Chordal Tapping

Guitar Tapping-From the basics to the hottest licks and tricks this book is a hands-on guide to the tapping techniques used by Eddie Van Halen Steve Vai Joe Satriani Michael Hedges Jeff Watson Vito Bratta Jennifer Batton Stanley Jordan and other top guitarists. It covers: the basics of tapping; tapping arpeggios; tapping scale fragments; the ascending tap concept; right-hand slides tapped bends tap harmonics and chordal tapping; multi-fingered tapping; combining techniques; and much more in standard notation and tab. The accompanying online audio is available for streaming or downloading using the unique code printed inside the book and features each exampleplayed at slow medium and fast tempos.

This work was written between 1987 and 1989 it consists of two movements and the composition takes the form of a presentation of contrasting blocks they start in their shortest simplest form and then are juxtaposed with eachother followed by an expansion and development independent of each other.The initial block is for all three instruments with a fan-fare like figure on the horn producing a reoccuring theme. The lyrical block has asustained tune played in the high register of the violin with bass notes on the piano. The third block is a contrapuntal one which sees the first appearance of a tapping motif with the fourth block providing a chordal piano solo.These sections then expanded and developed with themes repeated on different instruments.The final movement of the piece presents three fugatos preceded by a fan-fare like introduction interspersed with rhythmic non-contrapuntal episodes each fugato is led separately by horn violin and piano. This composition is dedicated to Ingrid Lunt. Work for Horn Violin and Piano. Written in fulfilment of the Koussevitzky Foundation Award.