound that would indicate otherwise. Many guitarists who have all 4 fingers on the fingering hand have the most difficult time playing what Django did with 2.

Edited by TODDLER - March 09 2012 at 11:56

Dean wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Find the guy who invented the guitar. Pretty much. Tapping strings rather than struming or picking is probably as old as the guitar itself, along will left-hand hammer-on and pull-off techniques (which is really just left-hand tapping rather than right-hand or free-hands which uses both), just as tapping and plucking violin strings (with either hand) as been around as long bowing. Hacket is credited as being the first Rock guitarist to use the technique on record, but I think that is more re-discovery than invention. The Chapman stick was invented in 1969 - it is a fair assumption that the technique was around long before the instrument.

It's a lot of fun.  Chromatics are, too. 

Slartibartfast wrote: Find the guy who invented the guitar.

Pretty much. Tapping strings rather than struming or picking is probably as old as the guitar itself, along will left-hand hammer-on and pull-off techniques (which is really just left-hand tapping rather than right-hand or free-hands which uses both), just as tapping and plucking violin strings (with either hand) as been around as long bowing. Hacket is credited as being the first Rock guitarist to use the technique on record, but I think that is more re-discovery than invention. The Chapman stick was invented in 1969 - it is a fair assumption that the technique was around long before the instrument.

Find the guy who invented the guitar.