8 finger tapping

[Jack Gardiner]

Agreed!!!
Or check out William Dotto, head of M.M.I. in Treviso am i right? :S

Works with Daniele Gottardo!

[Alejandro Osorno]

Agreed!!!
Or check out William Dotto, head of M.M.I. in Treviso am i right? :S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOi05...eature=related
Works with Daniele Gottardo!

Spot on mate.
Those guys over at M.M.I are just form another planet!
wished I lived in italy

[Mosjem]

The technique I am having the hardest time with at the moment is doing rapie pull offs starting with the right hand......like for instance........15-13-11.....and then just running it up the scale shape from there. The hammer ons aren't so difficult. I'm used to string skipping so that isn't that tough either. It's the pull off's that are killing me.....especially starting with a pull off. Starting with a hammer on and then doing a pull off afterwards isn't too difficult either. I'm just taking it slow.

Those arpeggios Daniele does in cardiology.....the first section after the main theme are INSANE.....how the hell does he get those so clean.

I wish Daniele would write some sort of method for his two hand technique. I used to think my tapping chops were decent. Just goes to show that there is ALWAYS someone out there who is light years ahead of you. I'm gonna use it as inspiration.....it's just gonna be a slow road I think.....I wish I was 15 and had more time......I'm 38 and married with 3 kids......BIG DIFFERENCE.

BTW....does Daniele use Alternate picking very much.....Yngwie style I mean???

[Alejandro Osorno]

You are right man, for me pull offs are way harder than hammer ons
Try buy gottardos stuff on bluesjamtracks.com, its extrmely hard but its a great help
I know what you mean, I am learning cardiology and that part took me alot of time, but finnaly could play it clean yesterday

[Alejandro Osorno]

BTW....does Daniele use Alternate picking very much.....Yngwie style I mean???

he does use it... but not as much as yngwie

[Mosjem]

You are right man, for me pull offs are way harder than hammer ons
Try buy gottardos stuff on bluesjamtracks.com, its extrmely hard but its a great help
I know what you mean, I am learning cardiology and that part took me alot of time, but finnaly could play it clean yesterday

I actually did buy the bluesjamtracks cardiology lesson. One thing I noticed about it is that the tab is different thand the mp3....I think the tab goes with the video.

I bought a book called "over the top" buy Dave Celantano.....another good 8 finger tapper. I'm working out of this as well. Awhile back I got into chapman stick and the premier chapman stick player......Greg Howard......advocates not using your pinky when playing. I tried this this morning and it worked pretty well. I dunno......basicaly right now I am just doing basic excercises trying to get my right hand to do what my left hand can already do......it's very frustrating.

It'll come though.....just gotta be patient......not one of my strong suits.

[Jack Gardiner]

Daniele has told me that Dave Celantano was his first main influence for the 8 finger tapping! He's well worth studying. Yes the Cardiology MP3 is the album version and uses the whammy bar a lot too (which Daniele doesn't tend to use much any more). The tab itself, has a few mistakes in. If you watch my cover version you can see i don't play it exactly as it's written. Neither does Daniele. It's all down to own interpretation. But some of the bends in the score are certainly incorrect =P
I would suggest building strength in your right hand with the left. A basic exercise is take an arpeggio that uses the 1st and 4th finger. The Scarecrowe Dance by Daniele, is the first 8 finger song i worked out. This utilises a lot of 1-4 and 1-2-4 tapping exercises. This is definately a good foundation. It's how i started talking with Daniele, after i transcribed a bit of it! I would seriously suggest taking a look at it!
Your right hand will get there eventually! Don't worry dude! Keep practicing.

[Alejandro Osorno]

I actually did buy the bluesjamtracks cardiology lesson. One thing I noticed about it is that the tab is different thand the mp3....I think the tab goes with the video.

I bought a book called "over the top" buy Dave Celantano.....another good 8 finger tapper. I'm working out of this as well. Awhile back I got into chapman stick and the premier chapman stick player......Greg Howard......advocates not using your pinky when playing. I tried this this morning and it worked pretty well. I dunno......basicaly right now I am just doing basic excercises trying to get my right hand to do what my left hand can already do......it's very frustrating.

It'll come though.....just gotta be patient......not one of my strong suits.

As long as you are having fun it dosent matter
Also check out guthrie govans book creative guitar 2. I dont have it but have heard marvelous things about it, And there is a section dedicated to 8 finger tapping
I also bought the cadiology package and I think you are right... tab goes with the video.

[Alejandro Osorno]

Daniele has told me that Dave Celantano was his first main influence for the 8 finger tapping! He's well worth studying. Yes the Cardiology MP3 is the album version and uses the whammy bar a lot too (which Daniele doesn't tend to use much any more). The tab itself, has a few mistakes in. If you watch my cover version you can see i don't play it exactly as it's written. Neither does Daniele. It's all down to own interpretation. But some of the bends in the score are certainly incorrect =P
I would suggest building strength in your right hand with the left. A basic exercise is take an arpeggio that uses the 1st and 4th finger. The Scarecrowe Dance by Daniele, is the first 8 finger song i worked out. This utilises a lot of 1-4 and 1-2-4 tapping exercises. This is definately a good foundation. It's how i started talking with Daniele, after i transcribed a bit of it! I would seriously suggest taking a look at it!
Your right hand will get there eventually! Don't worry dude! Keep practicing.

Do you still have the scarecrow dance transcription, I want to learn it but Right now I am too lazy to transcribe it by ear =P

[Alejandro Osorno]

I actually did buy the bluesjamtracks cardiology lesson. One thing I noticed about it is that the tab is different thand the mp3....I think the tab goes with the video.

I bought a book called "over the top" buy Dave Celantano.....another good 8 finger tapper. I'm working out of this as well. Awhile back I got into chapman stick and the premier chapman stick player......Greg Howard......advocates not using your pinky when playing. I tried this this morning and it worked pretty well. I dunno......basicaly right now I am just doing basic excercises trying to get my right hand to do what my left hand can already do......it's very frustrating.

It'll come though.....just gotta be patient......not one of my strong suits.

Can you tell me where to the "over the top" book?