Greg Howe & Andy Timmons Tapping

[TONEJONES]

I'm primarily a hard rock guitarist but I LOVE the tapping sytle that Timmons-Howe_vai etc. uses & I'd love to incorporate it into my playing.

 

Is there anywhere that I can download a good audio visual lession in this style. Or is there a good DVD I can buy for this

[MorePaul]

I'd suggest hitting up www.tappistry.org

 

tey are a touchstuyle specific community -- some there use touchstyle specific instruments (Chapman sticks, Warrs, etc) others use guitars and similar instruments

 

either way, I think hey can steer you to a larger world of touchstyle playing

[red|dragon]

Buy Greg Howe's REH instructional video, $20-25 on ebay.

[Yngtchie Blacksteen]

Touch-style and Howe-type tapping are very different, learning one won't necessarily give you the abilities to play the other, but it would help.

 

Like red|dragon said, you might wanna check out Greg's instructional video. He doesn't cover his technique in as much detail as I'd like, but it should help to get you started.

[MorePaul]

Originally posted by Yngtchie Blacksteen

Touch-style and Howe-type tapping are very different, learning one won't necessarily give you the abilities to play the other, but it would help.

 

I kind of see one as a subset of the other, I mean within the touchstyle community as a whole even the "fulltime touchstyle" type players have very different approaches (it's note like Greg Howard and Jimmy Webster share the same approach, yet both are touchstyle) - that's why I often think it's best to think of touchstyle as a continuum of technique as opposed to discrete sets (oh you're this XOR that) that way one can stay open to possibilities and avoid the hassle of reinventing the wheel

 

That's one cool thing about the touchstyle community in general, I find them pretty open (they aren't even limited to a particular instrument) -- so one can take the similarities (they are all producing sound in the same basic method) and look into the differences

 

Often I find, those just really getting into tocuhstyles often don't even realize the whole body of technique, often being only exposed to a few players - touchstyle (be it a Kevin Keith style , a Howe style, a Webster style, A Jordan style, etc) has a whole body of technique and style, we don't have to compartmentalize it any more than we compartmentalize pizz playing technique